The founder
20 years building
with his hands.
Now building with AI.
Nick Kernaz is a former construction foreman and concrete finisher who spent two decades understanding how things actually get built — not how they look on paper. That ground-level systems thinking now runs a venture studio.
Pillar Incentive exists because the world's hardest problems get solved by people who've lived them. Every company in the portfolio is built with that principle as the load-bearing wall.
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Years in trades & construction
3
Active portfolio companies
1 goal
Build exits that fund world-scale good