Nomad Ventures

Nomad Ventures

Nomad Ventures is led by three former operators from Uber and Bird who have worked together for years. Their founding team includes a former Bird executive who also served as CEO of Wheels, an early UberEats driver-growth lead who later worked in product strategy at Opendoor, and a Kauffman Fellow who was a founding member of UberEats and a scout at Upfront Ventures. The firm's thesis flows directly from their combined experience managing fast-scaling companies. They claim to have directly managed nearly every function at some of the fastest growing startups in history. The firm invests at Pre-Seed and Seed, targeting three thematic areas: autonomous infrastructure, AI-powered data network effects, and hybrid marketplaces. They look for wild ambition in founders building across foundational industries and network-effect businesses. The partners' operational background informs their conviction in these sectors, but the firm provides no disclosed details on fund size, specific portfolio companies, or realized returns. The website references a select portfolio without naming positions. The firm operates from Los Angeles. The three named partners represent the entirety of the disclosed team. Beyond their operating histories, they claim collective experience launching and leading expansion across 6 countries and 15 cities. The firm does not disclose any additional offices, liquidity events, or philanthropic vehicles. Nomad's structural differentiator is its concentrated, operator-led partnership. The firm is not a diversified platform or a scaled multi-stage manager. It is a small, thematically tight group where the investment thesis is inseparable from the specific resumes of its three founders—a model that centralizes decision-making and sector focus but limits diversification across team and stage.