Naval is Naval Ravikant, co-founder and chairman of AngelList, the startup fundraising and investor-matching platform he built with Babak Nivi in 2010. Naval's Twitter Score is 1000 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, placing him at rank #10 (top 0.1%) out of 493,607 accounts tracked, and he ranks among the 35 accounts on this platform scoring above 900. He has been active on the platform since 2007, with 4,097,243 followers as of October 2026 and 27,179 posts.
Naval co-founded MetaStable Capital in September 2014, a cryptocurrency hedge fund investing directly in digital currencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum; a June 2017 regulatory filing reported $69 million in total assets. The fund attracted LP investments from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund, and Bessemer Venture Partners. Naval is also affiliated with CoinList, the initial coin offering platform that spun off from AngelList in October 2017 and has raised more than $1.2 billion across 85 or more token sales. He co-founded Spearhead with Jeff Fagnan to give founders capital and training to become angel investors, and co-founded Airchat in 2023, a social app built on voice notes and AI-powered transcription. He previously co-founded Epinions.
Naval is widely known as an early angel investor in companies including Uber, Twitter, and Postmates. AngelList Venture raised a $100 million Series B led by Tiger Global and Accomplice at a $4 billion valuation in March 2022. On a 2026 Naval Podcast episode, he discussed Bitcoin, Satoshi, and crypto-token payments as a future interface for autonomous AI agents. Naval has been mentioned by 2,651 accounts, with 23,474 total mentions. His tracked portfolio includes Zcash, Instadapp, OpenSea, Chia Network, Fei Protocol, Agoric, Avalanche and Radicle.
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Naval draws a wide following across the platform. The accounts that follow Naval include 5,761 founders, 1,410 angel investors, 2,006 influencers and 240 VCs, among them Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, Solana, Marc Andreessen and Nikita Bier.