Karan Mehta
Investor at NY Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Early Stage Investor
2023 - Current
$175M public venture fund investing in founders serving the public interest. Checks from $500k-$3M.
Investor
2024
Recycling nuclear waste. Sourced and led pre-seed for NYV.
Investor
2024
AI drone defense. Sourced and led seed investment for NYV.
ZeroMark is a defense product company building technology to ensure safety and precision when using kinetic and non lethal weapons.
Raised $7,000,000.00 from Balaji Srinivasan, Ludlow Ventures, Anorak Ventures, Austin Ogilvie, Soona Amhaz, New York Ventures, Ground Up Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
Investor
2024
Helping people access and manage government benefits. Sourced and led pre-seed investment for NYV.
Investor
2023
AI writing tool for Spanish. Sourced and led seed investment.
Early Stage Investor
2018 - 2023
Octopus Ventures is a London and New York based venture capital firm, focused on backing unusually talented entrepreneurs. We can invest from $1m-$25m in a first round of funding and will look to follow in subsequent rounds.
Investor + Board
2023 - 2023
AI video. Sourced and led seed investment.
Investor + Board
2022 - 2023
The first end-to-end encrypted consumer calendar. Sourced and led seed investment.
Investor + Board
2022 - 2023
Full-stack UX research tool. Sourced and led seed investment.
Investor + Board
2021 - 2023
Fashion rental for all. Sourced and led seed investment.