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Bert Navarrete

Entrepreneur and Investor

📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 22 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Dec 2019
The health of our planet demands sustainable infrastructure development that guarantees access to clean air, water, and increasingly, energy. We meet the need for a renewably powered future by simplifying the deployment of complex fleet and large scale EV charging and energy storage solutions. Our end to end approach in advancing the necessary infrastructure ensures a smooth transition to a renewable future.
Investor
2017
Visor is the worlds most connected spreadsheet. Unlike disconnected spreadsheets and complicated integrations, Visor unifies three crucial capabilities in one product: Visor is flexible to evolve as your needs do, it has built-in two-way integrations you can trust, and its real-time collaboration features bring everyone together. Achieve amazing things by bringing people and data together in one place with Visor.
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2017
Hi, Hello — We’re Billie, a body brand built to champion womankind. We’re doing away with body-hair-shame and sneaky markups in the women’s aisle (AKA the pink tax), delivering top-quality body and shave essentials at affordable prices, and reminding women everywhere that shaving is a choice, not an expectation.
early stageManufacturing
Investor
2017
Aiva is hiring! Please visit our jobs page to learn more. Aiva is the hands-free OS for health care. We use Amazon Echos, Google Homes and other voice assistants to increase satisfaction for caregivers and patients alike. Today, physicians spend nearly half their time typing in data, and nurses are interrupted from patient interaction every 6 minutes. Aiva frees up clinicians to deliver faster, more personal care, which improves caregiving for them as well as their patients. Aiva is the voice operating system for better care. Our secure enterprise platform uses voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant™ to empower patients and seniors throughout their care journey. They enjoy more entertainment options, better control of their environment and instant two-way communication with their care team. Aiva voice-enables existing systems in areas such as clinical communications, patient engagement, electronic health records, dining menus, work orders, building management and IoT. The company is based in Los Angeles. Investors include the Google Assistant Investment Program, the Alexa Fund, Act One Ventures, Mucker Capital, Techstars and the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator. Learn more at aivahealth.com.
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2017
Clora is an intelligent platform that matches life science companies with flexible, on-demand expertise. Clora is faster, more cost-efficient, and yields higher quality on-demand talent compared to traditional recruitment methods. Clora has access to the entire global network of life science consultants, with decades of combined industry experience across dozens of roles from companies like Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Novartis, and the FDA. Clora was built by industry veterans who have experienced firsthand the pain and costs associated with staffing projects with the right talent. With Clora, you simply post a project, identifying your unique requirements and our proprietary technology will select up to 3 candidates that meet the specific needs of your project. We have a 100% success rate in matching candidates to projects, within days. Posting a project only takes minutes and is risk free. Post a project today.
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2017
Ori is an artificial intelligence conversational marketing solution that brings affordable AI-powered customer care to health and wellness businesses looking to grow profitably. We’re on a mission to transform health and wellness businesses by bridging gaps with their consumers. Ori is currently used by hundreds of providers across the US. We are a rapidly growing digital health startup backed by folks who helped fund and build incredible companies including Higher One, General Assembly, TrackMaven, Contactually, Simple Contacts, Hologram and many others.
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2016
K Health, headquarter in New York, is the AI-driven Primary Care company on a mission to give everyone access to high-quality healthcare. Our 24/7 virtual primary care solution is available to millions of people in the U.S. through leading health systems and insurers, as well as through a direct-to-consumer mobile app. The K Health platform includes a clinical grade medical chat and AI predictive models based on large datasets to help physicians optimize diagnosis and treatment, and focus on patient care.
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2016
Here at Pace Avenue, we arrange affordable financing towards smart home improvements for people of any credit score, income or home value. We currently offer the installation of Solar Panels, Roofing, Doors, Windows, and HVAC units. Our mission is to help 10 million homeowners economically upgrade their homes to save enough energy to power 15 million electric vehicles, and reduce our oil usage by 200 million barrels every year. With that being said, Pace Avenue believes that there will be a brighter and cleaner future simply by improving energy efficiency in residential buildings and local homes.
Investor
2016
High-speed Internet for your home, office, and business.
Investor
2016
Artemis is a Cultivation Management Platform (CMP) that enables growers to manage people, plants, process, and compliance all in one place creating a virtually risk-free operation. Artemis provides a bird’s eye view of productivity and compliance from seed to harvest, helping farms compete in a low-margin business. It’s easier than ever to monitor and manage multiple facility operations across your network remotely from your desktop, mobile or tablet.
early stageFarming
Investor
2016
Trim's mission is to make Americans financially healthy at scale. Our customers benefit from automated savings, decreased bills and bank fees negotiated by Trim, canceled subscriptions, and spending analysis and recommendations. We've saved our users more than $80M and we’re continuing to grow and add features to improve financial health. Our team has previous experience at organizations like Cisco, Eventbrite, Goldman Sachs, Google, LearnVest, Patreon, Rackspace, and Stripe. Trim is backed by venture investors including Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), OCA Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Version One Ventures, and Core Innovation Capital. Come work with us to create the future of personal finance: www.asktrim.com/jobs.
