Nick Grossman
General Partner at Union Square Ventures
United States
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Top SchoolNick Grossman is a technologist and investor with 19 years of experience building and advising internet platforms at the intersection of cities, civic tech, and emerging internet infrastructure. As a General Partner at Union Square Ventures since 2019, he invests across web2, web3, climate, and AI while previously leading special projects on crypto, trust & safety, privacy, and policy. His background founding Streetsblog and directing OpenPlans Labs reflects a rare mix of hands-on product building, open-source civic infrastructure (Open311, OpenTripPlanner, MTA Bus Time), and policy-driven impact that helped reshape urban transportation in multiple cities. He blends startup incubation, public-sector collaboration, and venture strategy, often translating technical and regulatory complexity into scalable services. Based in the United States and shaped by both Stanford urban studies and self-directed study in programming and tech policy, he brings a practical civic lens to investing in next-generation internet platforms.
19 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Programming law philosophy of technology, Programming law philosophy of technology at The InternetBA Urban Studies, BA Urban Studies at Stanford University
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Github Skills (19)
hubot9
ace-editor9
firebase8
chat8
robot8
graph8
text-editor7
javascript7
robotics7
react7
mongodb6
mongoengine6
aggregations6
android6
python6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nickgrossman/gsheets-nft-slideshow
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:19 commits, 15 pushes in 2 months
unionsquareventures/theconversation
Sep 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:1460 commits in 1 year
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