The Sourcing Engine
81 qualified investment opportunities, originated and brought forward.
From thousands of companies tracked and hundreds of founder conversations each year, 81 opportunities cleared my sourcing and conviction bar and were formally introduced to the Nava investment team, 2022 to 2025. Of those 81, 55 achieved meaningful downstream validation and 50 are publicly verifiable in the ledger below. Trusted inbound, thesis-driven outbound, network compounding, and operational discipline behind the number.
81
Qualified opportunities originated, 2022 to 2025
Cleared conviction bar and formally brought to the investment team. 18, 19, 20, 24 by year.
55 / 81
Achieved downstream validation
55 of the 81 opportunities went on to receive meaningful external validation through financing.
294 → 513
Tracked champions
Net +219, roughly 75% growth in four years.
23 → 138
Seed + growth investor champions
Roughly 6x. Denser access into investors who see companies early.
- 1,000s+Companies trackedPer year↓
- 200+Founder and company conversationsPer year↓
- 81Qualified investment opportunities originated2022–2025
Full funnel and methodology in .
Concentrated Lead / Co-Lead Series A strategy at Nava with a narrow strike zone and few portfolio slots. Sourcing breadth is a separate dataset from investments closed.
The track record
The sourcing ledger
A repeatable engine, not a spreadsheet.
The sourcing funnel tells the full story: 81 qualified opportunities originated, 55 received downstream validation, and 50 are publicly verifiable. This ledger is a representative public record of those 50 opportunities, not the complete sourcing database. Subsequent financings and milestones reflect external validation, not a claim that I led or participated in those rounds.
Channels drawn from: Seed and pre-seed investors · Founders and operators · Stanford ecosystem · Technical leaders and researchers · Community and cohorts · Thesis-driven outbound · Under-networked founder communities · Cross-institution nodes.