Nate Williams
Managing Partner at Union Labs Investor
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
2018 - Current
Union Labs Ventures is a SF-based pre-seed/seed fund focused on solving the world's biggest and messiest problems in climate, proptech, and mobility using emerging deep technologies including robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and IoT. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, and a range of investors in communications, utilities, insurance, among others, we use our 43MM AUM to back highly ambitious technical founders from day zero, and have made 22 investments out of our first fund thus far. - Pre-Seed investments include: Foundation LLM, TrustPointAI, SirenOpt, Raise Robotics, Camect, Onsemble, etc. - Seed investments include: Urban Sky, RenderedAI, Butlr, Ruby Robotics, etc. - Founded@ and EIR incubations include: Antimatter, Derapi, Zerofy, Griot, etc.
Investor
2021
Urban Sky, a stratospheric technology and remote sensing company, is developing the innovative new stratospheric Microballoon™, a high-altitude remote sensing platform that is leveraging component miniaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability and the high vantage point of the stratosphere to drastically reduce the cost of high-resolution remote sensing data over very broad areas, leading to the democratizing access to more and better Earth Observation data than ever before.
Urban Sky offers a revolution in remote sensing through the new stratospheric microballon.
Raised $15,963,834.00 from Lerer Hippeau, New Legacy Group, TenOneTen Ventures, Lavrock Ventures, Union Labs Ventures, DA Ventures and Catapult Ventures.
Investor
2021
Butlr is a private-by-design people sensing platform using body heat to detect occupancy, headcount and activity, and generate accurate, real-time and historical spatial insights.
Butlr is a physical AI startup that specializes in wireless anonymous people sensing and occupancy detection solutions.
Raised $68,000,000.00 from Ray Stata, Jason Haider, Pacific Alliance Ventures, Yves Behar, The E14 Fund, Pavan Ongole, GS Futures, Union Labs Ventures, Joi Ito and Carrier.
Founding Investor
2022
Founded at UNION Labs, Derapi is accelerating the distributed energy revolution through simple, secure, and granular access to energy devices and data.
Derapi is the universal, enterprise-grade API for distributed energy resource (DER) devices.
Investor
2021
Rendered.ai is a Platform as a Service (the Rendered.ai Platform) for Synthetic Data that moves the entire process of synthetic data creation and exploitation closer to the data scientists who need it enabling them to reduce costs and risks associated with using real world data.
Rendered.ai is the PaaS for generating physics-based Synthetic Data for visible and non-visible computer vision AI/ML applications.
Raised $6,000,000.00 from Space Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Tectonic Ventures and Union Labs Ventures.
Investor
2023
The Onsemble mission is to decarbonize homes everywhere and make them productive energy resources for a clean, reliable grid.
Investor + BoD
2021
Stealth mode PropTech startup (Construction +Robotics + Circular Economy)
Urban Machine is a construction company that manufactures reclaims and co-creates locally sourced premium lumber products.
Raised $7,185,000.00 from Alberta Innovates.
Investor + Board Observer
2022
99 Counties is building a vertically-integrated platform for farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers.
99 Counties supports regenerative farmers and provides consumers with healthier, more nutrient-dense food they can feel good about.
Co-Founder
2022
The premiere Silicon Valley event for Founders and Funders within Climate X DeepTech. We get together on a quarterly basis for a ride, talk deals and of course eat tacos! This event is hosted by Union Labs VC (Nate Williams), Congruent Ventures (Josh Posamentier), and G2 Venture Partners (Brook Porter) and co-hosts and sponsors to date include JPMorgan, USA Cycling, Bicycle Exchange, Gunderson Dettmer, SVB, and Sweet Nothings.
Investor + Board Observer
2020
Pico MES is a computer software company that offers computer software designed for factory and machinery control.
Pico MES develops a manufacturing execution system designed for factory and machinery control.
Raised $18,569,999.00 from Counterpart Ventures, Union Labs Ventures, Momenta, Congruent Ventures, SE Ventures, Bosch Ventures and Lemnos VC.