Nick Santora

cybersecurity founder (exited) | aijobs.com & aitalent.com founder | startup investor | business engineer | power grid cyber defense

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
Operator-angel🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
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Feb 2026
Hark is an artificial intelligence lab building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world. Were pairing our own foundation models with bespoke hardware to create a universal interface between people and machines. Hark has raised over $700 million in Series A funding. With these resources, were hiring some of the best talent from across the industry.
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Dec 2025
In the tech and data intelligence worlds, a sandbox is where innovation is born. It’s a place where the brightest free-thinking minds from across disciplines come together to reimagine what’s possible. A collaborative environment where the whole is infinitely greater than the sum of the parts. At SandboxAQ, this forward-looking vision is core to everything we do. It’s how we became who we are and it’s how we know our solutions can shift the way your business competes in tomorrow’s marketplace. As the world enters the third quantum revolution, AI + Quantum software will address significant business and scientific challenges. ‍ SandboxAQ is a B2B company delivering AI solutions that address some of the worlds greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) deliver critical advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cyber and other sectors. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Eric Schmidt, Breyer Capital, Guggenheim Partners, Marc Benioff, Thomas Tull, Paladin Capital Group, and others.
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Sep 2025
Replacing Americas pantry with foods that are healthy by default. Makers of MASA Chips
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2025
Were Loop, a new local service here in Atlanta. We’re not amazon. Were not goodwill. We’re your neighbors. And we want your sonos speakers. Sell your stuff in 18 seconds. We buy it, venmo you cash, and pick up from your porch tomorrow. No sketchy meetups. No haggling in parking lots. No messaging "is this available?" How it works: 1. We buy your stuff. Just take a picture! 2. Put on your porch. Well pick it up. 3. Get paid via Venmo. Youre done! We believe items should have long, happy lives. Your home isnt a storage unit... Keep what you use. Loop what you dont.
Investor
Oct 2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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Apr 2024
Flock Safety is the leading public safety platform designed to help communities prevent and reduce crime, not just respond to it. We partner with cities, law enforcement agencies, schools, businesses, and neighborhoods to deliver real-time, objective intelligence that helps stop crime quickly, responsibly, and transparently. Our technology captures objective evidence, such as vehicle and situational data, and applies privacy-first machine learning to surface actionable insights, so investigators can focus on facts, not guesswork. The result is faster resolutions, safer communities, and fewer intrusive policing practices. Unlike legacy systems built around force, hardware sprawl, or after-the-fact evidence review, Flock is purpose-built for crime prevention and accountability at scale. Our cloud-native platform is easy to deploy, simple to use, and designed with civil liberties at the core, including built-in data minimization, auditing, and user transparency. Why communities choose Flock Safety: Prevention-first public safety: stop crime earlier with shared, objective intelligence. Privacy by design: clear retention controls, audit logs, and policy-driven access. Real-time insights: machine learning that helps identify leads in minutes, not days. Unified platform: cameras, sensors, and intelligence working together seamlessly. Community trust: technology that supports public safety without overreach. Today, thousands of cities and organizations rely on Flock Safety to reduce crime, improve clearance rates, and build safer environments - without compromising the values of the communities they serve. Flock Safety is redefining public safety for the modern world: proactive, accountable, and community-centered.
late stagePublic Safety
Investor
Mar 2024
Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers
Investor
Feb 2024
Figure is an AI Robotics company building the worlds first commercially viable autonomous humanoid robot. We are based in San Jose, CA.
Investor
Jan 2024
Spellbook is the most popular AI suite for commercial lawyers. It helps legal teams draft and review contracts 10x faster, with greater precision—right in Microsoft Word. More than 4,500 in-house teams and law firms trust Spellbook to scale contract review. Review: Ensure contracts are compliant to your standards, surfacing issues and suggesting redlines. Works right in Microsoft Word. Ask: Surface accurate answers with citations, from legal data sources as well as your own contract repository. Ask questions like: “Which employment agreements need to be updated this year based on changes in employment law?” Compare to Market: Spellbook is the only tool grounded in real market data. Compare your agreements to realtime data in your geography or industry. Intake: Enable your business teams to move quickly, while getting you the information you need, with Spellbook Greenlight. Multi-Document Drafting: Spellbook Associate is the first AI agent that can accomplish complex multi-document drafting work, like assembling a financing transaction from a term sheet. Organize: Automatically sort your historical contracts and extract key information from them. www.spellbook.com
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Jan 2024
Mercury is the fintech ambitious companies use for banking* and all their financial workflows. With a powerful account at the center of their operations, companies can make better financial decisions and ensure that every dollar spent aligns with company priorities. Thats why over 300K startups choose Mercury to confidently run all their financial operations with the precision, control, and focus they need to operate at their best. To learn more, visit Mercury.com. *Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.
