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Wes Nichols
Partner at March Capital
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Overview
Wes Nichols is a Partner at March Capital and was recognized as the EY Entrepreneur of the Year. He has made significant investments in companies like Suki, DISQO, and ActionIQ, contributing to their growth and success. Wes has a strong background in digital marketing, analytics, and entrepreneurship, and plays a key role in guiding and supporting various boards of directors in the tech industry.
Work Experience
Partner
2020 - Current
March Capital is a top-tier venture growth firm headquartered in Santa Monica, California and investing globally since 2014. March identifies entrepreneurs with a provocative vision to lead the future and later-stage companies poised for growth, then dares to go all in by leading rounds with deep conviction and concentration risk. $1.65B+ in capital over 4 funds and across 25+ market-leading technology companies.
March Capital is a venture growth firm that seeks to invest in the digital transformation of cloud-based software.
Member, Board of Directors
2021
Led Series C investment in Suki, a leading technology company that provides AI-powered voice solutions for healthcare. The leader of ambient listening solutions for healthcare, Suki's mission is to reimagine the healthcare tech stack, making it invisible and assistive to lift the administrative burden from physicians.
Member, Board of Directors
2021
Invested in the B Round of DISQO, an insights platform that enables brands to understand what people think AND do. Scaled platform for first-party data to improve business decisions, drive insight, strategy and overall value. Answering the "Why" behind consumers' opinions and behaviors.
Member, Board of Directors
2023
Founded by the father of the Transformer, Ashish Vaswani, Essential AI’s mission is to deepen the partnership between humans and computers, unlocking collaborative capabilities that far exceed what could be achieved today.
Essential AI creates AI solutions that enhance efficiency through the automation of labor-intensive and repetitive workflows.
Raised $64,500,000.00 from Google, NVIDIA, Franklin Venture Partners, March Capital, AMD, KB Investment and Thrive Capital.
Member, Board of Directors
2025
Parallel Domain bridges the gap between simulation and the real world, ensuring autonomous systems perform flawlessly when it counts most. As the trusted first line of defense for innovators in autonomous driving, drone delivery, eVTOL, robotics, and beyond, we empower industry leaders to rigorously test and validate their systems at scale. Our high-fidelity, fully controllable, software-in-the-loop sensor simulation API provides unparalleled realism, accuracy, and confidence. In autonomy, there's simply no margin for error.
Member, Board Of Directors
2020
Adverity is an intelligent marketing analytics platform specialized in enabling data-driven marketing teams to make better decisions and improve performance, faster and easier. By transforming siloed data into actionable insight, Adverity reduces the complexity in demonstrating the return on investment of multichannel campaigns.
Member, Board Of Directors
2018
Persado is the marketing language cloud, creating AI generated language that resonates with any audience, segment or individual. Persado's SaaS-based solution empowers marketers to make creative decisions driven by data, leading to much more personal and inspiring customer experiences.
Persado is a software company that provides machine learning, omnichannel, and generative ai.
Raised $96,000,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank.
Former Member, Board of Directors
2020 - 2025
ActionIQ, recently acquired by AI platform company Uniphore, is at the center of a data-driven revolution that is changing the way brands think about customer experience, digital transformation and the value of customer data as a core corporate asset.
ActionIQ is a purpose-built enterprise Customer Data Platform solving complex data problems: flow and scale, analytics, and orchestration.
Raised $144,700,000.00 from Balius Partners, March Capital, FirstMark, Bowery Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, March Capital, Sequoia Capital and FirstMark.
Board Advisor
2018 - 2022
Snap's leadership asked me to work with the company leadership in developing breakthrough solutions that resonate with industry.
Snap is a technology company that offers the products Snapchat, Spectacles, and Bitmoji.
Raised $5,553,527,880.00 from Alwaleed Bin Talal and Tencent.
Former Member, Board Of Directors; Chair, Comp Committee
2016 - 2022
Member of the Board of Directors of TrueCar (NASDAQ: TRUE). Chair of the Compensation Committee, Member of Nominating & Governance Committee. TrueCar is an information and technology platform that enables its consumers to communicate with TrueCar Certified Dealers.
TrueCar is an information and technology platform that enables its users to communicate with TrueCar certified dealers.
Raised $340,362,625.00 from AutoNation.