Background
Since 2022, Adam has been organizing Fintech Driven, a private community for fintech leaders in NYC that has featured closed-door talks with Ramp Founder & CEO Eric Glyman, Plaid Founder & CEO Zach Perret, and Ellevest Founder & CEO Sallie Krawcheck.
Prior to FirstMark, Adam spent nearly a decade in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage companies as a Venture Partner at South Park Commons and a Partner at Social Capital. Before he became an investor, Adam was an early employee at Twitter and Dropbox where he built and scaled Dropbox’s Partner Network and Revenue Partnerships teams. He started his career in investment banking and private equity at Merrill Lynch and Lindsay Goldberg, and holds both a B.A. from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
Trusted Partner to Founders
Adam is a partner to Founders in every sense of the word — coupling company-building experience as both an operator and investor with a clear point of view on the evolution of the fintech market, and relentless optimism.
A community builder at heart, Adam is also a champion of FirstMark's Founder Guild which is an invite-only community for New York's most exciting early-stage founders.
Uniting NYC Fintech
New York City is the epicenter of the global financial ecosystem, and Fintech Driven is the epicenter of New York's fintech community. Adam built this invite-only community to bring together the most important founders, operators, and investors from the burgeoning fintech ecosystem — apply below to join.
Pictured: Adam Nelson [Left], Eric Glyman, Founder of Ramp [Right]
The Negative CAC Market Map
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