Alex Nichols

General Partner at CapitalG · Joined 2018

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Biography

Alex Nichols is a general partner at CapitalG who joined the firm in 2018 and was named a general partner in January 2026 alongside Jill Chase. CapitalG says he leads investments across sectors with a focus on companies reinventing large markets through novel economic or distribution models paired with compounding scale advantages, and lists Whatnot, Stripe, Rippling, Waymo, Duolingo and UiPath among the companies he has partnered with. Before CapitalG he was a technology investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and he studied economics at The University of Chicago.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

WhatnotOdooBase PowerStripeRipplingDuolingo DUOLUiPath PATHWaymo

Career Timeline

2018
Joined CapitalG.
2021
Co-authored CapitalG's announcement of its investment in Whatnot's Series C.
2024
Co-authored CapitalG's announcement of its investment in Odoo.
2025
Co-authored CapitalG's announcement of its investment in Base Power.
2026
Promoted to General Partner at CapitalG alongside Jill Chase.

Sources & References

CapitalG - Alex Nichols ↗CapitalG - Team ↗CapitalG - Celebrating CapitalG's newest general partners: Jill Chase and Alex Nichols ↗CapitalG - Our investment in Whatnot ↗CapitalG - Odoo: rebundling application software ↗CapitalG - Base Power: scaling the grid ↗