Investments
226Portfolio Exits
66About Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant is an angel investor who generally invests $50K - $500K in young, emerging companies with a focus on those located in the San Francisco Bay Area or NY companies. Ravikant generally invests in consumer-facing startups and looks for social proof/traction of the company's product. He aims to assist portfolio companies with assistance on fundraising, viral marketing, and ecommerce. Ravikant is the co-founder of VentureHacks (http://www.venturehacks.com) and it's offshot AngelList (www.angel.co). He also formerly founded Epinions.com and Vast.com. Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and angel investor, and also the co-author of Venture Hacks. Previously he was the co-founder at Genoa Corp (acquired by Finisar), Epinions.com (IPO via Shopping.com), Hive7, Inc., and Vast.com (now one of the largest auto shopping networks online). Naval has also served as an advisor to Bix.com, iPivot, and XFire, among others.
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Sep 28, 2023
Too Long; Didn't Read Naval Ravikant: The new oil is ideas. It’s all digital. All the new fortunes are being created in ideas space. But unlike oil, ideas are not finite. They’re as diverse as the people who come up with them. You have to attach a tangible value to ideas if you want them to work. The technology space — a space brimming with ideas is a perfect example of this. People Mentioned
Naval Ravikant Investments
226 Investments
Naval Ravikant has made 226 investments. Their latest investment was in Proof Of Play as part of their Seed VC on September 9, 2023.
Naval Ravikant Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9/21/2023 | Seed VC | Proof Of Play | $33M | Yes | Andreessen Horowitz, Balaji Srinivasian, Greenoaks Capital Management, and Undisclosed Investors | 3 |
8/9/2023 | Pre-Seed | Patented | $4M | Yes | Cooley, Jeff Fagnan, Nicole Stata, Steve Anderson, and Undisclosed Angel Investors | 1 |
7/11/2023 | Seed VC | Ambient Finance | $6.5M | Yes | afkbyte, BlockTower, Circle Ventures, Dogetoshi, Don Ho, Hypotenuse Labs, Jane Street Group, Julian Koh, llllvvuu, Quantstamp, Susa Ventures, Tensai Capital, Undisclosed Investors, and Yunt Captial | 2 |
4/25/2023 | Series B - II | |||||
4/19/2023 | Seed VC |
Date | 9/21/2023 | 8/9/2023 | 7/11/2023 | 4/25/2023 | 4/19/2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Seed VC | Pre-Seed | Seed VC | Series B - II | Seed VC |
Company | Proof Of Play | Patented | Ambient Finance | ||
Amount | $33M | $4M | $6.5M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | Andreessen Horowitz, Balaji Srinivasian, Greenoaks Capital Management, and Undisclosed Investors | Cooley, Jeff Fagnan, Nicole Stata, Steve Anderson, and Undisclosed Angel Investors | afkbyte, BlockTower, Circle Ventures, Dogetoshi, Don Ho, Hypotenuse Labs, Jane Street Group, Julian Koh, llllvvuu, Quantstamp, Susa Ventures, Tensai Capital, Undisclosed Investors, and Yunt Captial | ||
Sources | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Naval Ravikant Portfolio Exits
66 Portfolio Exits
Naval Ravikant has 66 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Los Feliz Engineering on November 16, 2023.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11/16/2023 | Acquired | 4 | |||
11/1/2023 | Acquired | 2 | |||
10/31/2022 | Acquired | 1 | |||
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