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Top 50 Biotech Angel Investors in United States

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Biotech startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotech companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Biotech Angel Investors in United States

Investor Biotech United States investments
Milad Alucozai 15
Jaffray Woodriff 10
Jeff Dean 9
Kingsley Advani 9
Jude Gomila 9
bumpkins profile 8
Alice Zhang 7
Paul Buchheit 7
Bill Gates 6
Zach Weinberg 6
Jeff Hammerbacher 6
Sahin Boydas 6
Wei Guo 6
Kevin Moore 5
Elad Gil 5
Farzad (Zod) Nazem 5
Daniel Curran 5
Anne Wojcicki 5
Brian Armstrong 5
David R. Walt 5
Erik Peterson 5
Chris Gibson 5
Jim Mellon 5
Evan Cheng 5
Brad Flora 4
Bill Gates 4
Ling Wong 4
Esther Dyson 4
Nat Turner 4
Balaji Srinivasan 4
Eric Kwan 4
Peter Thiel 4
Jack Abraham 4
Max Levchin 4
Brenton Saunders 4
David Beyer 4
Mark Cuban 4
Cory Levy 4
Todd Corenson 4
John D'Orazio 4
Sam Altman 4
Daren Cotter 4
Bradley Horowitz 4
Timothy A. Springer 4
Jeremy Yap 3
Jonathan Downey 3
Aaron Levie 3
Matthew Dellavedova 3
Arda Kara 3
Adrian Aoun 3
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Milad Alucozai Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Dr. Milad Alucozai is an Afghan-American neuroscientist, entrepreneur, biotech executive, and global investor with nearly two decades of experience in deep tech, primarily in life sciences. He pushes the boundaries of bioengineering and computational advancements, integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence into biology and medicine.With a strong commitment to commercializing transformative technologies and fostering startup ecosystems worldwide, he is a thought leader and formal mentor for entrepreneurs through organizations like Creative Destruction Lab and the Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School.Currently, Milad is the head of Bio and Deep Tech at BoxOne Ventures, where he spearheads the firm’s investments in early-stage companies with breakthrough scientific ideas. With nearly 80 early-stage investments, they are recognized as one of North America’s most active venture firms. He is also a Venture Partner at Entrepreneur First, a global fund that has built over 500 companies from scratch with an enterprise value of $10bn. He supports founders with strategy, scaling, business development, securing growth capital, and leadership training, often being their first investor and guiding them from startup inception to IPOs or acquisitions.He started his career in translational neuroscience and multiphysics laboratories before transitioning into founding roles at biotech startups. He is part of the founding team at Mekonos, a San Francisco-based company creating a proprietary cell-engineering platform to support the future of cell and gene therapies. He was also part of the founding team at Corstem, which specialized in machine learning and artificial intelligence software and was later acquired by Circle Cardiovascular, a platform in over 1000 hospitals and more than 40 countries. At Accenture, Milad directed teams of data scientists, designers, and engineers in developing artificial intelligence platforms for global pharmaceutical companies and hospital networks.Milad serves as a Fellow in Healthcare Engineering at the Regenstrief Center. In 2020, he served as an External Advisor to AstraZeneca. He was recognized as a National Science Foundation Scholar and Macklin Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Neuroscience from Purdue University’s Honors Program. As a George J. Mitchell Scholar, he completed his master’s in Immunology and earned his doctorate from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Arpeggio Bio — We engineer medicine based not on a single target, but the biological network as a whole.
  • Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
  • Eigen Therapeutics — Eigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing combination therapeutics for cancer. The company is in the research and development of synergistic therapies that improve efficacy while reducing the toxicity of small molecule therapies and immunotherapies, enabling physicians to get access to novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs.
Jaffray Woodriff Angel · Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Angel Investor located in Charlottesville, VA
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Caju AI — Caju AI revolutionizes customer engagement with Generative AI, boosting your workforce's productivity and providing invaluable business insights. Elevate your customer experience with the power of AI.
  • Contraline — Contraline is a medical device company that has developed a proprietary injectable hydrogel platform for use in reproductive and contraceptive applications. Contraline's first product, Adam, is implanted into the vas deferens through a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure and once implanted, the gel effectively blocks sperm. Adam isnon-hormonal, designed to last years, and easily reversible.
  • Starchive — AI enriched Digital Asset Management designed by creators for creators, to maximize the control and ownership of their content, community, and commerce in the Visual Media Economy.
