# Neil Thanedar

> Neil Thanedar is a seed investor at Utopic Ventures (Flint) backing Finance and Wellness. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Utopic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/utopic-ventures)
- Location: Flint, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thanedar
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/neilthanedar
- Website: http://neilthanedar.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thanedar

Neil Thanedar is a seed investor at Utopic Ventures in Flint focused on Finance and Wellness. Neil Thanedar is the Founder and GP of Utopic Ventures and the Founder and Chairman of Labdoor and Air to All.Previously, Neil was the Founder and President of Avomeen Analytical Services, a chemical analysis and product development laboratory.He has also served as Senior Advisor to his father Shri Thanedar in his campaigns for Governor, StateRepresentative, and US Congress in Michigan.Neil graduated from the University of Michigan in 2010 with degrees in Molecular Biology and Business Administration.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $125k–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finance | 2 | 25% |
| Wellness | 2 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| Audio | 1 | 13% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 50% |
| Mexico | 1 | 13% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Biophysical Therapeutics | Biophysical Therapeutics uses computational biology to design new drugs. It has a pipeline of experimentally-validated new drugs. Its primary targets are cancer, diseases of aging (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), and aging itself. Also pursuing cosmetics. Has a record of discovering new fundamental biology. Owns [by granted patents] inventedpreclinical, and repurposed clinical, stage drugs. Company has and is prosecuting longevity drug candidates (drugs to slow, halt or reverse aging). A longevity company. Professor George Church (of Harvard Medical School) is an Advisor. Scientist founder, Dr. Michael Forrest, is a Cambridge University biochemistry graduate with a Ph.D. in computer science. | $190K | Pre-Seed | Jun 05, 2023 |  |
| Paystack | Paystack lets businesses in Africa accept payments by anyone, anywhere in the world via credit card, debit card, money transfer, and mobile money on their websites or mobile apps. It specializes in the fields of financial services, the internet, and payments. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Ikeja, Lagos. | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 19, 2016 |  |
| Beek | Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it. | $125K | Seed | Apr 25, 2016 |  |
| Sano | Sano is building a small, wearable sensor that can capture and transmit blood chemistry data continuously to virtually any device. The company will liberate this data to a third-party development and analytical platform called the API for the bloodstream. | $10.5M | Seed | Jun 19, 2015 |  |
| MatterFab | MatterFab offers a production 3D metal printer solution that removes the limitations of industrial fabrication. Final part production is the fastest growing segment of 3D printing built on equipment designed for prototyping that is not designed to scale. MatterFab provides a scalable production additive manufacturing solution with printers,material supply, traceable powder cartridges, training, education, maintenance services, and application engineering support to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing in our client's organizations. Manufacturing has the power to shape the world and MatterFab has the power to reshape manufacturing. |  | Seed | Sep 29, 2014 |  |
| Experiment | Experiment is an online community and a crowdfunding platform for scientific research. It provides crowdfunding services for scientific research related to categories such as biology, chemistry, computer science, medicine, anthropology, psychology, engineering, and more.The platform provides its services for researchers from over 150institutions and universities around the world. It is in strategic partnerships with Experiment was founded by | $1.2M |  | Jun 01, 2013 |  |
| Labdoor | Labdoor is a testing lab that publicly verifies the quality of consumer products, starting with supplements. On Labdoor.com, consumers can find scientific product reviews and shop for hundreds of quality-tested supplements all in one place. They also offer a "Labdoor Certified" program to companies who submit every lot of their productsto us for quality control testing.From their chemistry lab in South San Francisco, Labdoor analyzes the purity and potency of popular products to find out which ones have what they claim and if they have any harmful ingredients or contaminants. Then, they grade and rank those products, write reports, and publish that information for free, so consumers can confidently buy the best supplements for their needs. | $250K | Seed | Jul 05, 2012 |  |
| Beek | Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it. |  | Pre-Seed |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rock Health Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rock-health) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FundersClub](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fundersclub) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Graph Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graph-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [InnoSpring Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innospring) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Utopic Ventures

VC Fund · Flint, United States

Utopic Ventures is a venture capital fund investing in pre-seed scientific and deep tech startups. The fund seeks scientists with world-changing ideas, to help them launch startups, invest the first $100K in these companies, and personally advise them on accelerators, fundraising, growth, and exits. Neil Thanedar founded Utopic Ventures in 2022.

1 contacts available at Utopic Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Neil Thanedar | Founder & GP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neil-thanedar |

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## FAQ

### What does Neil Thanedar invest in?

Neil Thanedar invests primarily in Finance, Wellness and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 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 Neil Thanedar's check size?

Neil Thanedar typically joins rounds of $125k–$11M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Neil Thanedar participates in.

### When did Neil Thanedar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Neil Thanedar closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 8 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?

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