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Nicolas Brillante

I scale revenue for the highest-volume businesses in payments and fintech, build companies from the ground up, and back early-stage founders.

New York City & San Francisco Get in touch
$10B+ GMV under management
5+ co. Businesses built
$75MM+ ARR generated
5 Angel investments

About

At a glance

  • Head of Strategic Verticals at Slash
  • $75MM+ ARR added
  • $10B+ collective GMV
  • Strategic angel investor

Education

Baruch College

New York, NY · 2020–2023

  • Area of Study: BBA — Finance, Law minor
  • Awards: Dean's Scholar — full merit-based scholarship
  • GPA: 4.0

Recognition

City Council Citation

New York City Council · Jan 2020

Lifesaving

Part of a New York City lifeguard operation that rescued two children from drowning. Recognized by the City Council for heroic life-saving efforts and outstanding citizenship — honoring service to the community and the City of New York.

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Writing

“I added $70MM+ in ARR at Slash without a playbook. The hard part wasn’t working more hours — it was learning the few sales skills that actually compound.”

2 Years at Slash: Here’s What I Learned Adding $70MM In ARR Read on Substack →

Current

Slash

Head of Strategic Verticals

2024 — Present

  • Built a portfolio doing $200M+/month in card spend and $10B+ in annual GMV
  • Drove nine figures in deposits across thousands of customers, including multiple $1B+ enterprises
  • Led partnerships expanding distribution to millions of business owners
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a day in the life

Founded

The ones that worked. Companies I founded and co-founded from scratch in the sneaker bot, collectibles, and community space — before moving into fintech.

Malice

Co-Founder

2021 — Present

Active

Personal development collective spanning mental & physical health, collectibles, education, eCommerce, finance, and non-traditional investments.

  • $2.4MMPeak ARR

OminousAIO

Co-Founder

2020 — 2022

Exited

The largest collectible bot the industry had seen. Automated checkout for limited-release collectibles.

  • $1.2MMPeak ARR

TheBotBible

Founder

2020 — 2022

Exited

Full software suite for the bot/sneaker/collectible restock market: browser extension with autofill, autocheckout, Shopify redirect, and PayPal autocheckout; a companion program with link opener and Discord automation; plus a Discord community with Twitter monitor integration.

  • $480KPeak ARR

PokeMRKT

Founder

2020 — 2022

Merged

The first-ever Discord reselling group for trading cards — Pokemon, Yugioh, MTG. Merged into Malice in 2022.

  • $420KPeak ARR

BotCookers

Co-Founder

2019 — 2020

Exited

The first one. Discord community with a Twitter backend monitor that surfaced sneaker bot restock links and passwords before the standard Twitter UI refreshed — auto-opening them in users' browsers with the password attached.

  • $72KPeak ARR

Investing

Building something super cool? I'd love to invest — get in touch.

More than a check. I think of myself as a strategic angel — I invest where I can actually move the needle on distribution and growth, not just capital.

Why strategic

  • Mastered distribution across multiple industries, with connections to drive organic and paid media growth in whatever you're building
  • Joined Slash when it was nothing and helped turn it into the fastest-growing neobank
  • Operate across a network doing a collective $10B+ in GMV
  • Open my network to help portfolio companies land pilots and first customers when they need them

I put money where my mouth is — I don't back anything I don't believe I can sell to people myself.

  • 5Investments
  • $70KDeployed