Nick Adams

Managing Partner and co-founder at Differential Ventures

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
May 2026
Valence is an AI company delivering emotional analytics for conversation intelligence.
Board Member
Jul 2025
Contracts: Beyond the Signature with PostSig Contracts are the lifeblood of business, but their true power often lies dormant. Post-signature contract management, a crucial yet neglected stage, holds a treasure trove of untapped data and value. Were PostSig, an AI-powered technology company. We bridge this gap by: Extracting hidden intelligence: Our AI automatically unlocks valuable data trapped in contracts. Transforming data into insights: Gain actionable intelligence to optimize performance, identify hidden opportunities, and mitigate risks. Automating tasks: Free your team from repetitive work, allowing them to focus on strategic initiatives. Imagine: Data-driven decisions: Make informed choices based on real-time contract insights. Proactive risk management: Identify potential issues early and take corrective actions. Streamlined workflows: Automate tasks and eliminate inefficiencies. Postsig empowers you to: Transform contracts from liabilities to strategic assets. Unlock the true potential of your agreements. Drive business success with AI-powered post-signature management. Join the future of contract intelligence. Visit us to see how PostSig can revolutionize your approach.
Board Observer
Apr 2025
Row64 is the only visual real-time business intelligence platform that delivers interactive analysis for massive datasets. Built on a GPU—and CPU-accelerated computing stack, Row64’s high-throughput, low-latency processing updates data at sub-millisecond speeds while powering a new generation of highly interactive dashboards. As a result, businesses can react faster to changing conditions and take advantage of opportunities as they arise.
Board Member
May 2024
Agnostiq is the company behind Covalent, a fully Pythonic, serverless compute engine for AI/ML/HPC. Learn more at www.covalent.xyz
Board Observer
Apr 2024
FlowFis mission is to help companies operate at peak financial performance.
Board Observer
Apr 2024
Cyvers is the premier leader in Web3 security, fraud prevention, and compliance, trusted by industry giants like BitGo, Crypto com, Consensys, 21Shares, and Stellar. By harnessing the power of advanced AI, including geometric machine learning, anomaly detection, and behavioral analysis, Cyvers delivers unparalleled protection against the ever-evolving threats in the decentralized digital landscape. Our platform proactively identifies anomalies, uncovers zero-day vulnerabilities, and evaluates blockchain address risks in real-time. These cutting-edge technologies empower Cyvers to protect your ecosystem from the most sophisticated malicious actors. What Cyvers Offers: - Security: Identify and neutralize risks like access control violations, smart contract exploits, and more - as they occur and even preemptively. - Fraud Prevention: Use AI-powered behavior analytics to combat emerging scams, including pig butchering, address poisoning, and rug pulls. - Compliance Assurance: Stay ahead of regulations with tailored tools for real-time monitoring, comprehensive risk assessment, tracing and reporting. From centralized exchanges and DeFi protocols to institutional platforms, Cyvers’ tailored solutions secure assets, prevent fraud, and ensure compliance. Let Cyvers be your shield, fortifying the Web3 ecosystem with proactive and intelligent defenses against malicious actors. For more information visit: cyvers.ai
Board Member
Jan 2024
Bazze is an AI powered data marketplace for defense and commercial customers
Board Member
Oct 2023
The worlds first conversational assistant to enforce and automate your privacy, security, and performance policies in enterprise AI.
Board Member
Aug 2023
Experience the power of Real-Time Guided Selling and drive your team to success 🚀 Demoleap real-time sales playbooks reinforce winning behaviors and eliminate cognitive burnout's effects on your seller's performance. Our five-star solution combines product and verbal cues to surface knowledge that helps your sellers run the perfect qualification, discovery, and live demo calls. Demoleap guides your sellers on what to do, say, and show in real-time. ✔️Transform sales scripts into real-time sales playbooks Replicate winning plays in our real-time smart assistant to deliver amazing sales and demo calls consistently. 25% Increase in win rates by lifting B&C players to apply and execute best practices ✔️Navigate confidently through conversation pivots Get the help you need no matter which direction the customer pulls you. 50% Faster confidence gain for sellers ✔️Have all you need for a successful meeting Run the entire meeting, from discovery and slides to product demos, all in one place. 75% More knowledge retention from training ✔️Keep your CRM up-to-date Seamlessly pass the demo flow and notes to your chosen CRM without wasting time entering data. 60% Less CRM administration
Board Observer
Dec 2022
Built IoT your way without the stress. Securely connect your MCU then capture and route sensor data anywhere with the Golioth SDK. Build secure, scalable, and innovative IoT in a fraction of the time.
