Nico Chinot

US GM at Dust, Square alum

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024
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Founding Investor
Oct 2024
Depthfirst is an AI-native security platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find real vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow. We believe that software is the foundation of modern civilization, yet vulnerabilities threaten its integrity, security, and resilience. We firmly believe that the number of exploits will significantly increase with the rapid proliferation of AI.
Founding Investor
Sep 2023
Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.
Founding Investor
Sep 2023
The Eudia Augmented Intelligence Platform elevates the role of legal with bespoke AI solutions that eliminate routine work and illuminate previously unseen insights. By combining the power of a best-in-class LLM with expert, human-in-the-loop deployment, Eudia empowers legal teams to: Deliver greater business value by surfacing revenue opportunities, aligning risk incentives, and more. Work more efficiently and accurately, including optimizing external counsel spend. Stop the toil of menial legal tasks, allowing valuable, knowledgeable lawyers to focus on the most rewarding parts of their job. Ultimately, AI is how tomorrow’s legal team will transcend the tug-of-war between working at the speed of the business and eliminating risk, allowing legal teams to deliver billions in business value. But only Eudia stands ready to offer the co-created, trustworthy platform that in-house legal teams require.
Founding Investor
Sep 2022
Custom AI agents: secure, connected to your company knowledge and tools, and powered by the best AI models. Join us: https://dust.tt/jobs.
Founding Investor
Sep 2021
Wallet infrastructure for winning teams. Powering 50M+ accounts, securing billions in volume. Embed crypto rails into your product seamlessly with one API.
Founding Investor
Aug 2018
Persona helps businesses manage KYC/AML/KYB programs, fight fraud, and build trust by automating any identity-related use case with our flexible identity infrastructure. For example, we help Coursera verify learners’ identities before delivering course credentials and Brex comply with strict international KYC/AML regulations. Beyond securely collecting and verifying user information such as PII, government IDs, and selfies, our platform also provides flexible case review and orchestration tools to help businesses streamline and automate all their identity operations — from setting custom rules to ingesting third-party data and triggering external actions. In short, Persona handles the complexities of securely collecting, verifying, and managing sensitive personal information, so you can stay focused on building your product.
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2024
Founding Investor
Oct 2024
Depthfirst is an AI-native security platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find real vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow. We believe that software is the foundation of modern civilization, yet vulnerabilities threaten its integrity, security, and resilience. We firmly believe that the number of exploits will significantly increase with the rapid proliferation of AI.
2023
Founding Investor
Sep 2023
Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.
Founding Investor
Sep 2023
The Eudia Augmented Intelligence Platform elevates the role of legal with bespoke AI solutions that eliminate routine work and illuminate previously unseen insights. By combining the power of a best-in-class LLM with expert, human-in-the-loop deployment, Eudia empowers legal teams to: Deliver greater business value by surfacing revenue opportunities, aligning risk incentives, and more. Work more efficiently and accurately, including optimizing external counsel spend. Stop the toil of menial legal tasks, allowing valuable, knowledgeable lawyers to focus on the most rewarding parts of their job. Ultimately, AI is how tomorrow’s legal team will transcend the tug-of-war between working at the speed of the business and eliminating risk, allowing legal teams to deliver billions in business value. But only Eudia stands ready to offer the co-created, trustworthy platform that in-house legal teams require.
2022
Founding Investor
Sep 2022
Custom AI agents: secure, connected to your company knowledge and tools, and powered by the best AI models. Join us: https://dust.tt/jobs.
2021
Founding Investor
Sep 2021
Wallet infrastructure for winning teams. Powering 50M+ accounts, securing billions in volume. Embed crypto rails into your product seamlessly with one API.
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