Nicolas Westphal

Managing Director @ Haymaker Growth | Investments in technology companies

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
VC🌍 United States
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2021
FLYR is a technology company that is purpose-built for the travel industry. Leveraging deep learning, an advanced form of AI, FLYR is helping airlines, cargo, and hospitality businesses around the globe elevate their results. With FLYR, businesses are able to improve revenue performance and modernize the e-commerce experience through accurate forecasting, automation, and analytics. Built on the FLYR Commercial Operating System, a flexible and extendable platform, FLYR connects disparate data and systems with AI to help airlines increase ROI, make confident decisions and elevate every travel experience.
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2021
AlphaSense is the technology behind the business world’s most important decisions – from Wall Street to boardrooms across every major industry. Trusted by over 6,500 leading companies – including 88% of the S&P 100, 80% of top global banks, and all 20 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms – our AI search and market intelligence platform empowers business leaders to move faster and with greater confidence by delivering the right insights at the right moment. Whether investing, acquiring, advising, or launching, AlphaSense fuels the decisions where clarity creates competitive edge. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 2,500 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.
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2021
BlueVoyant’s Cyber Defense Platform (CDP) integrates MDR, TPRM, and DRP into a seamless, scalable solution. Our cloud-native platform offers real-time threat monitoring for networks, endpoints, and supply chains, extending to the clear, deep, and dark web. Combining advanced AI technology with expert human insight, we deliver extensive protection and swift threat mitigation. Trusted by more than 1,000 clients around the globe and recognized as the 2024 Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year, BlueVoyant sets the standard for modern cyber defense.
Personal Investor and Board Advisor
2019
Clair is a New York-based mission driven digital banking platform that provides American workers with fee-free access to their earnings anytime via our Clair Debit Mastercard and FDIC-insured Spending and Savings accounts. Clair’s On-Demand Pay product is embedded within the digital or physical punch clocks of our HR technology partners, where American workers clock in and out every day. By giving workers control and access to their earnings anytime, Clair is bringing financial confidence to America's workforce. Clair is trusted by leading HR tech companies such as When I Work and 7Shifts and provides a valuable free employee benefit utilized by thousands of businesses across the United States. Bank Services provided by MetaBank®, N.A., Member FDIC.
Investor [Exit: IPO]
2017
Our unified platform fuels retail and hospitality ambitions with the technology and insights needed to simplify operations, scale efficiently and deliver exceptional customer experiences. From online and in-store operations to multichannel sales, global payments, inventory management tools and data-driven insights, Lightspeed helps businesses make work flow, grow sustainably and thrive in every market. Founded in Montréal in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With global teams across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, we support merchants in over 100 countries.
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2023
Investing Partner, Private Equity
2023
Decisive Leap is a private investment platform that partners with exceptional Facility Management businesses. With Decisive Leap as your partner, we will help you expand into rapidly growing end-markets, provide you with support to scale your sales & marketing efforts, and help offer new value-add solutions to your end customers. Below are just a few ways we intend to help you grow your Facility Management business: - Our team consists of Exec. Chairmen of companies that provide asset decommissioning services to 4,000 data centers in 100 different countries. The data center market is growing at 22% CAGR. We will help you get into and expand in this market. - Our team consists of Exec. leadership who are decision makers at the top 1-2 commercial / industrial real estate development companies in the US, giving you access to ~200 facilities in the US. - We work with national providers and integrators of facility security solutions, servicing F100 clients across the US leveraging a team of 19,000 installer specialists across the US. We will help you sell new value-added solutions through this salesforce. These are just a few ways we can help. We would love to hear from you and explore if theres a mutual fit to partnering together.
2021
Investor
2021
FLYR is a technology company that is purpose-built for the travel industry. Leveraging deep learning, an advanced form of AI, FLYR is helping airlines, cargo, and hospitality businesses around the globe elevate their results. With FLYR, businesses are able to improve revenue performance and modernize the e-commerce experience through accurate forecasting, automation, and analytics. Built on the FLYR Commercial Operating System, a flexible and extendable platform, FLYR connects disparate data and systems with AI to help airlines increase ROI, make confident decisions and elevate every travel experience.
Investor
2021
AlphaSense is the technology behind the business world’s most important decisions – from Wall Street to boardrooms across every major industry. Trusted by over 6,500 leading companies – including 88% of the S&P 100, 80% of top global banks, and all 20 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms – our AI search and market intelligence platform empowers business leaders to move faster and with greater confidence by delivering the right insights at the right moment. Whether investing, acquiring, advising, or launching, AlphaSense fuels the decisions where clarity creates competitive edge. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 2,500 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.
Investor
2021
Dataminr has created a revolutionary AI platform for discovering real-time events, risks, and threats in public data, providing global organizations and corporations with critical and actionable information. Its pioneering multi-modal fusion AI pulls from more than one million unique public data sources to synthesize terabytes of data spanning text, image, video, audio, and sensor signals for accurate, real-time event detection across 150+ languages and 220+ countries and territories. Dataminr pushes the boundaries of real-time information with ReGenAI -- an innovation that combines Predictive AI and Generative AI to describe breaking events and provide dynamic re-generating updates to events as they unfold. Powered by more than 50 proprietary large-language models, Dataminr delivers the earliest actionable information to enhance the security and resilience of organizations, infrastructure, and people. Dataminr is making its mark for growth and innovation, earning multi-year recognition on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Forbes AI 50, Forbes Cloud 100, and Built In Best Places to Work lists. We are creating a team of talented builders, creators and visionaries to have a real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. Join our team and help the world manage risk in real time. You’ll work with 500+ talented people across ten global offices, united by our passion to collaborate, make a difference, and have fun while doing it!
Investor
2021
BlueVoyant’s Cyber Defense Platform (CDP) integrates MDR, TPRM, and DRP into a seamless, scalable solution. Our cloud-native platform offers real-time threat monitoring for networks, endpoints, and supply chains, extending to the clear, deep, and dark web. Combining advanced AI technology with expert human insight, we deliver extensive protection and swift threat mitigation. Trusted by more than 1,000 clients around the globe and recognized as the 2024 Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year, BlueVoyant sets the standard for modern cyber defense.
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