David Hamilton Nichols

Impact Investor, Advisor to VC and Early-Stage Companies, Family Office Conference Speaker

📍 Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 30 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2025
Angel investor🌍 United States20+ investments
30
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11
Early stage
11
Mid stage
4
Late stage
8y
Years active

Portfolio

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Aug 2025
Sokn Engineering is a company based out of Whitefish, Montana, United States.
Investor
Jul 2025
A New Education and Economic System Our Mission: Unlock the full potential of humanity by building the most advanced, modern learning system and startup ecosystem on Earth.
early stageEducation
Investor
Mar 2025
Sync is the company behind Netzium and Aeir, advancing the path to Net Zero with practical and impactful energy solutions. Our platform brings together energy generation, management, and finance to create an integrated approach for deploying renewable energy. By leveraging financial tools, data insights, and advanced technologies, Sync helps stakeholders adopt renewables faster, operate more efficiently, and maintain transparency. Our mission is to facilitate sustainable transitions and build resilient energy systems, empowering collaboration and maximizing the real-world impact of clean energy initiatives – Our Ecosystem: Aeir – A wireless power transmission system designed to deliver electricity without physical cables. Our scalable and efficient solution is ideal for sectors such as logistics, municipal services, hospitality, automotive, and many more. By tokenising power transmission, Aeir simplifies energy management and reduces costs. Netzium – Netzium is an energy-backed token. Each token represents 100 kWh of newly generated renewable energy. Users support clean energy projects and share in the revenue. The energy generated is tracked, verified, and linked to the tokens, ensuring a real impact. Netzium connects investors to tangible renewable energy, offering both environmental and financial benefits.
Investor
Mar 2025
Globally the renewables industry is clouded by a combination of inefficient verification and corporate deception. The Sunified UNITY™ sensor and Platform disrupts carbon credit verification by making it 14,000 times faster, i.e. a carbon credit, REC, iREC or EnergyTag in 5 minutes, not 30 days. Our UNITY™ sensor is patented hardware that creates high-fidelity green energy data from the source of generation, e.g. each solar panel. The sensor sits at the proof-of-fusion, generating data from photons. We digitise packets of energy data every 30sec (10 X 30sec packets every 5 minutes) as verified green energy, ready to trade. The data is secured directly into the blockchain, providing an immutable green crypto-anchor and foundational truth for compliance reporting of green energy. Available via the Sunified platform (PaaS), this data also provides a range of dynamic opportunities enabled by analytics and Al, e.g. fractional solar park ownership. In addition, the Sunified Group is building a distributed network of 5MW Solar Parks around Australia connected to the National Energy Market with the digital intelligence to automatically buy and sell energy for the best price. Combined, the Sunified solar assets and technology create a grid-level virtual power plant and provide the best renewable energy returns. Our key development partners include IBM, IEEE, EnergyTag, Bausch Datacom, 2Tokens, Catena Power, Riddle & Code, Vibe Cyber, Voltfarmer and the Technical University of Delft Working together we can #tag #greenenergy verify #greenbonds and provide transparency and be a #dataoracle and #greensignal that the #carbon tracking apps require and emissions auditors need. EnergyTag Industry #technology enables the tracking and proper retirement of #greencredits 2Tokens Working Group is #TokenizingEnergy
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Dec 2024
Enabling early disease detection to improve patient outcomes.
Investor
Nov 2024
AltaML is a leading developer of AI-powered solutions. Working with organizations that want to leverage their data using artificial intelligence (AI), AltaML develops solutions that create operational efficiency, reduce risk, and generate new sources of revenue. Through a deep understanding of organizational pain points and challenges, AltaML develops solutions that encompass the entire machine learning (ML) life cycle, from evaluating potential use cases and determining feasibility, to piloting solutions, putting code into production, and ensuring models evolve over time.
Investor
Nov 2024
We help family offices make smart and timely business decisions through efficient use of data and innovative technology
Investor
Oct 2024
Empower Your Data, Embrace Transparency. Filedgr empowers organisations and individuals through digital ownership and transparent data analysis. Our platform provides secure, verifiable digital product passports that foster collaboration and trust.
Investor
Sep 2024
SOLUM Global offers a complete payment, value storage and settlement solution that integrates global digital and fiat currencies, real world assets (GOLD) with immediate settlement between parties across a variety of platforms, networks and systems. Solum tokens provide a robust and dependable financial solution for individuals, businesses and governments. With commitment to transparency, Solum conducts audits with 3rd party internationally recognized accounting firms. Solum tokens maintain a constant value of 1 USD, offering full liquidity, effortless cross-border transferability and compatibility across various blockchain platforms.
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Sep 2024
NEXT Life Sciences is a medical device company that plans to deliver the first male contraceptive solution that is non-hormonal, long lasting, and reversible.
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Sep 2024
𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦.𝐜𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦. It empowers users to monitor & compare the sustainability performance of any company (𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚.𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦.𝐜𝐨𝐦), discover insights from the 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝’𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 (1,500+ climate ministers, scientists and CEOs), stay updated with unlimited industry news. Welcome to a community of 500,000+ sustainability leaders in over 110 countries.... and our journey is just beginning! 🏆 illuminem has been selected by AngelList as a 𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞, by StartupItalia as Top Innovator and #2 Most Esteemed Startup of Italy, and by Startup Geek the #1 Startup in Venice 🌱 Proudly backed by 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 and many climate leaders around the world 📣 Publish your insights among our Sustainability Thought Leaders! 💡 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬, to receive weekly the top sustainability news & insights for your industry! Welcome to the future of information on illuminem.com/newsletter
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Sep 2024
Noumenal Labs is a deep tech artificial intelligence company focused on solving fatal flaws in Physical AI and robotics - lack of adaptability, massive retraining costs and poor performance in the real world. Noumenals tech enables robots to learn from experience, giving them the ability to adapt on-the-fly to new situations.
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Aug 2024
The worlds most advanced platform for global transactions. It is the fastest, most secure, lowest cost, and most profitable payment technology ever built. Our goal is to fundamentally change the world. ​We have started by modernizing commerce one transaction at a time. But this is just the beginning of a 30 year roadmap that starts with payments.
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Mar 2023
A Highly Scalable Cross Platform Protocol. Any tokens of this project are offered only outside of the US to non-US persons, pursuant to the provisions of Reg. S of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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2025
Investor
Aug 2025
Sokn Engineering is a company based out of Whitefish, Montana, United States.
Investor
Jul 2025
A New Education and Economic System Our Mission: Unlock the full potential of humanity by building the most advanced, modern learning system and startup ecosystem on Earth.
early stageEducation
Investor
Mar 2025
Sync is the company behind Netzium and Aeir, advancing the path to Net Zero with practical and impactful energy solutions. Our platform brings together energy generation, management, and finance to create an integrated approach for deploying renewable energy. By leveraging financial tools, data insights, and advanced technologies, Sync helps stakeholders adopt renewables faster, operate more efficiently, and maintain transparency. Our mission is to facilitate sustainable transitions and build resilient energy systems, empowering collaboration and maximizing the real-world impact of clean energy initiatives – Our Ecosystem: Aeir – A wireless power transmission system designed to deliver electricity without physical cables. Our scalable and efficient solution is ideal for sectors such as logistics, municipal services, hospitality, automotive, and many more. By tokenising power transmission, Aeir simplifies energy management and reduces costs. Netzium – Netzium is an energy-backed token. Each token represents 100 kWh of newly generated renewable energy. Users support clean energy projects and share in the revenue. The energy generated is tracked, verified, and linked to the tokens, ensuring a real impact. Netzium connects investors to tangible renewable energy, offering both environmental and financial benefits.
Investor
Mar 2025
Globally the renewables industry is clouded by a combination of inefficient verification and corporate deception. The Sunified UNITY™ sensor and Platform disrupts carbon credit verification by making it 14,000 times faster, i.e. a carbon credit, REC, iREC or EnergyTag in 5 minutes, not 30 days. Our UNITY™ sensor is patented hardware that creates high-fidelity green energy data from the source of generation, e.g. each solar panel. The sensor sits at the proof-of-fusion, generating data from photons. We digitise packets of energy data every 30sec (10 X 30sec packets every 5 minutes) as verified green energy, ready to trade. The data is secured directly into the blockchain, providing an immutable green crypto-anchor and foundational truth for compliance reporting of green energy. Available via the Sunified platform (PaaS), this data also provides a range of dynamic opportunities enabled by analytics and Al, e.g. fractional solar park ownership. In addition, the Sunified Group is building a distributed network of 5MW Solar Parks around Australia connected to the National Energy Market with the digital intelligence to automatically buy and sell energy for the best price. Combined, the Sunified solar assets and technology create a grid-level virtual power plant and provide the best renewable energy returns. Our key development partners include IBM, IEEE, EnergyTag, Bausch Datacom, 2Tokens, Catena Power, Riddle & Code, Vibe Cyber, Voltfarmer and the Technical University of Delft Working together we can #tag #greenenergy verify #greenbonds and provide transparency and be a #dataoracle and #greensignal that the #carbon tracking apps require and emissions auditors need. EnergyTag Industry #technology enables the tracking and proper retirement of #greencredits 2Tokens Working Group is #TokenizingEnergy
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