Nava Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingSan Francisco · Seed–Series A · 8 people tracked
Also known as NAVA VENTURES, LLC
Investment thesis
Nava Ventures is an early-stage investment firm.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 8 people
from the firm's website & public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 19 of 37 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×10Developer Tools ×6Fintech ×6SaaS ×6Enterprise Software ×5Data & Infrastructure ×4Creator Economy ×3Deep Tech ×3
HQs:United States×10
Who they back
founder profiles across 11 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×52 founders×53 founders×1
Investments · 37 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 22023 · 36 dated
New York, US
John Roa(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatFerdinand Martignetti· per SEC Form D · $24.4M raise · filed Aug 2023
Coral Gables, US
Jason Saltzman(Executive Officer, Director)Ram Berrouet(Executive Officer, Director)Bryan Okeke(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatFerdinand Martignetti· per SEC Form D · $10M raise · filed Mar 2025
Forerunner is a website template and creative engine designed for brands and creators to build portfolios, agency sites, and project launches with polished design systems and flexible components.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeep TechDeveloper ToolsHardwareLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsSilicon Valley, US
Raymond Wang(Founder)in
Co-investorsFlybridge Capital PartnersOutsidersScribble VenturesXfundGold House VenturesGraphene Ventures
Coolant provides AI-powered forest monitoring that measures carbon sequestration, tree count, and species using consumer-grade drones and computer vision to build 3D forest models.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate Tech
Michael D Wu(Founder)in
Co-investorsDorm RoomMaterial Impact
Cyclops is a unified crypto and stablecoin platform built specifically for payments companies, combining licensing, custody, compliance, and 24/7 settlement into a single integration.
Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS
Alex Wilson(Founder)in
Co-investorsF-Prime Capital
Grifin offers a consumer investing app powered by its Adaptive Investing technology, which automatically builds a personalized stock portfolio based on a user's everyday shopping and spending habits.
ConsumerFintech
Aaron Froug(Founder)inBo Starr(Founder)in
Co-investorsDraper AssociatesEvolution VC PartnersFlucas VenturesTampaBay.VenturesTappan Hill VenturesAlloy Labs+5 more
GrowthBook provides a platform for running A/B tests and experiments on websites and products without requiring engineering resources.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Graham McNicoll(Founder)inJeremy Dorn(Founder)in
BoardManish Patel(Director)
Co-investorsData TechY CombinatorKhosla VenturesNexus Venture Partners
Hydrolix is a real-time data analytics platform that enables sub-second analytics at global scale for petabyte-scale log data, reducing infrastructure costs while providing instant insights from both real-time and historical data across distributed environments.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Marty Kagan(Founder & CEO)Hasan Alayi(Founder)Hasan Alayli(Founder)in
Co-investorsAV8 VenturesBlumberg CapitalCostella KirschFrontline VenturesOregon Venture FundPortland Seed Fund+5 more
Knot provides APIs that connect cardholders to hundreds of merchants, allowing card issuers and fintech apps to add features such as updating stored card information across merchants.
Developer ToolsFintechSaaS
Co-investorsFour Acres CapitalGiant Ventures Global LlpGood FriendsSamsung NextInterplay Ventures Early Stage Management LlcSupernode Ventures
Legion Intelligence builds AI agents that perform work—search, chat-based answers, content drafting, and multi-step workflow automation—across an organization's existing systems and documents, with source attribution, human-in-the-loop approval, and access governance.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Jason Schnitzer(Founder)
Co-investorsXYZ Venture CapitalEssence Venture Capital
Omen provides continuous fluid analysis sensors that monitor the health of critical hardware in real time, detecting equipment failures before they occur across data centers and industrial machinery.
