Investing Profile

Nitesh Banta

AngelFounderInvestorVC

Co-Founder & CEO at B12. Angel investor, Co-founder & Advisor at Rough Draft Ventures

stellar.capitalNew York, New York

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Current Investing Position

Stellar Capital Angel

Investment Range

$25K - $250K

Sweet Spot

$100K

Investments On Record

101

Nitesh Banta's Investments On Record (92)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Pelgo	SeedFeb 2026$6M	$6M
Co-investors: Jesse Middleton (Flybridge Capital Partners)
Self Protocol	SeedNov 2025$9M	$9M
Co-investors: Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon), Jill Carlson (Slow Ventures), Hart Lambur (Robot Ventures), Casey Neistat
howie	SeedSep 2025$6M	$6M
Co-investors: Jason Calacanis (Sequoia Capital), Sophia Amoruso (Trust Fund), Nate DaPore (Roo Partners), Diego Oppenheimer (Work-Bench), Julian Weisser (Other Ventures), Alex Tong (Information Venture Partners), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Nick Davidov (Davidovs VC), Turner Novak (Banana Capital), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Lindel Eakman (UTIMCO), Raanan Bar-Cohen (Resolute Ventures), Sarah Smith (Stanford University), Bobby Goodlatte (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Sheel Mohnot (500 Startups Korea), Roger Dickey, David J. Phillips
Mem0	Pre SeedSep 2024$500K	$21M
Co-investors: Lan Xuezhao (Basis Set Ventures), Scott Belsky (A24), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Brian Balfour (Long Journey Ventures), Lukas Biewald, Charles Zedlewski, Dharmesh Shah, Thomas Dohmke
Protege	SeedSep 2024$10M	$65M
Co-investors: Saar Gur (CRV), Travis May (Theodore Health), Auren Hoffman (Datavant), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Adam D'Angelo
Chai Discovery	SeedSep 2024$30M	$230M
Co-investors: Elena Viboch (General Catalyst), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Greg Yap (Menlo Ventures), Annie Lamont (Oak HC/FT), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence)
Vybe	SeedAug 2024$5M	$19M
Co-investors: Sylvain Zimmer (50 Partners), Ankur Nagpal (Vibe Capital), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Kevin Weil (OpenAI), Peter Boyce II (Stellation Capital), Ali Partovi (Minttown), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Taro Fukuyama (SmartHR, Inc.), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Boris Golden (Partech Ventures), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Brian Balfour (Long Journey Ventures), Chris Adelsbach (Black Tip Capital), Ron Pragides, Shishir Mehrotra, Mathilde Collin, Thibaud Elziere, Tien Tzuo, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Surahbi Gupta, William Levy
Cognition	Series AApr 2024$180M	$1.9B
Co-investors: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Keith Bender (Pear VC), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), bill weathersby, Patrick Collison, John Collison, Karim Atiyeh, Tony Xu