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Nicolas Machado

InvestorFounder

Product at Ramp · Founder at Lume

New York, New York, United States

FoundedLume · YC

30 Under 30 2024 · Enterprise Technology

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1,306 people in our graph share verified history with Nicolas — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

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Nicolas: together at Facebook
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About

Nicolas Machado is a co-founder of Lume, a company from the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch. He studied AI at Stanford and is based in Brazil.

Founder at LumeYC W23

Intro paths

YC

Nicolas went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future — the partner who ran Lume's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

In turn, Nicolas can intro founders to Lume's investors below.

Co-founders at Lume

RRRobert Ross
NZNebyou Zewde

Experience

  1. RampProductcurrent2026 — presentNew York, New York, United States
  2. Andreessen HorowitzAngel Investorcurrent2024 — present
  3. Lume (acquired by Harvey)Co-Founder2023 — 2025New York, New York, United States
  4. MetaProduct2022
  5. MatterDesigner2020 — 2021San Francisco, California, United States
  6. AppleSoftware Engineer Intern2019 — 2021Cupertino, California, United States
  7. DatadogProduct Intern2020Greater New York City Area
  8. FacebookSoftware Engineer Intern2018San Francisco Bay Area
  9. Stanford UniversityClass President2017

Skills & more

Public Speaking7Leadership7iOS Development22Swift (Programming Language)14User Interface Design12Objective-C6Java2C3C++3MySQL2linux2SQLite1
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Languages English · Portuguese · Spanish

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Nicolas Machado?
Nicolas Machado is a co-founder of Lume, a company from the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch. He studied AI at Stanford and is based in Brazil.
Where does Nicolas Machado work?
Nicolas Machado is Founder of Lume and Product at Ramp.
What companies did Nicolas Machado found?
Nicolas Machado founded Lume.
Where did Nicolas Machado go to school?
Nicolas Machado studied at Stanford University (Master's degree, Computer Science); Stanford University (Bachelor's degree, Artificial Intelligence); Y Combinator (W23).

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