# Navin Chaddha

> Navin Chaddha is a Series A investor at Nuvia backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 89 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nuvia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nuvia-ed93)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 89
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/navinchaddha
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/NavinChaddha
- Website: https://www.hashicorp.com/

Navin Chaddha is a Series A investor at Nuvia in Menlo Park focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Navin Chaddha is the Managing Director at Mayfield Fund, Board of Directors of HashiCorp and Poshmark, a Series A Investor at Alchemy, and a Series Seed Lead at SeekOut and DevRev. He previously worked as a Board of Directors, Series Seed Lead at NUVIA Inc, Volterra, Portworx by Pure Storage, CloudGenix, and CloudSimple and a former CEO and Founderat Rivio. Navin attended Stanford University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.1M–$101M |
| Series B | $9.5M–$80M |
| Series C | $11M–$138M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 19% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 11% |
| Computer | 9 | 10% |
| Network Security | 7 | 8% |
| Internet | 6 | 7% |

87 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 17 | 19% |
| Series B | 17 | 19% |
| Series C | 11 | 12% |
| Seed | 10 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 8% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 43 | 48% |
| India | 3 | 3% |
| China | 1 | 1% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lumilens | Lumilens creates photonics products designed for high-performance computing. | $700M | Series C | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Hang Ten Systems | Hang Ten Systems is an enterprise AI services company that helps large organizations turn AI investments into measurable business outcomes. | $32M | Seed | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Upscale AI | Upscale AI is a high‑performance AI networking company accelerating AI democratization with open‑standard and full‑stack turnkey solutions. | $190M | Series A | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| AttoTude | AttoTude develops interconnect technology for artificial intelligence and hyperscale data center environments. The company designs terahertz (THz) communication solutions that enable high-speed data transfer between computing systems and network components. Its technology focuses on addressing bandwidth, power consumption, scalability, andconnectivity challenges associated with large-scale AI processing and data-intensive workloads. | $52M | Series C | Jun 15, 2026 |  |
| Sekai | Sekai is an AI‑powered content platform that enables users to create and live immersive, interactive stories | $20M | Series A | Jun 01, 2026 |  |
| Exaforce | Exaforce is an Agentic SOC platform that consists of AI agents (called Exabots) and an advanced data exploration platform. This transforms how SOC teams do alert triage, investigations, detection & response (D&R), and threat hunting. | $125M | Series B | May 12, 2026 |  |
| NeuBird | NeuBird is a first-of-its-kind cloud-based generative operations platform for enterprises. | $19.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 06, 2026 |  |
| Cognichip | Cognichip is an AI-first deep tech company focused on transforming the semiconductor industry by revolutionizing how chips are designed. The company has developed Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI®), the world’s first physics-informed AI foundation model specifically tailored for semiconductor design | $60M | Series A | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| Frore Systems | Frore Systems develops and supplies advanced thermal management technologies for electronic systems that require efficient heat dissipation without conventional cooling mechanisms. The company’s product portfolio includes AirJet, a solid‑state active cooling chip used in consumer devices, industrial embedded systems, edge AI platforms, and IoThardware to remove heat silently and support compact designs without fans or moving parts. It also produces LiquidJet, a direct‑to‑chip liquid cooling plate designed for high‑performance computing environments such as data centers to address heat removal challenges for modern GPUs and AI workloads.Frore’s technologies aim to replace or augment traditional heat sinks and fans by integrating semiconductor manufacturing techniques into thermal solutions that fit into thinner, lighter, and more rugged device architectures. Its cooling systems are configured to match specific power maps of processors and deliver thermal performance improvements that enable hardware to sustain higher throughput under workload stress. | $143M | Series D | Mar 16, 2026 |  |
| Kana | Kana's objective is to enable brands to learn, predict, and optimize every phase of the customer journey, resulting in quicker growth and smarter business outcomes. | $15M | Seed | Feb 18, 2026 |  |

10 of 89 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [StepStone Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stepstone-group) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [AIspace Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aispace-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Prosperity7 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prosperity7-ventures-d527) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [MVP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/modern-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

## About Nuvia

VC Fund · Santa Clara, United States

Nuvia develops processors intended to create high-performance silicon design for a compute-intensive world. It designs processing chipsets for data center servers, thereby delivering a faster, power-efficient, and secure experience to existing data center processors.

4 contacts available at Nuvia.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gerard Williams III | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerard-iii-williams |
| John Bruno | Senior Vice-President of System Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-bruno-2c62 |
| Manu Gulati | Senior Vice-President of Silicon Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manu-gulati |
| Navin Chaddha | Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/navin-chaddha |

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## FAQ

### What does Navin Chaddha invest in?

Navin Chaddha invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Computer startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 89 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 Navin Chaddha's check size?

Navin Chaddha typically joins rounds of $5.1M–$101M at Series A, $9.5M–$80M at Series B and $11M–$138M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Navin Chaddha participates in.

### When did Navin Chaddha last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Navin Chaddha closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 89 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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