Nicolas D.

About

25+ years experience in Marketing. Build and develop at scale marketing practices (IPANTO (acquired); Infoblox (IPO:BLOX), Linkedin (IPO:LNKD), Twilio (IPO:TWLO), TESSIAN (acquired)). Advisor and/or early investor in several startups, incubators and early stage VCs (TALENTODAY (acquired); VELOCITY(acquired))

Experience

• Angel Investor & Limited Partner at Self-Employed
  2014 - Present · 12 yrs 7 mos

  * Investor: Talentoday (2014; pre-seed,; acquired by Medix); Velocity (2022, Series A, acquired by BigPanda); ChiliPiper (2016, pre-seed); Norbert Health (2022; seed); Switstack (2024; seed); Tolmo (2026; seed) * Limited Partner: Invest Ventures (since 2024); Decibel Partners (since 2022); Newfund (since 2022)

• CMO at Tessian
  Oct 2019 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  (Acquired by Proofpoint)

• Marketing Advisor, Continuity Investment Fund at Y Combinator
  2017 - 2020 · 3 yrs

  Portfolio: Airtable, Checkr, Ironclad, Mattermost, Retool, Segment

• CMO at HackerRank
  Jun 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• VP of Marketing at Twilio Inc.
  Oct 2015 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos