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Nate Williams

Founder & Managing Partner @ Union Labs VC // DeepTech VC // fmr KPCB EIR & 3X Startup CXO

San Francisco, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2018

  • Co-Founder & Managing Partner

    2018

    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.

2021

  • 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.

2021

  • 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.

2022

  • 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.

  • 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.

2023

  • 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)

  • Investor + Board Observer

    2022

    99 Counties is building a vertically-integrated platform for farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers.

  • 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.

2020

  • Investor + Board Observer

    2020

    Pico MES is a computer software company that offers computer software designed for factory and machinery control.