# Top 50 Automotive Angel Investors in June 2026

## Oskar Hartmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive

Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP.  He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Marco Valta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 15 years experience in the tech/web industry.
As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso.

## Fabrice Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

## Justin Waldron
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

## Max Levchin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Scott Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Robert Smithson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance

Robert Smithson - Co-Founder @ CrowdScores

## Jose Marin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil).  IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

## Rajesh Mane
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Mobile, Retail

An active investor in early stage startups across technology & CPG.

## Peter Mertens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kefar Sava, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Automotive, CleanTech

Peter Mertens

## Kristjan Raude
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Internet of Things

I am a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with 15+ years of international experience in sales & marketing, leading teams of 300+ with annual revenue of 10M+. Founder of 3 international companies and investor to 10+ startups. Member of the board at Estonian Business Angels Network.

## Lee Linden
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Logistics

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.

## Teodoro D'Ambrosio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Automotive, Travel

Teodoro D'Ambrosio is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Biocentis. He previously worked at Hotelscan as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Teodoro D'Ambrosio attended the University of Trieste.

## Dr. Cornelius Boersch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

## Lawrence E. Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Automotive, Consulting

Connected Car Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Telematics Patent Holder. Automotive industry's leading architect of connected car digital data workflows and eco-systems, specifically emerging post-crash Vehicular Emergency Data Sets (VEDS), data services, and associated data platforms serving NG9-1-1 and First Responders during roadsideemergencies.

## Alexander Chesterman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.

## Raymond Tonsing
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## Daniel Gross
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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

## Sumant Sinha
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2B, Energy, Automotive

Sumant Sinha is based out of Delhi, India, and is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of ReNew. Sumant previously worked at ASSOCHAM as a President.  Sumant Sinha attended the CQUIN Learning Network. Sumant Sinha has been awarded as an Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Fellow.

## Amit Lakhotia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services

Amit Lakhotia is the GM Paytm Wallet at Paytm.

## Alexis Berthoud
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, FinTech, Cryptocurrency

Founder of Joinsteer, the next monthly premium car subscription company based in France.C-level : 10 years in Entrepreneur, Sales, Investment Banking and Industry. Shareholder and advisor of Findrive car leasing company for uber driver and Mothers, first fund dedicated to the creative class.Founder of TokenData - the first multi-exchangeplatform, relaying an awesome datalake of crypto-assetI have previously founded the venture CINQS - acquired on December 2016. Alongside, I was an Ethereum early investor and invested in several others prominent blockchain such as Augur, Basic Attention Token, 0x. Goals & interests: New ventures and disruptive business models, Blockchain, Digital Marketing, SW & B-C related investment opportunities, Venture Capital firms in the US,EU & Pacific Asia.

## Steve Chen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

## VK Rajaram
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Mobile

VK Rajaram - Member & Screening Committee Member @ Band of Angels

## Andreas Mihalovits
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

## Richie Bello
- Type: Angel
- Location: Orlando, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive, Sales, Internet

Richie Bello is known as an automotive influencer, big data provider, dealer consultant and trainer. He is the author of many books, 3 of his books on Amazon are Branding for Car Guys, Ten Steps to Sales Mastery, and Prospect like a Gold Miner.With 37 years in the automotive industry, Richie understands your problems.
✔ Poor leads
✔ Employeeturnover
✔Lack of trained skilled workforce
✔Data overwhelm
✔Poor or no management reports you needWe get it, with his unique experience Richie knew if could make an impact in the auto dealership business.
With our agile development team, we have built our platform at a fraction of the time and money that it would typically take to create these features
-Full site development - with dashboards
-Mobile app launched on both Android and Apple.
-Geofencing Technologies
-Data reporting created for dealership management
-Full Media Platform
-Specialized training for results where you need them.With Richie Bello Automotive Influencer at the helm, we have created a company that’s focused on helping you increase profits.
-Minority Owned Business
-Partners in Technology
-Kelley Blue Book
-DealerTrack
-IHS Market-Polk
-Exclusive VIN Specific Leads To Dealers
-Data reporting
-Coaching
automotive dealerships,
sales oriented services
sales team improvement
workshops for Salesman Training
Selling Cars
The Internet Car Salesman Workshop
Converting Callers to Customers
Corporate Training.

## Saeid Esmaeilzadeh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, Advice, Internet

Saeid Esmaeilzadeh

## Connor Theilmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Connor Theilmann is the Chief Business Officer at ServiceTitan. Previously he was an investor at Accel in Palo Alto. He attended The Wharton School for Accounting and Finance & the Penn Engineering School for Computer Science.

## Jackson Moses
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Ariel Lambrecht
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara

## Asish Mohapatra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B

Asish Mohapatra is the Co-Founder and Head of Sales of OfBusiness. He previously worked at Matrix Partners as a Healthcare Investments Lead. Asish Mohapatra attended the Indian School of Business.

