Naveen Jain

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovation. He is the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, BlueDot, Viome, Intelius, TalentWise and InfoSpace.

Moon Express is the only company to have permission from the US government to leave earth orbit and land on the moon. It's developing technologies to harvest planetary resources on the moon for the benefit of humanity.

BlueDot is focused on bringing most promising technological innovations from the national labs, NASA and elite universities and supercharging them with great entrepreneurs to create successful enterprises that tackle humanity’s grand challenges.

Viome is focused on discovering predictive biomarkers to eradicate all diseases. Our initial goal is to provide personalized diet & nutrition based on deep analysis of microbiome, metabolome and meta genomics.

Naveen Jain a trustee of the board and vision circle member at the X PRIZE Foundation where he is focused on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address the global challenges in health, education, women empowerment, agriculture, and energy. 

Naveen Jain is on the board of Singularity University, an interdisciplinary university with the mission to educate and inspire leaders to address humanity’s grand challenges through innovative technologies.

Naveen Jain has been awarded many honors for his entrepreneurial successes and leadership skills including “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year”, “Albert Einstein Technology Medal” for pioneers in technology, “Humanitarian Innovation Award” at the United Nations, “Distinguished Global Thinker Award” by IILM, “Most inspiring Entrepreneur” by Andaaz TV, “Most admired Serial Entrepreneur” by Silicon India, “Top 20 Entrepreneurs” and “Lifetime Achievement Award” for the leadership in the technology industry and support of other entrepreneurs by Red Herring.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
1
Naveen Jain has made 1 investments. Their most recent investment was on May 6, 2021, when Upshot raised $7.50M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
May 6, 2021 Upshot Series A $7.50M Blockchain Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Naveen Jain has 1 current jobs including Founder & CEO at Viome , .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Viome Founder & CEO Jan 4, 2016 Detail