Nick Candito ⚡️🤓

Operator/Investor.
Born in the deep end.
Hoping to play the long game in life.
Builder of teams, portfolios, and family.
V.I.C. | Forever Unfinished 🦅 🪢

[Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 @nickcandito]

Best part of this industry: non-zero-sum

Get to build and win together for decades 🙌

The real work is done by @henrysward @jwmares @JoshFabian @noelregrets @jpmcuddy

[PIN @getpinxyz]

Before the buzz. Before the traction. Before anyone believes. These VCs do.

Ex-founders. Operators. Solo capitalists. Athletes.

All of them are spotting breakout companies when there’s no product, no revenue — just a pitch deck and conviction.

Despite a tighter funding market, they’re backing the future of AI, defense tech, fintech, biotech, and SaaS.

Here are 21 names from the Seed 100 list and the startups they’re betting will change everything: 👇

- @darian314 – Gradient Ventures

Investments: Gigs, Legora, Krea, Numeral, Range, Writer

- Ann DeWitt – Engine Ventures

Investments: Cellino, Bexorg, Matrisome Bio, Terragia, Anthology, Kano Therapeutics, Source Bio

- @justinkan – Goat Capital

Investments: Torch, Sendbird, Paystack, ForeVR Games, Cruise

- @nickcandito – ACOF

Investments: Carta, TrueMed, Metafy, Augment Markets, Atomic Insights, BRM

- @Itamar_Novick – Recursive Ventures

Investments: Deel, May Mobility, Akash Network, Tomato AI, Anjuna Security

- @gokulr – Marathon Management Partners

Investments: Deel, BetterUp, Figma, Printify, Boon, Atlas

- @atShruti – Array Ventures

Investments: Capsule, Eventual Computing, Mozart Data, https://t.co/84EhRyD54h, Rad AI, https://t.co/30FH02T5dC

- @rohitkbansal – Titan Capital

Investments: Ola, Urban Company, Mamaearth, OfBusiness, Unicommerce, Credgenics, Giva, Shadowfax

- @bling0 – Bling Capital

Investments: GitHub, Rippling, Airtable, Spellbook, Noetica

- @nbanta – B12 / Stellar Capital

Investments: Codeium, Cognition Labs, Grammarly, ZeroEyes, Varda, Chai Discovery

- @collinmathilde – Angel Investor / Front

Investments: Retool, Mercury, Vanta, Copilot, Meter, Browser Use

- @ramtinnaimi – Abstract

Investments: Solana, Rippling, WorkOS, Hebbia, Passes, Replit

- @rrhoover – Weekend Fund

Investments: Atlys, Deel, Extropic, Justpoint, Luminai, Pipe, Truemed

- @MarlonCNichols – MaC Venture Capital

Investments: Thrive Market, Pipe, Finesse, Purestream, Seed Health, Truebill

- @MartinGTobias – Incisive Ventures

Investments: Jeeves, OpenSea, Enable, Yassir, Portside, LMNT

- @adwane – Village Global

Investments: Commontools, P-1 AI, AirGarage, Cherry, Pave, Grow Therapy

- @rauchg – Angel Investor / Vercel

Investments: Perplexity, ElevenLabs, Resend, Spline, Braintrust

- @laurarippy – Alumni Ventures

Investments: Daydream, Rent App, Barnwell Bio, Atomic Supply, TRM Labs, https://t.co/iZxG6D2mgi

- @edsim – Boldstart Ventures

Investments: BigID, Common Paper, Kustomer, Protect AI, Snyk, Tessl

- @jefffluhr – Craft Ventures

Investments: Warby Parker, Twilio, Houzz, CrewAI, Arch, Pickle

- @alitamaseb – DCVC

Investments: StarkWare, ElectronX, Odyssey, Earth AI, Chai Discovery

Follow us for more funding trends, investor moves, and the early-stage bets shaping the next decade.

#VentureCapital #StartupFunding #EarlyStageVC

[Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 @nickcandito]

@infoxiao ☠️☠️☠️

[Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 @nickcandito]

People > Opportunity > Context > Deal

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[Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 @nickcandito]

@saranormous Say this to someone every day

[sarah guo @saranormous]

nothing as humbling as having kids

[Ronak Malde @rronak_]

Today, @MichaelElabd, @QuantumArjun, and I are excited to announce Trajectory.

We are a research lab and product company building the platform for Continual Learning.

Our platform unlocks the signal already sitting in product usage, so companies can continuously post-train large-scale agentic models that outperform the frontier. @trajectorylabs

We’ve raised $15M from @Conviction, @BessemerVP, @radicalvcfund, @jeffdean, @drfeifei and more.

We’re partnering with some of the best AI-native companies: @ClayRunHQ @Harvey, @DecagonAI, @mercor_ai, @RogoAI to power their agentic systems, some of which we are already in production with.

We’ve brought together a world class research team from DeepMind, OpenAI, Apple, Meta Superintelligence, Amazon AGI, Scale AI, and an elite product team from Stripe and Figma.

AI will never again start on day one. Every correction, every retry, every edit will make products smarter. This is Continual Learning.

[nico @nicoaferr]

Today, I'm incredibly excited to announce @withdefault's Series A led by @8vc and our new product.

We spent the last three years building the tools and orchestration layer companies like @owner and @AirbyteHQ have used to build infrastructure across their go-to-market functions.

Today, we're launching the first real-time data layer for go-to-market, a powerful new revenue agent, and a suite of tools for revenue teams and their agents.

It's Day 1.

[Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 @nickcandito]

@ShottaSV @grok turn this into a public Spotify playlist

[JustFreshKicks @JustFreshKicks]

Keep Receipts. ✍️

[Lee Hower @leehower]

NVIDIA just reported >$82B in revenue for Q1 2026.

To put that in historical context for other megacap tech, it's only within the last 10-15yrs that companies first exceeded that on a *full year* basis.

Microsoft (2014 - $87B)
Alphabet (2016 - $90B)
Apple (2011 - $108B)

[Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 @nickcandito]

The courage of @BenSasse to do the “Not Dead Yet” podcast and how many insightful points were made with @benthompson

https://t.co/vpcPuGxbU2

[Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 @nickcandito]

@kristelxo Time is extremely valuable 🎯

[Vivek Sodera @vsodera]

So much props to Benchmark for the Cerebras IPO on X and in the media...

...we should be giving flowers to the GOAT @vassallo and @FoundationCap for incubating Cerebras and supporting them at every stage.

[Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 @nickcandito]

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[Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 @nickcandito]

Ecstatic for my brother @vassallo!! solana:4yEjcMiy6GAgrpWpUvhUXfaP1vQmJXfqJjEyxBSZpump

[Andrew Feldman @andrewdfeldman]

Ringing the @Nasdaq bell is just the beginning.

[Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 @nickcandito]

@0xmitsurii 💎💎💎

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

“Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyways.”

- Steve McQueen

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

More dreams are destroyed from distraction than incompetence.

[Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 @nickcandito]

Big momentum in Austin right now ⚡️💚

Shoutout to @bayareawriter for the great feature! It’s an absolute privilege to build with @alwaysunday, @kyleledbetter @edmoralesb and getting to work with friends like @vivfaga & @ScottBuxton3

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[Mary Ann Azevedo @bayareawriter]

Exclusive: Supabase Execs Were So Impressed With Dreambase, They Became Investors In Its $3.7M Round https://t.co/77oCaZRoZe via @crunchbasenews

[Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 @nickcandito]

@MeghanBobrowsky Safeway off Caltrain 🍣

[Cole Jaczko @colejaczko]

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