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 ↗
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In turn, Nicolas can intro founders to Lume's investors below.
Lume's investors · 5
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Co-founders at Lume
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Robert RossFounder
NZ
Nebyou ZewdeFounder
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
Skills & more
Public Speaking7Leadership7iOS Development22Swift (Programming Language)14User Interface Design12Objective-C6Java2C3C++3MySQL2linux2SQLite1
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FrenchPortugueseEnglishSpanishx86 AssemblyLanguages 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.
- 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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