# Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in United States in June 2026 ## Gokul Rajaram - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 45 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services Gokul Rajaram is a founding partner at Marathon Management Partners and Board of Director of Niural. ## Robert DeMaio - Type: Angel - Location: Incline Village, Nevada, United States - Relevant deals: 43 - Stages: Convertible Note - Focus: FinTech, Software, Health Care Robert DeMaio is the founder, CEO, and controlling and majority shareholder of Phinge® Corporation. He is an inventor with over 30 granted patents, including software (Such as App-Less technologies and hardware verification) and patents for modular hardware and devices. ## Nat Friedman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 37 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nat Friedman has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. Nat Friedman is passionate about building products that delight customers with love and attention to detail.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Natwas 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. ## Elad Gil - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 35 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Kulveer Taggar - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 32 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology Kulveer Taggar is an angel investor and former CEO of Zeus. He holds a master's degree from the University of Oxford. ## Scott Belsky - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 31 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School. ## Jeff Dean - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 29 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software Jeff Dean is the Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research. He joined Google in 1999 and has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technical foundations. He currently focuses on advancing AI and deep learning research across Google’s research teams.He co-founded and led the Google Brain team, helping drive innovations indeep learning for speech recognition, computer vision, natural language understanding, and a wide range of predictive applications. Over the years, he has co-designed and implemented several generations of Google's core systems, including its web search infrastructure, crawling and indexing pipelines, and advertising technologies such as AdSense for Content.He is also a key contributor to Google's distributed computing infrastructure, having co-designed and implemented systems like MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, Protocol Buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow—one of the most widely used open-source machine learning platforms.Jeff Dean earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences and the Mark Weiser Award. ## Guillermo Rauch - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 27 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Guillermo Rauch is based out of Lanús, Buenos Aires and is the CEO of Vercel. Guillermo previously worked at MooTools as a frontend engineer. ## Kevin Mahaffey - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 26 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor. ## Sahin Boydas - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 25 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology Sahin Boydas is the PEF Chapter Lead of PEF Community. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com as CEO and Founder. Sahin Boydas attended Koç University, where he took a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, and Bahcesehir University, where he took a Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship. ## Arash Ferdowsi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 25 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008. ## Daniel Gross - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 25 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Daniel Gross is the Co-Founder of Pioneer. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a Head of AI. ## Amjad Masad - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 24 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology Amjad Masad is the Founder at Repl.it. ## Lachy Groom - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 23 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing. ## Paul Buchheit - Type: Angel - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 22 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University. ## Adam D’Angelo - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 21 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology 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. ## Jason Calacanis - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 20 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University. ## Naval Ravikant - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 20 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Blockchain 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. ## Sam Altman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 19 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator. Sam attended Stanford University. ## Mark Cuban - Type: Angel - Location: Dallas, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 18 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington. ## Lenny Rachitsky - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 17 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Lenny Rachitsky served as Co-Founder and CEO at Localmind. ## Scott Banister - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 17 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile 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. ## Dylan Field - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 17 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Dylan Field is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chair of our Board of Directors of Figma. Dylan Field attended the Brown University. ## Anthony Goldbloom - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 16 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning 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. ## Eric Schmidt - Type: Angel - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 16 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning Eric Schmidt is the CEO of Relativity Space. He 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. ## Jackson Moses - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 16 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Aerospace, National Security, Military Jackson Moses is the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures. He previously worked at ThinkOrbital as an Advisor. Jackson attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a focus on Monetary Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a focus on Game Theory. ## Richard Aberman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 16 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Developer Tools Richard Aberman is a Visiting Group Partner at Y Combinator. ## Edward Lando - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School. ## Jack Altman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Jack Altman is the founder and CEO of Lattice. ## Wei Guo - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care 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. ## Farzad Nazem - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Software, Analytics 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. ## Greg Brockman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Greg Brockman is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the President, Chairman and Co-Founder of OpenAI. Greg previously worked at Stripe as a CTO. Greg Brockman attended the Harvard University. ## Nitesh Banta - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12. ## Kyle Vogt - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology Kyle Vogt is the CEO of The Bot Company. ## Paul Graham - Type: Angel - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Paul Graham is the Founder of Y Combinator. ## Taro Fukuyama - Type: Angel - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics Taro Fukuyama is Co-Founder and CEO of Fond. ## Auren Hoffman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Analytics, Mobile CEO, NQB8, Chm, SafeGraph. GP, Flex Capital. Fmr CEO of LiveRamp. Follow @auren ## Charlie Songhurst - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics. ## Garry Tan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Garry Tan is based out of Mountain View, California and is the President & CEO of Y Combinator. Garry Tan attended Stanford University. ## Georges Harik - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Georges Harik is the Co-Founder and Member of Technical Staff of humans&. He previously worked at Notbad AI as Chief Executive Officer. Georges attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a PhD in Computer Science. ## Roman Smolevskiy - Type: Angel - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Software, Artificial Intelligence Roman Smolevskiy is currently the co-founder at BuildTech VC. He was also the founder of Akvapoint. He attended the University of California. ## Bradley Horowitz - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Max Mullen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Max is the Co-Founder of Instacart. He started the company with two co-founders in 2012. Previously, he's worked for several startups including Schematic, an award-winning interactive agency which was acquired by WPP. Max is originally from Los Angeles where he graduated from the University of Southern California, studying entrepreneurship andcinematic arts. ## Olivier Pomel - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Olivier Pomel is based out of New York, New York and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Datadog. Olivier previously worked at Wireless Generation as Vice President of Technology. Olivier Pomel attended the CentraleSupélec. ## Ram Shriram - Type: Angel - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology 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. ## Frederic Kerrest - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology 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. ## Balaji Srinivasan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC. ## Siqi Chen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Gaming Siqi Chen is the Chief Financial Officer of Runway. He previously worked as an Advisor at Laserlike Inc. Siqi attended UC San Diego, where he obtained a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science. ## Max Levchin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ## Wayne Chang - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Wayne Chang is the Founder and CEO of Reasoner. He previously worked at Crashlytics as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Wayne Chang attended the University of Massachusetts. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co