Top 50 Android Angel Investors in May 2025

Investor	Android investments
Raymond Tonsing	5
Xavier Niel	4
Patrick Lütjens	4
Paul Buchheit	4
Don Dodge	4
Adeyemi Ajao	3
Jarl Mohn	3
Reid Hoffman	3
Mitchell Kapor	3
Dave Morin	3
Renato Profico	3
Brian McClendon	3
Geoff Entress	3
Ashton Kutcher	3
Kevin Mahaffey	3
Kevin Efrusy	3
Paul Graham	3
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	3
Naval Ravikant	3
David Helgason	3
Dharmesh Shah	3
Haresh Chawla	3
Frank Westermann	2
Paige Craig	2
Kashish Sharma	2
David Assia	2
Cam Drummond	2
Aloke Bajpai	2
Niklas Zennström	2
Nate Macleitch	2
Justin Kan	2
Jyri Engestrom	2
Jean-David Blanc	2
Christian Hernandez	2
Andrew Wright	2
David Beyer	2
Ratan Tata	2
Andreas Penna	2
Jay Jamison	2
Sebastian Knutsson	2
Ram Shriram	2
Victor Savyuk	2
Jaan Tallinn	2
Yanki Margalit	2
Bill Lee	2
Jed Carlson	2
Henrik Lindemann	2
Yuri Milner	2
Maneesh Arora	2
Reuven Agassi	2

Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director. Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Friend — Meet somebody new. Find a new companion to move through life with
Blowfish — Blowfish makes it easy to identify & stop fraud before it happens. Join the leading wallets protecting their users funds with the blowfish security engine
Merkle Manufactory — Merkle Manufactory is a software company contributing to the Farcaster protocol and working on clients.

Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cube — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
H Company — Runner H is a state-of-the-art AI agent that will allow anyone to automate complex, cumbersome, multi-step tasks without repetitive and manual input.

Patrick Lütjens is an investor, an Experienced Senior Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry.

Investment focus

iOS, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Uepaa® — Uepaa AG is the Lone Worker Safety and Peer2Peer (P2P) communication pioneer for mobile devices. After 10+ years of research, Uepaa AG has developed a revolutionary wireless P2P communication technology. Its first product - the Uepaa! Safety app - launched in 2013, successfully showcased this technology’s leadership position. This award-winningproduct evolved into today's industry standard for mobile-based lone worker safety protection. The daily companion for thousands of employees and field forces - working at risk or alone. Uepaa AG, founded in January 2012 by Mathias Haussmann and Dr Franck Legendre, is a Swiss ETH spin-off, headquartered in Zürich.

Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

SiPhox Health — SiPhox Health brings comprehensive, at-home blood testing to your door! Take control of your disease risk and increase your healthspan today with affordable, convenient at-home blood testing. No lab visits, no appointments, no waiting in line.
Character.ai — Chat with millions of AI Characters anytime, anywhere. Super-intelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

Don Dodge

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Nimble CRM — A G2 Crowd Market Leader, Nimble helps you build relationships everywhere you engage -- from your inbox to across the web. Try it free - no credit card required.
Propensity — The ABM library of tools and workflows designed to maximize your ABM strategy. Easy to set up, easy to use, easy to scale.
Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.

Adeyemi (“Ade”) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and afounding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Dropbox DocSend — Try our secure document sharing platform for free. Instantly know when documents are opened & what pages are read. Easy-to-use eSignatures.
StockGro — Get expert stock market insights from SEBI-Registered Analysts on StockGro. Make informed investments with trusted advice. Join Today!
Job&Talent — Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labor market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of unemployment in the world. The labor market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companiesare demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labor market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. Jobandtalent has created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labor flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike.The company has offices in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and has plans for further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year.

