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.
Nicolas Machado @machado___nic
LLM routing x managing spend 🏃 https://t.co/ehyZ1I25Em
Jul 21, 2026 · ♥ 6
Nicolas Machado @machado___nic
Friends in leadership positions stress this to me as the largest paradoxical lesson - sleep and clarity of thought became imperative since their decisions impact the work of dozens or hundreds of direct reports. They had to re-wire from grinding late nights to sleeping well. https://t.co/F3aQVcPLWk
Jul 15, 2026 · ♥ 15
Nicolas Machado @machado___nic
Which was the best iteration? https://t.co/xRvCJkNFyd
Jul 11, 2026
Founder at LumeYC W23
Intro paths
Nicolas went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, General Partner at Y Combinator — 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.
Lume's investors · 5
Co-founders at Lume
Experience
- RampProductcurrent2026 — presentNew York, New York, United States
- Andreessen HorowitzAngel Investorcurrent2024 — present
- Lume (acquired by Harvey)Co-Founder2023 — 2025New York, New York, United States
- MetaProduct2022
- MatterDesigner2020 — 2021San Francisco, California, United States
- AppleSoftware Engineer Intern2019 — 2021Cupertino, California, United States
- DatadogProduct Intern2020Greater New York City Area
- FacebookSoftware Engineer Intern2018San Francisco Bay Area
- Stanford UniversityClass President2017
Education
- Stanford UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science
- Stanford UniversityBachelor's degree, Artificial Intelligence
- Y CombinatorW23
- Sorbonne Université
Skills & more
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Y Combinator mafia8,668
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Stanford University mafia721
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Andreessen Horowitz mafia33
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Ramp mafia18
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Sorbonne Université mafia3
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Shared employers
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