Marlon C. Nichols

Managing General Partner at MaC Venture Capital

📍 Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 44 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
44
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25
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9
Mid stage
1
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14y
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Portfolio

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Jul 2021
OCX Cognition™ delivers Generative Customer Analytics on its one-of-a-kind Customer AI platform. Customer AI represents the future of NPS®, Customer Experience Management and Customer Success Analytics. Customers use Customer AI from OCX Cognition to implement customer analytics programs that result in continuous improvement, reduced churn increased upsell and better targeted acquisition. Drawing on more than 15 years of CX expertise and 1000+ CX initiatives, OCX Cognition ensures customer experience success with a combination of technology and data science powered by machine learning, programmatic consulting, and research based CX insights and education. Learn more at www.ocxcognition.com.
Investor & Board Advisor
Jun 2021
Antara Health scales patient-centered health care for everyone by adding AI-assisted health navigation to make the hard parts of healthcare easy for patients and providers. Patients, especially those with chronic ailments, enjoy comprehensive health and financial protection, concierge care coordination, and peace of mind knowing they and their loved ones have a champion in their healthcare journey.
Investor
Feb 2021
We make it easy for everyday creators to centralize their brand, deepen relationships with their followers, and start making money.
Investor and Board Observer
Dec 2020
PureStream is a technology platform company with a singular focus on making institutional trading scale efficiently and securely. For a glimpse at the problem and solution we are focused on, please consider the following: Can you imagine a data network that links computers that only exchange 1/250th (.004%) of their data payload per connection? Then repeats the connection, transmission, disconnect process hundreds of times before completing. Data networks dont work that way, but the US equity market does. Why is the US trading network with only 50 "nodes"​ (15 Exchanges & 35 ATSs) considered fragmented, and data networks with thousands considered distributed? The difference between data and liquidity transmission is in the sophistication and application specific nature of data protocols. Equity trading has outgrown price and time as the only dimensions of its trading protocols. If you are interested in learning more as a potential partner, client and/or investor please contact Armando via LinkedIn. Thank you!
early stageCapital Markets
Investor
Mar 2020
StoreCash is an LA-based payments and technology company that provides our customers an alternative method of payment for everyday goods and lifestyle purchases, benefiting from the highest, instant and unlimited cash back in the US. Our business and banking customers are able to access our technology through a custom plug and play cash back API to increase their own customer engagement and retention. StoreCash’s founding team are technology and community leaders in the BIPOC community with top-tier pedigree from Google, Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft as well as previous entrepreneurial exits. StoreCash is a financial technology company and is not a bank. Banking services provided by Piermont Bank; Member FDIC. Terms & conditions apply to earning cash back rewards. Please see terms & conditions for details on cash back rewards.
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Oct 2019
Pipe makes embedded financial solutions accessible to growing businesses inside the software they use every day. Underwriting is based on live transaction and business data, removing the hurdles of traditional business financing. How does it work? Eligible merchants: Receive a pre-approved or pre-qualified offer, based on their revenue Verify a few business and ownership details Then accept as much of their offer as they need and get back to doing what they love, running their business Pipe can help turn your software into a one-stop shop for your customers and help them gain access to the capital they need to thrive.
Investor
Apr 2019
Arine’s industry-leading software platform seamlessly integrates cutting-edge AI, clinical expertise, and advanced data analytics to deliver medication-based care interventions at the population level. Using Arine outcomes data, these proactive interventions are dynamically updated to provide a value-based solution that improves patient outcomes and reduces costs with unparalleled precision and efficiency. See how Arines medication intelligence sets a new standard in value-based care for health plans and at-risk providers.
Investor
Apr 2019
The leading enterprise platform to build AI Agents for Customer Service - used by 4,000+ businesses from scaling startups to the Fortune 500. Book a demo with our team to learn how your business can provide better customer experiences at scale.
Investor
Mar 2019
We are fighting to end the racial wealth gap and increase social equity for black and latino people. Focusing on communities that were destroyed by the war on drugs, we invest in individuals who have incredible tenacity for being business owners but lack sustainable access to the capital and support required to start and grow a business.
Investor
Dec 2018
FaZe Clan is one of the most prominent and influential gaming organizations in the world. Created by gamers, for gamers, FaZe began in 2010 by a group of internet kids who turned their passion into a successful career path and formed a die-hard community along the way. Today, FaZe Clan represents a vast roster of creators who aim to inspire the next generation in making their dreams a reality. FaZe Clan operates across multiple verticals designed to reimagine gaming, sports, culture and entertainment. FaZe has partnered with blue-chip brands such as Porsche, GHOST, DraftKings and McDonald’s, and record-breaking fashion and lifestyle collaborations featuring Nike, Takashi Murakami, Lyrical Lemonade, NFL, Champion and more – all centered around its top-tier talent collective with gaming rooted at the core. Reaching over 500 million followers across social platforms globally, FaZe Clan’s roster consists of world-class gamers, streamers, content creators and esports professionals known for delivering disruptive, original content. Its gaming division houses 10+ competitive esports teams with titles including Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, Halo, FIFA and more. With a combined total of over 40 world championships to date, FaZe has brought home dozens of trophies with historic wins like the 2022 CS:GO PGL Antwerp Major, 2021 Call of Duty League Championship and 2023 CS:GO Intel Grand Slam.
