I am the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. I previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. I’m an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.
If you would like to contact me about investing in your company, please use AngelList to reach me.
All opinions on this blog are personal and do not reflect the views of any of my employers.
Selected Press and Live appearances:
- Mixergy Interview with Andrew Warner (1/11)
- My Keynote at the Startup Exits Conference (12/10)
- Featured in San Francisco Magazine cover story, “On the Wings of Angels” and highlighted in the Sidebar (12/10)
- Udemy Lecture on What to do Before You Raise Money (11/10)
- Fundraising Hacks Interview with Dan Odio (10/10)
- Quoted in USA Today on Location Based Services (09/10)
- “The Rise of the Angels” Keynote Address at Capital Factory (09/10)
- Xconomy covers Angel List (08/10)
- Jambool (Social Gold) is acquired by Google – I led the Seed Round (08/10)
- Live chat with Inc. Magazine (08/10)
- Spoke at AngelConf 2010 – some notes and coverage, and the video (07/10)
- AngelList project commentary by Fred Wilson and Mark Suster (07/10)
- Seems like my investment is an early indicator of a seed stage bubble (07/10)
- Quoted in PE Hub on the .CO launch, and in The Wall Street Journal on VCs backing Angels (07/10)
- Angel List is covered by the Wall Street Journal (06/10)
- Keynote address at the Launch Silicon Valley Conference (06/10)
- GigaOm TV Interview on Entrepreneurship (05/10)
- BusinessWeek includes me on a “Smart Money” list of angels (02/10)
- Mentoring the winners of the SXSW Startup Bus (03/10)
- On a panel at SXSW. Reactions. (03/10)
- On a panel at Capital Factory Demo Day (09/09)
- Finance4Founders Event (06/09)
- ReadWriteStart Interview (05/09)
- Talk at Y Combinator on Angel Investing (03/09)
- Interview at Startup2Startup and presentation (08/08)
- Twitter’s first round announced (07/07)
- Vast.com is global (06/06)
- Instant Company – a story about the founding of Epinions. Yes, it’s dated (07/99)
Hi Naval,
Thank you for Venture Hacks, i learned a lot from it, also from your vast experiences and your amazing relationship with Nivi 🙂
keep them coming 🙂
Thanks,
Sharel
Your sites venture hacks and sturtupboy has really helped me to learn so much about entrepreneurship.
Would love to talk 🙂
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this is a great interview with someone who has clearly been through the school of hard knocks – thanks naval – vivek
Hi Naval,
Just came across AngelList on Twitter. My organization is working on angel investor organizing in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, primarily in life sciences, but also IT (we are one of the largest centers of medical devices in the world and have a large enterprise software community for health care and retail).
Would there be a way to partner with AngelList to build a group focused outside of IT and/or with a geographic brand? Or at least to have a discussion around the topic?
Regards,
Frank
Naval,
I read your post “Who has time for meetings?”. I loved it. I agree that you need something short and sweet to share with potential investors following the introduction. Are there samples that you can share that won your interest or examples that you know that sold other angels to have the follow up meeting?
We’re looking for investors and I want to make sure we approach angels the right way from the start to win that second meeting in which we can go into more detail etc.
Let me know as it would be much appreciated!
Best,
Greg
Naval
Thank you for the support on AngelList.
Katherine Barr is a fan.
Let me know if you have time to speak this week or next?
Regards
Scott
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Thank you for your time and anticipated cooperation and hope my contact to you will not cause you any inconvenience whatsoever .
Best Regards
Adolphus Smith
Contact Telephone Number : +233 200203313
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Hi Naval,
We are a platform connecting South Asians in bay area. Would love to connect.
Thanks
Hello Naval
do you fund start up business in the Usa or can you refer me to
someone . I can send you my business plan for your review
Kent Williams
insightHD just joined AngelList !
It would be nice if you put your name on this page, so we know who “I” is..
insightHD
Thank you Naval (and Ravi) for the refreshing insights you bring through Venture Hacks. I research and write the newsletter for the Inventors Society of South Florida (www.InventorsSociety.net) and I follow Venture Hacks because you are leading edge thinkers for the independent product developers (inventors) who seek financial success through their efforts. You inspire listeners (in my case, the independent product developers) to stay focused on the goal while they are mired in early deveopment issues. I appreciate the many ways you assert that each step in the process bespeaks the outcome.You are inspiration! Thank you!
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Naval great job!
I represent eLagaan a company helping Startups incorporate in India and manage the business lifecycle after they have incorporated.
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