Nick Moran

General Partner at New Stack Ventures, Founder & Host of The Full Ratchet, Danaher alum

📍 Naperville, Illinois, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 65 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Feb 2026
Kestrel Labs builds building code compliance software that runs inside Revit. Architects design in BIM. But compliance is still handled outside the model — reading PDFs, marking up drawings, and catching issues late in plan review. Kestrel moves building code into the model. The system evaluates BIM geometry directly against jurisdiction-specific requirements as the design evolves, mapping issues to the exact elements in the model and linking every result back to the underlying code section. This changes both the timing and architecture of compliance itself. Instead of reviewing drawings after decisions are already made, compliance becomes part of the design environment from the beginning. Runs inside Revit. ~30-second checks. Project-specific, fully cited results. Teams use Kestrel to catch issues earlier, reduce rework, and move toward permit with fewer surprises. We’re building the structured compliance data layer for the built environment.
Lead Investor
Dec 2025
Maestro is a modern infrastructure platform built to streamline mortgage operations from end to end. Designed for brokers, lenders, and processors, Maestro simplifies complex workflows, reduces friction, and brings greater transparency to every stage of the loan process. By combining automation, compliance tools, and real-time data insights, Maestro helps mortgage professionals move faster, stay aligned, and scale with confidence. Founded by industry veterans with deep experience in mortgage and technology, we’re on a mission to make mortgage operations smarter and more efficient.
Lead Investor
Oct 2025
BioReact is the AI and analytics layer powering modern bioprocess development. We help bioprocess teams manage, analyze, and optimize data from any bioreactor instrument, at any scale; from early R&D to pilot and manufacturing. BioReact automatically structures and aligns online signals, offline measurements, and experimental metadata into a single time-series framework, eliminating manual data wrangling and spreadsheet workflows. BioReact enables: - Unified data management across bioreactors, scales, and sites - Advanced visualization and statistical analysis to compare experiments, conditions, and outcomes in seconds - Predictive modeling and AI-driven optimization to recommend bioreactor conditions that improve yield, productivity, and process robustness Our AI models learn directly from historical bioprocess data, allowing teams to move beyond static DoE and intuition-driven experimentation toward adaptive, data-driven process optimization. BioReact is used across industrial biotech and biopharma to accelerate development timelines, reduce failed experiments, and unlock deeper insight into how cells behave under real process conditions.
Lead Investor
Oct 2025
Our mission is to guarantee top-notch customer experiences and help dealerships reclaim their market share from independent and franchised repair shops. At SparkServ, we ride shotgun with BDC agents, giving real-time coaching and serving up customer data as they dial, streamlining their appointment scheduling process. The result? Increased productivity per rep to the tune of >$100k per year, lower attrition, and calls that are 3x more efficient.
Lead Investor
Aug 2025
Binsr Inspect is the AI-First Home Inspection Platform designed to help inspectors save time, grow revenue, and deliver a better experience to clients and agents. With a mobile-first experience, automated reporting, and client/agent dashboards, Binsr helps you work faster, look more professional, and win more business. See why inspectors choose Binsr Inspect: Let AI Do the Heavy Lifting Import your entire report template — comments, items, and structure — in one click with zero errors. Binsr’s AI-powered data migration makes switching effortless, so you’re up and running in under an hour. From there, AI automates item creation, links related comments, and streamlines reporting — saving you hours every week. Impress Clients and Agents with Better Tools Deliver polished PDF reports, a clean Client Dashboard, and an agent experience that keeps referrals coming back. Binsr helps you stand out and look professional. Scheduling, Payments & Report Building — In one Platform Binsr replaces your report builder, CRM, payment processor, scheduler, and even your website — all in one modern platform built just for inspectors. Unlock New Revenue with AI Upsells Offer agents and clients powerful tools like repair estimates & appliance analytics. You earn more — they get more value.
Lead Investor
Jun 2025
We believe in building a future beyond ourselves. That’s why we created a surprisingly easy process for families to create wills, trusts, and guardianships plans. We’ve removed the lawyer complications (and massive fees) and created a modern experience that can be completed in less than 30 minutes.
