Naval Ravikant

Investor

Advisor at Kamal Ravikant Capital · Advisor at Stellar Development Foundation · Advisor; Co-Founder, MetaStable at Protocol Ventures · Investor at Naval Ravikant · Advisor at Pronomos Capital · Advisor at Starkware

San Francisco, CA

About

Naval Ravikant co-founded AngelList, the platform that turned angel investing into infrastructure through syndicates and rolling funds. His own early checks included Twitter, Uber, and Postmates, and his writing and podcast appearances on wealth, leverage, and happiness have earned him an audience well beyond Silicon Valley. He remains AngelList's chairman and continues to invest personally.

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Naval @naval

Every “save the world” scheme starts by handing the money and power to the schemers first.

Jul 27, 2026 · ♥ 10581 · ⇄ 918

Naval @naval

Drones vs interceptors is not an even matchup - it’s like guns vs armored vests. The attacker gets surprise, gravity, & force concentration. Jamming and EMPs can’t stop hardened autonomous bullets The logic of MAD brought to individuals. If you can see it, you can kill it.

Jul 27, 2026 · ♥ 2403 · ⇄ 100

Naval @naval

If there were backdoors and biases hidden in open-weight models, you could count on closed-weight labs to find and reveal them.

Jul 26, 2026 · ♥ 7849 · ⇄ 362

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningConsumerCrypto & Web3FintechSaaS

Beyond investing

Founded: Ravikant co-founded the consumer product review site Epinions in 1999, which merged into Shopping.com and IPO'd in 2004. Ravikant started a $20 million early-stage venture fund called The Hit Forge around 2007. Ravikant co-founded the cryptocurrency hedge fund MetaStable Capital in 2014. Ravikant launched Spearhead in 2017, a fund that provides capital to founders to invest as angel investors. Ravikant co-founded Airchat in 2023, a social media app using voice notes and AI transcription. Ravikant co-founded Vast.com before his AngelList chapter.
Education: Studied at Stuyvesant High School (1991) Studied at Dartmouth College (BS, computer science and economics, 1995)
Communities: Ravikant hosts a podcast, Nav.al, discussing philosophy and investing, and co-hosts a podcast with Brett Hall.
Awards: Ravikant is a recipient of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship. In 2026, Forbes named Ravikant to its 'Self-Made 250' list.
Hobbies: Ravikant describes himself as a voracious reader who frequently rereads favorite books in science and philosophy, citing authors such as J. Krishnamurti and Osho as his favorite philosophers.
Family: Ravikant moved to New York City at age 9 with his mother and brother Kamal, raised by a single mother.

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