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Jan 2024
Copy.ai makes AI accessible for all users, regardless of technical know-how. Our GTM AI Platform makes it easy to drive real business value from the latest large language models (LLMs) and help companies navigate their AI transformation journey. We have over 10 million users, the backing of top tier venture capital firms (Sequoia, Craft, Wing, Tokyo Black), and an incredible tailwind of AI momentum and enthusiasm.
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Oct 2023
Ernest is building the construction ecosystem of tomorrow. We are the first AI-powered construction platform pairing custom software with project execution to build more for less.
Investor
Sep 2023
We build AI for the 99%, empowering every team to achieve more with a customized AI teammate.
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Aug 2023
iCardio.ai develops AI for the interpretation of Ultrasound imaging, with a focus on echocardiograms. Leveraging a proprietary dataset of over 200M annotated Ultrasound images, comprising possibly the largest privately-owned Ultrasound database in the world, iCardio.ai’s mission ushers in the most cutting-edge innovation in the realm of deep medicine. iCardio.ai serves several leading Ultrasound software and hardware companies, including GE Healthcare, in the research and development of AI algorithms. iCardio.ai’s establishment coincides with the recent explosive use of hand-held portable Ultrasound across all areas of healthcare, perhaps the largest shift in medical imaging since the invention of the X-Ray, to provide real-time interpretation of images either on-device or through the cloud. Setting the standard for deep learning within medical imaging and expanding its potential applications, iCardio.ai is bringing AI to Ultrasound.
Investor & Advisor
Jul 2023
Infinite Giving transforms nonprofit finance through seamless technology and thoughtful stewardship. We partner with nonprofit teams and boards of all sizes to help them receive donations, invest assets, and manage cash reserves efficiently. As a modern, tech-enabled financial platform, we strive to make financial tools accessible and provide guidance through easy, streamlined processes. We protect an organizations greatest resources, time and money, by growing their giving through technology with a human touch. Put simply, we democratize financial aspects of giving that empower nonprofits on their journey to greater impact. Disclosure Infinite Giving Advisory Services, Inc. is a registered investment adviser in the States of Georgia, California, Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Advisory services are only offered to clients or prospective clients where Infinite Giving Advisory Services, Inc. and its representatives are properly licensed or exempt from licensure. Our firm may not transact business in states where it is not appropriately registered, excluded or exempted from registration. This website is solely for informational purposes. Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. Individualized responses to persons that involve either the effecting of transactions in securities, or the rendering of personalized investment advice for compensation, will not be made without registration or exemption. Investing involves risk and possible loss of principal capital. No advice may be rendered by Infinite Giving Advisory Services, Inc. unless a client service agreement is in place. Donation services provided by Infinite Giving Advisory Services, Inc.
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Feb 2026
Hark is an artificial intelligence lab building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world. Were pairing our own foundation models with bespoke hardware to create a universal interface between people and machines. Hark has raised over $700 million in Series A funding. With these resources, were hiring some of the best talent from across the industry.
2025
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Dec 2025
In the tech and data intelligence worlds, a sandbox is where innovation is born. It’s a place where the brightest free-thinking minds from across disciplines come together to reimagine what’s possible. A collaborative environment where the whole is infinitely greater than the sum of the parts. At SandboxAQ, this forward-looking vision is core to everything we do. It’s how we became who we are and it’s how we know our solutions can shift the way your business competes in tomorrow’s marketplace. As the world enters the third quantum revolution, AI + Quantum software will address significant business and scientific challenges. ‍ SandboxAQ is a B2B company delivering AI solutions that address some of the worlds greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) deliver critical advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cyber and other sectors. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Eric Schmidt, Breyer Capital, Guggenheim Partners, Marc Benioff, Thomas Tull, Paladin Capital Group, and others.
Investor
Sep 2025
Replacing Americas pantry with foods that are healthy by default. Makers of MASA Chips
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2025
Were Loop, a new local service here in Atlanta. We’re not amazon. Were not goodwill. We’re your neighbors. And we want your sonos speakers. Sell your stuff in 18 seconds. We buy it, venmo you cash, and pick up from your porch tomorrow. No sketchy meetups. No haggling in parking lots. No messaging "is this available?" How it works: 1. We buy your stuff. Just take a picture! 2. Put on your porch. Well pick it up. 3. Get paid via Venmo. Youre done! We believe items should have long, happy lives. Your home isnt a storage unit... Keep what you use. Loop what you dont.
2024
Investor
Oct 2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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