Nick Katz, Frics

Founder @ RAISE | Fractional CIO | $57M raised | Venture Partner | Syndicate Lead

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 20 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Apr 2025
Procurement within the construction industry is traditional, analogue and ripe for disruption. We’re on a mission to help construction companies reduce costs and save time through our new AI procurement tool, Prolo. Our service leverages cutting-edge AI, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and voice transcription, to bypass outdated practices in the construction industry. This technology enhances decision-making, increases efficiency, and delivers a superior user experience.
early stageConstruction
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Nov 2023
Waymap provides the world’s only navigation app that guides you both indoors and outdoors. Our app is accurate up to 1m (and 10 degrees heading), with no external signals required. With our app on your phone, you can explore the city, catch your bus, or go right to the aisle you want at the store. Waymap is a high-technology business that was founded to address the navigation needs of visually impaired persons. Since then, however, we have expanded our vision to provide the worlds most accurate and inclusive navigation app, driven by cutting-edge technology. Installed across a city’s transport network, streets and major buildings, our app gives step-by-step guidance as soon as you step out your door. It works anywhere we have a map.
Investor
Oct 2023
Oculo is using AI and deep tech to improve construction industry productivity and make on time delivery the norm, not an exception. Thousands of smart, highly skilled engineers are wasting hours every day on site documentation, progress tracking, and reporting which should be automated. We’re on a mission to simplify those processes and give them back that time. We use 360 cameras, state-of-the-art computer vision and artificial intelligence to give a single source of truth for for onsite progress. What this creates is essentially an up-to-date “streetview” of a construction project, which allows project managers, engineers and other professionals to carry out inspections, spot issues and make decisions faster, even when miles away from site.
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Sep 2023
Fifth Dimension is a technology company dedicated to bringing AI to the real estate industry. Our AI-Powered Operating System is revolutionising workflows across the RE value chain, helping professionals focus on high-impact activities while our AI handles the document-heavy, time-consuming tasks. Whether youre already experimenting with AI or just at beginning of your journey, we’d love to chat about how 5D can bring substantial value to your business.
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May 2023
Commonplace is the UK and Ireland’s most advanced solution for community engagement and co-design. We are leading the way globally with a data-led community sentiment mapping, survey and communication solution. We have created an inclusive and flexible platform designed to gather geolocated localised sentiment data around places and spaces, with useful data dashboards and reporting capabilities. Commonplace not only enables broader community conversations - it turns those conversations into a rich, data-led understanding. It transforms many voices into key themes, allowing for more inclusive decision-making. This dialogue also speeds up projects by getting local buy-in faster. Our team of experts have guided over 2000 projects across 60+ themes from development consultations, to wind and solar farms, active travel, safety and more!
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Apr 2023
At Seep were cleaning up the way we clean up. Seep’s mission is to shake up dusty cleaning accessories products for the good of people and the planet. Brits spend £5bn every year making their homes clean, but most of the products they’re using aren’t. Our range of cleaning accessories (sponges, cloths, gloves, brushes) are designed to work brilliantly, look great and to be as circular as possible which means they are home compostable or endlessly recyclable. We are a Certified B Corporation® and climate neutral because we believe in balancing profit with purpose.
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Jan 2023
Be confident and consistent with on-time delivery to sites. Trunk is the software for offsite manufacturing & site installation.
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Aug 2022
Were solving the busy problem. The burnout problem. The cant-put-my-phone-down problem. We are always on. 80% of you check your phones as soon as you wake up. 59% of you run through your emails on the weekends and whilst on holiday. Unplugged helps busy workers (like you) unplug from your devices and recharge in nature. Our beautiful digital detox cabins are just an hour from city life, so you dont have to travel far to find what matters. Think your whole team could benefit from a digital detox? Well, we also help companies look after their employees with an annual digital detox as part of their wellbeing benefit programmes. Because free office fruit just doesnt cut the mustard in this tech-obsessed world.
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Jul 2022
⚡️ Kato is the only truly digital data exchange and collaboration platform for commercial property. From lead to lease faster than ever before. 🚀 Bring everyone in. Get everything done.
