Nicholas James

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Principal at Northwind Capital · Fintech · board work, venture capital

Northwind Capital
San Jose, CA · PT (UTC-8)
10+ years experience
University of Wisconsin–Madison
English, Arabic
Investing
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Overview

10 years around startups; now investing in fintech. Previously an operator for 11 years before investing. Before that: Disney and Qualcomm. Most at home with board work and due diligence.

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  • Founders building in fintech
  • Questions about fintech
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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Skills
venture capitalboard workdue diligence
InvestingLooking to invest
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Writing $1M cheques into pre-seed fintech in the UK

Cheque size
$1M
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Fintech, climate
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
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Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Typically lead or co-lead. We reply to every founder.

San Jose, CA · remote OKdue diligenceventure capitalboard work
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Nov 2024 - Present
    Northwind Capital · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Backed 30 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 39 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Associate Partner
    Mar 2023 - Nov 2024
    Disney · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 4.
    • Grew the growth team from 6 to 38 engineers.
  3. Engagement Manager
    Feb 2020 - Mar 2023
    Qualcomm · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $194 million.
  4. Business Analyst
    Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
    Johnson & Johnson · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 36 a week to 4.
    • Shipped 11 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
  5. Associate Partner
    Oct 2016 - Jul 2018
    Capital One · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Wrote the venture capital service that now handles 60 million requests a day.
    • Led the migration of 52 services to board work.

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Education

  1. University of Wisconsin–Madison
    BS, Computer Science
    2011 - 2015

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