Nate Williams

DeepTech x Physical AI Seed VC @UNION // fmr Kleiner Perkins EIR // 3X Hardware Startup CXO // Dad Cyclist

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 24 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
24
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15
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5
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0
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12y
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Portfolio

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Mar 2023
Onsemble is a tool built for the modern homeowner to make the electric choice the easy one: an app that helps you seamlessly navigate the incentive and contractor landscape, replacing your old gas-burning appliance with the electric alternative. Once Onsemble helps homeowners electrify, we turn the appliances into a critical power resource for the broader electric grid.
Founding Investor
Sep 2022
Our electricity system relies on behind-the-meter devices more than ever before. From Demand Response and Virtual Power Plants to Electrification and Pay-for-Performance incentive programs, the demand for data and communication with DER devices is greater than ever. Derapi makes this communication easy. Our unified data infrastructure provides simple, reliable, and secure access to a multitude of supported devices through a single, cloud-based application programming interface. By removing the cost and complexity of bespoke software integrations, Derapi accelerates time to market for DER software developers, and extends market reach and reduces support costs for device manufacturers. If your business requires you to communicate with distributed solar, energy storage, electric vehicles and EV chargers, smart thermostats, or any other behind-the-meter energy device, Derapi is an ideal partner for you. We welcome an opportunity to discuss how we can meet your needs.
Investor + Board Observer
Feb 2022
99 Counties is an Iowa and Chicago based marketplace connecting consumers to local, regenerative farms. The platform enables consumers to buy chemical-free, regenerative meat from farms within a day’s drive away while empowering farmers to diversify their operations and reclaim their independence from Big Ag. 99 Counties coordinates all processing, transportation and marketing so that farmers can focus on raising livestock and consumers can eat nutrient-dense food.
Investor + BoD
Nov 2021
Robotics Startup - Robots that Reclaim Wood Waste for Reuse as Premium Lumber
Investor
Sep 2021
Rendered.ai is a platform-as-a-service for data scientists, data engineers, and developers who need to create and deploy unlimited, customized synthetic data generation for machine learning and artificial intelligence workflows, reducing expense, closing gaps, and overcoming bias, security, and privacy issues when compared with the use or acquisition of real-world data. Rendered.ai moves the process of creating and exploiting synthetic data closer to the business need by providing a collaborative environment, samples, and cloud resources to quickly get started defining new data generation channels, creating datasets in high performance compute environments, and providing tools to characterize and catalog existing and synthetic datasets. To try out our hosted PaaS, request access here: https://hubs.li/Q012NcJm0 We offer a flexible subscription business model that allows customers to generate as much data as they want for a flat monthly fee.
Investor + BoD
Aug 2021
Urban Skys products enable routine and easy access to the stratosphere and the value locked within it. Our stratospheric Microballoon™s (mHABs) offer quick, easy, long-duration, and controllable flight in the stratosphere. And the stratosphere itself offers everything space cannot - rapid access, navigation, extended loitering, and affordability.
Investor
Jul 2021
Butlr is the world’s first and only 100% anonymous people sensing and occupancy detection platform that helps enterprises all over the world improve their workplace planning and optimize their operations. Using just body heat and advanced AI technologies, Butlr understands presence and traffic without capturing any identities—ever.
Investor
Apr 2021
Impact Biosystems is a Venture funded startup in the Boston area developing adaptive hardware and software solutions in the health and fitness space. Our goal is to make athletes of all varieties uniquely feel better, perform at their peak, and help them live longer. We are a small, passionate team, that wants to create a new market, not just a new product, and make a splash while doing so. So yeah, were just a tiny bit ambitious. Were a largely MIT based cross-functional team. The hardware we make measures your body to make sure your experience adapts to you.
Investor + Board Observer
Sep 2020
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) have never been human-centric. Poor data management, broken traceability, and not designed for the average factory worker. Not anymore - we’ve fixed it. Pico MES is a fresh approach to factory operating systems and enables a connected environment to limitless factory tools, capturing data for visibility into the supply chain. Pico MES has migrated dozens of mid-sized factories off of paper-based systems and helped improve product quality for American factories in battery manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace. Pico MES is designed by end users, for future end users. Our company has a 100% remote workforce and we empower our staff to work anywhere, help everywhere.
mid stageManufacturing
Investor
Jun 2020
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
Investor
Jun 2020
