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Nava Ventures

Venture capitalActively deploying

San Francisco · Seed–Series A · 8 people tracked

Also known as NAVA VENTURES, LLC

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Nava Ventures is an early-stage investment firm.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.

Stage
Seed–Series A
HQ
San Francisco, California, US
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2021
Last 12 months
1 investment
Private fund assets
$939.2M
VC funds
7
Tracked investments
37

Team · 8 people

from the firm's website & public directories

What they invest in

from 19 of 37 portfolio companies

AI & 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 companies
45%
solo founders
5 of 11 mapped founding teams

Founding team size:solo founder×52 founders×53 founders×1

Investments · 37 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2026 · 12025 · 22023 · 36 dated

Caden Inc.Aug 2023SEC filingmedium confidence

New York, US

John Roa(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

Board seatFerdinand Martignetti· per SEC Form D · $24.4M raise · filed Aug 2023

Relief Technologies Inc.Mar 2025SEC filingmedium confidence

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

AeroVectaerovect.comin𝕏

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

AI Cloud Platform for Open-Source Models
AI Creative Suite
AI Platform for Mission-Critical Teams
AI, Data and Analytics Platform
Appraisal Platform
Asset Intelligence Platform
Card and Subscription Management Platform
Coolantcoolant.earthin

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

Crypto/Stablecoin Payments Solution
Cyclopscyclops.ioin𝕏

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

Debt Management App
Grifingrifin.comin

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

GrowthBookgrowthbook.ioin𝕏Jun 2025

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

GSE Automation Technology
Healthcare Pricing Protocol
Hydrolixhydrolix.ioin𝕏

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

Intelligent Cloud Data Platform
KnotAPIknotapi.comin𝕏

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

Legionintellegionintel.comin𝕏

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 AIomen.aiinJun 2026 · $31M

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

Open Source Feature Flags Platform
OpenLoopopenloophealth.comin𝕏Mar 2023 · $15M

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

Openstudioopenstudio.ingin𝕏

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

Premium Multimodal Data Network
Reliefrelief.app𝕏

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

Stock Investment Platform
Superscriptsuperscript.nyc

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

Syntheticsynthetic.new

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

Tauttaut.ai

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)

Telehealth Company (End-to-End Telehealth)
True Footagetruefootage.techin

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

Unionunion.aiin𝕏

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)

Wirestockwirestock.ioin𝕏

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!

Yurtsyurts.aiin𝕏Sep 2023

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.

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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 team

Tech 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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