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Adam Nelson

Managing Director @ FirstMark Capital

Adam is a Partner at FirstMark focusing on vertical software and marketplaces. Prior to joining the firm, Adam spent nearly a decade in Silicon Valley, most recently as a Partner at Social Capital where he focused on early stage venture investing in enterprise SaaS and marketplaces. Before Social Capital, Adam was an early employee at Dropbox where he built and scaled Dropbox's Partner Network and Revenue Partnerships teams. Adam started his career in investment banking and private equity at Merrill Lynch and Lindsay Goldberg, respectively.

A.B. Political Science '06

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