Navigate Ventures
VC Fund
Beverly Hills, United States
Navigate Ventures is a VC fund in Beverly Hills focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Navigate Ventures offers a unique, differentiated investment thesis and strategy by offering "A Extension Rounds" for B2B Enterprise SaaS companies outside Silicon Valley during their early growth stages, and help them get to growth rounds. We look for companies that use the latest technologies and AI to solve big problems in traditionalindustries. The partners bring decades of investing, advising, and operating experience in enterprise SaaS and are focused on helping our portfolio companies prepare for rapid growth, scaling, and raising a growth round.
- Total investments:
- 50
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 2%
Last updated:
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Industries Navigate Ventures invests in
Stages Navigate Ventures invests in
Countries Navigate Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 more contact available
Round size
- Seed
- $4.6M–$13M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 15 (30%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (22%)
- Information Technology 8 (16%)
- SaaS 6 (12%)
- Analytics 5 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 18 (36%)
- Seed 16 (32%)
- Funding Round 4 (8%)
- Series B 3 (6%)
- Convertible Note 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 26 (52%)
- United Kingdom 4 (8%)
- Singapore 1 (2%)
- New Zealand 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Azra Bahtijarevic
Chief of Staff
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Chief of Staff | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Fred Thiel
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Ivan Nikkhoo
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Jonathan Huberman
Senior Advisor
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Senior Advisor | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
VerbaFlo
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VerbaFlo is the AI communications platform built for residential real estate. Founded in October 2024, the company helps property owners and operators manage leasing, operations, and resident engagement through conversational AI. Real estate is one of the largest industries in the world, yet most owners and operators still handle thousands oftenant and prospect conversations across fragmented channels every single day. VerbaFlo brings all of this into a single intelligent layer that works across chat, WhatsApp, email, and phone, connecting directly with the property management and CRM systems they already use. Purpose-built AI agents support the full resident lifecycle: qualifying leads, scheduling viewings, following up with prospects, managing maintenance requests, and supporting renewals. Today, VerbaFlo powers communication across more than 250,000 residential units in the UK, Europe, and the United States, supports conversations in over 200 languages, and is trusted by more than 40 leading owners and operators across multifamily, student housing, and co-living. The platform is live across 10 countries. | $7M / Seed / Mar 18, 2026 | |
Integrated Finance
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Integrated Finance platform offers infrastructure APIs that help developers at fintech startups and big banks alike build embedded financial services quickly. | Series A / Sep 19, 2025 | |
Dimension Labs
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Dimension Labs delivers Causal Intelligence for the enterprise: connecting unstructured customer conversations to business outcomes with statistical proof. Our Meaning Layer transforms calls, chats, tickets, and surveys into structured, queryable Dimensions that join with your financial data and flow into Snowflake, Databricks, and your existing BIstack. The result: retention, product, and executive teams stop asking why their metrics moved and start knowing — with evidence, dollar amounts, and specific drivers traced back to source conversations.Trusted by the world's largest organizations including Travelers, Concentrix, American Red Cross, and the NBA | Series A / Sep 05, 2025 | |
Preveta
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Preveta creates a data-driven cancer care coordination platform for health care providers focused on improving patient outcomes. Its care coordination and analytics platform empower patient navigators to gather and surface cleaner and fuller data to clinicians for decision making.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in LosAngeles, California. | Seed / Aug 28, 2025 | |
Videate
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Videate turns documentation/scripts into software videos using AI, automation, and text-to-speech. Since the videos are generated automatically, they can be easily updated with every release in multiple languages, keeping video libraries in sync with your software. | Convertible Note / Jul 01, 2025 | |
North.cloud
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North helps companies automate their AWS savings. By connecting to our analytics engine companies can quickly spot their cost savings opportunities based on their real life cloud usage trends. North then automates the best discounting possible for those products while making sure customers never pay for an unused discount commitment again. | $5M / Series A / Jun 30, 2025 | |
XILO
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XILO is a workflow automation platform designed for traditional insurance agencies and companies. It helps them to improve the connection between online and offline customer experiences, automate back-office tasks, and integrate multiple systems to minimize data entry. This allows these companies to stay competitive and adapt to the changingmarket. | $7.2M / Series A / Jan 22, 2025 | |
Pinpoint Predictive
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Pinpoint Predictive offers property and casualty insurers loss predictions and risk scores with only a name and address. Their platform allows insurers to leverage unmatched risk selection at the beginning of the customer journey. | $23M / Series A / Oct 08, 2024 | |
Operative Intelligence
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Artificial intelligence based operations management platform. It provides a platform that uses AI technology for analyzing and quantifying performance improvement opportunities at the contact center. The platform also assists users in systematically managing customer operations.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Los Angeles,California, United States. | Seed / Sep 19, 2024 | |
Nanome
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Nanome is a virtual reality software company that offers a collaborative XR software platform for molecular design.The platform accelerates existing computational workflows at the molecular scale and unlocks more scientists to leverage powerful molecular computations + AI. Nanome has worked largely on projects with companies in the food andbeverage industry, as well as another to develop more sustainable batteries.The San Diego, California-based company was launched in 2015 by Edgardo Leija, Samuel Hessenauer, Keita Funakawa, and Steven McCloskey. | $1.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 16, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Navigate Ventures invest in?
Navigate Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 50 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 Navigate Ventures's check size?
Navigate Ventures typically joins rounds of $4.6M–$13M at Seed and $1.5M–$20M 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 Navigate Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Navigate Ventures?
The team at Navigate Ventures includes Azra Bahtijarevic (Chief of Staff), Fred Thiel (Managing Partner) and Ivan Nikkhoo (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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