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Ryan Nichols

Investor

Partner at DYDX Capital

Palo Alto, California, United States

About

Ryan Nichols is a product leader who most recently was Chief Product Officer and Chief Customer Officer of Salesforce's Service Cloud, which he grew to $9B and extended into AI agents. He previously served as General Manager of the Zendesk Suite and held product or marketing roles at five startups working across CRM, data, and AI, with exits to Wipro, Citrix, and Demandbase. Earlier in his career he worked on corporate strategy at SAP, at McKinsey, and was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Foundation Capital; he studied at Stanford GSB and Williams College.

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Invests in

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Experience

  1. DYDX CapitalFounder & Managing Partnercurrent2021 — presentSilicon Valley
  2. University of MelbourneVisiting Fellowcurrent2025 — present
  3. Cime TherapeuticsInvestorcurrent2025 — present
  4. Citrine InformaticsInvestorcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  5. MatterworksInvestorcurrent2023 — presentCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  6. Apparo Inc.Investorcurrent2022 — presentMinnesota, United States
  7. Applied CarbonInvestorcurrent2022 — presentSilicon Valley, California, United States
  8. MarketDialDirectorcurrent2021 — presentSalt Lake City, Utah, United States
  9. Drip CapitalInvestorcurrent2021 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
  10. Berkeley YeastInvestorcurrent2021 — presentBerkeley, California, United States
  11. ClimateAIBoard Observercurrent2021 — present
  12. Territory FoodsInvestorcurrent2021 — present
  13. ProducePayInvestorcurrent2021 — presentLos Angeles, California, United States
  14. EnkoDirectorcurrent2020 — presentMassachusetts, United States
  15. TovalaDirectorcurrent2020 — presentChicago, Illinois, United States
  16. American Australian AssociationAmerican Australian Business Council - Membercurrent2018 — presentNew York City Metropolitan Area
  17. InnitInvestorcurrent2018 — present
  18. PRIME CoalitionInvestment Advisory Committee Membercurrent2016 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  19. Duke UniversityVisiting Professor2018 — 2025Durham, North Carolina, United States
  20. Good EggsInvestor2020 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area

Education

  1. Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMBA2007 — 2009
  2. University of MelbournePhD, Genetics
  3. University of MelbourneBSc (Hons), Genetics and Biochemistry

Skills & more

Strategy16Energy2Lifesciences17Venture Capital48Private Equity12Entrepreneurship35Due Diligence5Financial Modeling5Valuation4Start-ups36Corporate Development14Mergers
+9 moreInvestmentsStrategic PartnershipsFinancial ServicesProduct ManagementBusiness DevelopmentMobile DevicesInvestor RelationsFinancial AnalysisBiotechnology

From Ryan's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business1,187

Roelof BothaAdvisor & former Steward at Sequoia Capital; SpaceX board memberPeter FentonGeneral Partner at BenchmarkSteve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesDavid SzeAdvisory Partner at GreylockKatherine BoyleGeneral Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (American Dynamism)Hunter WalkCo-founder & Partner at Homebrew

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Also attended University of Melbourne192

Kevin JohnsonInvestor at MedicxiEsther GilmoreGlobal Head of the Client Team at Generation Investment ManagementMark MillsClient Team Member at Generation Investment ManagementPaulInvestor at Square Peg CapitalClarissa KartikaAssociate, Investment at Vertex Ventures Sea Management Pte. Ltd.Dan KrasnosteinPartner at Square Peg Capital

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Shared employers

Also worked at Cime Therapeutics9

Spencer MaughanFounder and Managing Partner at DYDX CapitalSteve GoldbergPartner at DYDX CapitalDean TilyardPartner at DYDX CapitalPaul CirielloPartner at DYDX CapitalAdrian PercyVenture Partner at DYDX CapitalMike PereiraVenture Partner at DYDX Capital

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Also worked at Applied Carbon11

Joshua PosamentierManaging Partner and Co-Founder at Congruent VenturesSpencer MaughanFounder and Managing Partner at DYDX CapitalSteve GoldbergPartner at DYDX CapitalDean TilyardPartner at DYDX CapitalPaul CirielloPartner at DYDX CapitalAdrian PercyVenture Partner at DYDX Capital

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Also worked at Tovala17

J.R. MoranChief Operating Officer at New Stack VenturesJason HeltzerManaging Partner at Origin VenturesScott SternPartner at Origin VenturesJason FiedlerManaging Partner at Left Lane CapitalArthur ChowPrincipal at S2G InvestmentsSpencer MaughanFounder and Managing Partner at DYDX Capital

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Also worked at American Australian Association9

Spencer MaughanFounder and Managing Partner at DYDX CapitalSteve GoldbergPartner at DYDX CapitalDean TilyardPartner at DYDX CapitalPaul CirielloPartner at DYDX CapitalAdrian PercyVenture Partner at DYDX CapitalMike PereiraVenture Partner at DYDX Capital

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Colleagues at DYDX Capital

Adrian Percy
Venture Partner at DYDX Capital
Dean Tilyard
Partner at DYDX Capital
Garrett Miller
Head of Marketing at DYDX Capital
Jesse Windle
Chief Data Scientist at DYDX Capital
Kirk Belsby
Head of Operations & Finance at DYDX Capital
Mike Pereira
Venture Partner at DYDX Capital
Paul Ciriello
Partner at DYDX Capital
Pavel Danilov
Partner at DYDX Capital