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Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in United States

Last updated: Sep 2023 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in United States

Investor	Artificial intelligence United States investments
Elad Gil	25
Nat Friedman	20
Kevin Mahaffey	20
Scott Belsky	18
Wei Guo	16
Jason Calacanis	16
Anthony Goldbloom	15
Scott Banister	15
Lachy Groom	15
Greg Brockman	14
Mark Cuban	14
Auren Hoffman	14
Naval Ravikant	13
Jack Altman	13
Paul Buchheit	13
Vishal Rao	13
Sam Altman	12
Jackson Moses	12
Dylan Field	12
Daniel Gross	11
Eric Schmidt	11
Gokul Rajaram	11
Max Levchin	11
Lee Linden	11
Kevin Moore	11
Ronald Conway	11
Wayne Chang	11
Edward Lando	10
Jeff Seibert	10
Farzad (Zod) Nazem	10
Jerry Yang	10
Georges Harik	10
Ram Shriram	10
Guillermo Rauch	10
Adam D’Angelo	9
Daren Cotter	9
Avichal Garg	9
Nat Turner	9
Ullas Naik	9
Steve Chen	9
Benjamin Ling	8
Oleg Rogynskyy	8
Ilya Sukhar	8
Eric Ries	8
Tim Draper	8
Nitesh Banta	8
Mark Cuban	8
Bradley Horowitz	8
Bogomil Balkansky	8
Frederic Kerrest	8

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Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Neon — Postgres made for developers. Easy to Use, Scalable, Cost efficient solution for your next project.
Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Resend — Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.

Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer.Nat is passionate about building products that delight customers, with love and attention to detail. Nat has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Nat was a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME foundation. At Novell,Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.Nat is an avid traveler who visited 20 countries in 2010, an active angel investor, and a private pilot.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Weights & Biases — Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning
Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Reka AI — Reka is an AI research and product company that develops models to benefit humanity, organizations, and enterprises.

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, India

Portfolio highlights

dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
Pano — Pano offers hardware and software technology solutions for fire professionals to detect threats and respond faster.
Uno — Uno is making the internet easier to use, starting with identity.

Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.
Infringements — Monitor your patents and get instant alerts on potential infringements.

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
CyberFilm — Bring your story to life!
Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.

Anthony Goldbloom is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kaggle.com. He is also the Founder Partner at Founder Collective. Forbes has twice named Anthony one of the 30 under 30 in technology, the MIT Technology Review has named him as one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 and the University of Melbourne has given Anthony an Alumni ofDistinction Award.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Galileo — Inspecting Your ML Data Needs a Purpose-built Tool
TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
Predibase — The fastest and easiest way to fine tune and serve any open-source ML model or LLM on state-of-the-art-infrastructure hosted within your private cloud.

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
TipTop — Buying stuff is easy, selling it is hard. But maybe there is a world where you don't have to sell things any longer? Curious?

i did some stuff at stripe. chairman of Compound.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Speak — People spend $90 billion a year on human english teachers that are expensive and ineffective. Speak offers a mobile app where you can have english conversations with your phone about real world scenarios like interviewing for a job or asking for directions. It uses speech recognition to identify english words through thick accents and teach peopleto speak more clearly. Meanwhile, it’s building a massive database of accented-english speech, which can be used to improve its system and other speech recognition systems. Speak’s team formerly built accent detection systems and sold Flashcards+ to Chegg. Though AI translation might reduce the need for people to know other languages, speaking English remains a valuable skill people are willing to pay for.
Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.
Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.

Greg Brockman is the Co-founder and Chairman of OpenAI. He was formerly the CTO of Stripe, a leading Silicon Valley startup.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
Sandbar — Simplify and accelerate your AML compliance with Sandbar. We adapt with you to minimize risk and reduce your workload. Learn more and start a conversation today.
Uplimit (formerly CoRise) — Uplimit accelerates your professional growth through live, small group courses created and taught by top experts.

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Broadcast.com. Mrk attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
Bequest Finance — Compliant, easy and non-custodial digital asset management.
Deep Cognition — Deep Cognition uses AI based solutions to extract data and enter the data into TMS or ERP systems to automate your data entry process with paperentry.

Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Calypso AI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.
Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.
LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.