Jeff Dean Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Senior Fellow in Google's Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain team, Google's deep learning research team in Mountain View, working on systems for speech recognition, computer vision, language understanding, and various predictive tasks. He has co-designed /implemented five generations of Google's crawling, indexing, and query serving systems, and co-designed / implemented major pieces of Google's initial advertising and AdSense for Content systems. He is also a co­designer and co­implementor of Google's distributed computing infrastructure, including the MapReduce, BigTable and Spanner systems, protocol buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow, a popular open­-source system for machine learning.​Jeff received a 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 Mark Weiser Award and the ACM­-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Japan, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
  • Not Diamond — Not Diamond is the world's most powerful AI model router.
  • Aalo Atomics — Creating abundant and dependable clean energy to power humanity for generations.
Kingsley Advani Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
  • Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
  • Ashvattha Therapeutics — Ashvattha Therapeutics creates products that selectively target and treat human diseases. Ashvattha enables precision targeting for therapeutics eliminating off-target toxicity, systemic side effects, and immunogenicity seen in other platforms. Ashvattha has a pipeline of nine therapeutics in neurology, oncology, and ophthalmology.
Jude Gomila Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
  • HockeyStack — HockeyStack enables marketing teams to drive pipeline efficiently and sales teams to close deals faster with modern attribution, holistic buyer journeys, and account insights.
  • Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
bumpkins profile Angel
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
  • Hoth Intelligence — Hoth Intelligence home page. Space age surgical technology brought down to earth.
  • Floating Point Group — Floating Point Group is a trading platform provider offering innovative, industry-leading trade execution and settlement
Alice Zhang Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
CEO and Co-founder at Verge Genomics; Angel Investor in Tech-Enabled Bio
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Encellin — Encellin develops a novel thin-film cell encapsulation device for cell-based therapeutics. It has dedicated experts focused on the investigation and advancement of next-generation therapies. It aims to help patients with chronic diseases, starting with Type 1 diabetes. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • Ochre Bio — Ochre Bio is developing therapies for the biggest liver health challenges.
  • Arpeggio Bio — We engineer medicine based not on a single target, but the biological network as a whole.
Paul Buchheit Angel · Mountain View, California, United States
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.
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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.
  • Character.ai — Meet AIs that feel alive. Chat with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Experience the power of super-intelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you.
  • 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.
Bill Gates Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Series C, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Heineken — Welcome to the global website for Heineken International. Find information about our company, history, brands, strategy and careers here.
  • Inflection AI — Inflection AI is a machine learning startup that engages in redefining human-computer interaction.
  • Lucy Therapeutics — Lucy Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotech with a unifying mitochondrial platform, is developing small molecule treatments for neurological diseases.
Zach Weinberg Angel · New York, New York, United States
Before co-founding Flatiron, Zach was Co-Founder, President and COO 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, Zach co-foundedEatNow.com which was privately acquired. An active angel investor, Zach has invested in over 30 technology startups throughout the country, including Bell Biosystems, Breakthrough.com, Care at Hand, DocPhin, Doctor Evidence, Genomera, Meddik, Oscar, and Predilytics. Zach studied economics and entrepreneurship at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Scoop — Thrive in a hybrid work environment with Scoop's solutions for Workplace Safety, Workplace Utilization, Team Coordination, Desk Management, and Commute.
  • Iterative Scopes — Iterative Scopes provides gastroenterologists with machine learning-powered diagnostic tools that help them prevent colon cancer and improve patient outcomes
  • Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data as a part of your efficient, connected R&D.
Jeff Hammerbacher Angel
Jeff Hammerbacher - Partner & Co-Founder @ Techammer
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Vectara — SaaS
  • Modal Labs — Modal develops machine learning software to help run code in the cloud. The software enables users to run or deploy machine learning models, massively parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and more. It also writes the code to launch hundreds of custom containers and runs scripts in the cloud faster than on the local machine.
  • Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Sahin Boydas Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Sahin Boydas is the Head of Turkiye, Distributed Teams, Bootcamp, and App Eco for Gusto. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com as a CEO and Founder. Sahin Boydas attended Koç University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Mexico, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Valur — Tax planning with Valur is the easiest way to reduce your taxes on capital gains, ordinary income, carried interest, and more. Create a tax plan today!
  • Heyday AI — Manage all your social media messages in one place, including private messages and comments, with Hootsuite. Clean up your inbox with a free trial now!
  • MULTI·ON — We are a technology and design group exploring novel ways to use AI to expand what people are capable of.
Wei Guo Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
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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.
  • 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.
  • Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Kevin Moore Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Augmend — Create documentation and an AI assistant from any video.
Elad Gil Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 26 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
  • Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.
  • Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
Farzad (Zod) Nazem Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Analytics, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Ceevra — 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 a platform for advanced analytics and machine learning on connected data. Based on the industry’s first and only distributed native graph database, TigerGraph’s proven technology supports advanced analytics and machine learning applications such as fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML), entity resolution, customer 360,recommendations, knowledge graph, cybersecurity, supply chain, IoT, and network analysis. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA. Start free with tigergraph.com/cloud.
Daniel Curran Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
  • GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Anne Wojcicki Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Anne Wojcicki is the Co-Founder and CEO of 23andMe. She previously worked at Passport Capital as a Healthcare Analyst. Anne Wojcicki attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
  • Solace — Connect with expert patient advocates who can help you navigate the healthcare system and solve any medical problem, no matter what you need.
  • Brightside Health — Get anxiety and depression treatment online from licensed psychiatric providers and therapists. No need to wait, start a free consultation online today.
Brian Armstrong Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Brian Armstrong is the CEO and Co-founder of Coinbase, the world’s leading digital currency exchange. As CEO, Mr. Armstrong is responsible for Coinbase’s retail and institutional arms and all products and services that are developed by both trading platforms. Mr. Armstrong co-founded Coinbase in June 2012, and since then, has been responsible forintroducing much of America and beyond to cryptocurrency. Mr. Armstrong has led the team, now at over 200 employees, through over $200M in funding from leading investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, USV, DFJ and NYSE. Since co-founding the company, Mr. Armstrong has led Coinbase to serve over 10M customers across 32 countries, providing custody for more than $10B in digital assets. Mr. Armstrong was listed as Fortune 40 under 40 and Recode 100 in 2017.Before founding Coinbase, Mr. Armstrong worked as a Software Engineer at Airbnb from 2011-2012 as part of the hospitality marketplace, focusing on fraud prevention. At the time, Airbnb was moving money between 190 countries, and Mr. Armstrong had a front row seat into global payment systems.Previously, he worked as a Developer for IBM and Consultant at Deloitte.Mr. Armstrong holds three degrees from Rice University: Bachelor’s of Computer Science, Bachelor’s of Economics, and a Master’s of Computer Science.
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Financial Services, Banking
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
  • Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
  • Orchid — Orchid is a reproductive technology startup that is capable of detecting rare genetic disorders. Orchid’s preconception system analyzes both partners’ genomes and assesses genetic predispositions to common diseases, including heart disease, stroke, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, and diabetes. Orchid results are developed withworld-class experts in reproductive medicine and genetics to give its clients the most accurate results.Orchid offers a “Couple Report” that utilizes an at-home saliva test to analyze each person’s genomes to detect the probability of genetic risks, then models how their DNA together will combine in a future child. If elevated risk is detected, Orchid provides insights to help couples monitor biomarkers, adapt their diet or elect for procedures, such as in vitro fertilization. It was founded by Noor Siddiqui in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
David R. Walt Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
David is Professor in the Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. David is the Scientific Founder of Illumina Inc. and Quanterix Corp and has co-founded several other life sciences startups. David has published over 300peer-reviewed papers and has over 75 issued US patents. He has received numerous national and international awards and honors for his fundamental and applied work in the field of optical microwell arrays and single molecules including the American Chemical Society Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success, Ralph Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry, the American Chemical Society Gustavus John Esselen Award, Analytical Chemistry Spectrochemical Analysis Award, the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, and the ACS National Award for Creative Invention. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Chemical Biology from SUNY at Stony Brook, and did postdoctoral studies at MIT.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Genetics, Life Science
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Vizgen — The next generation of genomics, expanding the impact of spatial context and demonstrating the potential of in situ single-cell spatial genomics.
  • Stoicheia — Mattiq delivers innovative electrochemical solutions to decarbonize the fundamental building blocks that power our world.
  • Torus Biosystems — Torus Biosystems offers an apparatus for DNA testing for scientific and medical research purposes in the fields of consumer products, food for human beings or animals, hygienic and beauty care for human beings or animals, agriculture, horticulture, and forestry. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Erik Peterson Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Algeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Hideout — Hideout makes high-quality food that is available for delivery. Danielle Sobel established the company in Los Angeles, California.
  • Abalone Bio — Our Functional Antibody Selection Technology platform (FAST) taps into the potential of the body's biological activities, expanding the reach of antibody drugs.