Lead Investor
Apr 2025
Earlyasset is building the infrastructure layer for the venture secondary market. The secondary market is broken in three ways: pricing is opaque and pegged to the wrong benchmarks, transactions are company-hostile and cap table-polluting, and the execution infrastructure to make it work at scale simply doesnt exist. Earlyasset fixes all three. Our algorithmic pricing engine values shares by stock class — not just the last primary round headline. Our SecondaryOS gives companies a digital transaction engine to facilitate secondaries faster, cheaper, and with less disruption. And our direct liquidity approach consolidates buyers, protects cap tables, and aligns everyones interests. The result: sellers get real liquidity. Companies get cleaner cap tables and happier shareholders. Buyers get discounted access to proven, overlooked companies. We focus on the #25–500 growth-stage companies — businesses with real revenue, real growth, and real margins — that the market systematically undervalues because they arent the headline names everyone is fighting over. Earlyasset also manages Earlyasset Capital, a venture secondaries fund that invests directly through our platform — with access to proprietary deal flow and pricing intelligence that no traditional allocator in this market has. The tech makes the fund smarter. The fund validates the tech. Thats the flywheel.
Lead Investor
Sep 2024
Fostering human flourishing. Our mission is to deliver advanced technology that positively impacts the human experience and unlocks convenience and profitability for everyone in the recreational vehicle industry. Drop us a line via hello@getvinny.com
Lead Investor
Aug 2024
Being self-employed is hard. Use Besolos complete self-employed operating system to gain access to corporate-quality health and retirement benefits while handling those annoying compliance/operational tasks that distract you from building value for your clients. We handle the B.S and empower security in your life so you can be the rockstar that you are.
Lead Investor
Jul 2024
Send-it Healthcare is revolutionizing the way providers and health systems connect. Our unique marketplace allows clinicians and health organizations collaborate to fill staffing needs in a transparent and efficient way. Health organizations deepen their bench with high-quality, affordable providers. Clinicians leverage the power of the gig economy to fill shifts, experience new clinical settings, and market their skills.
Lead Investor
May 2024
All Your Spot Freight - In Just One Place Manifold is your go-to solution for all your spot freight needs. We empower you to Find, Bid and Analyze all your spot freight in one platform. Whether your spot freight comes from a TMS or email, we handle it all. For more information be sure to check out our website.
Lead Investor
Apr 2024
Light Frame is a Swiss American financial technology company building advanced technologies for private banks, wealth management firms, and banks offering investment and wealth services. The company was founded in January 2024 by Schuyler Weiss, Mathieu Clement, Philippe Kernevez, and Gregory Bataille, and it maintains offices in Providence, RI and Lausanne, VD. Light Frame completed its Pre-seed round of financing in April 2024, with ATX Venture Partners and New Stack Ventures co-leading the round. Other investors include Rogue Venture Partners, Halfcourt Ventures, Studio Alpha, and Underdog Labs.
Lead Investor
Apr 2024
Mechanical engineers/designers spend 40% of their time creating production drawings from their 3D models. Its a tedious process, error-prone, and often delays projects by weeks! DraftAid generates detailed drawings with a single click. This allows engineers/designers working on anything from automation machinery to skyscrapers to turn weeks of work into minutes. With DraftAid, designers can model, and leave the drawings to AI!
Lead Investor
Sep 2023
Heliux is an all-in-one operations platform that hyper-connects functions across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, accounting, and more. Our enterprise-wide approach enables engineering and manufacturing companies to orchestrate complex, cross-functional work on a single, shared source of truth. We unify and automate our customers’ operations to help them optimize end-to-end enterprise performance. Based out of San Francisco, CA, Heliux is on a mission to accelerate industrial development and growth.
Lead Investor
Aug 2023
🌟 Did You Know? Over 70% of B2B trades are conducted on credit terms. Yet, many suppliers struggle to support this, leading to lost business opportunities. 💡 Introducing Fluid—a true GAME CHANGER. With just a tap, Fluid instantly finances your B2B purchases within 10 seconds. You get paid first, your buyers pay us later! 🌏 Based in Singapore, Fluid is a cutting-edge B2B Buy Now Pay Later solution, designed to help B2B sellers —both online and offline - finance buyers’ purchases right at the point of checkout or when invoices are issued. By replacing traditional B2B payment methods like invoice factoring, which involve outdated and cumbersome processes, Fluid revolutionizes how payments are handled. ⚙️ Fluid seamlessly connects to suppliers ERP, accounting systems or website, enabling instant underwriting of B2B buyers. This offers a win-win scenario: buyers enjoy better payment terms, while suppliers unlock cash flow stuck in accounts receivable. Fluid integrates effortlessly into marketplaces and B2B sellers websites/apps, ERP or accounting systems, providing the payment flexibility that empowers B2B buyers to secure their purchases on credit terms or installments. 📈 The Result? Increased basket sizes and an influx of new buyers for sellers. What sets Fluid apart is its speed of underwriting, unmatched consumer-grade experience and the ability to facilitate high-velocity trade, distinguishing it from traditional digital lenders or invoice financing companies. 🚀 Ready to Revolutionize Your B2B Transactions? If youre a B2B marketplace, procurement platform, or supplier, reach out to us at wecare@gofluid.io today. Discover how Fluid can transform your payment processes and drive growth for your business.