Board Member
Jul 2022
At Circuit Mind, we believe that humanitys continued march of progress is dependent on the creation of extraordinary hardware inventions. From clean renewable energy to space travel, electronic devices are the backbone of our civilisations future. We have built a novel software that turns a hardware architecture into a circuit board schematic in seconds, allowing these inventions to be built over 100x faster and fully optimised. We are a close-knit, diverse team tackling hard problems that no one has ever solved before, pushing beyond what is currently thought to be possible. Join us as we continue to build on our success, and become part of the hardware revolution.
Board Member
Feb 2022
Retrocausal is the industry leader in intelligence augmentation systems that give superpowers to assembly operators, plant managers, and industrial engineers to dramatically boost the productivity, quality, and safety of shopfloor processes. Retrocausal employs cutting-edge generative AI in the form of its Copilot software to elevate low-skilled labor to take on high-skilled and sophisticated tasks.
Board Member
Sep 2021
Sahara's mission is to democratize hardware development. We empower users to develop hardware as quickly and cheaply as software by allowing developers to remotely connect to circuit boards, chips, and test equipment in the cloud.
Investor and Board
2021
Personal AI builds memory infrastructure for AI systems. The companys identity-based memory architecture powers specialized Small Language Models (SLMs) that deliver superior precision, latency, and cost efficiency compared to centralized cloud LLMs. By replacing context-window-based personalization with persistent, multi-layered memory, Personal AI enables real-time, personalized AI experiences at scale. The platform is purpose-built for distributed deployment on telecommunications infrastructure, supporting privacy-first, on-network AI integrated with voice, text, and data services.
Operations and Board Observer
Jun 2020
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Board Member
May 2026
Valence is an AI company delivering emotional analytics for conversation intelligence.
2025
Board Member
Jul 2025
Contracts: Beyond the Signature with PostSig Contracts are the lifeblood of business, but their true power often lies dormant. Post-signature contract management, a crucial yet neglected stage, holds a treasure trove of untapped data and value. Were PostSig, an AI-powered technology company. We bridge this gap by: Extracting hidden intelligence: Our AI automatically unlocks valuable data trapped in contracts. Transforming data into insights: Gain actionable intelligence to optimize performance, identify hidden opportunities, and mitigate risks. Automating tasks: Free your team from repetitive work, allowing them to focus on strategic initiatives. Imagine: Data-driven decisions: Make informed choices based on real-time contract insights. Proactive risk management: Identify potential issues early and take corrective actions. Streamlined workflows: Automate tasks and eliminate inefficiencies. Postsig empowers you to: Transform contracts from liabilities to strategic assets. Unlock the true potential of your agreements. Drive business success with AI-powered post-signature management. Join the future of contract intelligence. Visit us to see how PostSig can revolutionize your approach.
Board Observer
Apr 2025
Row64 is the only visual real-time business intelligence platform that delivers interactive analysis for massive datasets. Built on a GPU—and CPU-accelerated computing stack, Row64’s high-throughput, low-latency processing updates data at sub-millisecond speeds while powering a new generation of highly interactive dashboards. As a result, businesses can react faster to changing conditions and take advantage of opportunities as they arise.
2024
Board Member
May 2024
Agnostiq is the company behind Covalent, a fully Pythonic, serverless compute engine for AI/ML/HPC. Learn more at www.covalent.xyz
Board Observer
Apr 2024
FlowFis mission is to help companies operate at peak financial performance.
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