# Napoleon Ta

> Napoleon Ta is a seed investor at Founders Fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 14 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: 14
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/napoleonta

Napoleon Ta is a seed investor at Founders Fund in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Napoleon Ta is based out of San Francisco, California and currently works as a Partner for Founders Fund. Napoleon Ta attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 36% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 36% |
| Blockchain | 4 | 29% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 29% |
| SaaS | 2 | 14% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Series C | 3 | 21% |
| Series D | 2 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 57% |
| Mexico | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ramp | Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $300M |  | Nov 17, 2025 |  |
| Ramp | Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $500M | Series E | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Ramp | Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $200M | Series E | Jun 14, 2025 |  |
| Persona | Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, which brings trust to online interactions and helps them with age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailoredflows that cover any use case. It handles complex collecting, verifying, and managing sensitive personal information to stay focused on building products. | $200M | Series D | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Rippling | Rippling is a human resource management company that manages employees’ payroll, benefits, devices, and apps. It is a platform that automates manual work, like onboarding new hires. In just 90-seconds, a company can set up (or disable) an employee’s payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps, like Gmail, Microsoft Office, andSlack. It’s the only platform that truly unifies every employee system, and automates all of the administrative work.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $200M | Series F | Apr 22, 2024 |  |
| Ondo Finance | Ondo Finance develops a cryptocurrency trading platform that makes decentralized finance providing users with a choice between downside protection and higher returns. | $20M | Series A | Apr 27, 2022 |  |
| Rippling | Rippling is a human resource management company that manages employees’ payroll, benefits, devices, and apps. It is a platform that automates manual work, like onboarding new hires. In just 90-seconds, a company can set up (or disable) an employee’s payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps, like Gmail, Microsoft Office, andSlack. It’s the only platform that truly unifies every employee system, and automates all of the administrative work.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $250M | Series C | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Persona | Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, which brings trust to online interactions and helps them with age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailoredflows that cover any use case. It handles complex collecting, verifying, and managing sensitive personal information to stay focused on building products. | $150M | Series C | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Andalusia Labs | Risk Harbor is a risk management marketplace for decentralized finance (DeFi) that utilizes a completely automated, transparent, and impartial claims process to protect liquidity providers and stakers against smart contract hacks and attacks.Our mission is to secure the world’s transition to decentralized financial services by removing the needfor trusted intermediaries, thereby creating a truly permissionless and open financial system accessible to everyone. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 28, 2021 |  |
| Kavak | KAVAK is an online platform that offers insight into buying and selling used cars. It specializes in the fields of e-commerce, automotive, and retail. KAVAK e-commerce for the purchase and sale of pre-owned cars in Latin America. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito. | $485M | Series D | Apr 07, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Thrive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thrive-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [D1 Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d1-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 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 Napoleon Ta invest in?

Napoleon Ta invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 14 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 Napoleon Ta last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Napoleon Ta closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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