# Nitesh Banta

> Nitesh Banta is a seed investor at Stellar Capital backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 112 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Stellar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stellar-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 112
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nbanta
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/nbanta
- Website: https://www.nbanta.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nitesh.banta

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$16M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$2.5M |
| Series A | $6.5M–$47M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 36 | 32% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 24 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 18 | 16% |
| Financial Services | 12 | 11% |
| FinTech | 11 | 10% |

133 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 67 | 60% |
| Series A | 18 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 4% |
| Series B | 3 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 76 | 68% |
| Canada | 3 | 3% |
| India | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Poland | 1 | 1% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pelgo | 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 | 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 | howie an email-based scheduling assistant, uses artificial intelligence to automate the scheduling and rescheduling of your meetings. | $6M | Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| Mem0 | The Memory layer for your AI apps | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Protege | Protege is an AI training data platform that connects data holders with vetted data users. | $10M | Seed | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Chai Discovery | 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 | 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 | Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code. | $175M | Series A | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| Draftboard | Draftboard is an online platform for companies to post their new-hire referral bonuses publicly. | $4.1M | Seed | Apr 15, 2024 |  |
| Varda | 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 |  |

10 of 112 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

## About Stellar Capital

VC Fund

Stellar Capital invests in outstanding people building software and internet technology companies.

1 contacts available at Stellar Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nitesh Banta | Angel Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nitesh-banta |

## Similar investors

### Similar industry
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

### Similar country
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund

## Featured in investor lists
- [All Angel Investors in United States](https://shizune.co/investors/angel-investors-united-states)
- [SaaS Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/saas-angel-investors)
- [SaaS Angel Investors in United States](https://shizune.co/investors/saas-angel-investors-united-states)
- [Software Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/software-angel-investors)
- [Software Angel Investors in United States](https://shizune.co/investors/software-angel-investors-united-states)
- [Enterprise Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/enterprise-angel-investors)

## 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co