# Naval Ravikant

> Naval Ravikant is a seed investor at Vast (San Francisco) backing Software and FinTech. See 232 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Vast](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vast)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 232
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/navalr
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/naval
- Website: https://startupboy.com/about/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/navalr

Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He previously served as the CEO of AngelList. He attended Dartmouth College.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$15M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$5M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 62 | 27% |
| FinTech | 29 | 13% |
| Financial Services | 28 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 28 | 12% |
| Blockchain | 26 | 11% |

229 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 103 | 44% |
| Series A | 57 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 15 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 6% |
| Angel | 13 | 6% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 166 | 72% |
| India | 7 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| South Korea | 2 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 0% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Generalist AI | Generalist AI is a robotics firm formed by a senior researcher who left Google to investigate robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) at Google Deepmind. | $400M | Series B | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Blackstar Computers | Blackstar Computers is a forward-looking company dedicated to reshaping the computing experience by innovating across hardware design, operating systems, and human–computer interaction. It aims to create tightly integrated systems where performance, usability, and adaptability work seamlessly together, rethinking how users interact with technologythrough more intuitive interfaces, smarter software, and purpose-built devices that enhance productivity, creativity, and everyday digital experiences. | $12M | Seed | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| Quill Meetings | Quill Meetings develops Quilliam, an on-device AI platform that coordinates staff work and captures meeting intelligence for professionals. The software records and transcribes conversations locally, generates structured notes, minutes, and action items, and supports multilingual summaries. It integrates with tools such as CRM systems, projectboards, email, and collaboration platforms to update records and trigger follow-ups. The platform targets investors, founders, sales teams, recruiters, coaches, and other knowledge workers who handle frequent meetings. | $6.5M | Seed | Feb 25, 2026 |  |
| Quanta | Quanta provides software companies with real-time financial clarity and empowerment. Quanta envision a world in which all business accounting tasks that are not creative in nature are automated, leaving finance teams and business owners to focus solely on strategic and creative work. | $15M | Series A | Dec 04, 2025 |  |
| Thermopylae Aerospace | Thermopylae Aerospace is a company specializing in low-cost, rapid-response systems designed for modern warfare dynamics. Their offerings include advanced technologies aimed at enhancing military capabilities. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| Mira | Mira are audio-first smart glasses that "remember everything." | $6.6M | Seed | Nov 24, 2025 |  |
| Wabi | Wabi engages as a social platform where anyone can quickly create tiny apps using instructions. | $20M | Pre-Seed | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| Blueprint Bryan Johnson | Blueprint is Bryan Johnson’s protocol made accessible to everyone. Everything from measurements to protocols and therapies. | $60M | Angel | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Moonlake AI | An artificial intelligence research lab building AI models for creating real-time interactive content | $28M | Seed | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| Belfort | Belfort is specialising in technology that accelerates encrypted data processing, allowing it to be done in real time without ever decrypting the data. | $6M | Seed | Sep 25, 2025 |  |

10 of 232 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 31 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 26 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together

## About Vast

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Vast accesses the largest sources of new and used cars, homes for sale or rent, and accommodation options. Through Fortune 500 publishers such as Bing, Yahoo, USAA, Southwest, and AOL, Vast supports consumers through the lengthy sales cycles involved in the biggest monetary decisions of their lives: their homes, their cars, and their vacations.For consumers, Vast blends powerful real-time personalized analysis of local market trends with massive inventory and relevant data from the Automotive, Real-Estate, and Travel industries. Whether a consumer is selecting their dream car on Bing, falling in love with their next home on USAA, or deciding where to take their weekend getaway on Southwest - the right choice is powered by Vast.For sellers, Vast takes the same personalized analysis and combines it with behavioral insights built by helping thousands of customers every day. Vast is guiding industry professionals to make the right choice about their product and customer relationships based on real-time data and market trends.

5 contacts available at Vast.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John Price | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-price |
| Chad Bockius | President & Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chad-bockius |
| David Franke | Chief Scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-franke |
| Jeff VanDyke | Chief Data Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-vandyke |
| Kim Treadaway | Vice President of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kim-treadaway |

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## FAQ

### What does Naval Ravikant invest in?

Naval Ravikant invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 232 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Naval Ravikant's check size?

Naval Ravikant typically joins rounds of $1M–$15M at Seed, $1.2M–$5M at Pre-Seed and $2.5M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Naval Ravikant participates in.

### When did Naval Ravikant last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Naval Ravikant closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 232 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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