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"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.

If 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.

Locu, 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.

Early investors in Uber are set to make a whole lot of money.

/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...

Public profile summarizing Babak Nivi as founder of AngelList and Venture Hacks, investor in Uber, and advisor to Dropbox.

Public bio covering AngelList and Venture Hacks co-founding, prior roles, and education history.

Public LinkedIn profile says Nivi started AngelList and Venture Hacks and lists MIT education/research dates.

Reports Bessemer hired Nivi as an entrepreneur-in-residence in 2005.

See Superorder funding rounds, investors, investments, exits and more. Evaluate their financials based on Superorder's post-money valuation and revenue.

Company job listing says Superorder is backed by angels including Babak Nivi.

Lists Babak Nivi as an individual investor in 500Friends’ seed round.