# Neel Somani

> Neel Somani is a seed investor in San Francisco backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelsomani/
- Website: https://x.com/neelsomani
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neel.somani

Neel Somani is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Neel Somani is the Founder of Eclipse. He previously worked at Citadel as a Quantitative Researcher. Neel Somani attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.5M–$9.8M |
| Series A | $50M–$225M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 7 | 50% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 36% |
| Energy | 2 | 14% |
| Internet | 2 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 14% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 64% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 14% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 57% |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Natural | Payments for AI agents. | $9.8M | Seed | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| Solayer | Solayer is a shared validator network that protects other Solana-enabled systems. |  | Angel | Jul 01, 2024 |  |
| Monad | MONAD is a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain and decentralized computation platform that combines the best of performance and portability. | $225M | Series A | Apr 09, 2024 |  |
| Stride Labs | Stride lets you use your staked assets to compound your yield. Continue to earn staking yield, and earn additional yield by lending, LPing, and more. Set your own risk tolerance in Cosmos DeFi. Receive stTokens when you stake. These can be freely traded, and can be redeemed with Stride at any time to receive your original tokens.Stride wasestablished on June 23, 2022 in New York, United States. | $4M | Seed | Feb 02, 2024 |  |
| Rome Protocol | Rome Protocol is an SS that uses solana to create a new design environment and a unique product.Rome Protocol is a solana-based shared sequencer that employs solana directly for performance and security, as well as the ability to unlock liquidity between solana and ethereum. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 15, 2024 |  |
| Ostium | Ostium enables users to trade off their assets directly on-chain. Ostium Labs is developing a quick trading mechanism for real-world goods on the chain, driven by Arbitrum and Chainlink. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 06, 2023 |  |
| Essential | Essential is building intent-based infrastructure & tooling to accelerate the transition from value extraction to intent satisfaction. | $5.2M | Seed | Sep 21, 2023 |  |
| VOID | The framework for building sovereign multi-chain apps. Deploy once, access everywhere. | $5.2M | Seed | Sep 21, 2023 |  |
| DFlow | DFlow is a decentralized order flow marketplace platform. | $5.5M | Seed | Apr 25, 2023 |  |
| EigenLabs | EigenLabs is a blockchain infrastructure startup that enables the restaking of ETH across various decentralized applications. They also provide developers with access to the Ethereum staked capital base and decentralized validator set. Traditionally, staking requires validators to lock up ETH as a security deposit to engage in the network'sconsensus mechanism, earning rewards for contributing to network security and validating transactions. However, once ETH is staked, it is generally immobilized until withdrawn, restricting validators from utilizing these assets elsewhere.EigenLayer aims to tackle this challenge by allowing staked ETH to be restaked across diverse decentralized applications and services without removing it from the original consensus mechanism. | $50M | Series A | Feb 03, 2023 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CoinShares](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinshares) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Digital Currency Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-currency-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Faction](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/faction-0d34) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Neel Somani invest in?

Neel Somani invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Energy startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 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 Neel Somani's check size?

Neel Somani typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$9.8M at Seed and $50M–$225M 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 Neel Somani participates in.

### When did Neel Somani last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Neel Somani closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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