Jack Altman is the founder and CEO of Lattice.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

iVerify — IVerify is a mobile threat hunting company that provides mobile security solutions for individuals who want to know they can trust their devices with their most sensitive information without sacrificing privacy.
Reflex — Pynecone is an open-source, full-stack Python framework that makes it simple to build and deploy web apps in minutes. Pynecone combines the flexibility, performance, and customizability of traditional web development with the ease of use and accessibility of low-code frameworks.
Verifiable — A modern data engine to power healthcare credentialing, licensing, enrollment and provider network management. Built for the new demands of today's healthcare.

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 offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Perplexity AI — 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.
Character.ai — character.ai is bringing to life the science-fiction dream of open-ended conversations and collaborations with computers.

Advisory CTO and Angel Investor

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?
Berri AI — A website made with Typedream.
Anarchy — Anarchy builds a cloud platform for AI pioneers to build LLM tools augmented with external interactivity.

Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Sam was previously the Chairman of Y Combinator, a leading silicon valley startup accelerator.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Ghana, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Vital Bio — Reinventing diagnostics for proactive & accessible care. Diagnostics designed for better outcomes. Eliminating gaps between care and treatment.
Warp — Warp is a Rust-based terminal reimagined to focus on productivity, efficiency, and speed. It is now available on MacOS. Warp has an IDE-like input area and it groups input and output together into atomic units. It also features Warp AI, which explains errors and suggests commands using AI.
Uncommon — Uncommon is a pluripotent team of bio-creators, forging a healthier future of food. Formerly known as HigherSteaks

A proven serial entrepreneur and early defense tech investor, Jackson Moses currently serves as the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures, an early stage venture firm that invests in exceptional founders building unrivaled aerospace, defense, and national security startups. He also manages Silent Capital, a private syndicate that providesits members exclusive access to leading defense and frontier tech deals. As a serial founder, Jackson’s companies - MainStreet (FinTech) and Spectrum Labs (enterprise AI) - have raised over $120M, employ hundreds of people, and generate $30M+ in ARR.Prior to founding Silent Ventures, Jackson founded and served as VP of Partnerships at MainStreet - the first company to make R&D tax credits accessible to startups and SMBs via industry-leading workflows, integrations, and back-office technologies. As a founding executive, he was responsible for defining GTM strategies, scaling revenue, building a world-class sales organization, and managing business development initiatives. To date, MainStreet has helped 2,000+ startups claim over $150M in savings, collectively extending their runway by centuries.Prior to founding MainStreet, Jackson founded and served as Chairman & CEO of Spectrum Labs - a frontier tech company that develops cutting-edge AI to make digital communities more profitable for Fortune 500 owners, marketers, and their users. Its customers span gaming, dating, and social media, and include Tencent (TCEHY), Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), Grindr (NYSE: GRND), Yik Yak, Wildlife Studios, and The Meet Group, among others.Prior to founding Spectrum Labs, Jackson worked in sales (Lynda.com), customer operations, and executive recruiting at LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to this, he worked as a Market Research Analyst at Cisco where he evaluated industry trends, new investment opportunities, and emerging threats to Cisco’s core business lines.Jackson actively advises startups, venture firms, and family offices on private sector aerospace and defense tech trends, investment opportunities, and capital allocation strategies. He serves as a Venture Partner to several large firms and has sourced deals for 8VC, Airbus Ventures, Tribe Capital, Susa Ventures, Lavrock Ventures, Afore Capital, and defense primes.Jackson holds two B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied Economics, with a concentration in monetary policy, and Political Science, with a concentration in game theory.Personal: www.jacksonmoses.com | Work: www.silentvc.com | Syndicate: www.silentcapital.vc

Investment focus

Aerospace, Government, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Galvanick — Secure industrial operations. Galvanick's industrial-first Extended Detection & Response (XDR) platform secures industrial systems and networks against cyber attacks.
Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
Orbit Fab — Orbit Fab is creating the future of on-orbit satellite refueling. We maximize your operational assets by enabling mission flexibility and freedom of action in space.

Dylan Field is the CEO / Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

SPREAD — SPREAD create digital product perception like no machine understood before – less artificial, more intelligent!
Campus.edu — Campus.edu is a community college focused on maximizing access to world-class education.
Campus — Live courses with top professors.

