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Nicole Williams

Investor at Compound. If you're working on early stage frontier tech, email me at nicolewilliams (at) compound.vc

New York, New York

Work Experience

2020 - 2022

  • Investor

    2020 - 2022

    Investing in frontier technology at the seed stage. Investments: https://compound.vc/portfolio & https://crypto.compound.vc/ Investment theses: shorturl.at/hpvxO

2021 - 2022

  • Deep Tech Vertical Co-Lead

    2021 - 2022

    Bringing deep tech investors together to develop investment theses. https://www.evca.org/team

  • Program Director: Artificially Intelligent Learning Assistant Initiative

    2017 - 2019

    Modeled after DARPA, WARPA is one of the most unique Science+Entrepreneurship organizations in the USA. We have worked with NASA, ARPA-E, NIH, etc. for advancement of traditionally under-represented groups in cutting-edge STEM+Entrepreneurship domains ranging from Energy, Space, Astronomy, Computational Neuroscience, Industrial Additive Manufacturing, Automation, Transportation, and Nuclear Weapons Safety. - Led the Artificially Intelligent Learning Agent program in conjunction with XEROX PARC - Fostered educational partnership relationships with Qatar, UN, and Finland embassies - Researched cognitive architectures & foundational educational theory - Managed intern hiring process, ultimately hiring two and managing one

  • Independent Market and Research Consultant

    2017 - 2019

    Carried out a wide variety of contract and one-off consulting, including: - Traveled to private equity events informing angel investor on AI & software-related investments - Strategic partnership relationship management, advising founders on product positioning and demographic targets

2017 - 2017

  • Marketing Services

    2017 - 2017

    I worked at Capterra (a Gartner Company) and completed a wide variety of initiatives, some of which include: - Designed 45+ software landing pages for business owners to optimize their campaign for conversions (assisted small businesses in copy editing & target market optimization) - Designed 5+ collateral pages for Capterra & Gartner Digital Markets to educate vendors on their marketing campaigns - Researched & presented to team on artificial intelligence in the marketing industry - Gained insight and understanding of business & marketing strategy, specifically the challenges faced after an acquisition

2015 - 2017

  • NGO Co-Founder and Executive Director

    2015 - 2017

    The Angelos Ministry is a 501c3 non-profit organization I founded with three other students at my high school. Angelos raises funds to build a school in At'fih, a small town in Middle Egypt, and is helping to establish new curriculum and hire trusted local teachers. I primarily coordinated aspects such as: - Empowered & educated over 5,000 people on how to take action - Cohesive branding - Inbound marketing - International curriculum establishment

  • Private Tutor

    2014 - 2016