Jarl Mohn is the President and Chief Executive Officer at NPR, one of the country's most iconic news and cultural content organizations. In this capacity, Jarl oversees NPR's strategy to continue NPR's mission to create a more informed public by working in partnership with Member stations across the country. Today NPR contentreaches: 32 million people who visit npr.org every month, 26 million people who listen to NPR programming every week, and listeners who download NPR podcasts 72 million times each month. Jarl's deep media experience has spanned all media platforms as well as rapid changes in audience trends. Jarl spent almost 20 years in radio, many as a disc jockey at stations including WNBC in New York. In addition to his on-air work in radio, Jarl served as a programmer, general manager, and owner of a group of radio stations. Jarl created E! Entertainment Television and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer for almost a decade. Jarl is the former Executive Vice President and General Manager of MTV and VH1 where he architected the strategy of long-form programming at the heart of the network today and diversified the networks' audiences by developing innovative programming around alternative music formats. Jarl was also founding President and Chief Executive Officer at Liberty Digital, a public company that invested in cable networks, the Internet and online businesses. Prior to joining NPR in July of 2014, Jarl served the as a Member of the Board of Trustees at Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) for more than a decade, including two years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Jarl also spent over 12 years on the board of The Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, including six years as its Chairman of the Board of Directors. Jarl has also been a Corporate Director and Advisor to a number of media companies, making direct early stage angel and seed investments in digital media/technology ventures. Since 2008 he has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Scripps Networks Interactive. Jarl and his wife Pamela created The Mohn Family Foundation in 2000. Jarl attended Temple University, where he studied Mathematics and Philosophy.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Dack — DACK is the smartest and most complete software solution for optimizing guest experience.
Lantern — Lantern is a public benefit corporation that provides a single source of guidance for navigating life before and after a death. It offers free, custom roadmaps to make sure you or a loved one have everything in order. Whether you're pre-planning or have recently lost someone, Lantern has all of the tools, resources, and services you need toconfidently manage the process while coping with the loss of a loved one.
Abstract — Abstract is a software-as-a-service company that is developing a next-generation tool for experts to influence politics and policy.

Reid Hoffman is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder of Manas AI. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Perugia. Reid Hoffman has been awarded Marshall Medal.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Workhelix — Workhelix is a developer of workforce management platform to assist with business management.
Manas AI — Manas AI uses proprietary AI, generative computational chemistry, and best-in-class biology to reduce the time and expense of traditional medicinal development while also revolutionizing cancer and rare illness treatments.
Reflection.Ai — Reflection.Ai is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, with a focus on computer vision.

Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Education
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
DuckDuckGo — The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS

Renato Profico

Investment focus

Software, iOS, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Uepaa® — Uepaa AG is the Lone Worker Safety and Peer2Peer (P2P) communication pioneer for mobile devices. After 10+ years of research, Uepaa AG has developed a revolutionary wireless P2P communication technology. Its first product - the Uepaa! Safety app - launched in 2013, successfully showcased this technology’s leadership position. This award-winningproduct evolved into today's industry standard for mobile-based lone worker safety protection. The daily companion for thousands of employees and field forces - working at risk or alone. Uepaa AG, founded in January 2012 by Mathias Haussmann and Dr Franck Legendre, is a Swiss ETH spin-off, headquartered in Zürich.
Firstbird — Firstbird, the digital employee referral program, connects people with jobs and companies worldwide with suitable candidates. With Firstbird, employees become brand ambassadors, and referrals become a company’s most successful recruiting channel. Firstbird integrates easily with your ATS to make your life easier.

Brian McClendon is the Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Niantic and previously founder and VP engineering Keyhole Inc. He attended in The University of Kansas.

Investment focus

Software, iOS, Analytics
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Teleo — Teleo is revolutionizing material moving industries by turning heavy equipment into supervised autonomous machines.
Array Labs — Array Labs is working to provide high-quality 3D imagery on a global scale.
beans.ai — Core offerings include: - Beans Maps+: Hyper-accurate location information for apartments, condos, hospitals, and universities, along with access codes, parking locations, and other important information to access a destination. - Beans Route: Logistics app and platform to simplify dispatch, improve operations, and manage driver schedules. BeansRoute comes with preexisting integrations for safety, fleet, telematics, and insurance management. - Beans Optimize: A fast, dynamic route planning engine that provides unlimited customization in route sequencing, route planning, and assisted dispatch.

Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group. Prior to PSL, Geoff was the most active angel investor in the region and has invested in over 200 private Pacific Northwest companies during the last two decades.Geoff represents PSL on the Board ofDirectors for JetClosing. He is also a current investor in over eighty private companies in the region and is a board member of Hiya, Meritage Soups, Bonanza, Foodee and LiquidPlanner.Geoff is also a long-time member of the Executive and Screening committees of the Alliance of Angels, the largest angel investor organization in the Pacific Northwest, as well as serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington, the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame and the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, he has also held positions at Perkins Coie, Jones Day, UrbanEarth.com, Salomon Brothers, The Prudential Home Mortgage Company, Mellon Bank, Priority Investment Management and Duquesne Capital Management. Geoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Migo, Inc. — Founded in 2016, Migo is a free mobile search app for personal transportation, helping consumers choose the best way from Point A to Point B.
Lockstep — Connected accounting starts at Lockstep. Eliminate cash traps with our AR automation software and discover our modern, easy-use accounting API platform.
Trainiac — Trainiac by Gympass helps you get into an effective exercise routine by pairing you with a dedicated fitness coach for a personalized fitness plan and weekly workouts you can do anywhere. Available exclusively for Gympass members.

Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigiesand entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.”Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others.Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV's hit series, “Punk'd,” and The CW's reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

QD-SOL — QD-SOL uses nanoparticles to produce green hydrogen in half the time.
Spicewell — Spicewell develops and creates food seasoning products that includes various kinds of micronutrients. It uses modern science to infuse healthy and organic additions to food meals. Spicewell is based in California, USA.
HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Karman+ — Mining near Earth asteroids
Knostic — Knostic provides need-to-know access controls for Large Language Models (LLMs). Its knowledge-centric capabilities enable enterprises to expedite the deployment of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation while maintaining value, security, and safety.
Resquared — Resquared has everything you need and more to reach local businesses. Contact data on every local business, optimized email and social outreach tools, and step-by-step built-in playbooks.

Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Azos — Azos is an insurtech firm that offers personalized insurance services. The company was founded by Rafael Cló, Bernardo Ribeiro, and Renato Farias and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

Paul Graham

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Egypt, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.

Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He previously served as the CEO of AngelList. He attended Dartmouth College.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
The ePlane Company — The ePlane Co. aims to end your traffic woes by building one of the most innovative mobility solutions for up to 10x faster urban commutes. Our mission is to revolutionize city travel with efficient and sustainable aerial technology.
Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker provides water for farms, watersheds, and ecosystems, fortifying growth and stewarding the natural world.

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!

Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Owner — Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more.
Persana AI — Hyperpersonalized AI enables businesses to easily identify qualified leads, surface customer insights and send personalized outreach at scale.
Twenty — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.

Haresh Chawla - Partner @ True North

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Education
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

FastJobs.io — FastJobs.io envisions a world in which job hunting is completely stress-free and convenient.
Onmove — Zast is a high speed long distance trucking aggregator enabled through technology.
Powerhouse91 — Powerhouse91 operates as an eCommerce roll-up platform. Powerhouse91's business model relies on identifying high-potential consumer brands, acquiring, and scaling them through growth capital, shared resources, and e-commerce focused optimizations.

- Co-Founder Co-CEO of 9am.Health - Co-Founder & CEO of mySugr (acquired by Roche in 2017) - Early stage investor with focus on digital health & fin-tech

Investment focus

iOS, Wellness, Wealth Management
Seed, Series A, Angel
Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
Der Brutkasten — Der Brutkasten is an austria's multimedia platform for startups. They focus on both the startups, as well as the context in which they move. They are dealing with the topic of entrepreneurship, the digital and innovative economy, technology, but also socio-political, forward-looking topics that they will have to solve in this context.
not less but better — Wellspent makes it easy to rethink whether you want to keep scrolling social media.

Paige Craig Is The Partner at Outlander.He attend to the United States Military Academy at West PointUnited States Military Academy at West Point 1992.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

StackStr — Real time monitoring of machine learning systems.
Qualified — Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires.
Spaceship — A platform for Continuous Delivery. Turn your code into containers automatically. Get it running on Kubernetes instantly.

Kashish Sharma is the Chief Equity Officer at EquityList. He attended Vellore Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

OSlash — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.

