Hanel Baveja
Analyst @ Union Square Ventures
New York, United States
Hanel Baveja is an Analyst at Union Square Ventures. Prior to USV, Hanel was on the investment team at Insight Partners, a NYC-based growth stage software-focused fund. She has also worked on the business development team at Vettery, as an economics research assistant, a short story editor and writer, and a camp counselor. Originally from AnnArbor, Michigan, she studied Economics and Creating Writing at Harvard (with an intermission studying Art History and French in Aix-en-Provence, France) before moving to New York City.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Hanel Baveja invests in
Stages Hanel Baveja invests in
Countries Hanel Baveja invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (38%)
- Podcast 2 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (25%)
- News 1 (13%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (63%)
- Series A 3 (38%)
Country
- France 2 (25%)
- United States 2 (25%)
- United Kingdom 2 (25%)
- Switzerland 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Cerrion
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Cerrion is a visual AI that helps production teams react faster to process deviations, automate root cause analysis, and implement targeted improvement actions. They believe that process transparency enabled by AI and computer vision is key to achieving more autonomy and sustainability in manufacturing. Their software is built and designed withproduction teams from all over the world in the loop. | $18M / Series A / Nov 24, 2025 | |
GetVocal AI
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GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent. | $26M / Series A / Nov 18, 2025 | |
Visibly
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Visibly developing technology to bring about the change our built environment requires by providing businesses with the tools they need to reduce the industry's skills gap and ensure our infrastructure can meet the needs of the population. | $7.5M / Seed / Jun 10, 2024 | |
Kosmik
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Kosmik is a visual collaboration platform. Kosmik is based around a zooming user interface where you can store and edit any type of data. Kosmik is the first "dSaaS" (decentralized Software as a Service), relying on a custom designed peer-to-peer database, maximizing user privacy, offering offline first comfort and end to end encryption. | $3.7M / Seed / Dec 21, 2023 | |
atla
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Atlas helps in assists legal practitioners in searching through millions of texts and then using machine learning to extract crucial information from each source. | $5M / Seed / Dec 07, 2023 | |
Gumball
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Gumball connects advertisers with podcast hosts to make it happen in a few clicks. | $10M / Series A / Mar 07, 2022 | |
Headgum
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Headgum is a comedy podcast network that produces, curate, and promote podcast content from around the web. It is formed by Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld. | $2M / Seed / Jul 28, 2020 | |
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Gumball
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Gumball connects advertisers with podcast hosts to make it happen in a few clicks. | $2M / Seed |
Co-Investors
About Union Square Ventures
Union Square Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth capital, late-stage, and startup financing. The USV portfolio companies create services that have the potential to fundamentally transform important markets. It exclusively invests in the internet world, focusing on the applications layer of the web,internet services, and web services that create large networks as well as the mobile sector. Some of its invested companies are based in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and places in between. It typically makes a starting investment in portfolio companies of $1 million. In certain Series Around cases, the firm may make a starting investment between $2.5 million to $3 million. It typically invests up to $20 million in any single company.Union Square Ventures was founded in 2003 and is based in New York, United States.
Union Square Ventures Contacts
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Hanel Baveja
Analyst
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Mona Alsubaei
Analyst
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Albert Wenger
Managing Partner
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Andy Weissman
Managing Partner
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Bradford Burnham
Partner
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FAQ
What does Hanel Baveja invest in?
Hanel Baveja invests primarily in Software, Podcast and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Hanel Baveja last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Hanel Baveja closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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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