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Nitesh Banta

Founder of B12

New York, New York

Overview 

Nitesh Banta is the Co-founder & CEO of B12 in New York, with a background in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and strategic partnerships. Notable highlights include founding Rough Draft Ventures and being an investor in companies like Varda and SwingVision.

Work Experience 

  • Co-founder & CEO

    2015 - Current

    We are on a mission to help people do meaningful work.

B12 offers website building, contact management, online scheduling, payments, invoicing, and SEO services.

Raised $28,100,000.00 from Breyer Capital, Naval Ravikant, General Catalyst, Tola Capital, Peter Fishman, Freddie Martignetti, Jacob Gibson, Breyer Capital and Polaris Partners.

  • Angel Investor

    2015

    Personal fund investing in technology businesses.

Stellar Capital invests in outstanding people building software and internet technology companies.

  • Co-founder & Advisor

    2012

    Building a community for top student tech entrepreneurs

  • Advisor & Founding Team Member

    2009

    Worked with a team of Singularity U students to incubate Gettaround. Gettaround is the first person-to-person carsharing community. Car owners rent out their cars to trusted friends, co-workers, and neighbors.

Getaround is a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that enables car owners to rent out their cars.

Raised $763,024,999.00 from Mudrick Capital Management and Mudrick Capital Management.

  • Investor

    2014 - 2016

  • VC

    2010 - 2015

    Focus on investments in early-stage technology businesses. Areas of interest include marketplaces, SMB, SaaS, e-commerce, education and consumer mobile.

General Catalyst partners with ambitious founders to drive resilience and applied AI from seed to growth.

  • Investor

    2013 - 2015

Mark43 offers cloud-based public safety software for law enforcement to ensure accurate responses.

Raised $268,824,992.00 from Malcolm Turnbull, Empede Capital, Goldman Sachs, Radcliff Group, HighSage Ventures, General Catalyst, Tiger Global Management, Spark Capital, The Spruce House Partnership and Avenir.

  • Investor

    2012 - 2015

  • Investor

    2012 - 2015

Handy, formerly Handybook, is an app through which users can book cleaners, plumbers, handymen, and other household service providers.

Raised $110,728,926.00 from Fidelity, Revolution Growth, AddVenture, Highland Capital Partners, TPG Growth, Revolution and General Catalyst.

  • Investor

    2011 - 2015

BigCommerce is a SaaS provider for merchants running online businesses.

Raised $224,204,369.00 from Notable Capital, General Catalyst, Goldman Sachs and Tenaya Capital.

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