Nitesh Banta
Angel Investor @ Stellar Capital
New York, United States
Nitesh Banta is a seed investor at Stellar Capital in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.
- Total investments:
- 112
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 4%
Last updated:
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Industries Nitesh Banta invests in
Stages Nitesh Banta invests in
Countries Nitesh Banta invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$16M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $6.5M–$47M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 36 (32%)
- Artificial Intelligence 24 (21%)
- Information Technology 18 (16%)
- Financial Services 12 (11%)
- FinTech 11 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 67 (60%)
- Series A 18 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 9 (8%)
- Funding Round 4 (4%)
- Series B 3 (3%)
Country
- United States 76 (68%)
- Canada 3 (3%)
- India 2 (2%)
- United Kingdom 2 (2%)
- Poland 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Pelgo
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Pelgo is a startup that provides AI-powered career transition services. For employees coming out of layoffs, young grads just entering the job market, or full-time professionals trying to adjust to a developing AI-driven economy, its tools, along with human advisors, help onboarding, transition, and reskilling. | $5.5M / Seed / Feb 10, 2026 | |
Self Protocol
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Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information. | $9M / Seed / Nov 13, 2025 | |
howie
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howie an email-based scheduling assistant, uses artificial intelligence to automate the scheduling and rescheduling of your meetings. | $6M / Seed / Sep 22, 2025 | |
Mem0
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The Memory layer for your AI apps | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 25, 2024 | |
Protege
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Protege is an AI training data platform that connects data holders with vetted data users. | $10M / Seed / Sep 10, 2024 | |
Chai Discovery
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Chai Discovery creates Chai-1, a multi-modal foundation model designed for predicting molecular structures relevant to drug discovery. The model facilitates the unified prediction of proteins, small molecules, and nucleic acids, and is available for free for commercial applications. By enabling accurate predictions without the need for multiplesequence alignments, Chai-1 advances the capabilities of molecular modeling in the life sciences. | $30M / Seed / Sep 09, 2024 | |
Vybe
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Vybe is a mobile app that lets users upload a selfie and put their face in any picture or template, an AI experience app from Snapchat and Meta. | $4.8M / Seed / Aug 28, 2024 | |
Cognition
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Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code. | $175M / Series A / Apr 24, 2024 | |
Draftboard
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Draftboard is an online platform for companies to post their new-hire referral bonuses publicly. | $4.1M / Seed / Apr 15, 2024 | |
Varda
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Varda is a space manufacturing startup that focuses on creating products in space for terrestrial applications. They aim to manufacture things in space that benefit from low gravity. The company intends to create an infrastructure that harvests source materials for new products in-space via asteroid mining.The company was founded in 2020 byDelian Asparouhov and Trae Stephens. | $90M / Series B / Apr 05, 2024 | |
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Co-Investors
About Stellar Capital
Stellar Capital invests in outstanding people building software and internet technology companies.
Stellar Capital Contacts
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FAQ
What does Nitesh Banta invest in?
Nitesh Banta invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 112 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 Nitesh Banta's check size?
Nitesh Banta typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$16M at Seed, $500k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $6.5M–$47M 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 Nitesh Banta participates in.
When did Nitesh Banta last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Nitesh Banta closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 112 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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