# Delian Asparouhov

> Delian Asparouhov is a seed investor at Founders Fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/delian-asparouhov/42/477/874/en
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MITDelian
- Website: https://x.com/MITDelian
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/delian.asparouhov

Delian Asparouhov is a seed investor at Founders Fund in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Delian Asparouhov is the Co-Founder, President, and Chairman at Verda.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 13% |
| Software | 3 | 10% |
| Aerospace | 3 | 10% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 10% |
| FinTech | 2 | 6% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 29% |
| Series A | 9 | 29% |
| Series B | 7 | 23% |
| Series C | 2 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 42% |
| Norway | 1 | 3% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hadrian | Hadrian is a precision manufacturing company that manufactures precision components to serve aerospace and defense clients. It builds autonomous, software-defined precision component factories that help its customers make rockets, satellites, jets, and eVTOLs. | $1.4B | Series D | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Giraffe360 | Giraffe360 is game-changing subscription product for real estate companies to streamline professional quality photography and high accuracy floor plan creation. | $10M | Series B | Mar 26, 2026 |  |
| Nominal | Nominal is the faster, more reliable way to validate mission-critical systems. We build workflows for the modern hardware team. | $80M | Series B | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Northwood Space | Northwood Space is a hardware solution that dramatically increases the number of orbits and frequency bands available for satellite communications from the ground. | $100M | Series B | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Hadrian | Hadrian is a precision manufacturing company that manufactures precision components to serve aerospace and defense clients. It builds autonomous, software-defined precision component factories that help its customers make rockets, satellites, jets, and eVTOLs. | $131.3M | Series C | Dec 30, 2025 |  |
| Hadrian | Hadrian is a precision manufacturing company that manufactures precision components to serve aerospace and defense clients. It builds autonomous, software-defined precision component factories that help its customers make rockets, satellites, jets, and eVTOLs. | $110M | Series C | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Varda | Varda is a space manufacturing startup that focuses on creating products in space for terrestrial applications. They aim to manufacture things in space that benefit from low gravity. The company intends to create an infrastructure that harvests source materials for new products in-space via asteroid mining.The company was founded in 2020 byDelian Asparouhov and Trae Stephens. | $187M | Series C | Jul 10, 2025 |  |
| AirGarage | AirGarage replaces broken parking machines, fragmented software, and manual, labor-intensive operations with a unified, data-rich operating system for parking real estate. We handle everything it takes to run and optimize a parking asset: payments, dynamic pricing, enforcement, license plate recognition, analytics, and more. By building all ofour technology in-house, we are able to deliver a magical experience for drivers while providing real-time visibility and revenue increases of 20-50% or more for real estate owners.We're on a mission to bring real estate online, starting with the 26% of the median American urban core that is dedicated to parking.The physical world is full of inefficiencies and better-managed real estate means better cities for all of us living in them. | $23M | Series B | Jul 07, 2025 |  |
| Nominal | Nominal is the faster, more reliable way to validate mission-critical systems. We build workflows for the modern hardware team. | $75M | Series B | Jun 12, 2025 |  |
| EnduroSat | EnduroSat designs and engineers spacecraft for business applications and space exploration missions. The company focuses on swarm/constellation satellite applications. EnduroSat builds customized satellites and providing complete support service for full-cycle missions. | $48.7M | Series B | May 27, 2025 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Caffeinated Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caffeinated-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

## About Founders Fund

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests at every stage in companies building revolutionary technologies. It has been investors, founders, and early employees of prominent technology companies. It has historically invested in a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, andconsumer Internet.

5 contacts available at Founders Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Delian Asparouhov | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delian-asparouhov |
| John Luttig | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-luttig-2 |
| Napoleon Ta | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/napoleon-ta |
| Amin Mirzadegan | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amin-mirzadegan-2d99 |
| Brian Singerman | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-singerman |

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## FAQ

### What does Delian Asparouhov invest in?

Delian Asparouhov invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Aerospace startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Delian Asparouhov last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Delian Asparouhov closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 31 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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