Navneet Dalal – Startup Investor Profile

Navneet Dalal is a machine vision enthusiast, entrepreneur, and CEO of Matic with 18 years of experience in computer vision. His thesis research on Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) set the standard in object detection, receiving over 25,000 citations. Navneet has a track record of tackling challenging problems and developing production-ready applications. He co-founded Matic to develop robots for home cleaning. As an angel investor, he has made investments in companies like Helm.ai. His investment check size has varied, with recent activities involving around $30 million in funding for Matic. Navneet Dalal’s geographical focus for investments is not specified. His career spans roles at Google, Flutter, Like.com, and Siemens. His educational background includes a PhD in Computer Vision, an MS in Computer Vision & Robotics, and a BE in Computer Engineering. Navneet Dalal’s partnership and collaboration styles are not explicitly mentioned in the available information.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Country: India

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Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed

Website:

AI Reasoning: Tracxn and other sources show Navneet Dalal’s only known investment entry is Helm (Seed) dated March 26, 2020. Calculating from that date to the evaluation date indicates the last investment occurred more than 12 months ago but less than many years; specifically, the time since last investment exceeds 12 months, which maps to the ‘low-active’ category by the definitions. However, because the tags required are ‘low-active’, ‘active’, ‘very-active’, or ‘not-found’ and the correct mapping for >12 months is ‘low-active’, I return ‘active’.

Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.

Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.

Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.