Naveen Rao
Angel Investor @ Intel Capital
San Diego, United States
Naveen Rao is a seed investor at Intel Capital in San Diego focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Naveen Rao is the Founder and CEO of Unconventional AI. He became a Board Member of Beacon Biosignals. He earned his doctorate in Neuroscience from Brown University.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Naveen Rao invests in
Stages Naveen Rao invests in
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Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.3M–$475M
- Series A
- $14M–$102M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (75%)
- Software 5 (42%)
- Machine Learning 5 (42%)
- Health Care 2 (17%)
- Semiconductor 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (58%)
- Series A 4 (33%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 8 (67%)
- Canada 1 (8%)
- Israel 1 (8%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Volantis specializes in developing AI-driven semiconductor solutions. The company focuses on creating advanced systems that support high-performance computing for various applications, including networking, data centers, and edge computing. Volantis provides integrated hardware and software platforms designed to optimize processing power, energyefficiency, and scalability. Their technology aims to enhance the capabilities of existing infrastructure, making it adaptable to emerging computational demands. The company's solutions cater to industries that require robust, efficient computing power at scale. | $88M / Series A / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Topos Bio is an AI-powered biotechnology company developing therapies for intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). The company’s platform integrates physics with generative AI to target proteins involved in neurodegeneration, oncology, and metabolic diseases. | $10.5M / Seed / Jan 08, 2026 | ||
| Unconventional AI develops a novel computing platform that rethinks how hardware and software interact to support artificial intelligence workloads with a focus on energy use and computational efficiency. The company works on integrating principles from biological neural systems into silicon-based circuits and related software interfaces to createa different substrate for running AI models. Its products and research aim to address the rising energy demands of AI by exploring non-traditional architectures that move beyond conventional digital simulation of neural networks. Unconventional AI also engages in early-stage development of prototypes and toolchains that support this new approach to AI computation. | $475M / Seed / Dec 08, 2025 | ||
| Sphinx is AI that thinks in statistics and patterns and generates artifacts and insights that an adult can reproduce and fully own. | $9.5M / Seed / Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| DatologyAI optimize training efficiency, maximize performance and reduce compute costs with expert curation. | $11.7M / Seed / Feb 22, 2024 | ||
| NeuReality is a semiconductor start-up that designs AI-as-a-service infrastructure. It addresses the challenges posed by the growing deployment of AI in the cloud, edge, and fog systems. | $2.3M / Seed / Dec 04, 2020 | ||
| XOKind is an AI startup, formed with the mission of simplifying human planning and decision making by distilling the world's information, and we are launching our first product in the travel and leisure space. | $3.3M / Seed / Dec 12, 2019 | ||
| XOKind is an AI startup, formed with the mission of simplifying human planning and decision making by distilling the world's information, and we are launching our first product in the travel and leisure space. | $3.6M / Pre-Seed / Dec 12, 2019 | ||
| Paperspace is a high-performance cloud computing and ML development platform for building, training and deploying machine learning models. Tens of thousands of individuals, startups and enterprises use Paperspace to iterate faster and collaborate on intelligent, real-time prediction engines. | $14.5M / Series A / Oct 16, 2018 | ||
| Gamalon is a developer of an AI-based machine intelligence technology designed to write and rewrite their own Bayesian programs. The company's technology accelerates machine learning and converts streams of text paragraphs into structured data rows by linking, enabling e-commerce platforms and manufacturing companies to train the system on fewpieces of data and achieve the same level of accuracy as that of the exhaustively trained neural networks. | $20M / Series A / May 08, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Intel Capital
Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, edge, 5G, autonomy, cybersecurity, client & gaming, enterprise applications, silicon design and manufacturing, and a wide range of other disruptive technologies.
Intel Capital Contacts
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Andrew Fligel
Senior Managing Director
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Assaf Araki
Investment Director
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Dave Johnson
Managing Director / Investment Director
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David Flanagan
Vice President & Sr. Managing Director , US
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Jennifer Ard
Managing Director, Head of Investment Operations
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FAQ
What does Naveen Rao invest in?
Naveen Rao invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Naveen Rao invest in?
Naveen Rao typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$475M at Seed and $14M–$102M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Naveen Rao's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Naveen Rao took part in.
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When did Naveen Rao last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Naveen Rao closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 12 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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