Investor
Dec 2018
BlocPower is upgrading America’s buildings to be smarter, greener and healthier for all—fighting the climate crisis and creating good green jobs.
Investor
Nov 2018
Encantos PBC is an award-winning childrens entertainment + tech company. Named by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, Encantos focuses on diverse stories and characters and brings them to life through apps, books, content, consumer products, and more. Its properties include the Emmy Nominated 2X kidscreen-winning preschool brand Canticos, the award-winning Tiny Travelers series, and the newly launched Skeletina. Encantos was named one of the top 100 startups by Business Insider and was recently celebrated by Apple as one of their featured creators and by Youtube for its cultural impact.
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Nov 2018
Phiar is an ultra-lightweight AI company, building the world's most advanced Ultra-Lightweight Spatial AI Engine to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, running real-time at the edge, using just commodity mobile-grade processors and existing automotive computing platforms with a single camera. Focused first on powering our Intelligent AR Navigation Platform, as the anchoring/foundational use-case to transform driving experience and safety, and to ultimately enable the next-gen connected cars and ADAS services. Phiar was founded in 2017 and is now based in Redwood City, California.
Investor
Sep 2018
We are building the first mobility based Smart Screens - Smart Cities advertising and data platform that utilizes the ride share and gig economy for distribution and scale. Our unique location-based, “situationally aware” software and 1st party data enables the most granular, audience-based targeting of any away from home medium on any screen type. - We are actively creating private:public partnerships with the cities where we deploy our solutions in order to promote a better quality of life for all residents. - We are dedicated to supporting local businesses with advertising programs to support their unique needs. - We provide our driver-partners the ability to earn significant additional income to enable them to get closer to achieving their personal goals. - We are leading innovators on all digital screen types with a goal to deliver performance and successful outcomes for our customers and partners. Were Hiring!
Investor
Sep 2018
TTYL Inc. is a venture-backed consumer media company based in Los Angeles. We're building a social voice platform that allows people to create, share and save real (voice) conversations with their friends and family. WE'RE HIRING 🛠 — http://angel.co/ttyl/jobs ✅ iOS software engineer📱 ✅ Backend software engineer ⚙️ ✅ Designer 🎨 *bonus points if you've worked on consumer apps before, or if you've worked with audio + voice! 💪🏼
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Investor
Jul 2021
OCX Cognition™ delivers Generative Customer Analytics on its one-of-a-kind Customer AI platform. Customer AI represents the future of NPS®, Customer Experience Management and Customer Success Analytics. Customers use Customer AI from OCX Cognition to implement customer analytics programs that result in continuous improvement, reduced churn increased upsell and better targeted acquisition. Drawing on more than 15 years of CX expertise and 1000+ CX initiatives, OCX Cognition ensures customer experience success with a combination of technology and data science powered by machine learning, programmatic consulting, and research based CX insights and education. Learn more at www.ocxcognition.com.
Investor & Board Advisor
Jun 2021
Antara Health scales patient-centered health care for everyone by adding AI-assisted health navigation to make the hard parts of healthcare easy for patients and providers. Patients, especially those with chronic ailments, enjoy comprehensive health and financial protection, concierge care coordination, and peace of mind knowing they and their loved ones have a champion in their healthcare journey.
Investor
Feb 2021
We make it easy for everyday creators to centralize their brand, deepen relationships with their followers, and start making money.
2020
Investor and Board Observer
Dec 2020
PureStream is a technology platform company with a singular focus on making institutional trading scale efficiently and securely. For a glimpse at the problem and solution we are focused on, please consider the following: Can you imagine a data network that links computers that only exchange 1/250th (.004%) of their data payload per connection? Then repeats the connection, transmission, disconnect process hundreds of times before completing. Data networks dont work that way, but the US equity market does. Why is the US trading network with only 50 "nodes"​ (15 Exchanges & 35 ATSs) considered fragmented, and data networks with thousands considered distributed? The difference between data and liquidity transmission is in the sophistication and application specific nature of data protocols. Equity trading has outgrown price and time as the only dimensions of its trading protocols. If you are interested in learning more as a potential partner, client and/or investor please contact Armando via LinkedIn. Thank you!
early stageCapital Markets
Investor
Mar 2020
StoreCash is an LA-based payments and technology company that provides our customers an alternative method of payment for everyday goods and lifestyle purchases, benefiting from the highest, instant and unlimited cash back in the US. Our business and banking customers are able to access our technology through a custom plug and play cash back API to increase their own customer engagement and retention. StoreCash’s founding team are technology and community leaders in the BIPOC community with top-tier pedigree from Google, Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft as well as previous entrepreneurial exits. StoreCash is a financial technology company and is not a bank. Banking services provided by Piermont Bank; Member FDIC. Terms & conditions apply to earning cash back rewards. Please see terms & conditions for details on cash back rewards.
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