# Ben Narasin

> Ben Narasin is a seed investor at NatWest Group backing Software and Financial Services. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NatWest Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/royal-bank-of-scotland)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Feb 2023
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennarasin/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/BNarasin
- Website: http://www.foodwinelife.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/foodwinelife

Ben Narasin is a seed investor at NatWest Group in San Francisco focused on Software and Financial Services. Ben Narasin is the Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital. He attended International Christian University, Babson College, and Harvard University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.3M–$2.2M |
| Series A | $5.8M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 17% |
| Mobile | 6 | 15% |
| FinTech | 6 | 15% |
| SaaS | 4 | 10% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 24 | 59% |
| Series A | 6 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 29 | 71% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nevly | Nevly is a personal finance fintech platform that is focused on utilizing technology to improve the financial health of financially underserved consumers and to increase their household net worth. At Nevly, we believe technology can fundamentally improve the financial lives of every single person in the world. Our products are innovative,transformative and progressively structured with our customers in mind. They serve four key needs: credit, everyday banking, payments and wealth management. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 08, 2023 |  |
| Nevly Money | Nevly Money delivers personalized, data-driven solutions. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 08, 2023 |  |
| Manufactured | Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains. | $13M |  | Sep 01, 2022 |  |
| Thena | Thena is a new-age customer support platform purpose-built for B2B teams. Thena AI connects to the modern communication stack like Slack, MS Teams, In-app chat and email. Join bold modern B2B teams from Vercel, Amplitude, FOX, Etsy, and LaunchDarkly. Founded by Ankit Saxena, Mike Molinet and Govind Kavaturi. Backed by First Round Capital andLightspeed. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| Kapital | Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees | $8.6M | Seed | Apr 14, 2022 |  |
| Kapital | Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees | $8.6M | Series A | Apr 14, 2022 |  |
| CoFi | CoFi makes handling co-management payments simpler, more convenient, and compliant for all parties involved – surgeon, optometrist, and patient. | $7M | Seed | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| CoFi | CoFi is a digital platform that empowers contractors to get project funding backed by on-demand payments. | $7M | Seed | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| Vendelux | Vendelux is the leading Event Intelligence Platform that helps marketers make more data-driven decisions around event attendance, sponsorship, and hosting. Customers match CRM data against a proprietary database of over 30,000 events, including speaker, sponsor, and attendee information, to easily find their prospects, customers, and competitorseverywhere they are going to be. | $2.4M | Seed | Jan 28, 2022 |  |
| ProductWind | ProductWind is an influencer marketing platform designed for brand promotion. They partnered with brands to find, negotiate, review, track, and rate influencers and help them launch their influencer marketing campaigns, enabling clients to improve their online retail business. For each influencer, it generates trackable attribution links and claimcodes. They know which influencers will drive sales after hundreds of campaigns. To create perfect product pages, they work with influencers. Its influencers are experts at creating and uploading lifestyle content, as well as speaking on Amazon Live and writing Amazon Posts. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TriplePoint Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/triplepoint-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [AngelPad](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelpad) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cowboy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cowboy-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Broom Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fathom-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Marc Bell Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-bell-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About NatWest Group

VC Fund · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

NatWest Group plc, is a majority state-owned British banking and insurance holding company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The group operates a wide variety of banking brands offering personal and business banking, private banking, insurance and corporate finance.

5 contacts available at NatWest Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| George Ross | Head of Speciality Finance \| Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-ross-769b |
| Kimberly Martin | Managing Director, Head of Venture Debt and Growth Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kimberly-martin |
| Philip Hampton | Chairman of the Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philip-hampton |
| Andrew McLaughlin | IT Risk Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-mclaughlin-f824 |
| Ben Narasin | Member Technology Advisory Board (TAB) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-narasin |

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## FAQ

### What does Ben Narasin invest in?

Ben Narasin invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 41 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 Ben Narasin's check size?

Ben Narasin typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$7M at Seed, $1.3M–$2.2M at Pre-Seed and $5.8M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ben Narasin participates in.

### When did Ben Narasin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ben Narasin closed in Feb 2023. Shizune tracks 41 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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