## Daniel Curran
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

## Eyal Ofer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, SaaS, FinTech

Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating hislong-standing support for tech entrepreneurs.In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay.
Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating his long-standing support for tech entrepreneurs.
In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay.

## Güimar Vaca Sittic
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.

## Tony Hsieh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: News, E-Commerce, Software

Tony Hsieh was the Founder of the Downtown Project. He attended Harvard University.

## Uri Levine
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Travel

Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit

## David Murray-Hundley
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Automotive, Financial Services

David Murray-Hundley is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pario Ventures. He attended Harvard Business School.

## Gustaf Hagman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Robotics, Software, Marketing

Gustaf Hagman CEO and Co-founder - LeoVegas Group

## Matthew Lent
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Hardware, SaaS, Charity

Matthew Lent

## Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / 
-Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger)
- Equity Markets
- Real Estate
- FX
- Commodity
- Bonds
- Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT
- Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories:
- Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint
- Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi
- D2C / B2C
- Food & Beverages
- Pharma
- Media & Entertainment

## Rick Wagoner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Richmond, Virginia, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Logistics

G. Richard (“Rick”) Wagoner retired from General Motors Corporation in August 2009 after a 32-year career. He served as GM chairman and chief executive officer from May 2003 through March 2009 and had been president and chief executive officer since June 2000. Other positions he held at GM include: president and chief operating office; executivevice president of GM and president of North American Operations; executive vice president, chief financial officer and head of worldwide purchasing; and president and managing director of General Motors do Brasil. Wagoner attended Duke University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated summa cum laude in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in economics and management science. He received a master’s degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School in 1977. Wagoner is vice chair of the Board of Trustees of Duke University and a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors of the Harvard Business School, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business Advisory Board and the Detroit Country Day School Board. He is a member of The Business Council and the Mayor of Shanghai’s International Business Leaders Advisory Council. He was born in Wilmington, DE, on February 9, 1953, and raised in Richmond, VA.

## Dmitry Stepanov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Automotive, Consumer Goods

GP in AAL VC, LP in s16vc VC, ex-CMO of Yandex, ex-CEO of Yandex media services (Kinopoisk, Yandex.Afisha, Yandex.Music), curator of the Yandex hub in Armenia, serial entrepreneur (Afisha Picnic, Sports.ru, Journey event agency, FRAM travel club), angel investor (Beri Zaryad, Best Doctor, Wowworks, Yasno, iFarm, Chatfuel, etc.), member of theboards of the charitable foundations Helping Hand and Hume, expert at the Skolkovo Business School, lecturer at Universal University.

## Penny Schiffer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Finance

Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai

## David O. Sacks
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

David O. Sacks is the Co-Founder and Partner of Craft Ventures. He previously worked at Zenefits as an Investor, COO, and Interim CEO. David Sacks attended the University of Chicago Law School and Stanford University.

## Clark Landry
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Clark Landry is the Managing Partner of Clover Leaf Ventures.Most recently, Clark was co-founder and COO at CESPPA, a cybersecurity company. Formerly, Clark was co-founder and COO at Maple Media (raised $30 million from private equity investors), co-founder and executive chairman at SHIFT (acquired by Brand Networks), co-founder and CEO at TopLevel Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines - publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM), co-founder and CMO at TagWorld (acquired by Viacom). Clark was a founding investor of Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel), Traffic Marketplace, an advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), Adconion Media Group, a provider of digital media advertising solutions (acquired by Amobee), Conversion Logic, an advertising attribution company, and CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace.Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Yale University.

## Hermann Hauser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning

Hermann Hauser is the Co-founder, Director, and Venture Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners. He previously worked at IXI as a Founder. Hermann Hauser attended the University of Vienna.

## Mark Pincus
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, FinTech, Software

Mark Pincus is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Playful.AI. Mark previously worked at Tribe.net as a CEO and Co-Founder. Mark Pincus attended 
Harvard Business School.

## Zohar Zisapel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Cyber Security, Security, Software

Zohar Zisapel

## Cyan Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Social Media

Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.

## Bhavish Aggarwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Transportation

Bhavish graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2008 and worked at Microsoft Research for 2 years after that, filing 2 patents and publishing 3 papers in International Journals. Sensing the need to change the way transportation is consumed in India and create a choice of reliable personal transportation in acountry that's as unique as India, Bhavish quit his job in August 2010 to start Ola!
Within 3 years, Ola is India's largest network of personal transportation options and also the most popular app amongst customers and users in over 22 cities of its operations. Bhavish was featured as one of Hindustan Times’ 30 Achievers under 30 as well as in the Forbes India list of 30 under 30.