Kasra Nejatian
About Kasra Nejatian
Kasra Nejatian, who also goes by Kaz, is based in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Opendoor Technologies, the company that runs a digital platform for buying and selling homes. Simply Wall St lists him as appointed CEO in September 2025.
Before Opendoor he worked at Shopify. The Globe and Mail reports that he joined in September 2019 as a vice-president and general manager of Shopify Money, the team that built payment systems for merchants. He became chief operating officer in the fall of 2022. The Logic describes him as a former lawyer and fintech founder. Crunchbase lists the University of Toronto in his profile.
He is an operator who invests personally, not a full-time investor. Crunchbase shows no companies founded under his investor profile, and his day job is running a public company. In a Sequoia podcast he talks about making Opendoor an AI-native company.
Crunchbase lists his investments as personal investments, with no fund attached. Lounge's earlier note records 15 investments in total. A public snapshot of the Crunchbase page showed 14, so the count may have changed or differ by view. Crunchbase shows 0 lead investments, 0 exits and 0 companies founded.
The rounds Crunchbase lists for him are all seed rounds: Hypercubic, Kita Technologies, Multiplier, Pocket, Synthetic, Lua, Cortex AI and Allus AI, among others. Crunchbase shows no lead-investor credit for any of them, which fits an angel who joins rounds led by funds. For example, Lightsprint's seed was led by 645 Ventures, and Hypercubic's seed was led by CIV. In both cases he was named among the angels.
Crunchbase gives Allus AI's round as announced on December 3, 2025, and describes Hypercubic as his most recent listed investment. Amounts and his own check sizes are not shown publicly.
Crunchbase data shows 12 AI investments since 2023. The AI portfolio includes Luminal, Pocket, Sim, Lua, Lightsprint, Cortex AI, Allus AI, Synthetic, Willow Voice, Hypercubic, Truthsystems and Keye.
Some of these have public descriptions. Lightsprint is a Y Combinator-backed startup that raised a $6.1 million seed round to let product managers, designers and operations staff change a company's codebase using AI agents. Its round was led by 645 Ventures, with January Capital, Rebel Fund and angels including Nejatian. Hypercubic raised a $5.3 million seed round to modernize legacy COBOL systems. CIV led it, with Y Combinator, Afore Capital, Pioneer Fund and Multimodal Investors participating, and Nejatian named as an angel.
Cortex AI's Crunchbase page lists 12 investors, including Rebel Fund and Nejatian. Pocket's page lists 8 investors, including Accel and Nejatian. This pattern suggests he usually invests alongside institutional seed funds, often with Y Combinator or other well-known early-stage investors in the round.
The public record points to seed-stage rounds in AI application and infrastructure companies, including developer tooling, AI agents and enterprise software modernization. Most listed companies are US-based. Pocket, for example, is listed in San Francisco. Nejatian himself is in Ottawa.
He has not published a check size, a stated thesis or a list of what he looks for in founders, so none is given here. Crunchbase also lists Multiplier and Kita Technologies seed rounds, which are not on the AI list. That suggests his angel investing is not limited to AI.
Founders should treat the public record as a guide to the kind of rounds he joins, not as a statement of current availability. Warm introductions from founders or lead investors in his existing rounds are the clearest public route, since no application process is published.
- Lightsprint: AI agents that let non-engineers make changes to an existing codebase; $6.1 million seed led by 645 Ventures, with Nejatian among the angels. Investment year not confirmed.
- Hypercubic: AI for modernizing legacy COBOL systems; $5.3 million seed led by CIV. Crunchbase lists it as his latest investment.
- Allus AI: Seed round on Crunchbase announced December 3, 2025.
- Pocket: AI startup based in San Francisco; seed investment listed on Crunchbase, with Accel among its 8 investors.
- Cortex AI: Seed investment listed on Crunchbase, with Rebel Fund among its 12 investors.
- Lua: Seed round listed on Crunchbase and part of his AI portfolio.
- Luminal, Sim, Synthetic, Willow Voice, Truthsystems, Keye: Listed on Crunchbase as AI investments; details are not public.
- crunchbase.com/person/kaz-nejatian
- crunchbase.com/person/b275cf9a-f4d2-0248-07a9-95a3a92b45d1
- linkedin.com/in/kasranejatian
- theglobeandmail.com/business/article-shopify-coo-kaz-nejatian-departur
- thelogic.co/news/key-shopify-executive-kaz-kejatian-exits-to-lead-open
- simplywall.st/stocks/us/real-estate-management-and-development/nasdaq-
- app.dealroom.co/news/note/lightsprint-raises-6-1m-to-let-non-engineers
- raising.fi/news/hypercubic-seed-august-2026
AI portfolio
Investing activity
Kasra Nejatian has made 15 investments according to Crunchbase. 12 of those investments since 2023 were in AI companies, including Luminal, Pocket, Sim, Lua and Lightsprint.
Kasra Nejatian appears in 4 AI deals tracked by the Lounge deals desk, rounds totalling $11M. The rounds are mostly Seed, with a median round size of $6M and the largest at $11M. The most recent are Lightsprint (Seed, $6.1M, Oct 2026), Hypercubic (Seed, $5.3M, Aug 2026) and Pocket (Seed, $11M, Jun 2026).
Kasra Nejatian most often invests alongside Y Combinator, Henri Stern, Transpose Platform Management and Gokul Rajaram, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Kasra Nejatian
Is Kasra Nejatian an angel investor in AI startups?
Yes. Crunchbase data shows 12 AI investments since 2023, including Lightsprint, Hypercubic, Pocket, Lua, Cortex AI and Allus AI.
What does Kasra Nejatian do besides angel investing?
He is the CEO and a board member of Opendoor Technologies. He was previously Shopify's COO, and before that a vice-president and general manager of Shopify Money.
What check size does Kasra Nejatian write?
It is not public. Crunchbase does not show his amounts, and he has not published a range.
What stage does Kasra Nejatian invest in?
The rounds listed on Crunchbase are seed rounds. He appears as an angel alongside lead investors such as 645 Ventures and CIV, with no lead investments recorded.
Does Kasra Nejatian lead rounds?
Crunchbase shows 0 lead investments. In the rounds we found, other funds led and he joined as an angel.
How can founders get in front of Kasra Nejatian?
No pitch process is published. His LinkedIn profile is public, and introductions through founders or funds in his portfolio rounds are the most visible route.
Is Kasra Nejatian an angel investor?
Yes. Kasra Nejatian invests personally as an angel. Crunchbase counts 15 investments.
What AI companies has Kasra Nejatian invested in?
Kasra Nejatian's AI investments include Luminal, Pocket, Sim, Lua, Lightsprint, Cortex AI, Allus AI and Synthetic. The 4 rounds on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
Where is Kasra Nejatian based?
Kasra Nejatian is based in Ottawa, Canada.
What stage does Kasra Nejatian invest at?
In the rounds tracked on Lounge, Kasra Nejatian has invested at Seed, with a median round of $6M.