David Assia is a Chairman at iAngels. David Assia, a member of their Board of Directors since October 2006, is a co-founder of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., and served there in various positions, including as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, from 1983 until 2007. Mr. Assia is currently the CEO of Nadyr Investments,a privately held investment company. Mr. Assia was managing director of Mashov Computers Ltd. between 1980 and 1986 and has served as the Chairman of its Board of Directors since 1989. Mr. Assia also serves as a director of the First International Bank, eToro Group Ltd., Biocatch Ltd., MobeeArt, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Yeda Research & Development Company and The Israel Association of Electronics and Software. Mr. Assia holds a B.A. degree in economics and statistics and an M.B.A. degree, both from Tel Aviv University.

Investment focus

SaaS, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

CodiPark — CodiPark is a mobile-payment platform that focuses on parking lots. CodiPark users scan a barcode, pay, and go without waiting in lines or seeking payment machines. The process speeds up entrance and exit times, resulting in increased revenue opportunities for parking-lot owners, who also no longer have to collect cash.
Drippler — Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology
BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.

Cameron Drummond is the CIO of Mastodon Capital Management. He attended the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Cornell University.

Investment focus

Internet, Dating, Social Media
Seed, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

Hinge — Hinge is a social discovery network helping users meet new people through an application. Moreover, Hinge provides an alternative to swipe culture by creating smart matches and natural conversations among people who are on the same page. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.
RealKey — Go straight to funding with facilitated documentation gathering that ensures underwriters get everything needed for a clean approval.
Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.

Aloke Bajpai is ixigo.com’s Co-Founder and CEO. Aloke graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2001 and started his career at Amadeus in Europe where he held key product and technology roles, building and managing large scale web-based products and networks for the first four years of his career. He then went to INSEAD for his MBA, and returned to India tolaunch ixigo.com in 2007. Under Aloke’s leadership over the last 7 years, ixigo has gone from a bootstrapped startup to India’s leading travel search and planning business, with over 20 million active users every month across mobile and web. Aloke is a TiE charter member and a mentor and advisor with several startups and accelerators.

Investment focus

Mobile, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

InstaAstro — Chat and talk to astrologer for accurate predictions on love, career, marriage, business & relationship. 24/7 astrology consultation starting from 10 per minute in Hindi, English, Tamil, Bengali, etc
MealHopper — Mealhopper brings food from home that matches closest to the customers. They provide a true home food from real home cooks.
OnlineTyari — OnlineTyari.com helps you prepare and take online mock tests for govt exams like SSC, IAS, Bank PO, Railways. We keep student updated with latest study material including GK and current affairs 2019 in India. We provide study material (online Mock tests, E-Books, Video classes and Practice questions). Highly recommended for students preparing for competitive exams like civil services (IAS, CSAT), engineering services, PSU jobs exams.Get current affair 2019 and free mock tests to start preparation.

Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

Nate Macleitch - CEO @ QuickBlox

Investment focus

iOS, Mobile, Android
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
QuickBlox — QuickBlox provides instant messaging API that allow chat and calling functionality to be added to any Android, iOS, or Web application.

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.
ClearGrid — Revolutionize your debt recovery with AI and advanced analytics. Our platform delivers faster, more personalized collections that benefit both your business and your customers.
Qualified Health — Discover the Infrastructure for enforceable governance, agent creation, and post-deployment monitoring for Generative AI in healthcare

Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Finland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
Spell — Operationalizing AI for NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech Recognition has never been easier
Orchid Labs — Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet. Orchid uses an overlay network built upon the existing internet, which is driven by a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange, creating a more inclusive, liberated internet. Orchid Labs was founded in 2017 by Dr. Steven Waterhouse, Jay Freeman,Brian J. Fox, Gustav Simonsson, and Stephen Bell.

Jean-David has always been a tremendous entrepreneur since he started his first company at the age of 16. At that time, he created an interactive service company (Concerto Telematique) for brands such as Coca Cola, Marlboro or Renault. In 1993, he created AlloCine, an internet multimedia movie guide service which rapidly became France #1destination for movies, cinema and entertainment and one of France’s most famous internet success stories. AlloCine was sold to Vivendi in 2001. Prior co-founding Molotov with Pierre Lescure in 2015, he invested in several successful companies such as Meetic, Amalto technologies, Restopolitan, Veoprint, Square Inc. or The Cools.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Internet, Android
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

ZenGo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.
Aula — Aula's created by educators to make every learning experience truly engaging. See how our simple, social platform can transform your digital learning environment.

