Ali Rowghani
Part-Time Partner @ Y Combinator
Mountain View, United States
Ali Rowghani is a Series B investor at Y Combinator in Mountain View focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Ali Rowghani is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of First Harmonic. Ali previously worked at Y Combinator as a Managing Director. Ali Rowghani attended the University of Bonn.
- Total investments:
- 72
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Ali Rowghani invests in
Stages Ali Rowghani invests in
Countries Ali Rowghani invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$4.3M
- Series A
- $9M–$20M
- Series B
- $20M–$46M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 19 (26%)
- Software 17 (24%)
- Machine Learning 8 (11%)
- SaaS 7 (10%)
- FinTech 7 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 14 (19%)
- Series A 13 (18%)
- Seed 12 (17%)
- Series C 9 (13%)
- Series D 7 (10%)
Country
- United States 35 (49%)
- Canada 2 (3%)
- Indonesia 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Founded by Stanford AI researchers, Actively AI helps GTM teams 2x pipeline through AI-powered prioritization and personalization. | $45M / Series B / Apr 28, 2026 | ||
| A seamless booking assistant for your favorite fitness classes & wellness experiences | $45M / Series B / Apr 20, 2026 | ||
| Porter is the easiest way to deploy and scale your applications on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Connect your own cloud account, and Porter will provision and manage the underlying infrastructure for you - simply point at your repository and Porter will handle the rest, from building your application to autoscaling it.Under the hood, Porter manages thesame kind of infrastructure that growth-stage companies use and allows you to scale without DevOps overhead. | $20M / Series A / Jan 27, 2026 | ||
| Kobalt Labs provides an AI copilot for risk and compliance teams at financial institutions. | $11M / Series A / Dec 03, 2025 | ||
| Sim is a software development company that provides an artificial intelligence platform to automate workflow and sync data. It is an open-source platform for designing, testing, and deploying AI agent workflows. It offers a visual, drag-and-drop canvas—similar to design tools—which lets developers connect large language models with various apps andlogic blocks. Users can integrate Sim with over 500 tools, such as Slack, Gmail, Supabase, and Pinecone, enabling autonomous agents that interact with real-world data and systems. The platform supports both hosted and self-hosted models, giving teams flexibility in choosing how and where their AI runs. Workflows built in Sim can be triggered manually, via scheduled events, or by webhooks, and they can be exposed as APIs or chat interfaces. Sim combines a no-code visual interface with production-grade capabilities like structured output, logging, and debugging, allowing teams to iterate quickly and scale their AI systems. | $7M / Series A / Nov 14, 2025 | ||
| Alleviate Health is an AI-enabled patient recruitment company for clinical trials | $4.3M / Seed / Oct 13, 2025 | ||
| PostHog is an open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection. It tracks and auto-captures which features for product events are being triggered. PostHog was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $70M / Series D / Jun 09, 2025 | ||
| Operand is engaged in the development of an artificial intelligence system aimed at supplanting conventional consulting methodologies. | $3.1M / Seed / May 06, 2025 | ||
| Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.Nuvo replaces manual credit forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and growyour business. Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 40,000 businesses. | $34M / Series A / Apr 30, 2025 | ||
| Founded by Stanford AI researchers, Actively AI helps GTM teams 2x pipeline through AI-powered prioritization and personalization. | $17.5M / Series A / Apr 02, 2025 | ||
| See all 72 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Y Combinator
Y Combinator invests a standard amount of capital in exchange for equity and through uncapped safe agreements. Participants engage in a three-month intensive cycle that focuses on product development and preparations for fundraising. The firm offers access to a private networking platform for knowledge sharing and hosts events featuring speakers from various sectors. This program culminates in a presentation event where founders showcase their businesses to a curated group of investors.
Y Combinator Contacts
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Boris Jabes
Visiting Partner
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Luther Lowe
Head of Public Policy
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Max Kolysh
Visiting Partner
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Brad Flora
Group Partner
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Calvin French-Owen
Visiting Group Partner
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FAQ
What does Ali Rowghani invest in?
Ali Rowghani invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 72 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Ali Rowghani's check size?
Ali Rowghani typically joins rounds of $2M–$4.3M at Seed, $9M–$20M at Series A and $20M–$46M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ali Rowghani participates in.
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When did Ali Rowghani last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ali Rowghani closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 72 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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