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Nick Nardacci

Associate at Lewis & Clark Ventures

Chicago, Illinois

Overview 

Nick Nardacci is a Senior Associate at Lewis & Clark Ventures, specializing in early-stage B2B software investing. With a background in investment banking at William Blair and Progress Partners, Nick has successfully invested in companies like Sailes, focusing on sectors such as LegalTech, ConstructionTech, and Sales & CRM. Nick's career highlights include his role as a Board Observer at Sailes and Dalia, as well as his experience at KPMG US in various roles from Audit Associate to Director of Deal Advisory and Strategy.

Work Experience 

  • Director of FP&A

    2025 - Current

  • Vice President

    2024 - 2025

    Investing in late seed/series A B2B software businesses Transactions: - Series A lead of Sailes, AI-enabled sales prospecting platform to supercharge Business Development Reps - Series A lead of Occuspace, provider of real-time data solutions for space utilization monitoring - Board Observer for Sailes and Dalia, an HR Tech business that we led the Series A in 2023

  • Senior Associate

    2023 - 2024

Lewis & Clark Ventures is an early-stage tech fund that invests in B2B software companies.

  • Board Observer

    2023 - 2025

Dalia is a candidate engagement platform helping employers to hire passive talents.

Raised $5,100,000.00 from Lewis & Clark Ventures, FJ Labs, Paul Forster’s family office, Remarkable Ventures and SaaS Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2023 - 2025

Sailes is a sales enablement software that helps increase revenue opportunities.

Raised $8,449,999.00 from KCRise Fund, Tenzing.vc, Lewis & Clark Ventures, Acronym Venture Capital and Valor Ventures.

  • Investment Banking Associate

    2021 - 2023

    Tech M&A Transactions: - Continuation Fund with Thompson Street Capital Partners and AlpInvest to acquire BCM One and Revenue Management Solutions. Combined enterprise value of $1.2 billion - Buy-side advisor for L Catterton in their $1 billion purchase of leading technology provider of Ignition Interlock Devices - Sell-side advisor for digital signage SaaS business valued at $1.3 billion - IPO/SPAC advisor for a restaurant labor productivity platform valued at $625mm - $130mm capital raise for a conversational AI software business - Sell-side advisor for a RestaurantTech marketplace business Managed teams of 3-6

  • Investment Banking Associate

    2020 - 2021

    Tech M&A Transactions: - Sell-side advisor for an AutoTech SaaS company - Sell-side advisor for high-growth D2C sleepwear company - Buy-side advisor for Trusted Media Brand's (formerly Reader's Digest) on their acquisition of Jukin Media - Buy-side advisor for Outside Media's acquisitions of AthleteReg, Peloton Magazine, and Cairn (simultaneous closing) - Buy-side advisor for Force Marketing's acquisition of Gulf States Marketing. Closed deal in 46 days from Discovery to Close Managed teams of 3-5

  • Director, Deal Advisory and Strategy

    2020 - 2020

    - Sell-side and buy-side deal advisory (Quality of Earnings, Net Working Capital, Net Debt analyses) for 30 transactions in the software space (mostly large, PE-backed SaaS companies) - Managed teams of 3-6

  • Manager, Deal Advisory and Strategy

    2018 - 2020

  • Senior Associate, Deal Advisory and Strategy

    2017 - 2018

  • Audit Senior Associate

    2015 - 2017

  • Audit Associate

    2013 - 2015

  • Audit Associate Intern

    2013 - 2013

KPMG Advisory provides audit, tax, assurance, and financial advisory services to companies and people.

  • Finance Intern

    2010 - 2010

    MEGA provides enterprise governance software to address challenges posed by regulation and compliance, IT complexity, and business transformation.

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