Christian is a technologist and experienced venture capitalist. He is a founding Partner of 2150, a venture capital fund seeking to make our urban environment more efficient and sustainable through technology.

Investment focus

Apps, iOS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

AtmosZero — Industrial electric boilers to meet carbon neutral goals. Modular electrified boilers that takes the heat in the air and turns it into decarbonized steam at the temperature you need, when you need it.
Mitoo Sports — The platform for the world's sports. > Players, Parents, Friends, Teams, Clubs, Leagues > Governing Bodies, Brands
Ampd Energy — Ampd Energy is driven by its vision for an emission-free future for construction. Ampd Energy pioneered the use of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in urban construction with its flagship product, the "Enertainer". The Enertainer electrifies construction sites and provides clean, quiet and fully automated energy delivery, allowingconstruction to transition away from fossil fuels.Compared to fossil fuel generators, the Enertainer: reduces carbon footprint by up to 85%; is 32x quieter; emits zero diesel fumes; eliminates diesel handling and usage risks; has zero maintenance and refuelling downtime; and is economically justified for operational cost savings. As an IoT enabled device, the Enertainer can be remotely monitored anytime and anywhere, providing a deep level of data-transparency for data-driven decision making.Website: www.ampd.energy LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ampd_energy

Andrew Wright is the Managing Director of Wright Ventures. He attended the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, CRM
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Blok24 — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
Trainiac — Trainiac by Gympass helps you get into an effective exercise routine by pairing you with a dedicated fitness coach for a personalized fitness plan and weekly workouts you can do anywhere. Available exclusively for Gympass members.
Magicflix — Magicflix is a safe, curated video service for kids 12 years and younger. Magicflix aggregates videos from award-winning, original content creators from across the world. Magicflix provides a safe environment for children to view videos by curating them to be safe, age-appropriate and positive. Magicflix is now live on the App store. Magicflixis a Techstars Seattle 2014 startup and is based out of Seattle, WA. Magicflix is led by a strong technology team and 3 of Magicflix' 4 founders are moms including the CEO, Mamtha Banerjee. Together with it's content partners, Magicflix' mission is to make the mobile world a safer place for our children.

David is a Partner of Amplify Partners and co-founder of Chartio.com.Before joining Amplify Partners, David spent time as both a venture-backed entrepreneur and an early-stage investor. He began his career in technology as the co-founder and CEO of Chartio.com, a pioneering provider of cloud-based data visualization and analytics. He wassubsequently part of the founding team at Patients Know Best, one of the world’s leading cloud-based personal health record companies. David has been a prolific investor and advisor to entrepreneurs. He has personally invested in more than 50 early-stage companies, including Zymergen, Skycatch, Caribou Biosciences, Rigetti Computing, Casetext, Ginkgo Bioworks, Function of Beauty, Cruise Automation, and Bugcrowd. In addition, he currently serves on the advisory council of Bayes Impact, a nonprofit organization that deploys data science to solve important social challenges.He attended Brown University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Airtable — Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.It brings the database out of the realm of power users and into the mainstream, creating a new type of flexible but sophisticated productivity tool that anyone can use. Airtable gives end-users the ability to createand share their own workflows for everything from managing an editorial calendar to planning a major event. The platform helps create flexible checklists, organize collections or ideas, and manage customers or contacts as well as offers a variety of templates ranging from home improvement to store inventory, enabling users to build custom applications without any prior coding experience.The company was founded by Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas, and Howie Liu in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
Ginkgo Bioworks — Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria toprotect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets.

Ratan Tata is the Founder and Managing Director of RNT Associates.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GOQii — GOQii is headquartered in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. It is dedicated to enabling a permanent shift to a healthier lifestyle with the combination of advanced wearable technology, the world's leading experts, coaches and karma. GOQii focuses on sustained engagement & goal reinforcement and offers a complete ecosystem asa single integrated solution, which is a powerful combination of technology and human connection. GOQii is a collaboration of some of the world's leading experts and an amazing management team who are driven by a passion for healthy sustainable living, and who believe that all of us contain boundless potential. GOQii's goal is to enable millions of people across the world to "be the force" by helping them unleash their untapped potential.
Repos energy — Repos energy is a e-commerce of Fuel to move towards a carbon neutral future.
Goodfellows — Goodfellows aims to offer companionship to lonely senior citizens.