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Dec 2021
Checkfirst exists to solve one of the biggest challenges in the Testing, Inspection, Certification, and Compliance (TICC) sector: operational inefficiency driven by outdated planning, scheduling, and verification processes. Every day, global TIC organisations depend on auditors, inspectors, and assessors to deliver critical work. Yet much of this work is slowed down by manual planning, fragmented workflows, inconsistent data, and systems that cannot manage the complexity of real field operations. Checkfirst builds AI products that remove these barriers. Our platform is designed around one core mission: To bring clarity, accuracy, and speed to every stage of the audit and inspection lifecycle. ScheduleAI Our flagship product, ScheduleAI, gives TICC planners a modern optimisation engine for scheduling auditors and inspectors. Traditional planning tools cannot compute skills, certifications, customer windows, durations, SLAs, travel constraints, workload distribution, and compliance rules at scale. ScheduleAI processes all these dimensions instantly and produces optimal schedules that improve utilisation, reduce travel, cut rescheduling, and accelerate certificate turnaround. Leaders in TICC choose ScheduleAI because it does not automate the old process. It replaces it with an intelligent operating model that reveals hidden capacity and transforms delivery performance. VerifyAI VerifyAI supports document assessors with accurate level 1 review. It accelerates early stage verification by checking consistency, completeness, and compliance indicators across documentation sets. VerifyAI does not replace decision making. It gives assessors a faster, more reliable start and removes repetitive manual checks. Why Checkfirst Our products integrate seamlessly into existing TICC workflows. They connect with sector specific tools, support multi country operations, and handle the complexity of different standards and audit types.
Investor & Advisor
Nov 2021
Our mission is to reconnect with the farmers that grow our food, so you know where your food comes from and how it’s been grown! We partner with small-scale farmers who work in harmony with nature, not against it, to bring you the freshest, tastiest and most sustainable food possible. Together, we can revolutinise how we feed ourselves and our planet
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Nov 2021
Leap is the leading platform for building and scaling virtual power plants (VPPs). Through its software-only solution, Leap facilitates fast, easy and automated access to demand response and other grid services revenue streams for the providers of battery storage systems, EV chargers, smart building technologies, and other distributed energy resources (DERs). Managing over 400,000 energy sites and devices across U.S. energy markets, Leap empowers more than 100 technology partners and their customers to unlock new value and help create a more flexible, resilient grid powered by renewable resources. Visit leap.energy to learn more.
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Sep 2021
We're on a long journey to house the humans of Earth.
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Sep 2020
Apt designs, develops, and facilitates the investment in standardized multifamily housing.
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2025
Venture Partner
Oct 2025
At Love Ventures, we believe the next decade will be defined by productivity-enhancing innovation - tools that help people and businesses work smarter, operate leaner, and grow faster. That’s why we’re backing the founders building this future. If youre a founder building across Fintech, Future of Work or Consumertech, or an investor looking to access venture capital returns through EIS investing, get in touch today. Member of British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and EIS Association (EISA).
Investor
Apr 2025
Procurement within the construction industry is traditional, analogue and ripe for disruption. We’re on a mission to help construction companies reduce costs and save time through our new AI procurement tool, Prolo. Our service leverages cutting-edge AI, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and voice transcription, to bypass outdated practices in the construction industry. This technology enhances decision-making, increases efficiency, and delivers a superior user experience.
early stageConstruction
2024
Mentor
Apr 2024
The Founder Institute is the World’s Largest AI-Native Company Builder, where ambitious professionals, solo founders, and first-time entrepreneurs go to turn ideas into funded, AI-powered startups. Since 2009, our structured methodology, global mentor network, and platform have helped over 8,900 founders across 100+ countries raise more than $2BN in funding. Whether you’re an employee ready to make the leap, a solo founder with a big idea, or a first-time entrepreneur looking for direction, we provide the AI toolkit, structured sprints, expert feedback, and investor network to take you from Zero to Founder, faster and cheaper than ever before. And when you’re ready, our venture fund Founder Capital and global investor network are there to write your first check.
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Nov 2023
Waymap provides the world’s only navigation app that guides you both indoors and outdoors. Our app is accurate up to 1m (and 10 degrees heading), with no external signals required. With our app on your phone, you can explore the city, catch your bus, or go right to the aisle you want at the store. Waymap is a high-technology business that was founded to address the navigation needs of visually impaired persons. Since then, however, we have expanded our vision to provide the worlds most accurate and inclusive navigation app, driven by cutting-edge technology. Installed across a city’s transport network, streets and major buildings, our app gives step-by-step guidance as soon as you step out your door. It works anywhere we have a map.
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