The Camect Smart Camera Hub turns every video security camera into an effective, proactive detection system. Using truly brilliant AI, objects perceived by the camera are accurately identified and filtered according to relevance. Useless data is suppressed. Critical information is transmitted, in real time, with live video. This enables criminal intention to be detected and deterred before it even happens. Learn more at Camect.com ABOUT US: Camect is a Silicon Valley company founded by two Google computer engineers who thought there had to be a way to make security cameras actually useful. They set the lofty goal of ending the irritating, and costly, mass market issue of false video alerts. Within a few short months they had a working prototype, had resigned from Google and launched Camect. Taking the Cam from Camera and ect from Connect they have succeeded and forever changed they way video security alerts are received and viewed. Camect’s best-in-class AI understands objects that cameras see and raises alerts for only the interesting events -- completely eliminating false alerts from bugs, animals, leaves, rain, shadows, etc. This technology is fully contained within affordable on-site hardware, and yet is significantly more accurate than more expensive products that rely on cloud-hosted analytics. A Camect security system will not eat up bandwidth, records continuously, and works even when the internet is down. Camect brings these benefits to everyone through a unique user experience that requires minimal configuration. A system to monitor high value assets takes only minutes to configure, complete with accurate alert notifications delivered in real-time, universal secure remote access, a single way to integrate cameras of many different brands, and monitoring station integration. Camect is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and currently has customers in over 30 countries. To learn more, schedule a DEMO at https://camect.com
Investor + Board Observer
Apr 2020
Our sensors + data predict shelf life to reduce food waste and improve quality.
Founding Investor
2020
Griot’s mission is to capture, organize, and share the knowledge of the skilled workforce. Our mobile-first communication and knowledge platform enables field service workers to communicate in context, synthesize knowledge, share best practices, and resolve challenges in the field so they can get their work done right and on time.
Investor + Advisor
2019
TrustPoint.ai is a leading data driven SaaS technology platform for the construction, renovation, and bridge lending industry. The company serves real estate lenders, loan portfolio managers & note buyers, loan servicers, builders and developers, and more... Our innovative software solutions cover draw management, loan portfolio monitoring, operational and policy risk management, project health scoring, and additional data-driven functionality across the enterprise. TrustPoints realtime visibility and predictive insights provide key stakeholders with the confidence to scale safely and make more informed business decisions. At TrustPoint, TRUST is the POINT
Investor
2018
Pattern Brands acquires and grows a high-quality portfolio of home-life brands that start online and expand multi-channel.. Our in-house M&A and operations teams work closely with brand founders to transition ownership and drive growth post acquisition through brand centric marketing, operational and multi-channel opportunities. We own and operate 7 brands and are actively expanding our portfolio across the home goods space. Our acquisition criteria include Established financials of $1M to $35M in annual revenue with >10% EBITDA margins Differentiated products with unique IP and strong customer feedback Large and engaged audiences with high retention rates and organic growth For M&A opportunities, please visit us at ginlane.com or email us at acquisitions@patternbrands.com For opportunities to carry our brands through wholesale, please email us at sales@patternbrands.com If you’re interested in buying products for yourself or friends, please visit us at patternbrands.com The team behind Pattern Brands was formerly Gin Lane, a brand-building agency that launched +50 DTC startups, creating +$15 billion in market value - including Harry's, Sweetgreen, Hims, Smile Direct Club, Everlane, Stadium Goods, Recess, and more Pattern Brands has raised $100M in funding and is backed by Primary, RRE, Toba Capital, Victory Park Capital, Verlinvest, BAM Elevate, Kleiner Perkins, and other leading investors.
early stageManufacturing
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2023
Investor
Mar 2023
Onsemble is a tool built for the modern homeowner to make the electric choice the easy one: an app that helps you seamlessly navigate the incentive and contractor landscape, replacing your old gas-burning appliance with the electric alternative. Once Onsemble helps homeowners electrify, we turn the appliances into a critical power resource for the broader electric grid.
2022
Founding Investor
Sep 2022
Our electricity system relies on behind-the-meter devices more than ever before. From Demand Response and Virtual Power Plants to Electrification and Pay-for-Performance incentive programs, the demand for data and communication with DER devices is greater than ever. Derapi makes this communication easy. Our unified data infrastructure provides simple, reliable, and secure access to a multitude of supported devices through a single, cloud-based application programming interface. By removing the cost and complexity of bespoke software integrations, Derapi accelerates time to market for DER software developers, and extends market reach and reduces support costs for device manufacturers. If your business requires you to communicate with distributed solar, energy storage, electric vehicles and EV chargers, smart thermostats, or any other behind-the-meter energy device, Derapi is an ideal partner for you. We welcome an opportunity to discuss how we can meet your needs.
Investor + Board Observer
Feb 2022
99 Counties is an Iowa and Chicago based marketplace connecting consumers to local, regenerative farms. The platform enables consumers to buy chemical-free, regenerative meat from farms within a day’s drive away while empowering farmers to diversify their operations and reclaim their independence from Big Ag. 99 Counties coordinates all processing, transportation and marketing so that farmers can focus on raising livestock and consumers can eat nutrient-dense food.
2021
Investor + BoD
Nov 2021
Robotics Startup - Robots that Reclaim Wood Waste for Reuse as Premium Lumber
Investor
Sep 2021
Rendered.ai is a platform-as-a-service for data scientists, data engineers, and developers who need to create and deploy unlimited, customized synthetic data generation for machine learning and artificial intelligence workflows, reducing expense, closing gaps, and overcoming bias, security, and privacy issues when compared with the use or acquisition of real-world data. Rendered.ai moves the process of creating and exploiting synthetic data closer to the business need by providing a collaborative environment, samples, and cloud resources to quickly get started defining new data generation channels, creating datasets in high performance compute environments, and providing tools to characterize and catalog existing and synthetic datasets. To try out our hosted PaaS, request access here: https://hubs.li/Q012NcJm0 We offer a flexible subscription business model that allows customers to generate as much data as they want for a flat monthly fee.
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