Daniel Gross is the Co-Founder of Pioneer. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a Head of AI.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Weights & Biases — Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning
ElevenLabs — Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice.
CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.

Eric Schmidt is the founding partner of the Schmidt Family Foundation. He previously worked at Alphabet Inc. as an Executive Chairman and Technical Advisor. Eric Schmidt attended Princeton University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
Mistral AI — Mistral AI is a platform that assembles team to develop the generative AI models.
Keeta — Keeta is the global payments platform that safely teleports your money

Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Middleware — Middleware observability platform provides complete visibility into your apps & stack, so you can monitor & diagnose issues at scale.
Charlie — Access to Social Security up to 4 weeks early and 3% earnings on deposits. Charlie is not a bank. Banking services provided by Sutton Bank, member FDIC.
Openlayer — The most advanced platform for building high-quality, trustworthy models from the ground up.

Max Levchin is an investor and advisor to emerging technology companies. He was previously the chairman and chief executive officer of HVF, a startup lab focused on extracting insights from recordable information.Levchin co-founded Confinity Inc. in December 1998, and served as the Chief Technology Officer and a director. He also foundedNetMeridian Software, a developer of early Internet applications Levchin also serves as chairman of the boards of directors of Yelp Inc. and Kaggle Inc., and as a director of Evernote Corporation.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

withco — You deserve to own your business' real estate. We make it happen. Apply in 5 min to see if our lease-to-own partnership is right for you.
Pomelo — At Pomelo we build state-of-the-art fintech infrastructure. Our technology enables you to launch and scale your financial services business.
Polywork — A network that doesn’t restrict you to telling your story through a list of arbitrary job titles; that doesn’t let any random stranger you’ve never even met endorse you for skills you never knew you had. They want to build a network that empowers you and gives you control over your identity and your future opportunities.

Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Explore our full line of vegan hair products for dandruff & dry scalp. Take our dermatologist-designed quiz to get your personalized regimen today.
Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
Airhouse — Airhouse is the first all-in-one logistics platform for modern direct-to-consumer ecommerce companies. Launch a complex fulfillment operation in seconds.

Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Augmend — AI-augmented knowledge transfer across developers through a platform that captures and shares expertise.
SilkChart — SilkChart helps growth teams improve campaigns based on what users are doing in product - without relying on expensive data scientists. We do this through a no code analytics tool that combines marketing and product usage data to identify which channels, audiences, and content maximize revenue growth.
Redbird — Redbird is an operating system that empowers data driven teams to easily create custom applications that automate advanced analytics work in minutes, without writing code.

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Advertising
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Kumo.AI — Query the future. Deliver predictive analytics across your enterprise in days, regardless of ML experience. Powered by cutting edge deep learning techniques.
Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.

Wayne Chang (born August 3, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding Crashlytics, which in little over a year was acquired by Twitter for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO), creating i2hub, a popular filesharing network, his seedinvestments that include companies like JetSmarter, Draftkings, and Gusto, and his lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers, who were famously depicted in The Social Network movie.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
CryptoTaxCalculator — Online Crypto Tax Calculator with support for over 400 integrations. $49 for all financial years. Money Back Guarantee.

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

As Senior Director of Product at Twitter, Jeff has led the company's consumer, developer, and publisher facing products, including Twitter for iOS, Android, and the Web, Fabric, Crashlytics, Answers, Digits, Twitter Kit, TweetDeck, Twitter's Publisher Platform, and Gnip.Previously, Seibert was Twitter’s Director of Developer Platformwhere he led Fabric, the company’s suite of mobile developer tools, as well as its enterprise Data Platform and Content Syndication efforts.Seibert was the co-founder and CEO of Crashlytics, an award-winning crash analysis service for iOS and Android apps. Crashlytics was acquired by Twitter in 2013 and has become an essential piece of the mobile developer toolchain - today powering over a million apps across well over two billion devices worldwide.Seibert co-founded Increo in 2007 and served as its COO and lead architect until its acquisition by Box in 2009. He subsequently oversaw the integration of Increo’s document preview and annotation technologies into Box’s cloud content platform.Seibert gained experience at Apple in both marketing and engineering capacities and led Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar series as Co-Coordinator. He was selected as a Mayfield Fellow in 2007 and received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.Seibert is a frequent presenter on both entrepreneurship and technical topics and has lectured at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, as well as keynoted Twitter Flight, AppsWorld, AnDevCon, EclipseCon, and others. Find him on Twitter at @JeffSeibert.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Patented.ai — Building the world's first infringement detector.
LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.
Ghost Message — Ghost your messages

