Babak Nivi is a startup founder and angel investor best known as a co-founder of AngelList and Venture Hacks. He has also been described publicly as an early investor in Uber and an advisor to Dropbox.
Babak Nivi helped build foundational startup infrastructure through AngelList and has long been associated with startup fundraising advice, angel investing, and founder tooling.
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Public profile summarizing Babak Nivi as founder of AngelList and Venture Hacks, investor in Uber, and advisor to Dropbox.
Venture HacksAbout UsWe're Nivi and Naval. Co-founders of AngelList.
Venture HacksVenture HacksAdvice for startups
CrunchbaseBabak Nivi - Co-Founder @ AngelList - Crunchbase Person ProfilePublic bio covering AngelList and Venture Hacks co-founding, prior roles, and education history.
AngelListAngelList – Build, Lead, InvestAngelList builds the infrastructure that powers the startup economy—providing investors and innovators with the tools to grow.
TechCrunchAngelList co-founder Babak Nivi out 'for my own reasons' | TechCrunch"Mr. Nivi has no role at the company" AngelList COO Graham Jenkin told TechCrunch in response to questions regarding the curious absence of the investment platform's co-founder. It's atypical for the creator of such a high-profile company to seemingly disappear without any form of announcement.
TechCrunchThe Venture Hacks StartupList Helps Fledgling Startups Pitch Top Angel Investors | TechCrunchIf you're a startup looking for some early angel investments, you probably have a list of people you'd love to work with mapped out in your mind. Unfortunately, there's also a good chance that you have absolutely no idea how to get their attention and pitch them. Today Venture Hacks is launching a new project that may help with that. Dubbed StartupList, Venture Hacks will start sending a weekly Email digest featuring three startup pitches that will get Emailed to some of Silicon Valley's most respected angel investors. Venture Hacks founder Babak Nivi likens it to a DailyCandy for startups. The project is a followup to the Venture Hacks AngelList, which launched yesterday. AngelList is a basic directory of over 80 established angel investors, including their all-important contact info (or, at least, the best people to get a reference through), what the investor looks for in a startup, and other key information.
LinkedinBabak Nivi - AngelList | LinkedInStarted AngelList and Venture Hacks. I take out the garbage on… · Experience: AngelList · Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Location: United States · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Babak Nivi’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
VentureBeatBabak Nivi joins BessemerReports Bessemer hired Nivi as an entrepreneur-in-residence in 2005.
TechCrunchData-Focused Locu Raises $4M Series A From General Catalyst, Lowercase, Lightbank & SV Angel | TechCrunchLocu, the data-focused startup launched out of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's lab at MIT to provide structure to the world's information, has just announced a $4 million Series A round led by General Catalyst Partners. Also participating in the round were Chris Sacca's Lowercase Capital, Lightbank and SV Angel, as well as Locu's existing angel investors, Naval Ravikant, Babak Nivi, Quotidian Ventures, and Matt Ocko of Data Collective. The new round follows Locu's raise of over $600,000 in seed funding back in September 2011.
FortuneMeet the Uber Rich | FortuneEarly investors in Uber are set to make a whole lot of money.
PRNewswireEight Sleep Announces Strategic Investment to Revolutionize Sleep Fitness Movement/PRNewswire/ -- Eight Sleep, the world's first sleep fitness company, today announced it has raised equity from an array of talent to accelerate growth for the...
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Peerlist / SuperorderSuperorder job listingCompany job listing says Superorder is backed by angels including Babak Nivi.
VC DATALAB500friends Inc - VC DATALAB profileLists Babak Nivi as an individual investor in 500Friends’ seed round.