# Ali Rowghani

> Ali Rowghani is a Series A investor at First Harmonic backing Software. See 70 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [First Harmonic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-harmonic)
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 70
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-rowghani-26996a1b
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ROWGHANI
- Website: https://x.com/rowghani
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ali.rowghani

Ali Rowghani is a Series A investor at First Harmonic in Mountain View focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $620k–$4.3M |
| Series A | $9M–$20M |
| Series B | $20M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 15 | 21% |
| Machine Learning | 8 | 11% |
| FinTech | 6 | 9% |
| SaaS | 5 | 7% |

88 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 13 | 19% |
| Series B | 13 | 19% |
| Seed | 12 | 17% |
| Series C | 9 | 13% |
| Series D | 7 | 10% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 44% |
| Canada | 2 | 3% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Actively AI | Founded by Stanford AI researchers, Actively AI helps GTM teams 2x pipeline through AI-powered prioritization and personalization. | $45M | Series B | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Actively | A seamless booking assistant for your favorite fitness classes & wellness experiences | $45M | Series B | Apr 20, 2026 |  |
| Porter | 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 | Kobalt Labs provides an AI copilot for risk and compliance teams at financial institutions. | $11M | Series A | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Sim | 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 | Alleviate Health is an AI-enabled patient recruitment company for clinical trials | $4.3M | Seed | Oct 13, 2025 |  |
| PostHog | 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 | Operand is engaged in the development of an artificial intelligence system aimed at supplanting conventional consulting methodologies. | $3.1M | Seed | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Nuvo | 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 |  |
| Actively AI | 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 |  |

10 of 70 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Spark Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

## About First Harmonic

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

First Harmonic is a venture fund and go-to-market program designed specifically for early-stage startup founders. It is run by a small team of former operators and investors who focus on helping founders define their ideal initial customer, which is crucial for successful product development and market entry. They offer what they consider theworld's best go-to-market program for seed-stage founders, which involves intensive one-on-one work over eight weeks to help founders nail early customer definition. The program is free and non-dilutive, supported by an early-stage fund that covers program costs. First Harmonic combines operational experience with investment to uniquely support startup founders in the critical early phases of their journey.

1 contacts available at First Harmonic.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ali Rowghani | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-rowghani |

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## FAQ

### What does Ali Rowghani invest in?

Ali Rowghani invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 70 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 $620k–$4.3M at Seed, $9M–$20M at Series A and $20M–$45M 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.

### When did Ali Rowghani last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ali Rowghani closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 70 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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