Farzad (Zod) Nazem has been a prolific angel investor and advisor to tech startup companies since his retirement from Yahoo! in 2007. He has invested in more than 60 early stage companies, and sits on the boards of Hand Foundation, and The Nueva School. His area of investment is about two thirds Big Data and Cloud platforms, and one third Healthand Medical. He was the Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo from 1996 to mid 2007. He helped acquire and integrate over 50 companies and managed over six thousand engineers representing half of the company's employees. Between 1985 and 1996, Mr. Nazem held various software development and management positions at Oracle Corporation culminating in his role as Vice President of Media and Web Server Division. His tenure at Oracle also included membership in the company's Product Division Management Committee, which set overall strategy for Oracle products. Previously, Mr. Nazem was recruited from California Polytechnic State University by Rolm Corporation to be a software engineer in the VLCBX division. At age 19, he earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science with highest honors.

Investment focus

Health Care, Analytics, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ceevra, Inc. — Ceevra is an advanced 3D visualization technology for surgeons. Using AI and other innovative computing techniques, Ceevra generates brilliant 3D digital models from standard CT scans and MRIs. Surgeons use the Ceevra 3D models to help educate and counsel patients, to decide on the best surgical approach, and to gain important insights whileoperating.
TigerGraph — TigerGraph is the fastest and only scalable graph database for the enterprise. Unleash the power and speed of our graph analytics platform today.
Emailage — Emailage is a developer of fraud prevention and identity verification technology used to make transactions easier and secure. The company provides multi-faceted predictive solutions with email at the core through key partnerships, proprietary data, and advanced machine-learning technology. It proprietary algorithms in order to provide real-timealerts of risky transactions and delivers a risk score and enable companies to realize significant savings from identifying and stopping fraudulent transactions and improve customer experience.

Jerry Yang, a Taiwanese native raised in San Jose, Calif., co-created the Yahoo Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo Inc. in April 1995. He was appointed chief executive officer of the company in November 2008. Yang, a leading force in the Internet media industry, has been instrumental in building Yahoointo the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the world's most recognized brands. Since the company's founding, Jerry Yang has been a key member of the executive management team. His focus at Yahoo over the years has included corporate strategy, Yahoo's technology vision, strategic business partnerships and international joint ventures, and recruiting key talent.In addition to serving on the Yahoo Board of Directors, Jerry Yang currently serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems, Yahoo Japan, and Alibaba, and is also on the Stanford University Board of Trustees.Yang holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and is currently on a leave of absence from Stanford's electrical engineering Ph.D. program.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
Somewear Labs — Somewear is a satellite communications solution designed for the increasingly digital world. Somewear is building a satellite-powered platform to keep people safe. Somewear gives any remote operative a reliable line to safety and keeps organizations compliant at a fraction of the traditional cost with a combination of compact satellite hotspots andsoftware designed for low-bandwidth applications.It was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.
QDC.ai — QDC combines state-of-the-art Theoretical Computer Science and Quantum-Inspired Algorithms, leveraging the latest research from computational physics and quantum computing. Our product VeloXQ is a cloud-based Middleware designed to solve today’s hardest combinatorial optimization problems. Customers plug us into their data pipeline, and we providethem with real time analytics, simulations and actionable data.

Georges Harik was Director of Googlettes, a start-up incubator that operated inside Google, and a Distinguished Engineer at Google. As Director of Googlettes, his team was responsible for the product management and strategy efforts surrounding many starting Google initiatives including Gmail, Google Talk, Google Video, Picasa, Orkut, Google Groupsand Google Mobile.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
TENYX — Tenyx is developing the next generation of voice-based intelligent systems based on proprietary neuroscience-inspired AI technology
Nimble Robotics — Nimble builds AI-powered robots that pick and pack anything to enable the fastest, most affordable, and most sustainable on-demand order fulfillment.