  • Altay Therapeutics — Altay Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on finding and discovering small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory conditions. It is currently focused on finding curative therapies for fibrosis, NASH, and liver cancer. It develops novel small molecule drugs against transcriptional regulators that are validated drivers of disease. It wasfounded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Chris Gibson Angel · Salt Lake City, Utah, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Chris Gibson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Recursion (Recursion Pharmaceuticals). He previously worked at Cure HHT as a Member Board of Directors. Chris Gibson attended the University of Utah.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
  • Series A, Seed
  • United States, France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Amenities Health — Discover your dedicated Digital Front Door platform that enhances the patient experience and foster brand loyalty.
  • Cradle — Design better proteins
  • Leash Biosciences — We're transforming drug design with a rich dataset built by screening millions of compounds against thousands of protein to generate billions of data points, ideal for training advanced machine learning models.
Jim Mellon Angel
Jim Mellon is an international investor with interests in several industries. After leaving Oxford, where he studied PPE, (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) he worked in Asia and the United States for two fund management companies, GT and Thornton, before establishing his own business in 1991. His business operations include two components, alisted fund management company called Charlemagne Capital, and an Asian mining group, Regent Pacific.In addition, Mr. Mellon is Co-Chairman of West African Minerals Corporation and Regent Pacific Group. He is on the board of a number of public quoted companies, including Brazilian Gold Corporation, Charlemagne Capital Limited, Manx Financial Group, Plethora Solutions, Polo Resources, Port Erin Biophara Investments Limited, and the Speymill plc. He is the life tenant of a trust which owns the Burnbrae Group, which has substantial assets in the biotechnology, financial services, property, mining and leisure sectors. Mr. Mellon spends most of his time working on startup ideas and investing. His book, “Wake Up!” was published in 2005; his second book "10 Investments for the Ten Years Ahead" was published in 2008. In 2012, he co-wrote "Cracking the Code" which focuses on the biotechnology sector and how to profit from it. Mr. Mellon lives in the Isle of Man, Brussels and Ibiza and is an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Voxia — Amy collects and analyzes information from all over the web and provides actionable insights about your leads, prospects and clients, all in one click.
  • Monaco Foundry — We are a team of Serial Entrepreneurs, former Senior Government Advisors and Fortune 500 Executives. A global venture accelerator that invests in early to mid-stage companies and their growth through a unique sweat equity model.
  • The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.
Evan Cheng Angel · Burlingame, California, United States
Evan Cheng Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs. He attended Syracuse University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • PARSIQ — Explore the future of blockchain with PARSIQ - Your gateway to advanced blockchain monitoring, smart triggers, and real-time intelligence. Empower your crypto journey with cutting-edge technology and unparalleled insights. Join us in revolutionizing the way you interact with the blockchain ecosystem
  • Verida — The Verida Wallet is a mobile application that allows you to manage your decentralized identity and personal data. It provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with applications built on the Verida network.
  • Kernal Biologics — Kernal biologics is an onco-selective mRNA therapeutics company located in Cambridge, MA
Brad Flora Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
  • SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
  • Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
  • Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.
Bill Gates Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States
Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Series C, Series B
  • United States, Brazil, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Mainspring Energy — Mainspring Energy is engineering advanced technology to revolutionize the way electricity is generated and delivered
  • Heineken — Welcome to the global website for Heineken International. Find information about our company, history, brands, strategy and careers here.
  • Inflection AI — Inflection AI is a machine learning startup that engages in redefining human-computer interaction.
