Neo is a venture capital firm, mentorship community, and startup residency that was founded by Ali Partovi as a platform combining early-stage investing with hands-on builder programs. Neo's Twitter Score is 48 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #18,878 (top 5%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Neo closed its debut fund at $80 million and has since grown substantially. In May 2023, the firm announced $235 million in commitments split across two vehicles: $180 million targeting seed investments and accelerator programs, and $55 million for later-stage bets, bringing total assets under management to more than $600 million. Neo is backed by a range of prominent investors and institutions, including Cendana Capital, Horsley Bridge, Sequoia Capital, Eric Schmidt, Henry Kravis, Joe Gebbia, Max Levchin, and Sheryl Sandberg.
Neo has direct crypto-sector exposure through its investment in Ethena, an Ethereum-based synthetic-dollar protocol. On the program side, Neo sunset its former accelerator and replaced it with Neo Residency, which runs parallel tracks for startups and student builders. For the 2026 cohort, Neo offered accepted startups $750,000 via an uncapped SAFE, with the program designed to take in roughly 12 to 15 startups alongside five to eight student teams. Neo has 19,568 followers as of August 2026 and 3,733 posts on X. Neo has been mentioned by 99 accounts a total of 758 times.
Neo's fund portfolio includes Bluesky, Bubble, Skiff, Kalshi, Caldera, Warp, Pika and Mecka.
Who follows Neo on X?
The accounts that follow Neo include 267 founders, 80 angel investors, 32 influencers and 6 VCs. Among them are Marc Andreessen, Vance Spencer, John Wang, Matthew Graham, Andrew Chen and Imran.