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, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Moonhub — Hire Top Talent On Demand With Expert Recruiters and AI
Arta Finance — Arta Finance is a network of innovators, researchers, finance specialists, and business executives who help people get the most of their finances. Arta offers access to financial opportunities that help people to plan and enjoy their financial future but with less complexity and lower fees. It was founded by Caesar Sengupta.
NocoDB — Free & Open Source Airtable alternative. Turns any SQL database into a smart spreadsheet. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL server, MariaDB & SQLite.

Before starting ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He's the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.JS, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

ProjectDiscovery — ProjectDiscovery is a remote-first open-source software company simplifying security operations for hackers and developers.
Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
Middleware — Middleware observability platform provides complete visibility into your apps & stack, so you can monitor & diagnose issues at scale.

Adam D’Angelo is a Founder and CEO of Quora.He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure to ensure scalability as the site expanded.Prior to serving as CTO, Adam led the FacebookPlatform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed, ad targeting and delivery, and worked on scalability and optimization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
GitStart — YC backed tech startup which helps teams scale engineering velocity through its unique Pull Requests as a Service platform and delivers world class code quality so customers can ship faster.
Locket Labs — Locket Labs is a popular app for sharing photos straight to your family and friends’ home screens.

Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

TicketRev — TicketRev helps fans find cheaper tickets to their favorite games and concerts. Fans name their price for their preferred seating location, enabling resellers and teams to sell their inventory faster.
Vertical Insure — Vertical Insure is an insurance company built for vertical SaaS platforms.
Fulcrum — Designed with technology in mind, be free of paper with Fulcrum, the manufacturing ERP of the future. Ai scheduling, visual BOM, live tracking

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Magrathea Metals — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.
Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.
Pulley — Pulley has helped thousands of companies manage their cap table and equity. Onboard with us today.

Before co-founding Flatiron, Nat was Co-Founder and CEO of Invite Media, an advertising technology company based in NYC. Invite Media built the industry's first enterprise advertising platform for buying and optimizing online media in real-time. Invite Media was acquired by Google in 2010. Prior to Invite Media, Nat started numerousinternet companies and also worked at Say Media and First Round Capital. An active angel investor, Nat has invested in over 30 technology startups throughout the country, including Bell Biosystems, Breakthrough, Care at Hand, DocPhin, Doctor Evidence, Genomera, Meddik, Oscar, and Predilytics. Nat earned a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Economics with concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In his spare time, Nat is an avid golfer and tries to trick trout with fake bugs.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China

Portfolio highlights

CollX — Snap photos of them and instantly get the current market price. Add them to your collection and track your overall portfolio value.
Collectors — Helping collectors to pursue their passion.
Iterative Scopes — Iterative Scopes provides gastroenterologists with machine learning-powered diagnostic tools that help them prevent colon cancer and improve patient outcomes

Ullas Naik is the Founder & General Partner at Streamlined Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Love Health — Love is a healthcare company that considers community input while creating new therapies.
Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
Sunshine — Sunshine is a digital lifestyle service that learns and predicts your feelings based on your environment, location, and time of day and provides personalized advice for your wellbeing.

Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Cityfurnish — Cityfurnish is an internet company that specializes in the fields of e-commerce and online rental. It features an online renting zone where contemporary and modern styles amalgamate to establish a new genre of wooden furniture and furnishings. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana.
Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.

Ben Ling is a founder and partner at Bling Capital. Previously he was an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personalinvestments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion, Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse.Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics.At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping.At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web.Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Hedge — Hedge develops a protocol that provides access to liquidity for assets on all chains.
Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.
Capchase — Capchase is a fintech company that provides financial solutions to startups by allowing access to funds as they grow.

Prior to People.ai Oleg helped start and scale three big data companies, two of which, including Oleg's own Semantria, were subsequently acquired. He has had an interest in data science, machine-learning and text analytics. At People.ai Oleg is leveraging these technologies to solve the age-old problem of measuring and optimizing humanproductivity.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Product Science — Product Science increases product metrics for mobile applications and helps apps work faster by providing insights into key performance issues that impact user experience.
Pano — Pano offers hardware and software technology solutions for fire professionals to detect threats and respond faster.
Trunk — Bringing industry-leading best practices to every repo, from a one person hobby project to a thousands-strong engineering organization.

