Babak Nivi is the co-founder of AngelList, the platform that rewired how startups raise money and find talent. Alongside Naval Ravikant, he turned a casual email list of angel investors into a $3.5B+ funding infrastructure that backed over 7,000 startups and produced 200+ unicorns. Before AngelList, Nivi co-created Venture Hacks, the blog that demystified term sheets and negotiation for a generation of founders. An MIT-trained engineer who once co-invented the first printed inorganic transistor, he brings both scientific rigor and street-level startup pragmatism to everything he builds.
Naval Ravikant is an Indian-born American entrepreneur, angel investor, and philosopher best known for co-founding AngelList, the platform that democratized startup fundraising. An early investor in Twitter, Uber, and over 200 companies, he is equally renowned for his unconventional wisdom on wealth, happiness, and meaning - distilled in 'The Almanack of Naval Ravikant' and a podcast followed by millions worldwide.
Ankur Nagpal is an Indian-American entrepreneur, investor, and capital-efficient founder who built Teachable from a dorm-room frustration into a $250M exit, then reinvented himself as a solo-GP venture investor (Vibe Capital, $70M+ raised), fintech builder (Carry, acquired by AngelList in 2026), and prolific financial educator (Silly Money newsletter, 86K+ subscribers). In April 2026 he joined AngelList full-time as GP of USVC, a public venture fund co-chaired by Naval Ravikant with stakes in xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Vercel.