Nomadic Venture Partners

Dan Gross and Michael Dearing share investment decision-making authority as the firm's co-founders. Gross, a former Google product manager and serial founder, and Dearing, previously a general partner at Harrison Metal, both sit on the investment committee. The firm's lean structure means every investment receives partner-level diligence and board engagement.

Nomadic relies heavily on syndication relationships with top-tier Bay Area seed funds, including Benchmark and Union Square Ventures, to access competitive rounds. Gross and Dearing leverage personal networks built through prior operating and investing roles. The firm also cultivates relationships within the Colorado and broader Mountain West technical founder community.

Nomadic primarily operates as a co-investor and syndicate participant, not a lead investor. The firm's capital base is intentionally sized to participate in rounds led by established seed managers rather than competing for allocation control. This allows Nomadic to access deals at favorable terms without deploying the infrastructure required to lead rounds.

Nomadic avoids consumer internet, enterprise SaaS without a physical-world interface, and traditional biotech or pharmaceutical plays. The firm's mandate is restricted to hard-tech climate, industrial automation, and enterprise software applications that interact with physical infrastructure or supply chains, consistent with its planetary-scale thesis.

Nomadic reserves capital for follow-on investments in portfolio companies that meet technical and commercial milestones. The firm's participation in subsequent rounds is typically proportional and coordinated with the original lead investor. The IRA-driven acceleration of US clean manufacturing capital flows has increased follow-on velocity in the climate-tech portion of the portfolio.