Top 5 Artificial Intelligence Startup Investors in Nicaragua (October 2023)

Sarah Meyohas

Investment focus

Industry: Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Series A
Geography: Nicaragua

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Adept AI — Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling humans and computers to work together creatively.

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Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 168
Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.7M; Series A $5M–$15M; Series B $16M–$31M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.
Infringements — Monitor your patents and get instant alerts on potential infringements.

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Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 605
Round size: Seed $1M–$5.5M; Series A $2.8M–$25M; Series B $11M–$50M
Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Frec — Next-level investing without a wealth advisor. Low-cost direct indexing with supercharged tax savings. Earn high interest on cash with Treasury.
PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
Upwind Security — Upwind Security creates and develops software and online tools that ensures security of cloud infrastructure. It manages runtime environments of the cloud platform.

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Root Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technical teams working on deep tech. The firm specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and investments. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark

Investor stats

Total investments: 87
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.6M; Series A $4.6M–$13M; Series B $20M–$40M
Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

ApertureData — ApertureData manages images and videos with a database purpose-built for data science and machine learning.
Nautilus Labs — Nautilus Labs, a technology partner, pioneers the decarbonization of the ocean supply chain. As an independent third party, we are the source of truth and predictive insights between owners and charterers to unlock behavior change and enable new data-driven commercial frameworks for improved collaboration. Working across data availability andstructures, we apply machine learning to unlock predictive decision-making for improved fleet efficiency. Our adaptable solutions are built around our clients’ workflows and are accompanied by human-centric change management programs to drive organizational adoption and long-term outcomes. With hubs in New York, Singapore, London, Paris, Athens, and Bangalore, the company is backed by top venture capital firms and investors, like the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund and M12.
Zed Industries — Code at the speed of thought. Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

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