Ling Wong Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States
Dr. Ling Wong is Founder and General Partner of Highbury Group and Sea Lane Ventures. She also serves as Senior Advisor to Lightspeed Venture Partners. Highbury Group was founded on the principle to be a true partner and champion to entrepreneurs, using science and technology to build companies that fundamentally transform the world for thebetterment of humanity today, and in the future.Dr. Wong draws from her unique background and experience as a scientist, entrepreneur, and investor to support and bring to market companies that exist at the intersection between health and technology. “I love to partner with mission-oriented founders working on transformational ideas that can have a positive, lasting impact on society – and do so by leveraging technology and science in a financially sustainable manner,” said Dr. Wong.Prior to Highbury, she served at the Gates Foundation where she helped to establish a $1.5B global investment portfolio and created a $200M early stage program to support early stage entrepreneurs in more than 60 countries.As a health and technology investor, Dr. Wong has been involved in some of the market’s most significant investments and exits. She has partnered with over fifteen $1B+ companies, including: Devoted Health, Orca Bio, Collective Health, Color, Apeel, Shape, Stripe, Offer Up, Rappi, Branch Metrics, Notion, Modern Animal, Wheel and Satellite Bio. Notable exits include: Anacor Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer for $5.2B), Genocea Biosciences (NASDAQ: GNCA), Visterra (acquired for $430M), Slack (NYSE: WORK), Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), and recently Singular Genomics (NASDAQ: OMIC).Dr. Wong holds a PhD from Harvard in Engineering Sciences, a BSc in Chemical Engineering and BSc in Biology from MIT. During her time at Harvard, she created the world’s first inhaled TB vaccine. Her scientific training has shaped how she assesses financial opportunities, both to create value and to benefit human health. Dr. Wong has always been passionate about seeking entrepreneurs and partners that are looking to disrupt the status quo in science and technology for the betterment of society.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • Satellite Bio — Satellite Bio specializes in cell therapy, regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, cell biology, and tissue engineering. It focuses on the development and implementation of proprietary, off-the-shelf, implantable satellite organs as living therapeutic solutions that can transform the lives of millions of patients who suffer from serious diseases.
  • Devoted Health — Devoted Health is a new healthcare company serving seniors. Aiming to launch Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, their mission is to build a healthcare solution good enough for Mom. They will be devoted to the health and wellness of their members by helping them navigate the health care system with personal guides, by utilizing world-class technologyto enable a simplified experience, and by partnering with top providers for better health outcomes.
  • Shape Therapeutics — Shape Therapeutics (ShapeTX) is a biotechnology company with an end-to-end approach to RNA Gene Therapy, potentially enabling the development of cures in neurodegenerative, metabolic and rare genetic diseases through our breakthrough payload, delivery, and manufacturing platform technologies. Our vision is to facilitate adoption of thesetechnologies throughout the industry to develop effective treatments for as many patients as possible.
Esther Dyson Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
  • Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
  • Way — Way combines intuitive eating with behavior science for mindful habits. 73.5% of app users report transformed thinking post-program.
  • Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
Nat Turner Angel · New York, New York, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, China, Colombia
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
Balaji Srinivasan Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 31 investments in the past 12 months
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. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. 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 an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
  • Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
  • Father Son Matching Shirts — FatherSonMatchingShirts store offers a wide variety of apparel such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, tank tops, and mugs. We're trying our best to bring customers. You are welcome to FatherSonMatchingShirts. We're trying our best to bring customers the shirts are made of high quality materials for maximum comfort in whatever you do.
Eric Kwan Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Eric Kwan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Locus Ventures
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
  • Ferveret — Ferveret develops liquid cooling technology for data centers and other infrastructure. Our company is backed by Y Combinator and MIT Media Lab's E14.
  • Kriya AI is now Kalendar AI — Kalendar AI books new revenue on autopilot
Peter Thiel Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Peter Thiel Is the Managing Partner of The Founders Fund. He previously worked at Stanford Law School as a Visitor. Peter Thiel attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Etched.ai — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
  • Enhanced Games — Enhanced Games Home
  • Alias Technologies — Here at Alias Technologies our goal is to help organizations tackle complex IT goals and initiatives in an ever-changing landscape. Leveraging our Partner relationships and extensive experience we are able to help position our customers for the future.
Jack Abraham Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Jack Abraham is the Founder and Managing Partner of Atomic. He previously worked at TalkIQ as a Co-founder and Investor. Jack Abraham attended The Wharton School.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Financial Services, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Gameto — Gameto is a new breed of biotechnology company in female reproductive longevity
  • Dispatch — OneAdvisory helps independent financial advisors to build ideal firms through strategic investments and advanced technology. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
  • Software Applications Incorporated — Rethinking the personal computing experience
Max Levchin Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
  • CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
  • Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Brenton Saunders Angel · Parsippany, New Jersey, United States
Brenton Saunders is the current Chief Executive Officer of Bausch & Lomb. He previously worked at The Allergan Foundation as a Chairman. Brenton Saunders attended Temple University’s Fox School of Business.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wondermind — Welcome to Wondermind, your home for approachable, expert-backed mental health content you can actually use.
  • Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.
