Nicholas Heller

Entrepreneur | Advisor | Investor

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2015𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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2015
Picasso Labs helps the world’s leading brands gain real-time insights into imagery and video. Today, brands communicate with their audiences using visual content, but many marketers still have limited data to interpret which visual properties resonate with their users and, more importantly, why. Picasso Labs leverages the powers of AI and machine learning to revolutionise the way brands understand their visual content. We bring data to creativity. We’re proud to help our clients like Unilever, PepsiCo, Heineken, Twitter, and AB InBev redefine how their visual data is cultivated and understood. We’re honored to be recognized as one of Unilever Foundry’s most ambitious and innovative startups of the past 5 years! If you’d like to learn more, go to picassolabs.com. Find us on Twitter @PicassoLabs Or check out our blog on Medium: blog.picassolabs.com
Investor
2015
CreativeX, formerly known as Picasso Labs, powers creative excellence for the world’s most loved brands. By analyzing creative at scale, our technology aims to advance creative expression through the clarity of data. Used globally by Fortune 500 brands like Unilever, Mondelez, Heineken, Google, and more, CreativeX measures and improves creative efficiency, consistency, and effectiveness across all their creative content worldwide. Visit www.creativex.com to learn more or reach out anytime: info@creativex.com.
Investor
2012
We make it fun and easy to get unique things made by you. In a slightly longer form, we're trying to make customization with independent hand-makers as interactive and frictionless as having a custom sticker made online, but with the end result of products that are more meaningful, creative and emblematic of who you want to be. We have thousands of curated customizable products made by hundreds of independent makers who we screen for quality and creativity.
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Co-Founder
Sep 2025
Our vision is to build an AI ecosystem to develop leading global software companies that empower founders to create transformative, disruptive technology driving positive impact in Switzerland, Europe and beyond. We bring together teams of world-class engineers, business professionals, industry experts and entrepreneurs to build new companies from the ground up. We offer hands-on support, guiding founders from ideation to execution, including offering office space, generating ideas, finding co-founders, securing pilot customers, integrating cutting-edge AI, facilitating fundraising and founding companies.
Venture Partner
Apr 2025
Ellipsis is an early-stage AI deep tech VC focused exclusively on transformative AI solutions. Were not just investors – were entrepreneurs and operators with decades of experience in ML research, product development, and successful entrepreneurship. We back pre-seed and seed-stage startups where AI isnt just a feature, but the core of the product.
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2015
Investor
2015
Picasso Labs helps the world’s leading brands gain real-time insights into imagery and video. Today, brands communicate with their audiences using visual content, but many marketers still have limited data to interpret which visual properties resonate with their users and, more importantly, why. Picasso Labs leverages the powers of AI and machine learning to revolutionise the way brands understand their visual content. We bring data to creativity. We’re proud to help our clients like Unilever, PepsiCo, Heineken, Twitter, and AB InBev redefine how their visual data is cultivated and understood. We’re honored to be recognized as one of Unilever Foundry’s most ambitious and innovative startups of the past 5 years! If you’d like to learn more, go to picassolabs.com. Find us on Twitter @PicassoLabs Or check out our blog on Medium: blog.picassolabs.com
Investor
2015
CreativeX, formerly known as Picasso Labs, powers creative excellence for the world’s most loved brands. By analyzing creative at scale, our technology aims to advance creative expression through the clarity of data. Used globally by Fortune 500 brands like Unilever, Mondelez, Heineken, Google, and more, CreativeX measures and improves creative efficiency, consistency, and effectiveness across all their creative content worldwide. Visit www.creativex.com to learn more or reach out anytime: info@creativex.com.
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