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Revolution’s Bet: The Next Great Startup Won’t Need a Coastal ZIP Code
For two decades, Steve Case’s Washington investment firm has argued that venture capital’s map is too small. Its answer is a three-stage fund platform, a bus-tour-born national network, and a willingness to treat geography as an edge rather than a handicap.
Cameron Johnson
Cameron Johnson is the founder and CEO of Nickson, a Dallas-based furniture-as-a-service startup that furnishes an entire apartment with 250-plus items in as little as three hours, by app. A former institutional real estate investor who spent 15 years at firms like Goldman Sachs, Walton Street Capital and Greystar before earning an MBA at Harvard, Johnson noticed renters trying to 'rent the model apartment' on tours and built a company around that impulse. In 2021 Nickson raised a $12 million Series A led by Pendulum, the firm co-founded by Barack Obama's former financial adviser Robbie Robinson, with Motley Fool Ventures, Revolution's Rise of the Rest and Backstage Capital joining in.