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2016
Winners of TechCrunch Disrupt Battlegrounds and founded in 2016, Mobalytics is the leading player analytics platform, personal gaming assistant and community dedicated to helping video game fans master their favorite games. Mobalytics partners with leading game publishers and esports organizations to leverage its patent-pending Gamer Performance Index (GPI) technology to analyze in-game API data with machine learning algorithms to improve player performance across several areas crucial for competitive gaming. Mobalytics investors include some of Silicon Valley’s VC elite, for more information and to register for your free account, please visit www.mobalytics.gg.
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2016
Chicory believes in the power of recipes to inspire consumers and drive commerce. As the leading contextual commerce advertising platform, we transform recipe content into commerce media. Our platform powers a network of recipe publishers and retailers that CPG brands use to reach 123 million high-intent grocery shoppers each month. Chicorys contextual advertising and shoppable recipe solutions can be found on 5,200+ websites and food blogs, including the Food Network, Delish and LandOLakes.com. Sites enabled with our technology take grocery shoppers from inspiration to checkout in just a few clicks, driving products to cart for 70+ leading retailers.
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2015
Crexi is a robust marketplace and technology platform containing easy-to-use workflow management tools and customizable data analytics designed to streamline the #CRE process from listing to closing. For more information visit www.crexi.com.
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2015
Spire Health is the market leader in continuous respiration sensing and high-adherence, patient-friendly ambulatory monitoring. Our mission is to harness the power of algorithms and sensors to improve health outcomes by empowering patients and physicians with useful and actionable data. We currently work with partners across a range of health conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), congestive heart failure, asthma, sleep disorders and anxiety.
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2024
Capital Formation and FinOps
Oct 2024
The KCap Biotechnology Fund is a long-oriented hedge fund pursuing investments in innovation across the biotechnology sector. KCap invests exclusively in public companies, and is not currently accepting new investors.
Operating Partner
Jan 2024
Kilonova Capital ("KC") is a San Francisco based asset manager that invests in special situation financings and buyouts of proven, private technology companies. KC provides structured, disciplined capital and invests across both the life-cycle and capital structure of a company. KC has a particular focus on non-conforming investment opportunities including recapitalizations, divestitures, MBOs and other special situations. KC structures its investments to align interests of shareholders and management and provides value added capital to operate and scale the company. KCs operating model leverages extensive institutional relationships and proprietary analytics and AI to originate target transactions, the investment team’s deep history in special situations structuring, and an deep roster of Silicon Valley veterans to rapidly enhance portfolio company value. KC invests across core technology sectors (software, internet & digital media, eCommerce, data & analytics, fintech and frontier technology), deploying $25-100mm checks over the life of a single investment.
2022
Venture Advisor
Nov 2022
DNX Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Tokyo investing in B2B Startups. The US fund invests to fuel category-defining B2B startups in Deeptech, Cybersecurity, Enterprise SaaS/Cloud, Retail Tech, and Sustainability. For Japanese corporations trying to innovate and create new business through startup partnerships, check out out blog DNX for Corporates: https://note.com/dnx_for_corps/
Senior Advisor - LTS Growth
Sep 2022
LTS Investments supports the existing and new investments of a group of partners responsible for developing several businesses over the last 40 years. Our purpose is to support outstanding leaders and entrepreneurs in achieving their big dreams. We are always looking for talented people and exceptional professionals to work with. If you are interested in joining our team, please apply here: https://lts-investments.com/Careers
Venture Partner
Aug 2022
We take risks on brilliant people and products. We work with founders on a mission to change the one thing they think is fundamentally broken in the world. We welcome young or first-time founders who are technical or domain experts in their field. Our focus is finding Europe’s best early stage tech startups and building them into large revenue, category-defining companies. We believe great companies are built by great teams, not by venture capitalists. Some might call our approach old-school. We lead pre-seed or seed rounds. We invest at fair terms and reserve capital to continue investing through a company’s journey. We typically invest between $500k to $5 million, although we have gone as low as $250,000 and as high as $10 million. We like to aim for an ownership position between 10% to 20%. When we believe in your vision, market and team, we get conviction quickly. We often write the first large check a company receives. We aren’t afraid of being the only investor, but are happy to invest alongside others. We work hard behind the scenes to maximize value. We provide introductions, help make key hires, provide market intel, ink strategic partnerships and handle difficult operational issues. Sometimes we might even spark crazy acquisition offers. Often, our work is providing a sage perspective that comes from living through multiple market cycles, and having the forthrightness to hold honest conversations others shy away from. Having spent most of our working lives in Silicon Valley, we aim to replicate in Europe what we saw work in California. We dream big and are unashamedly ambitious for our companies.
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