Nick Rubin
Investor·First Round Capital
Bio
Professional summary
Nick Rubin is a generalist early-stage investor at First Round. Before First Round, he founded Sendo, a Y Combinator-backed SMS developer platform for AI companies. He studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford, organized TreeHacks for three years, and previously interned as a software engineer at Hipcamp and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
Background
Career, education, and skills
Career history
- First Round CapitalInvestorPresent
- SendoFounder
- HipcampSoftware Engineer Intern
- Berkman Klein Center for Internet & SocietySoftware Engineer Intern
Education
- Stanford UniversitySymbolic Systems
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