Andreas Penna - Co-Founder & General Partner @ West Quad Ventures

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bonsai — Bridging content and commerce. Bonsai brings together products people love and the content they can't get enough of.
Rain — Rain Instant Pay Earned Wage Access grants you a chance to get an advance on your salary before thepay date right into your bank account. Get your Salary Today!
Public — Invest in stocks. Learn from others. Public lets you invest in stocks with any amount of money and see what others invest in.

Jay Jamison is the current President of Product & Technology of LogicGate. He previously worked at Quick Base as a Chief Product Officer. Jay Jamison attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Mobile, Cloud Infrastructure, Software
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pachyderm — Pachyderm automates and scales the machine learning lifecycle while guaranteeing reproducibility
Neptune.io — Neptune.i is a self-healing platform to fix your server alerts automatically thereby reducing downtime for the business. Every server on the internet generates hundreds of alerts per month. Today, DevOps engineers in lot of companies are fixing these alerts manually at anytime of the day (think 2AM). We help your engineers sleep peacefully byrunning scripts automatically.
Fathom — An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar.

Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
Flower — We enable the energy system of tomorrow by combining pioneering technology with flexible assets, allowing clean energy to power society
Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs | The world's first AI copilot For mobile game marketers

Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000. From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company. Prior tothat, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation. Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Madras, India.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
Arta Finance — Arta is a digital wealth platform offering unifying your investments, financial planning, tax and estate planning in one. Access elite private investment fund managers, along with intelligent investment tools for public markets.
Moonhub — Hire Top Talent On Demand With Expert Recruiters and AI

Built two unicorns: Dendy and Akado. Startup advisor and mentor. I invest in companies I work with.

Investment focus

SaaS, iOS, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

AppFollow — AppFollow is a B2B SaaS, one-stop platform that helps teams run apps in app stores. It delivers critical analytics around app reviews and searches result in positions straight to email, Slack, Zendesk, Salesforce, Helpshift, Intercom, and 30 more integrations. AppFollow helps mobile app owners to track keywords performance, increase your organicinstalls with ASO (App Store Optimization) Tools, track competitors, and market leaders. AppFollow supports 5 stores (App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store, and Mac App Store, Amazon), has 30+ integrations with the most popular services, translation from 31 languages, covering all countries.Over 50 000 companies from all over the world trust AppFollow with their app growth including HBO, Merc, Sky, Wrike, Airbnb, Hubspot, Uber, Swisscom, Robinhood, Gett, Jam City, Pixonic, Wargaming, and more.
DeckRobot — Transform the way you create and present corporate documents with DeckRobot, the pioneering generative AI company leading the charge. Our innovative technology combines advanced machine learning with ease of use to deliver customized enterprise solutions for slide formatting and styling that are both stunning and secure. Trust our team of PhDs,published in scientific journals, to take your presentations to new heights.With a presence in over 20 countries, DeckRobot is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is proud to work with clients from Fortune 500 companies and small businesses in over 50 countries. Join our rapidly expanding team of experts in the US and Europe and be part of our mission to revolutionize the world of corporate presentations.

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.

Yanki Margalit is an Israeli entrepreneur, investor, and speaker best known for starting the Internet security company Aladdin Knowledge Systems, which was sold in 2009. He is a partner in the seed investment fund Innodo Ventures and a chairman of several technology startup companies, including SpaceIL. SpaceIL is a non-profit space technologyorganization that plans to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon by 2015 and is currently competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.Yanki is also engaged with several non-profit organizations, including Idealist.org, Latet, College4all.org, Meet.mit.edu, Adama.org.il, and SpaceIL.com He has appeared as a professional speaker on technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and human evolution, while studying and working in his more recent interests of biotechnology, clean energy, and space exploration.Described as the Israeli Singularity prophet, Yanki took a key role in introducing Singularity University in Israel. He lectures on such topics as Israel as a startup nation, the future of silicon and carbon, the maker movement, entrepreneurship and innovation, and SpaceIL’s goal to land a spaceship on the moon.

