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Naval Ravikant

Naval is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList. Previously, he was a co-founder at Genoa Corp (acquired by Finisar), Epinions.com (IPO via Shopping.com), and Vast.com (large white-label classifieds marketplace). He has advised Bix.com, iPivot, and XFire, among others, and invested in many companies, including Twitter, FourSquare, DocVerse (sold to Google), Mixer Labs (sold to Twitter), Jambool (Social Gold), SnapLogic, PlanCast, Stack Overflow, Heyzap, and Disqus.

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Company Date Round Size Participants
Visual.ly 10/11Seed$2M10
Tagstand 10/11Unattributed$1.1M6
ShowMe 8/11Seed$800k8
One Inc. 7/11Seed$1M8
MOVIECLIPS 7/11Series B$7M7
Ostrovok 5/11Series A$13.6M14
Postmates 5/11Angel$750k10
Listia 4/11Unattributed$1.75M8
Offline Labs 3/11Seed$1M11
Zaarly 3/11Seed$1M7
Tinychat 1/11Unattributed$1.5M6
Likealittle 1/11Angel$1M14
Friend.ly 1/11Series A$5M11
Stipple 11/10Seed$2M11
MOVIECLIPS 11/10Series A$3M7
Estately 11/10Angel$800k5
Uber 10/10Angel$1.25M15
OtherInbox 9/10Series A$1.5M11
BranchOut 9/10Series A$6M16
Opzi 9/10Angel$1M9
Udemy 8/10Seed$1M11
Kima Labs 8/10Seed$770k5
LearnBoost 7/10Angel$975k10
Heyzap 6/10Series A$3M3
Tello 6/10Seed$1M11
Stack Exchange 5/10Series A$6M10
Cardpool 1/10Seed16
Hitpost 1/10Seed7
AeroFS 1/10Unattributed10
500Friends 12/09Seed14
SnapLogic 10/09Series A$2.3M4
Fluther 9/09Seed$600k6
Heyzap 5/09Seed$650k4
Sweepery 9/08Debt$250k1
DocVerse 7/08Seed$1.3M3
Feedjit 1/08Angel$450k3
Circle of Moms 1/08Seed3
SocialMedia.com 10/07Series A$3.5M4
Mesmo.tv 10/07Series A$900k6
Twitter 7/07Series A$5M9

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  1. Visual.ly Raises $2 Million To Make Even More Infographics (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Tagstand Raises $1.1 Million To Help Take NFC Mainstream (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Tablet Education Startup ShowMe Raises $800,000 From Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, And Betaworks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. SV Angel, True Ventures And Others Put $1 Million Into Interest-Based Connections App One (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Armed With $7M In New Funding, Movieclips Lands Deal With YouTube To Be The Vevo Of Film Clips (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Ostrovok Raises $13.6M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
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  8. Andreessen Horowitz Leads $1.75M Round In Freebie Marketplace Listia (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Offline Labs Goes Online With $1 Million Seed Round. Enter The Project Dragōn: Sōsh (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Zaarly Launches Realtime, Local Marketplace To The Public (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  11. Tinychat Raises $1.5M From Kutcher, Diddy And Others, Is Just Getting Started (techcrunch.com) []
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  13. Inside Facebook (insidefacebook.com) [edit]
  14. Stipple Raises $2M From Kleiner Perkins, Mike Maples … And Justin Timberlake (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  15. MOVIECLIPS.com Raises $3M in Series A Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
  16. Estately Raises $800K; Now Allows Users To Search For Homes Based On School Districts (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. UberCab raises $1.25M to end your futile search for taxis (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  18. Austin startup OtherInBox raises $1.5 million for expansion (statesman.com) [edit]
  19. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  21. TechCrunch - Udemy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  23. LearnBoost raises a VC and angel round (learnboost.com) [edit]
  24. HeyZap Lands Another $3 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  25. Photographic Evidence Of Stealth Startup Tello Raising $100k (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  26. All-Star Team Backs StackOverflow to Go Beyond Programming Questions (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
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  29. YC-Funded AeroFS: It's Like Dropbox, But it Runs Inside Your Firewall (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  30. Startups And Top Investors Unite At Y Combinator’s Tenth Demo Day (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  31. Data integration company SnapLogic raises another $2.3M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  32. Fluther Raises $600k From Top Valley Investors For Crowd-Sourced Answers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  33. Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round For Its Flash Gaming Widget (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  35. More funding for document collaboration: DocVerse raises $1.3M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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  37. Circle of Moms gets circle of traffic (digital.venturebeat.com) [edit]
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  40. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
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