# Nav Sooch

> Nav Sooch is a seed investor at Silicon Labs backing Computer and Internet. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Silicon Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silicon-laboratories)
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nav-sooch-a6910046
- Website: http://soochfoundation.org/history/

Nav Sooch is a seed investor at Silicon Labs in Austin focused on Computer and Internet. Nav Sooch is based out of Austin, Texas and is the Chairman of Silicon Labs. Nav previously worked at Ketra as a CEO. Nav Sooch attended the Stanford University. Nav Sooch has been awarded 2020 Ambassador of the Year.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Nav Sooch: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/nav-sooch?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Computer | 2 | 50% |
| Internet | 2 | 50% |
| Hardware | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| E-Learning | 1 | 25% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cormint Data Systems | Cormint Data Systems can simplify your data center operations and management by providing a comprehensive consolidated management. | $30M | Series A | May 16, 2023 |  |
| Pani Systems | Pani Source offers a water personalization appliance that upgrades drinking water with multi-use/naturally formulated enhancement pods. The Pani Source Smart Water System combines purification and customization. An advanced filtration system ensures the purest possible pour, then enhances it with minerals, vitamins, flavors, and otheradditives. Pani Systems uses an innovative filtration design to purify tap water to up to 99% purity. Then remineralize it to reflect nature's sources in the manner intended by nature. | $3M | Seed | Nov 19, 2021 |  |
| Trashbots | Trashbots develops low-cost science and engineering kits with an artistic twist and structured curriculum that enables students to develop problem-solving skills and enhance creativity by building robots that utilize everyday materials in tandem with unique software. |  | Seed | Sep 02, 2020 |  |
| Verb | Verb is the leadership development platform that prepares your people to adapt to the challenges of today’s rapidly changing workplace. Engaging and relevant topics help managers develop the leadership capabilities needed most in the modern workplace, enabling them to support the growth of everyone they lead. Microlearning activities promptlearners to practice skills in a safe space, take action in the real world, and reflect on their growth—leading to real skill development and behavior change. | $6.5M | Seed | Dec 13, 2019 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Angel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-ventures-mexico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Barshop Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Stakeholder Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-block-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sputnik ATX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sputnik-atx) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Third Craft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/third-craft) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Silicon Labs

VC Fund · Austin, United States

Silicon Labs is a leading provider of silicon, software and solutions for a smarter, more connected world. Our award-winning technologies are shaping the future of the Internet of Things, Internet infrastructure, industrial automation, consumer and automotive markets. Headquartered in Austin, Silicon Labs has 1,300 team members in 20 countriescreating products focused on performance, energy savings, connectivity and simplicity. We're passionate about what we do and are proud that the Global Semiconductor Alliance voted us the Most Respected Public Semiconductor company for three of the last four years.

5 contacts available at Silicon Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anders Pettersson | Director Of Field Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anders-pettersson-0e8b |
| Daniel Cooley | Chief Technology Officer and SVP for Technology and Product Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-cooley-da8a |
| Nav Sooch | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nav-sooch |
| Antonio Torrini | Consultant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonio-torrini |
| Brent Wilson | Staff Security Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brent-wilson-8f34 |

## Similar investors

### Similar industry
- [Praxis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/praxis-2) — VC Fund
- [Social and Sustainable Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-and-sustainable-capital) — VC Fund
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

### Similar country
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund

## Featured in investor lists
- [Social Impact Angel Investors in United States](https://shizune.co/investors/social-impact-angel-investors-united-states)

## FAQ

### What does Nav Sooch invest in?

Nav Sooch invests primarily in Computer, Internet and Hardware startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Nav Sooch?

Public channels for Nav Sooch include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### When did Nav Sooch last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nav Sooch closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 4 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co