Elizabeth Zaldastani Napier

Board Director | Harvard Senior Fellow | Central and East European Coalition leader

📍 Greater Boston, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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2020
Brown Angel Group (BAG) is a global network of angel investors who have come together to support early-stage startups founded by Brown alumni through capital, connections and community. We invite angel investors to join our group to get access to high quality deal flow. There are no membership fees or minimum investment commitments. If youre a Brown founder raising capital, wed love to chat and learn more about your venture.
Investor
2018
Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000. • Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25) • Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25) • Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights 24) • Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25) • Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24) • Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook 22 & 23) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights 24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies • 40+ full-time VC investors • Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts. Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.
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2024
Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow | Davis Center Associate
Jan 2024
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2021
Industry Mentor - Innovation (I-Corps)
2021
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…"​ With an annual budget of more than $8 billion, NSF is the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America’s colleges and universities. In many fields, such as mathematics, computer science, and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing. NSF awards about 11,000 new awards per year, with an average duration of three years -- to fund specific research proposals that have been judged the most promising by a rigorous and objective merit-review system. In the past few decades, NSF-funded researchers have won more than 200 Nobel Prizes as well as other honors too numerous to list. NSF funds equipment that is needed by scientists and engineers but is often too expensive for any one group or researcher to afford. Another essential element in NSFs mission is support for science and engineering education, from pre-K through graduate school and beyond. There are many exciting careers at NSF, not only in science, technology, education and mathematics (STEM), but also in business and operations. For more information, please visit us at http://nsf.gov/careers/. NSF welcomes opportunities to engage with you on our LinkedIn page. Please see our Comment Policy [http://www.nsf.gov/social/policies.jsp ] for more information.
2020
Investor
2020
Brown Angel Group (BAG) is a global network of angel investors who have come together to support early-stage startups founded by Brown alumni through capital, connections and community. We invite angel investors to join our group to get access to high quality deal flow. There are no membership fees or minimum investment commitments. If youre a Brown founder raising capital, wed love to chat and learn more about your venture.
2018
Investor
2018
Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000. • Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25) • Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25) • Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights 24) • Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25) • Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24) • Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook 22 & 23) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights 24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies • 40+ full-time VC investors • Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts. Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.
2001
Co-Founder | Board of Directors
2001
Welcome to the Guivy Zaldastanishvili American Academy in Tbilisi (American Academy in Tbilisi), an American style private high school, where education takes on a special meaning, born of a host unique feature of schooling. A highly trained and devoted faculty, the majority of whom have master degrees obtained from premiere colleges and universities in the U. S. and several of whom hold doctoral degrees. Each of these is nevertheless engaged in ongoing and self-designed programs of professional development that span the whole field of secondary education. The Guivy Zaldastanishvili American Academy in Tbilisi enrolls 285 students, grades 9 through 12. Essential to our teaching at the American Academy is the Harkness method. This style of teaching was borrowed from the well-known Phillips Exeter Academy in America. Students of no more than fifteen per class are seated around an oval shaped table with the aim of encourage seminar like discussions. This places students at the center of the learning process and encourages the construction of knowledge not rote memorization. The Guivy Zaldastanishvili American Academy in Tbilisi remains the only private school in Georgia to hold national accreditation awarded by the Accreditation Council of the National Center for Educational Quality and Enhancement of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia in May of 2011. As a result, the American Academy’s students have been exempt from the mandatory high school exit examinations for graduation. In 2010, the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia awarded the American Academy in Tbilisi a Gold Medal for the Best Private School in Georgia. Admissions to the American Academy begin in early spring and is based on two tests and an interview with an admissions committee, each of which is independently scored. For more details on admissions process, please visit the GZAAT website.
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