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How to Spot Outlier Talent | Ali Partovi, Neo

The Peel

7 May 2026 · Startups & Building

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Ali Partovi is the Co-founder and CEO of Neo.

Neo started in 2017 as a network for the top college students. Neo is a “people-first” investor, a thesis it developed missing out on early investments in PayPal and Google at three employees.

Neo has since invested in the Seed rounds of Cursor and Kal

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