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Neo stages, portfolio and investment profile

Ali Partovi's San Francisco community and fund backing exceptional technical founders from pre-seed through seed — via Neo Scholars, Neo Residency, and direct investments.

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Stage-based planning range

$250K–$3M

This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.

Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.

No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.

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Investment stages

Leads: Pre-Seed, Seed

Participates: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A

Sector focus

Generalist Technology

Geography

San Francisco, CA

Founded 2019

Fund size / AUM

Not recorded

A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.

Portfolio in our directory

Linked startup profiles

Latest fund vehicle

Not recorded

Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.

Recent tracked investment

Etched

$700M (press: Series D) · $700M · August 2026

Rounds they lead

Pre-Seed Seed

Rounds they invest

Pre-Seed Seed Series A

Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.

Portfolio companies we track

Startups in our directory that list Neo as an investor (9 total).

FAQs about Neo

Stage fit, check size, thesis, and how founders typically approach this firm — based on public sources and our directory.

Neo leads pre-seed and seed in our directory and selectively follows into Series A. Programs include Neo Scholars (student grants), Neo Residency (accelerator), and direct seed leads for technical founders.

Neo Residency invests $750,000 via an uncapped SAFE (dilution scales with the next-round valuation per TechCrunch reporting). Direct pre-seed/seed checks are commonly cited in the $500K–$2M range; Neo Scholars awards a $40,000 non-dilutive grant.

Neo is headquartered in San Francisco. Residency cohorts are in-person in SF (with a mountain bootcamp); the firm has backed companies globally but emphasizes its talent network and operator mentorship locally.

Neo is people-first and generalist-tech in our directory — prioritizing exceptional engineering talent, often identified in college, over a single sector map. Portfolio concentration has tilted toward AI/developer tools (e.g., Cursor/Anysphere, Cognition) while remaining sector-agnostic at entry.

Neo prefers to lead pre-seed and seed rounds and often takes board seats. The firm closed Fund IV at $320M in 2025 and reports 160+ portfolio companies with follow-on capacity for breakout teams.

Linked startups include Kalshi (/startup/kalshi), Deel (/startup/deel), Convex (/startup/convex), Lumos (/startup/lumos), Fasset (/startup/fasset), and Neo Agentic Security (/startup/neo-agentic-security).

Apply through neo.com for Neo Residency or Scholars programs. Warm intros from Neo mentors, scholars, or portfolio founders carry weight — the firm deliberately runs small cohorts (roughly 12–15 companies per Residency batch).

August 2026: Fasset, a Neo directory company, closed a $68 million Series C at $1 billion (/startup/fasset, /2026-august-21-25-investment-news-orbital-ai-yc). Neo is named on Etched’s $700M / $21B close (/2026-etched-700m-21b-jane-street). Neo Fund 4.0 appears in our Opto Investments AI fund roundup (/nyc-vc-fund-news-2026-05-28-opto-investments-ai-fund).

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