Nicholas Travers
Angel Investor
Nick was an investor and employee at Bai Brands, which was acquired by Dr. Pepper Snapple Group in 2017. Previously, Nick worked as an English-as-a-Second Language teacher in Trenton, NJ.
Nick manages a portfolio of ten startup investments, including Aalo Atomics, Apptronik, Beam, Discure, Impulse Space, OnePak, and X-Bow Systems. Previous early-stage investments include The Bank of Princeton (Nasdaq: BPRN), which went public in 2017.
Nick is excited about the future and hungry to learn.
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Sept. 15, 2026
Life Finds a Way: From Milk Crates to AI Factories
Hey! We'd love to hear your thoughts, send us a voice note. What if the crypto kid mining Ethereum in milk crates next door is now the person Fortune 500 companies trust to keep their AI secure? That's exactly the journey Alex Mirran, co-founder and COO of Gridweave, shares in this episode and the skills that built a crypto mining rig in a parents' garage are now powering enterprise AI infrastructure. In Season 1, Episode 2 of America's Angels: Life Finds a Way, hosts Jenny Kaehms, Andrea Kal...
Guests: Nicholas Travers , Alexander Mirran
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Sept. 9, 2026
America's Angels: Nick Travers Investing in Bai Drinks to Nuclear Reactors
How do you go from handing out beverage samples at Costco to backing a nuclear reactor startup? In the premiere episode of America's Angels, Austin-based angel investors Jennifer Kames and Andrea Kelmans sit down with fellow investor Nick Travers to unpack the wild, winding journey of startup investing—from a $300 million bet on Bai drinks to the front lines of the nuclear energy renaissance. Nick shares the story of cornering Bai's founder at a Princeton street fair, riding that investment t...
Guest: Nicholas Travers