Nicole Williams

Nicole Williams Ruiz is an Investor at Compound, a seed-stage frontier technology fund based in New York City. In this role, she focuses on pre-seed and seed investments across global markets, including Africa, Europe, Israel, Latin America, and North America. She typically leads rounds by deploying check sizes ranging from $500,000 to $1 million into pre-product and pre-revenue startups, partnering early on technical research and go-to-market translation. Before joining Compound, Williams Ruiz worked at Capterra, a Gartner company, and studied data science. She previously contributed to an experimental educational startup that partnered with NASA, DARPA, and NIH to expose underrepresented groups to advanced STEM fields. Her current investment focus centers on thesis-driven technical domains, specifically targeting areas such as digital health, personalized medicine, federated machine learning, lab automation, quantum algorithms, and quantum sensing.