# Naveen Rao

> Naveen Rao is a seed investor at Definitive Intelligence backing Artificial Intelligence. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Definitive Intelligence](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karat-35d0)
- Location: San Diego, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/naveen-rao/1/5b0/bba
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/naveengrao
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/naveen.rao

Naveen Rao is a seed investor at Definitive Intelligence in San Diego focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Naveen Rao - CEO and Co-Founder @ MosaicML

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$475M |
| Series A | $15M–$102M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 73% |
| Software | 5 | 45% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 45% |
| Health Care | 2 | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 18% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 64% |
| Series A | 3 | 27% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 64% |
| Canada | 1 | 9% |
| Israel | 1 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Topos Bio | 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 | 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 | 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 | DatologyAI optimize training efficiency, maximize performance and reduce compute costs with expert curation. | $11.7M | Seed | Feb 22, 2024 |  |
| NeuReality | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| formsense | formsense technology powers the next generation of compression apparel and sports training equipment that provides the first-ever volumetric assessment of athletic form in real-time to elevate performance and prevent injuries. An autonomous sensor mesh powered by on-board artificial intelligence delivers insights otherwise invisible to the nakedeye. formsense technology is optimized for smartphone or tablet use and easily integrates with most elite training equipment interfaces. We're spread across San Diego, SF Bay Area and Budapest.Watch our vision video: https://vimeo.com/formsense/vision1 Watch our vision video: www.vimeo.com/formsense/vision1 |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [.406 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/406-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [boldstart ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Definitive Intelligence

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Making AEC software talk to each other in real-time.

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| Anant Jhingran | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anant-jhingran |
| Andy Chung | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-chung |
| Brian Stempeck | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-stempeck |

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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 11 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 Naveen Rao's check size?

Naveen Rao typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$475M at Seed and $15M–$102M 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 Naveen Rao participates in.

### When did Naveen Rao last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Naveen Rao closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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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