Deep TechEnterprise SoftwareIoT
Daniel Jeong(Founder)in
Co-investors640 OxfordBackwards CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)LMNT Ventures
OpenLoop provides telehealth platform and services that deliver virtual care to patients in their homes.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSaaSIowa City, US
Jon Lensing(Cofounder)inChristian Williams(Cofounder)in
Co-investorsBIP VenturesHDS CapitalISA VenturesManchesterStory Group, LLCNext Level VenturesPrimetime Partners+3 more
OpenStudio is a design studio building AI-powered creative design tools for designers.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Kor Kajanaku(Co-founder & CEO)Agi Kajanaku(Co-founder & CTO)
Co-investorsDesigner Fund
Relief helps consumers reduce debt on credit cards, personal loans, collections debt, and past-due medical debt by negotiating balance reductions with creditors.
Fintech
Co-investorsNecessary VenturesInterplay Ventures Early Stage Management LlcThe Fund
Superscript builds pricing infrastructure for US healthcare, including tools related to upfront patient cost shares.
Digital HealthFintechHealthtechNew York, US
Rit Chakraborty(Founder)in
Co-investorsSamsung Next
Synthetic runs open-source AI models (any vLLM-supported LLM architecture) for users in private, secure datacenters without training on customer data or storing prompts and completions.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsLegalTechKhosla Ventures
Taut is developing a new approach to artificial intelligence aimed at addressing core problems such as robustness, security, interpretability, and heavy demands on training data and computing resources.
AI & Machine LearningDeep Tech
Tom Annau(Founder)
True Footage provides real estate valuation and appraisal services for lenders, appraisal management companies, homeowners, buyers, builders, and investment property groups.
FintechPropTechSaaS
Co-investorsFour Acres CapitalGood FriendsRSE VenturesStory Ventures
Union.ai provides an AI orchestration platform for building and running machine learning workflows, offering dynamic workflows authored in Python, real-time inference, and an agent runtime.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSeattle, US
Haytham Abuelfutuh(Founder)Ketan U(Founder)
Co-investorsFrontier VenturesNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Wirestock provides ethically sourced, multimodal training data—images, video, illustrations, vector art, and 3D assets—for AI labs building and refining generative models across pretraining, SFT, RL, and RLHF workflows.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyData & Infrastructure
Co-investors2048 VenturesFormula VCGraph VenturesYellow Rocks!
Yurts (Legion Intelligence) builds enterprise AI agents that perform search, analysis, content creation, and multi-step workflow automation across an organization's existing systems and documents, with source attribution and human-in-the-loop controls.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ben David Van Roo(Executive Officer, Director)Jason Schnitzer(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardManish Patel(Director)Ross Fubini(Director)in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundGlynn Capital ManagementMango CapitalBloomberg BetaESSENCE VCXYZ Venture Capital
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesUnion · cuinsight.com · Aug 20, 2026
Coolant · newsanyway.com · Aug 8, 2026
Synthetic · techcrunch.com · Jul 30, 2026
Omen AI · finsmes.com · Jun 30, 2026
GrowthBook · trysignalbase.com · Jul 31, 2025
Grifin · finance.yahoo.com · Jun 18, 2025
Relief Technologies Inc. · tinytechfund.com · Mar 17, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Nava Ventures made?
- Nava Ventures has 33 tracked investments, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Nava Ventures invest at?
- Nava Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Nava Ventures focus on?
- Nava Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Healthtech, Marketplaces, SaaS.
- Where is Nava Ventures located?
- Nava Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Who does Nava Ventures co-invest with?
- Nava Ventures most often shares deals with Four Acres Capital, Good Friends, Samsung Next, among 51 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamTech Scenes Unplugged with Manish Patel Founder of Nava Ventures
Collective Genius · Manish Patel
Manish Patel: Founder of Nava Ventures Backing Market-Creating Innovators
Grace Gong · Manish Patel
Design Thinking For Building Great Products - Manish Patel, Founder, Nava Ventures
VC10X with Prashant Choubey · Manish Patel
Manish Patel from Nava Ventures on Navigating Venture Capital and the Future of AI
Life Self Mastery · Manish Patel
Ignite VC: Google, Startups, and the Art of Venture Capital with Manish Patel of Nava Ventures| Ep95
Ignite: Conversations on Startups, VC, and Society · Manish Patel
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