# Vlad Tenev

> Vlad Tenev is a seed investor at Robinhood backing Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Robinhood](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robinhood)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vlad-tenev-7037591b/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/vladtenev
- Website: https://x.com/vladtenev
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vlad.tenev

Vlad Tenev is a seed investor at Robinhood 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$13M |
| Series A | $9M–$50M |
| Series B | $21M–$70M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 7 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 29% |
| FinTech | 6 | 25% |
| Software | 4 | 17% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 17% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 38% |
| Series A | 7 | 29% |
| Series B | 4 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Series D | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 54% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Tanzania | 1 | 4% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pensieve | Pensieve is an AI educational platform that handles grading and provides feedback to colleges with lectures. | $6.9M | Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Cowboy Space | 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 | 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 | Daydream focuses on providing personalized shopping results through generative AI, machine learning, and computer vision. | $50M | Seed | Jun 20, 2024 |  |
| Ezra AI | 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 AI | 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 | 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 | 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 | Atlantic Money is a money transfer provider that offers international transactions. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| Nala | 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 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amplo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplo) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Y Combinator Continuity Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator-continuity-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FirstMark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstmark-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Founders Future](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-future) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LDV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ldv-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Robinhood

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.

5 contacts available at Robinhood.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Erika Balbuena | Head of ESG | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erika-balbuena |
| Gretchen Howard | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gretchen-howard |
| Surabhi Gupta | VP of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/surabhi-gupta |
| Vlad Tenev | Co-Founder,President, and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vlad-tenev |
| Aboud Khaddam | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aboud-khaddam |

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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 24 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 Vlad Tenev's check size?

Vlad Tenev typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$13M at Seed, $9M–$50M at Series A and $21M–$70M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vlad Tenev participates in.

### When did Vlad Tenev last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vlad Tenev closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 24 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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