Nick Donahue

He attended North Carolina State University and later dropped out to start a company in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2019, he co-founded Atmos with Trent Hedge, Matthew Rastovac and Austin Kahn; the company offered the custom homebuilding process online and took part in Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 batch.⁠[1][2][3]

According to TechCrunch, Atmos raised $20 million from investors including Khosla VenturesKhosla VenturesKhosla Ventures (KV) is an American venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It made heavy early bets on clean technology, became OpenAI’s first venture capital investor in 2019, and its portfolio also includes companies such as DoorDash, Block (formerly Square), Impossible Foods, and Rocket Lab.Open the full entry and Sam AltmanSam AltmanSam Altman is an entrepreneur and investor, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of OpenAI. He previously served as president of Y Combinator and founded the location-based social service Loopt. He also helped found Tools for Humanity and Merge Labs, has invested in energy and life sciences ventures, and has driven public discussion of AI governance, employment, and wealth distribution.Open the full entry, and at its peak had about 40 employees and $7 million in revenue, designing about $200 million worth of houses and building 50.⁠[2]

After the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, Atmos’s clients struggled to afford their homes, and he shut the company down in 2025; that same year he founded Drafted to build AI software that generates residential floor plans and exterior designs within minutes.⁠[2][4]

In December 2025, TechCrunch reported that Drafted had raised $1.65 million at a $35 million post-money valuation, led by Bill Clerico of Convective Capital, with participation from Patrick CollisonPatrick CollisonPatrick Collison is an entrepreneur who grew up in Ireland. In 2010 he cofounded the payments and financial infrastructure company Stripe with his brother John Collison and serves as its chief executive; he is also a cofounder of the biomedical research organization Arc Institute and has been a director of Meta since 2025.Open the full entry, Jack Altman, Josh Buckley and Moses Moody, among others; Drafted describes the round as its pre-seed.⁠[2][5]

Drafted joined Y Combinator’s Spring 2026 batch and in May 2026 announced a $16 million funding round; according to a repost of a Business InsiderBusiness InsiderBusiness Insider is a digital business-news organization.Open the full entry report, investors included Buckley Ventures, Y Combinator, Ben Silbermann and Ryan Tedder.⁠[4][5][6]

In the report, he said he aims to let people shape a home as easily as they shape software.⁠[6]

As of October 2026, he is CEO of San Francisco–based Drafted, which Y Combinator lists as having a team of nine and which develops multimodal generative models for residential architecture and spatial design.⁠[1][4]

Drafted: Official website: https://www.drafted.ai/ (opens in a new window)⁠[4]

Drafted: Official account: https://x.com/DraftedAI (opens in a new window)⁠[4]

X: Public account: https://x.com/PrimalNick (opens in a new window)⁠[1][3]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-donahue-0b77b7128/ (opens in a new window)⁠[1]