Investment focus

B2B, iOS, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

iAngels — Invest in groundbreaking startups with iAngels. Discovercutting-edge technology and join a community of forward-thinking investors shapingthe future of entrepreneurship.
Drippler — Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology
Digital Layers Inc. —

Bill Lee was CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a Benchmark Capital-backed collaboration company. At Remarq, Bill guided the company in its development of a complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration platform. Before its acquisition by Critical Path in March 2000, the company developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites such aseBay, Sun, Novell, and Amazon. The company raised over $43 million in venture and debt financing.Bill has been appointed by the Mayor of San Jose to the Redevelopment Committee of San Jose. Bill also graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in accounting/finance and received a JD/MBA from UCLA.

Investment focus

Mobile, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
Lightning Labs — Building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin
Goldin Auctions — Goldin Auctions is the leading marketplace for trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other collectibles. Founder Ken Goldin has sold more than $1 billion in memorabilia from many of the biggest names in sports, history, and pop culture. The company routinely sets records for the most expensive trading cards and other memorabilia ever sold.Lifelong collectors and new hobbyists alike trust Goldin Auctions because the company professionally authenticates everything it sells.

Jed is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on technology and marketing. He is the CEO of Adwerx, a company committed to providing digital marketing tools that are affordable, effective and accessible to everyone. Previous ventures include SmartPrint, a division of AmeriDisc Inc, and ReverbNation, the music-marketing platform with 3.5 million users.Jed is obsessed with taking on the digital challenges that face small businesses, and building scalable, simple and affordable products to solve them. He is also a trusted advisor and investor in the startup community. He has an MBA from Duke University and lives in Durham with his wife and three children.Before earning his MBA from Duke University, Jed was a successful entrepreneur in Minneapolis with a focus on technology and marketing. His past ventures include The Carlson Print Group, a commercial printing and packaging company, and SmartPrint, a division of AmericDisc Inc. Jed continues to be obsessed with taking on the digital challenges that face small businesses, and building scalable, simple and affordable products to solve them. He is also an active angel investor, mentor and advisor to over ten tech startups.Jed Carlson is also a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences on technology and digital marketing. Jed’s commitment to leveling the playing field for small businesses is equal only to his devotion to guiding other entrepreneurs to success.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Mobile
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

WedPics — After nearly 8 years of being the leading wedding photo and video sharing app, WedPics will be shutting down on February 15, 2019. We greatly appreciate you choosing WedPics to be a part of your special day, and want to thank you for being a part of our journey. You can download all your full resol

Henrik Lindemann

Investment focus

Art, iOS, Android
Seed, Funding Round
Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Artland — Artland is a dedicated platform for contemporary art. Discover, buy from galleries on a global scale and connect with art lovers and art collectors.

Yuri Milner is the Founder of the Breakthrough Prize. He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Moscow State University.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HiNOTE — HiNOTE: modern messaging for any occasion. Customize & send your best text, card, invite, social post with individuality, high-touch humor & style.
Lori Systems — Lori is a venture-backed start-up building the cutting-edge logistics infrastructure for trucking in Africa. The start-up is tackling a massive issue - $180 billion is spent annually on haulage across Africa, which means that up to 75% of a product’s cost is due to logistics (compared to 6% in the US).Lori’s tech-enabled and operations-drivenmarketplace efficiently connects transport to cargo. The supply chain management system brings transparency and has pushed significantly improved flexibility, reliability, and cost savings (savings upwards of 18%).The company has experienced 30% month-over-month compounded growth since product launch in May 2017. The market demand for Lori’s platform is increasing exponentially. To continue this pace of growth, Lori recently closed a landmark raise from globally leading institutional and strategic investors. The company won Techcrunch Battlefield Africa.
XiaoBangGuiHua — XiaoBangGuiHua is an intelligent investment advisory service platform. Through intelligent robot algorithm and advanced asset allocation model, it provides investors with scientific and systematic financial management solutions, including small help investment app, Bin Xu said investment series, love said finance and economics

Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Japan, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.

Chairman at EZSource

Investment focus

iOS, Mobile, Android
Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Drippler — Drippler is a personalized tech assistant, helping people make the most of their technology