Investing Profile

Naval Ravikant(2)

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Managing Partner at The Hit Forge
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The Hit Forge Managing Partner
$100K - $5.0M
$1.5M
279
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Tera AI
SeedMar 2025$8M
$8M
Co-investors: Steven Woods (iNovia Capital)
The ePlane Company
Series BNov 2024$14M
SeedJan 2022$5M
SeedDec 2020$1M
$20M
Co-investors: Vishesh Rajaram (Speciale Invest)
Substack
Series UnknownNov 2024$10M
$92M
Co-investors: Justin Waldron (Polychain Capital), Andrew Chen (Andreessen Horowitz), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Bernardt Vogel (VU Venture Partners), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Emmett Shear, Kenji Niwa, Hari Lakshmanan, Audrey Gelman, Mark Pincus
Tako
SeedOct 2024$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Chase Coleman (Tiger Global Management), Stan Chudnovsky (NFX), Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Kanjun Qiu, Scott Belsky, Gokul Rajaram, Paul Yacoubian, Stanley Druckenmiller, Guillermo Rauch
Synex Medical
Series ASep 2024$22M
SeedOct 2020$5M
$27M
Co-investors: Jeff Schox (Trucks Venture Capital), Jeff Fagnan (Accomplice VC)
Mystiko.Network
SeedMar 2024$18M
$18M
Co-investors: Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon), Gokul Rajaram
Blush
SeedFeb 2024$7M
$7M
Co-investors: Simon Rothman (Greylock), Mark Bailey (DFJ), Jason Calacanis (LAUNCH), Vishal Rao
Perplexity
Series BJan 2024$74M
$670M
Co-investors: Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Joshua Müller (DTCP), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Peter Sonsini, Prakash Janakiraman, Shane Neman, Tobias Lutke, Stanley Druckenmiller, Dylan Field, Jeff Bezos, Elad Gil, Bob Muglia, Guillermo Rauch, Balaji Srinivasan, Amjad Masad, Yann LeCun
Founder and CEO Epinions, Inc.Present
Venture Partner August CapitalPresent
Founder, CEO, and now Chairman Vast.comPresent
Managing Partner Hit ForgePresent