Antoine Nivard
Co-founder, GP at Blank Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2022 - Current
Investor
2020
Effortlessly move data across all your websites or web apps, so you can get your time back.
Raised $41,000,000.00 from SV Angel, Blank Ventures, Greylock, Coatue, Altman Capital, GTMfund, Bain Capital Ventures and Web Summit Ventures.
Investor
2020
Playbook develops a visual cloud storage platform to streamline and maintain control of creative assets.
Raised $22,000,000.00 from Bain Capital Ventures, Blank Ventures, Founders Fund, Elad Gil, Maple VC, Hyphen Capital and Abstract Ventures.
Co-founder & General Partner
2021 - 2025
Blank is an early-stage venture capital firm investing its first fund in financial, commerce, and enterprise technology startups. Funds involvement: Fund I ($65m), Select Funds III to VII ($7m) Investments sourced/led: Strada (Seed), Uprise (Seed), Seeds Investors (Seed), Combo (Seed), 1Password (Series C), Magical (Series A) Investments supported: Novella (Seed), Melrose (Seed), Koya AI (Seed), Subroutine (Seed), Playbook (Series A), Neo Financial (Series C), Spotnana (Series B)
Investor
2021 - 2022
Momentum transforms sales calls into actionable customer intelligence using AI.
Raised $18,000,000.00 from Inovia Capital, Basis Set Ventures, Stage 2 Capital, South Park Commons, Leadout Capital and FirstMark.
Investor, Board Director
2018 - 2021
First Investor, Board Director
2018 - 2021
Principal
2018 - 2021
Inovia is Canada’s largest and most active early-stage turned multi-stage venture capital firm investing its fourth fund in enterprise, digital health, financial, commerce, security, travel, hospitality technology startups. Funds involvement: Fund II ($110m), Fund III ($130m), Fund IV ($265m), Select Investments ($65m) Investments sourced/led: Momentum (Seed), Colabra (Seed), Calico (Seed), Fey (Seed), Autocode (Seed, acquired by OpenAI), Commit (Seed), Mercantile (Seed), ProteinQure (Seed), Cocoon (Seed, acquired by Substack), Vital Biosciences (Seed), Future Family (Series A), Scanwell Health (Seed, acquired by BD), Italic (Seed), BenchSci (Series A), DarwinAI (Seed, acquired by Apple), Camino (Seed, acquired by Clariti), Aon3D (Seed), Allay (Seed), Poka (Seed, acquired by IFS) Investments supported: Neo Financial (Seed), Routehappy (Series A, acquired by APTCO), Sonder (Series C), Forward Health (Series C), Lightspeed Commerce (Series A), PEX Card (Series B), Luxury Retreats (Series A, acquired by Airbnb), AppDirect (Seed)
Associate
2015 - 2018
Analyst
2013 - 2015
Investor, Board Director
2018 - 2021
acquired by Apple
Investor, Board Director
2015 - 2021
acquired by IFS