# Maran Nelson

> Maran Nelson is a seed investor in San Francisco backing Big Data and Software. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/maran-nelson/38/401/2a5
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/marannelson

Maran Nelson is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Big Data and Software. Maran Nelson is the co-founder and CEO of Clara Labs. Prior to launching Clara Labs, Maran serves as founder and chairperson at Interact ATX, Inc.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4M–$5.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Education | 1 | 50% |
| Recruiting | 1 | 50% |
| Higher Education | 1 | 50% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 1 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rime | Rime develops speech technologies for a wide range of customers. The company works on speech generation with a deep understanding of linguistic and sociolinguistic phenomena needed to create the next generation of text-to-speech tooling. | $5.5M | Seed | May 29, 2025 | https://rime.ai |
| Pesto Tech | About PestoWe believe in taking opportunities to places where talent exists. Our mission is to change the lives of 5.2 million Indian software engineers. Creating access for them to great career opportunities using remote work. We train and upskill India's top talent for fast-paced product organizations. Our comprehensive training programhelps software engineers in India to advance their programming and being remote ready. We unlock your potential and provide global opportunities, remotely. We started our journey in 2017 and since then we have helped more than 100+ candidates to find their first remote job opportunity. To get our candidates placed, we have partnered with more than 200 global product based organizations.We are backed by Matrix Partners and a bunch of angels from Silicon Valley (list includes Ryan Hoover, Sahil Lavingia, Hiten Shah and many others).Key highlights • Pesto creates overseas opportunities for Indian Developer. • Apply for India's simplest Remote development program • Become A remote Developer – Apply Now – ZERO upfront fee • High Paying Remote opportunityApply now - https://bit.ly/33BgZ30 Hire software developers of Silicon Valley caliber: https://pesto.tech/become-a-developer | $4M | Seed | Oct 08, 2020 | https://pesto.tech/ |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cadenza Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cadenza-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founders You Should Know](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-you-should-know) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Prototype Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/remote-first-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Unusual Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unusual-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Maran Nelson invest in?

Maran Nelson invests primarily in Big Data, Software and Education startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Maran Nelson's check size?

Maran Nelson typically joins rounds of $4M–$5.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Maran Nelson participates in.

### How do I contact Maran Nelson?

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### When did Maran Nelson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Maran Nelson closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 2 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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