Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant acts, or has acted, as an advisor for the following organizations: Index, The Human Diagnosis Project, Maiden Lane, MediaSpike, Space Monkey, Shyp, Hack Fund I, Kinnek, Unsplash, Junglee Games, Gigster, cofounder.co, Philz Coffee, PandaWhale, Hack Fund II, Republic, PicCollage, Vault12, Breezeworks, Flipagram, HireAthena, Zeus, Mirror, SkycatchSkycatch, NOW Ventures, Evolve VC, Fragrantica, bloXroute Labs, Stellar Development Foundation, The Good Party.

Naval Ravikant is an angel investor, podcaster, and entrepreneur. He is best known for being the CEO, chairman, and founder of AngelList. However, others may know him from his other entrepreneurial activity as the founder of EpinionsEpinions, The Hit Forge, Genoa Corp, Vast.com, and MetaStable; or through his blogging and podcasting activities at Venture Hacks. Naval Ravikant hosts his own podcast called Naval, and has been invited to participate in several popular podcast shows such as The Joe Rogan Experience, Spartan Up, and The Tim Ferris Show.

Naval Ravikant acts, or has acted, as an advisor for the following organizations: Index, The Human Diagnosis Project, Maiden Lane, MediaSpike, Space Monkey, Shyp, Hack Fund I, Kinnek, Unsplash, Junglee Games, Gigster, cofounder.co, Philz Coffee, PandaWhale, Hack Fund II, Republic, PicCollage, Vault12, Breezeworks, Flipagram, HireAthena, Zeus, Mirror, Skycatch, NOW Ventures, Evolve VC, FragranticaFragrantica, bloXroute Labs, Stellar Development Foundation, The Good Party.

In August of 2018 a journalist named Alejandro Cremades, working for ForbesForbes, analyzed Crunchbase data and ranked the top 50 angel investors based on their total number of investments, and also ranked the top 5 angel investors based on their number of exits. Based on the Crunchbase data Cremades ranked Ravikant 6^th out of the top 50 angel investors overall with 121 investments, and 3^rd overall out of the top 5 angel investors with the most exits with a total of 38 exits.

In 2003 Epinions merged with DealTime and went public via Shopping.com. In 2005, Ravikant and several others sued two former venture capitalventure capital investors of Epinion claiming they "cheated them out of nearly $40 million" during the merger of Epinion and DealTime. After some legal back and forth about the case it was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. Ravikant commented on the lawsuit he went through with the investors of Epinions by saying:

When making decisions on what companies to invest in as an angel investor Ravikant says that anytime he considers investments he needs to genuinely like the founders, and goes into every deal with the assumption that the founders will be part of his life for the next ten years. Ravikant seeks out founders of the companies he invests in that make him a smarter entrepreneur, he told a reporter for Business InsiderBusiness Insider that:

Naval Ravikant is an angel investor, podcaster, and entrepreneur with an estimate net worth of $2.2 billion (as of 2019). He is best known for being the CEO, chairman, and founder of AngelList. However, others may know him from his other entrepreneurial activity as the founder of Epinions, The Hit Forge, Genoa Corp, Vast.com, and MetaStable; or through his blogging and podcasting activities at Venture Hacks. Naval Ravikant hosts is own podcast called Naval, and has been invited to participate in several popular podcast shows such as The Joe Rogan Experience, Spartan Up, and The Tim Ferris Show.

Naval is also one of the leaders in the cryptocurrency space. He was involved early in Bitcoin and Ethereum and is a Co-Founder of MetaStableMetaStable, a cryptocurrency hedge fund. In partnership with Protocol Labs (Filecoin) Naval also co-created Coinlist, the only compliant platform for cryptocurrency companies to launch their ICOs.

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a Co-Founder of AngelList, a website for startups and startup investors. He previously founded Vast, a vertical search engine and Epinions, a crowdsourced reviews site (acquired by Shopping.com) and managed "Hit Forge," a successful early-stage investment fundinvestment fund that invested in early rounds of Uber, Twitter, Wish and Thumbtack. He was named Angel Investor of the Year by TechCrunch and received a Crunchie award. Naval was previously a Venture Partner at August Capital.