Nicole Smith

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Principal at Sandstone Seed Fund | ex-BMO

Sandstone Seed Fund
Vancouver, BC · PT (UTC-8)
8+ years experience
University of Toronto
English
Investing
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Overview

8 years around startups; now investing in climate. Led or co-led 37 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later. Backed 51 founders at pre-seed and seed. Most at home with hardware and energy. Yoga every morning.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in climate
  • Working sessions on hardware
  • Questions about climate
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Crypto token projects
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
climate techventure capitalenergyhardware
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $1M cheques into Series A climate in the Nordics

Cheque size
$1M
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Climate
Geographies
MENA
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Happy to follow a strong lead. Portfolio support on pricing and enterprise sales.

Vancouver, BCclimate techventure capitalhardware
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Sandstone Seed Fund · 1 yr · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Backed 47 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 5 boards.
    • Led or co-led 14 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Director of Product
    Dec 2023 - Oct 2025
    BMO · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Launched the logistics product in 8 markets.
  3. Product Manager
    Aug 2022 - Dec 2023
    Air Canada · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Grew marketplace revenue from $3 million to $22 million ARR.
    • Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
  4. Product Manager
    Mar 2019 - Aug 2022
    Ubisoft · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new creator customers from 11 days to 1.
    • Grew creator revenue from $6 million to $47 million ARR.

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Education

  1. University of Toronto
    BASc, Finance
    2014 - 2018

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