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Lead Investor
Feb 2026
Kestrel Labs builds building code compliance software that runs inside Revit. Architects design in BIM. But compliance is still handled outside the model — reading PDFs, marking up drawings, and catching issues late in plan review. Kestrel moves building code into the model. The system evaluates BIM geometry directly against jurisdiction-specific requirements as the design evolves, mapping issues to the exact elements in the model and linking every result back to the underlying code section. This changes both the timing and architecture of compliance itself. Instead of reviewing drawings after decisions are already made, compliance becomes part of the design environment from the beginning. Runs inside Revit. ~30-second checks. Project-specific, fully cited results. Teams use Kestrel to catch issues earlier, reduce rework, and move toward permit with fewer surprises. We’re building the structured compliance data layer for the built environment.
2025
Lead Investor
Dec 2025
Maestro is a modern infrastructure platform built to streamline mortgage operations from end to end. Designed for brokers, lenders, and processors, Maestro simplifies complex workflows, reduces friction, and brings greater transparency to every stage of the loan process. By combining automation, compliance tools, and real-time data insights, Maestro helps mortgage professionals move faster, stay aligned, and scale with confidence. Founded by industry veterans with deep experience in mortgage and technology, we’re on a mission to make mortgage operations smarter and more efficient.
Lead Investor
Oct 2025
BioReact is the AI and analytics layer powering modern bioprocess development. We help bioprocess teams manage, analyze, and optimize data from any bioreactor instrument, at any scale; from early R&D to pilot and manufacturing. BioReact automatically structures and aligns online signals, offline measurements, and experimental metadata into a single time-series framework, eliminating manual data wrangling and spreadsheet workflows. BioReact enables: - Unified data management across bioreactors, scales, and sites - Advanced visualization and statistical analysis to compare experiments, conditions, and outcomes in seconds - Predictive modeling and AI-driven optimization to recommend bioreactor conditions that improve yield, productivity, and process robustness Our AI models learn directly from historical bioprocess data, allowing teams to move beyond static DoE and intuition-driven experimentation toward adaptive, data-driven process optimization. BioReact is used across industrial biotech and biopharma to accelerate development timelines, reduce failed experiments, and unlock deeper insight into how cells behave under real process conditions.
Lead Investor
Oct 2025
Our mission is to guarantee top-notch customer experiences and help dealerships reclaim their market share from independent and franchised repair shops. At SparkServ, we ride shotgun with BDC agents, giving real-time coaching and serving up customer data as they dial, streamlining their appointment scheduling process. The result? Increased productivity per rep to the tune of >$100k per year, lower attrition, and calls that are 3x more efficient.
Lead Investor
Aug 2025
Binsr Inspect is the AI-First Home Inspection Platform designed to help inspectors save time, grow revenue, and deliver a better experience to clients and agents. With a mobile-first experience, automated reporting, and client/agent dashboards, Binsr helps you work faster, look more professional, and win more business. See why inspectors choose Binsr Inspect: Let AI Do the Heavy Lifting Import your entire report template — comments, items, and structure — in one click with zero errors. Binsr’s AI-powered data migration makes switching effortless, so you’re up and running in under an hour. From there, AI automates item creation, links related comments, and streamlines reporting — saving you hours every week. Impress Clients and Agents with Better Tools Deliver polished PDF reports, a clean Client Dashboard, and an agent experience that keeps referrals coming back. Binsr helps you stand out and look professional. Scheduling, Payments & Report Building — In one Platform Binsr replaces your report builder, CRM, payment processor, scheduler, and even your website — all in one modern platform built just for inspectors. Unlock New Revenue with AI Upsells Offer agents and clients powerful tools like repair estimates & appliance analytics. You earn more — they get more value.
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