BUSINESS

Nick is one of the most successful entrepreneurs, investors, and managers in the Northwest with over 30 years of experience across a broad range of industries including manufacturing, retailing, e-commerce, digital media and advertising, software, aerospace, health care, and finance.

Nick’s experience and perspective have produced an unusual record of serial successes. He has managed, founded, or financed over 30 companies, creating aggregate market value of tens of billions of dollars. Some notable companies include Amazon.com, Aquantive Inc. (purchased by Microsoft in 2007 for $6.4 billion), Insitu Group (purchased by Boeing for $400 million), and Market Leader (purchased by Trulia in 2013 for $350 million).

Second Avenue Partners

Nick is currently a partner at Second Avenue Partners, a Seattle-based provider of management, strategy, and capital for early stage companies in the Greater Puget Sound area that he co-founded in February 2000. The firm looks to invest in promising teams and transformational ideas in a wide range of areas including internet, consumer and social media, software, and clean energy. Their investment approach is to make early-stage investments in promising ventures and build long-term relationships, actively assisting its portfolio companies in becoming market leaders.

For more, visit the Second Avenue Partners website.

Companies Nick has founded or invested in:

  
   Pacific Coast Feather Company
   Eurodown
   Essention
   Fan Nation
  
   Amazon.com
   National Sleep Products
   Azeleos
   Newsvine
  
   Aquantive
   Pac-Fung
   Inkd
   Audience Science
  
   Insitu Group
   Scandia Down
   Modumental
   Gem Share
  
   Juno Therapuetics
   SeeQ
   Coolspotters
   King of the Web
  
   Seattle Bank
   Real Self
   Health Slate
   L1
  
   Market Leader
   Qliance
   Jenu
   Upworthy
  
   Flexe
   WISErg
   Front Desk
   BeLeave
  
   Museum Quality Framing
   Tree Ring
   Glassnetic
   Inspo
  
   Gear.com
   Slope
   Location Labs
   MIGO
  
   Down Under Nightclub
   Marchex
   Fantasy Moguls
   INSTA-PIX