Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · United Kingdom · Remote

• GitLaw offers free, open-source legal templates with Git-powered collaboration and version control.

Apr 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Primarily investing in deep tech. Invested in >20 startups and LP in two seed funds.

Oct 2016 – Jun 2022 · 5 yrs 8 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Air HR is a modular hub-and-spoke HR software platform designed for small & medium businesses. We founded Air in 2016 as a small team of 6 and the business has been profitable since 2017 with over 3,000 users in the UK (and some internationally).
• Air was acquired by US Group KarbonPay in July 2022.

Jan 2013 – Sep 2023 · 10 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Whisk makes cooking easier and more fun - powered by AI and a food knowledge graph. Whisk was acquired by Samsung in 2019.
• Key achievements:
• Business profitable with 30% EBITDA at point of sale to Samsung and scaled team to 120 people with employee NPS over 75
• App star rating of 4.7-4.8 with over 10,000 reviews - live in over 10 languages. Featured by Apple over 200 times in the app store. Google Play Award winner in 2020.
• Pioneered distributed working models (2016 - before COVID) with team across US, UK, Russia, Korea and many other countries operating from GMT +8 to GMT -8 timezones.
• Early in business growth beat competitors with significantly more funding through relentless customer focus and cost-effective, fast execution.
• Integrated the world's largest grocery retailers (Walmart, Amazon, Tesco etc), publishers (FoodNetwork, Allrecipes, BBC Good Food etc), CPG companies (Unilever, Nestle and GM etc). IoT companies (Samsung, Bosch and Miele etc) and Health companies (NHS teams, Ascensia etc) with over 0.5bn interactions per month.
• Raised $2m venture funding after building version 1 from our bedrooms.

Aug 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Birmingham Board

Mar 2012 – Jun 2012 · 3 mos · London, UK

• The Apprentice is a British reality television series. Took part to win £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar.
• Reached the final and pitched business plan on national TV to over 12m viewers.
• Achieved the highest task-win record, winning all tasks (3) where I was the project manager
• Didn't win. Received positive press coverage (see www.nickholzherr.com) and raised capital after the show.

Mar 2009 – Jun 2012 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Birmingham, United Kingdom

• 1. CoGo - a coffee business that served drinks in paper cups that had the latest news and ads printed on them. The concept was "make the cup more interesting" -> "make more money from the cup via ads" -> "offer cheaper coffee" -> "get a larger audience". It didn't work. The coffee business was sold to a rival coffee company.
• 2. QRKY - a content management system that allows businesses to manage and track mobile optimised content linked from printed QR codes. The business successfully sold services to a number of large, blue-chip companies and was run profitably for 4 years after I left.

Aug 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo · Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

• Working with clients (usually banks or funds) to make decisions on share positions. Initiated and implemented multiple projects to improve processes in the team I was in - primarily using software.
• Deutsche Bank achieved top ranking in international bank rating for the 10-person team I was in.

Feb 2000 – Jan 2005 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Brighton, England, United Kingdom

• I sold my first web projects to clients before I went to university and while at University, topped up my income by freelancing.
• Freelance work as a developer included building experiences for clients - mainly by hacking together open source PHP frameworks / CMS solutions. Built mini social networks, eCommerce stores for local businesses, wordpress sites, etc.
• I also did all my own graphic work on the projects - mainly in Adobe Photoshop and illustrator.