Nikolas Huebecker

Nikolas Huebecker is the Co-founder of Lapel, an early-stage software company focused on artificial intelligence and service automation based in San Francisco, California, USA. Prior to establishing his current venture, he co-founded Onward, an intelligent meeting automation platform that successfully participated in the highly competitive Y Combinator Summer 2023 startup accelerator cohort. Before launching Onward, Huebecker served as the product team lead at Midjourney, where he directed the development and scaling of prominent generative artificial intelligence consumer applications. Originally from Atlanta, his technical background extends back to his middle school years, during which he first began programming and building early artificial intelligence products for various initial use cases. Today, his professional focus remains centered on leveraging advanced machine learning models to engineer next-generation software tools for customer service and enterprise team automation.