Tom Nicknish
COO at Infinite Spaces
Founding Team at Infinite Spaces · Iowa City, IA, USA
Open to advisory
Customer acquisition · Product · Operations & Finance · Leadership & Strategy
Tom is a Founding Team at Infinite Spaces who advises early-stage founders. Happy to help with practical next steps, reviews, and intros where relevant. Areas I advise on: Business Strategy, Operations, Customer Acquisition, Other, Product, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Achievement, Personal, Product Management, Bootstrapped Company.
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Hours / month
About Tom
COO at Infinite Spaces
Infinite Spaces is the company. PlayBox is the product. One creative surface for every media experience — concert to film shoot to exhibition.
"You're not watching. You're in it."
PlayBox is the tool that designs the experience AND runs it live. No mode switch between authoring and performing. No export. No tool switching. Script your World, run it.
A World is anything you want to bring alive — concert, museum installation, film shoot, broadcast, virtual landscape. You script what happens; then you run it live with real people.
Company
Here's the problem no one has solved: every media experience — a concert, a brand activation, an immersive exhibition — is built with 20+ disconnected tools. They end at "deploy." None of them operate what happens when people walk in. The result is 1,500+ applications per major show, fragile connections between them, and an audience that just watches.
Infinite Spaces closes that gap. It's the creative surface for media experiences — from concept to live moment. You script your world, connect your existing tools through one open layer, and run it live. Unreal, Ableton, cameras, show controllers, AI agents — they all connect. The space responds to people in under 125 milliseconds. Below that threshold, it feels alive.
We have two proven offerings: fan participation at live events — fans join from their phones, contribute to shared canvases, get captured as 3D avatars — and co-production across physical and digital spaces. Same platform, different worlds.
The team: Steve Judkins built streaming infrastructure at Microsoft, Comcast, and Twitch. Grant Draper directed stadium productions for Coldplay, Beyoncé, Guns N' Roses. Rodd McLaughlin produced U2 at Sphere. TQ Berg built media infrastructure at Disney. Tom Nicknish ran a company to $2.4M ARR.
We're in advanced conversation with 34+ production teams across seven verticals — before raising a dollar. We're raising $2M pre-seed on a $12M valuation cap to fund the first managed deployments and bring PlayBox to market. The platform is the prize. Fan participation is how we prove it.
Company Stage
Prelaunch
Funding Stage
Pre-Seed
Funding Raised
None/Bootstrapped
Team Size
1-5 employees
Annual Revenue
$0 to $100k
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
Founded
2024
Industry
Entertainment
Skills
Founded company
Co-founded Infinite Spaces, a company focused on revolutionizing live media experiences with a real-time operating platform.
Entertainment Industry
Operates within the entertainment sector, developing tools for concerts, film shoots, exhibitions, and virtual production.
Entrepreneurship
Co-founded or leads Infinite Spaces, navigating the complexities of launching a new technology platform in the entertainment industry.
Startup Operations
Manages day-to-day operations as COO of a pre-seed stage platform company, overseeing product development and market engagement.
Live Event Production
Develops and manages technology solutions specifically for live shows and events, addressing current industry fragmentation.
Customer Engagement
Initiated and nurtured relationships with over 34 production teams across diverse verticals for market validation and potential adoption.
Business Strategy
Develops strategic direction for Infinite Spaces, targeting key verticals and positioning PlayBox as a real-time operating platform.
Business Development
Engages with potential clients, securing conversations with over 34 production teams across multiple verticals for market validation.
Product Management
Oversees the development of PlayBox, a real-time platform for designing and running live media experiences.
Leadership
Leads the team at Infinite Spaces, which includes experts with backgrounds in DirectX, OTT streaming, and stadium productions.
Bootstrapped Company
Successfully bootstrapped Infinite Spaces during its initial phase of product development and market validation.
Sales
Presents the PlayBox platform to production teams, demonstrating its value for concerts, film shoots, and exhibitions.
Platform Development
Involved in building Infinite Spaces' core platform designed to operate complex live environments in real-time.
Real-time Systems
Works with systems designed for real-time operation and interaction in live media productions and virtual environments.
Fundraising
Actively involved in pre-seed fundraising efforts for Infinite Spaces, aiming for $2M on a $12M cap.
Virtual Production
Engages with the virtual production vertical, offering a platform to script and run virtual landscapes and experiences.
User Experience Design
Focuses on creating a seamless user experience, eliminating mode switches and tool switching for authoring and performing live events.
Immersive Technology
Creates experiences that are immersive, moving beyond passive viewing to active participation in live events.
Experience
job
COO
Infinite Spaces
Oversees the development and operational strategy for PlayBox, a real-time platform designed to manage and run live media experiences from concerts to film shoots and exhibitions, eliminating tool switching and enabling dynamic interaction.
Co-founded Infinite Spaces, successfully bootstrapped operations, and established dialogues with over 34 production teams across seven verticals (concerts, immersive venues, virtual production, experiential agencies) for market validation and adoption before raising external funding.