Investing Profile

Nitesh Banta

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Founding Team at Getaround

stellar.capitalNew York, New York

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Google Network

1059 CONNECTIONS

Harvard University Network

898 CONNECTIONS

Howcast Network

289 CONNECTIONS

General Catalyst Network

134 CONNECTIONS

General Catalyst Partners Network

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Current Investing Position

Getaround

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 (Unknown Ventures)
howie	SeedSep 2025$6M	$6M
Co-investors: Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), Sarah Smith (Bain Capital Ventures), Turner Novak (Banana Capital), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Roger Dickey (Untitled Capital), Lindel Eakman (Brand Foundry Ventures), Raanan Bar-Cohen (Resolute Ventures), Bobby Goodlatte (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Jason Calacanis (Uber), Sophia Amoruso (Trust Fund), Nate DaPore (Miami Angels), Diego Oppenheimer (Work-Bench), Julian Weisser (Other Ventures), Alex Tong (Information Venture Partners), David J. Phillips (Pioneer Fund), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Nick Davidov (Davidovs Venture Collective)
Mem0	Pre SeedSep 2024$500K	$21M
Co-investors: Lan Xuezhao (Basis Set Ventures), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Thomas Dohmke (Spice AI), Brian Balfour (Long Journey Ventures), Scott Belsky (A24), Dharmesh Shah, Lukas Biewald, Charles Zedlewski
Protege	SeedSep 2024$10M	$65M
Co-investors: Saar Gur (CRV), Travis May (Shaper Impact Capital), Auren Hoffman (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Adam D'Angelo
Chai Discovery	SeedSep 2024$30M	$630M
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Elena Viboch (General Catalyst), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Nina Achadjian (Index Ventures), Patrick Grady (Sequoia Capital), 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), William Levy (Danish Ministry of Justice), Sylvain Zimmer (Partech Ventures), Thibaud Elziere (eFounders), Ankur Nagpal (USVC), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Kevin Weil (Council on Foreign Relations), Peter Boyce II (Stellation Capital), Ali Partovi (Airbnb, Convoy, Facebook, Uber, Zappos, etc), Ron Pragides (GTMFund), Surahbi Gupta (Self-employed), Taro Fukuyama (Unknown Ventures), Jean-Denis Greze (ASDF Ventures), Boris Golden (Partech Ventures), Andrew Miklas (Y Combinator), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Brian Balfour (Long Journey Ventures), Chris Adelsbach (Outrun Ventures), Mathilde Collin, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Shishir Mehrotra, Tien Tzuo
Cognition	Series AApr 2024$180M	$3.9B
Co-investors: Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Keith Bender (Bessemer Venture Partners), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Tony Xu (DoorDash), Patrick Collison (Archipelagos, Institute of Marine Conservation), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), bill weathersby (Circon Energy), Omri Casspi (Shevat Ventures), Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund), John Collison, Karim Atiyeh

Nitesh Banta's Experience

Founding Team Getaround2009 - Present

Founder & CEO HowcastPresent

Founder & CEO Alpify (Durcal)Present

Associate Consultant EY-ParthenonPresent

Advisor & Founding Team Member GetaroundPresent

VC General CatalystPresent

Investor BigCommercePresent

Investor Locu, Inc.Present

Investor Handy HQPresent

Investor CoachUp, IncPresent

Investor Mark43Present

Investor BrainlyPresent

Angel Investor Stellar CapitalPresent

Founder & CEO Summer WorkationPresent

Co-founder & Advisor GC Venture FellowsPresent

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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