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~*~ NiCo PaRzIaLe'S HoMePaGe ~*~
Entrepreneur · Founder · Software Engineer · Recovering Startup Addict
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counting since 1998 🌐
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✨ About Me ✨
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Hi!!!! My name is NICOLAS but my friends call me NICO!!
I am a SERIAL FOUNDER and SOFTWARE ENGINEER who has been hacking on startups since 2012!!!
I have built companies from scratch, raised money from 500 STARTUPS, got into PARALLEL 18 in Puerto Rico, and had a company in the MATTER.VC portfolio in San Francisco. All before the internet exploded!!! (it hasn't yet but it will)
I built this page with Microsoft FrontPage 98 😎 (it took me 3 weeks and a lot of Mountain Dew)
*** I AM NOT A NERD *** (I am definitely a nerd)
🌐 Web: nico.md
💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nparziale
📍 Location: Somewhere in the Americas
🌍 Languages: English + Español (native)
💬 ICQ#: 1337
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🚀 Startups I Have Founded 🚀
The AI Operating System for unattended retail. Built computer vision-powered autonomous points of sale — no scanning, no lines, no self-checkout drama. 66+ retailers, 4.7× growth in units sold. We brought digital touchpoints into the physical realm before it was cool. Buenos Aires → the world 🌎
🧠 Deep Tech AI
📷 Computer Vision
🏪 Autonomous Retail
The best lunch experience for companies in Latin America. We fed the fastest-growing startups in Buenos Aires so they didn't have to leave their office to eat!!! Proudly funded by 500 Startups Latam in Mexico City and selected for Parallel 18 in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
🥗 FoodTech
🏢 B2B
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires
📦 500 Startups
🌴 Parallel 18
A showcase & discovery platform for performing artists. Built in San Francisco during the golden age of HTML5 and CoffeeScript (rip). Part of the Matter.vc portfolio. Where I learned what a pivot really feels like 😅
🎬 Entertainment Tech
🌉 San Francisco
💼 Matter.vc
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🏅 Accelerators & Investors
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500 Startups
Batch · Mexico City
Funded HoyPido via 500 Startups Latam. One of the world's most active seed funds.
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Parallel 18
Cohort · Puerto Rico
HoyPido selected for P18's international accelerator program. #WorkHardPlayTropical
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Matter.vc
Portfolio · San Francisco
Getcast was part of the Matter.vc portfolio in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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🔥 My Kewl Tech Skillz 🔥
- 🤖 Building AI things that actually work in the real world
- 📷 Computer Vision (pointing cameras at stuff and making it smart)
- 💻 Full-stack everything (yes, including CSS. no I don't like it either)
- 🚀 Zero to one (the startup kind, not the book)
- 🧠 Convincing investors this is a billion dollar idea
- 🌎 Building for Latin America before it was trendy
- 📦 Shipping. Actually shipping. Not just tweeting about shipping.
- 🐧 Linux (I use Arch BTW)
- ☕ CoffeeScript (RIP 2009–2015, you were beautiful)
- 📡 Making hardware and software talk to each other without fighting
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📖 My Guestbook
42 entries!
Please sign my guestbook!!! I check it every day after the stand-up!!!
xX_DarkMaster99_Xx
[1999-03-14]
"kewl site!!!!! add me on ICQ: 12345678 pls respond urgent"
VC_Partner_2000
[2016-04-01]
"ur deck is kewl but what's ur moat tho. also do u have traction. also what's ur GTM. also pls send financials"
500StartupsMentor
[2017-03-22]
"great hustle nico!! now do it 10x faster with half the money. you can do it. we believe in you (no promises)"
HoyPido_Customer_1
[2016-11-15]
"the sushi arrived at 12:03 not 12:00. -1 star. jk it was amazing pls don't shut down"
✏️ Sign My Guestbook!
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🔗 Kewl Linkz on the W.W.W.
- 💼 LinkedIn — where the recruiters live
- 🌐 Google — better than AltaVista fight me
- 🤖 Intuitivo — my last startup, still alive on the internet
- 💬 AOL Instant Messenger 💀 RIP 1997–2017 (never forget)
- 📟 ICQ 💀 RIP 1996–2024 (genuinely gone now)
- 🎵 Napster 💀 RIP 1999–2001 (they took it from us)
- 🏠 GeoCities 💀 RIP 1994–2009 (where I was born, basically)
- ☕ CoffeeScript 💀 RIP 2009–2015 (TypeScript you owe me an apology)
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💍 WebRing
I am proud member of the ~* Founders Who Still Know How To Code *~ WebRing!!!
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🏆 Awards & Honors (Some I Gave Myself)
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500 Startups Alumni
500.co · Mexico City
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Parallel 18 Cohort
parallel18.com · Puerto Rico
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Matter.vc Portfolio
matter.vc · San Francisco
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