Nick Masters is Co-Founder and COO of Vector (YC W23), an AI-powered Relationship Intelligence platform built to transform how B2B sales teams generate pipeline through authentic warm introductions.

Nick earned a BBA in Marketing from the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst and an MBA from American Military University, before serving as a US Air Force Instructor Pilot and C-17A Aircraft Commander for nearly a decade.

With over 15 years of leadership experience building and training sales teams, Nick brings a rare blend of military discipline and enterprise sales expertise to the startup world.

Prior to Vector, Nick served as Director of Solutions Consulting at Drift, where he and co-founder Joshua Perk helped drive a landmark $1.3B acquisition by Vista Equity Partners.

Vector, backed by Y Combinator and investors including Syntax Ventures and Eight Capital, uses AI to analyze 400M+ signals in real-time to surface meaningful relationships across a company's entire network, helping B2B sales teams close deals faster through trusted introductions.