Ilya Sukhar currently works as the General Partner for Matrix Partners. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a part-time partner.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Reflect — Reflect is a networked note-taking tool. Keep track of your notes, books, and meetings.
Glean — Fast data exploration for data teams and everyone else. Empower your whole team to answer questions without SQL and start making better decisions faster.
Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.

Eric is the author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, The Startup Way, and The Leaders Guide (funded by one of the top Kickstarter book campaigns of all time). He's also the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, practiced by individuals and companies around the world and the inspiration behind the LTSE. He has founded a numberof startups, including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies across many industries.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Serbia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
Manara — We identify and thoroughly vet undiscovered talent. You hire them directly for onsite or remote jobs, diversifying and accelerating your team. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of the Arab tech sector by untapping its human potential. Did you know that 52% of computer science graduates in Palestine are women? Follow us and visit our websiteto learn more.

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
EtherMail — EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.

Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yumari — Wholesale Buying from Latin America Made Easy
Beam — Take control of your finances, all in one place. Say goodbye to paperwork, spreadsheets, and hours of manual data entry.
K2 Space — By breaking the historic correlation between mass and cost, the K2 Space satellite bus offers the capabilities of large satellites at the price point of small satellites. A multi-orbit spacecraft for use across commercial, scientific and defense missions.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Vietnam, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
Bequest Finance — Compliant, easy and non-custodial digital asset management.
Deep Cognition — Deep Cognition uses AI based solutions to extract data and enter the data into TMS or ERP systems to automate your data entry process with paperentry.

Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mill — So long, smelly bags. Goodbye, greenhouse gasses. Reserve your membership today and make a real difference from your kitchen.
T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
Meander — Vektor is the career platform for Tech professionals.

Bogomil Balkansky is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. He started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Bogomil holds a bachelor of arts in Mathematics from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Bulgaria, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
Stoke — Fiverr Enterprise is a SaaS platform which helps companies source, onboard, manage, and pay your freelance talent legally and compliantly.
Promethium — Promethium is an augmented data management provider with the first AI-powered solution that combines natural language processing (NLP) with automated data prep to deliver true self-service analytics. Users simply ask a question in natural language, and Promethium locates the data, demonstrates how it should be assembled, automatically generates theSQL statement to get the right data, and executes the query across multiple repositories.

Frederic Kerrest is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Okta. He is responsible for Okta’s day-to-day operations, working with employees, partners and customers to deliver on the company’s mission of leveraging the cloud to make people more productive and IT more secure. As a key member of management, Frederic helps set corporatepriorities to drive success for the company and its customers.Frederic is passionate about enterprise technology and has spent almost two decades driving corporate efficiency via innovative software solutions. Prior to co-founding Okta, he worked at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, where he evaluated enterprise software investment opportunities and helped portfolio companies strengthen their operations and Go-To-Market strategies. From 2002 to 2007, Frederic worked in sales and business development at Salesforce.com, where he started and built the Latin America sales organization, Mobile group and OEM / Reseller programs and was a two-time Peak Performer Sales Award recipient. Prior to Salesforce.com, he co-founded and served as director of technology at an award-winning high-tech consulting firm. Frederic began his career in a variety of enterprise software development and management roles.Frederic earned a French Baccalauréat (Sciences) from the Lycée International de St. Germain-en-Laye in France, a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was the 2008 MIT Patrick J. McGovern, Jr. Entrepreneurship Award recipient. Frederic currently serves as an advisor to early stage software companies and a mentor at the MIT Trust Center for Entrepreneurship and the Stanford StartX Accelerator program. He enjoys spending time with his wife and son, reading historical biographies, playing ice hockey and supporting the San Jose Sharks.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Granica — The AI Efficiency Platform
Craft.co — Craft is a machine-learning powered data and analytics platform building the “Source of Truth” on companies and mapping the global economy. The company organizes financial, operating and human capital data from thousands of sources to provide comprehensive, up-to-date sector and company profiles, ranging from early-stage to the largest companies inthe world, with analytics and tools such as signal alerts, trends and benchmarking.

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