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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Google Network

713 CONNECTIONS

Harvard University Network

609 CONNECTIONS

General Catalyst Partners Network

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Current Investing Position

Stellar Capital Angel

Investment Range

$25K - $250K

Sweet Spot

$100K

Investments On Record

102

Nitesh Banta's Investments On Record (93)

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: Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), Sarah Smith (Bain Capital Ventures), Sophia Amoruso (Trust Fund), Nate DaPore (Miami Angels), Diego Oppenheimer (Work-Bench), Julian Weisser (Other Ventures), Alex Tong (Information Venture Partners), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Nick Davidov (DVC), Turner Novak (Banana Capital), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Lindel Eakman (UTIMCO), Raanan Bar-Cohen (Resolute Ventures), Bobby Goodlatte (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Jason Calacanis (Uber), David J. Phillips, Roger Dickey
Mem0	Pre SeedSep 2024$500K	$21M
Co-investors: Lan Xuezhao (Basis Set Ventures), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Brian Balfour (Long Journey Ventures), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Dharmesh Shah, Thomas Dohmke, Lukas Biewald, Charles Zedlewski
Protege	SeedSep 2024$10M	$65M
Co-investors: Saar Gur (CRV), Travis May (Theodore Health), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Adam D'Angelo
Chai Discovery	SeedSep 2024$30M	$630M
Co-investors: Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Elena Viboch (General Catalyst), Patrick Grady (Sequoia Capital), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Nina Achadjian (Index Ventures), Greg Yap (Menlo Ventures), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Annie Lamont (Oak HC/FT), Ilya Fushman (Kleiner Perkins), Zavain Dar (Dimension Capital)
Vybe	SeedAug 2024$5M	$19M
Co-investors: Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Sylvain Zimmer (Partech Ventures), Ankur Nagpal (Vibe Capital), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Kevin Weil (OpenAI), Peter Boyce II (Stellation Capital), Ali Partovi (Xtripe Angels), 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), Surahbi Gupta, William Levy, Ron Pragides, Shishir Mehrotra, Mathilde Collin, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Tien Tzuo, Thibaud Elziere
Cognition	Series AApr 2024$180M	$1.9B
Co-investors: Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), 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, Omri Casspi

Nitesh Banta's Experience

Founding Team Getaround2009 - Present

National Youth Council American Red CrossPresent

Co-founder & CEO B12Present

VC General Catalyst Partners2015

Customer Insights Google2008 - 2008

Nitesh Banta's Education

Harvard University BA Social Studies

Singularity U GSP Finance, Entrepreneurship and Technology

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