Nate Martins
"Telling stories has been a through line of my career—about people, about places, about products, about myself. I’m drawn to the human element of narrative, and the power it has to connect people. As First Round’s Head of Content, I get to do that with amazing companies and the people building them."
“I want to create opportunities where stories can be impactful—the right person finds the right story, at the exact right time for them.”
At First Round, Nate helps bring to life the stories and insights from startup founders and operators across the firm’s channels. Prior to joining First Round, he was Marketing Partner at Foundation Capital. Before that, he was an early employee at Notion—where he built and led the company’s content marketing function over his four-year tenure.
Nate takes an interdisciplinary approach to marketing, having spent time in many functions at companies of different types and sizes: PR, comms, editorial, product marketing, lifecycle, and more. Previously, he was a magazine journalist and bartender. Nate received an MFA in Creative Writing (nonfiction) from the University of San Francisco, and during that time, wrote a New York Times essay.