Vlad Tenev
Angel Investor @ Index Ventures
Palo Alto, United States
Vlad Tenev is a seed investor at Index Ventures in Palo Alto focused on Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence. Vlad Tenev is based out of Menlo Park, California, and is the Co-Founder, CEO, President, and Chair of Board of Director of Robinhood.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 4%
Last updated:
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Industries Vlad Tenev invests in
Stages Vlad Tenev invests in
Countries Vlad Tenev invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$13M
- Series A
- $9M–$50M
- Series B
- $21M–$70M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 7 (28%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (28%)
- FinTech 6 (24%)
- Software 4 (16%)
- Machine Learning 4 (16%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (40%)
- Series A 7 (28%)
- Series B 4 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (4%)
- Series D 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 14 (56%)
- India 1 (4%)
- Tanzania 1 (4%)
- Australia 1 (4%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Pensieve is an AI educational platform that handles grading and provides feedback to colleges with lectures. | $6.9M / Seed / Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| Cowboy Space is a space infrastructure company focused on developing systems for in-orbit computing, space-based power, and launch capabilities. The company is building Low Earth Orbit satellites designed to harness solar energy and support data processing applications in space. Its approach integrates launch vehicles and orbital data centers intoa single system, with rocket upper stages intended to remain in orbit as operational computing platforms. Cowboy Space is also working on technologies related to transmitting energy from space to Earth and supporting high-performance computing beyond terrestrial infrastructure. The company’s team includes engineers and specialists with experience from aerospace, satellite, and technology organizations. | $50M / Series A / Apr 02, 2025 | ||
| Nala is a FinTech company developing a mobile payments application to simplify money transfers and transactions without data connectivity. Their services include financial inclusion, digital financial services, mobile money, and fintech. | $40M / Series A / Jul 09, 2024 | ||
| Daydream focuses on providing personalized shopping results through generative AI, machine learning, and computer vision. | $50M / Seed / Jun 20, 2024 | ||
| Ezra has created a new way to screen for cancer using full-body MRI technology assisted by Artificial Intelligence. The company's first AI, developed to assist radiologists when interpreting MRI images of the prostate, is an FDA-cleared software as a medical device. | $21M / Series B / Feb 07, 2024 | ||
| Ezra has created a new way to screen for cancer using full-body MRI technology assisted by Artificial Intelligence. The company's first AI, developed to assist radiologists when interpreting MRI images of the prostate, is an FDA-cleared software as a medical device. | $21M / Feb 06, 2024 | ||
| Parafin is a financial infrastructure company that provides platforms with embedded financial products for their small businesses by abstracting the complexity of capital markets, underwriting, servicing, compliance, and customer support. Small businesses can run and grow themselves despite uncertain economic conditions by powering the financialservices of marketplaces and payment processors. In less than three years, Parafin has launched on Amazon, Walmart, DoorDash, TikTok, and more platforms to serve hundreds of thousands of businesses and extended over $8 billion in offers. | $60M / Series B / Aug 02, 2022 | ||
| Lightning Labs is building the next generation of decentralized, resilient financial infrastructure. We believe systems based on cryptography, blockchains, and smart contracts will enhance financial cooperation around the world in unprecedented ways at scales both large and small. We have developed Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) the most advancedand most developer-friendly implementation of the Lightning Network protocol. Along with Neutrino, an open platform that enables users with mobile devices to conduct blockchain and Lightning Network transactions quickly and easily. We’re hiring. See our open positions: http://lightning.engineering/careers.html Get involved: http://dev.lightning.community/ | $70M / Series B / Apr 05, 2022 | ||
| Atlantic Money is a money transfer provider that offers international transactions. | $4.5M / Seed / Mar 09, 2022 | ||
| Nala is a FinTech company developing a mobile payments application to simplify money transfers and transactions without data connectivity. Their services include financial inclusion, digital financial services, mobile money, and fintech. | $10M / Seed / Jan 27, 2022 | ||
| See all 25 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Index Ventures
Index Ventures is a venture capital company that provides investment capital and strategic support to early-stage and growth-stage technology enterprises across sectors such as software, fintech, healthcare, and consumer services. It engages with entrepreneurial teams to assess business models, support scaling efforts, and provide guidance through successive development phases. The company’s services include sourcing investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, structuring financing deals, and offering ongoing advisory interactions with portfolio founders. Index Ventures also maintains a network of industry relationships and resources aimed at facilitating connections between founders, investors, and market opportunities. Its focus spans from initial seed rounds through later financing stages to help portfolio companies pursue expansion and market entry efforts.
Index Ventures Contacts
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Jan Hammer
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Julia Andre
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FAQ
What does Vlad Tenev invest in?
Vlad Tenev invests primarily in Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Vlad Tenev invest in?
Vlad Tenev typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$13M at Seed, $9M–$50M at Series A and $21M–$70M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Vlad Tenev's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Vlad Tenev took part in.
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When did Vlad Tenev last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Vlad Tenev closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 25 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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