  • Lipidio Pharmaceuticals — A Unique Approach to Treating Obesity Precision Targeting of the Skin Exploiting the skin as an endocrine organ Historically regarded as a protective barrier organ, the skin is now recognized as an active endocrine organ capable of synthesizing, and secreting diverse hormones and signaling
David Beyer Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
David is a Partner of Amplify Partners and co-founder of Chartio.com.Before joining Amplify Partners, David spent time as both a venture-backed entrepreneur and an early-stage investor. He began his career in technology as the co-founder and CEO of Chartio.com, a pioneering provider of cloud-based data visualization and analytics. He wassubsequently part of the founding team at Patients Know Best, one of the world’s leading cloud-based personal health record companies. David has been a prolific investor and advisor to entrepreneurs. He has personally invested in more than 50 early-stage companies, including Zymergen, Skycatch, Caribou Biosciences, Rigetti Computing, Casetext, Ginkgo Bioworks, Function of Beauty, Cruise Automation, and Bugcrowd. In addition, he currently serves on the advisory council of Bayes Impact, a nonprofit organization that deploys data science to solve important social challenges.He attended Brown University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Airtable — Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.It brings the database out of the realm of power users and into the mainstream, creating a new type of flexible but sophisticated productivity tool that anyone can use. Airtable gives end-users the ability to createand share their own workflows for everything from managing an editorial calendar to planning a major event. The platform helps create flexible checklists, organize collections or ideas, and manage customers or contacts as well as offers a variety of templates ranging from home improvement to store inventory, enabling users to build custom applications without any prior coding experience.The company was founded by Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas, and Howie Liu in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
  • Ginkgo Bioworks — Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria toprotect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets.
Mark Cuban Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Bot-It — Online automation for everyone. Let Bot-It automatically complete your online tasks.
  • Allstar — Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.
  • Glove Wrap — Glove Wrap is a latex-free, thermoplastic elastomer band with the precise thickness, width, and length required to break in and shape your complete baseball glove while making the ideal pocket. Wrapping your glove with Glove Wrap applies pressure to the glove, reshaping it for easy use.
Cory Levy Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Cory Levy is the Founder Advisor of Humaning.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Omen AI — Coming Soon....
  • Friend — Friend creates a toy companion that promotes self-esteem through meaningful discussions.
  • Slingshot AI — Slingshot is an AI research company driven by our mission to exponentially increase global access to mental healthcare.We’re developing technology to help humans feel and perform better, be more connected, and adapt to the future in a time where the demand for mental health support far exceeds providers by 10,000:1, and the large-scale changesahead are unprecedented.By leveraging AI to delve deep into human psychology, we expect to learn something about human nature that no humans have before, in order to help people change their minds.Based in NYC and London, our cross-disciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and broader mental health experts is dedicated to building tools that empower individuals to take on any challenge that arises.
Todd Corenson Angel · Los Gatos, California, United States
Todd Corenson - Founder @ Enlon
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, FinTech, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Solugen — Solugen's mission is to decarbonize the chemicals industry. Solugen combines synthetic biology with metal catalysis to make carbon negative chemicals at scale.Solugen's patented approach takes advantage of bio-inspired reactions to use plant material as a low-cost feedstock to produce novel products cost-competitive with thecompetition.
  • HelixNano — Helix Nanotechnologies uses artificial intelligence to help cure genetic diseases. HelixNano is a Y Combinator and venture backed biotech startup. At HelixNano, we have spent the last two years developing cancer vaccines. Now we are adapting our synthetic biology arsenal to take on COVID-19. We’re moving fast but thinking long-term. We’re alreadytesting COVID-19 vaccine candidates designed to be precise and safe. Our next goal is to create a vaccine that protects everyone not only from this virus, but all future coronaviruses.
  • iMicrobes — We are a synthetic biology company on the mission to work with the world's largest companies to use new raw materials and recycle waste for chemical production, polymers, agriculture, and space exploration.
John D'Orazio Angel · New York, New York, United States
John is the Founder and CEO of Capture Collective.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • RenovoDerm — A medical device company building a line of wound care products that provide a structure for tissue growth and promote faster healing of wounds—while reducing scar tissue. Funding prior to formation: $1.6 million.
  • Vascular Genesis — A medical device company laying the foundation for vascular conduit replacement with its line of cell-free, synthetic scaffold products -- with self-healing capabilities that lower the risk of rejection, infection, and stenosis. Funding prior to formation: $2.5 million.
  • Atreon Orthopedics — A medical device company building a line of orthopedic products that provide a structure for tissue growth and healing of sports medicine injuries including tendon ruptures/tears.
Sam Altman Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator from 2016 through 2019. Sam Altman attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
  • APEX — Use Apex AI Security Platform to drive your organisation at the speed of AI, agentlessly. Unleash AI securely, with visibility, detection, and remediation. (156c)
  • ValueBase — This page discusses the history of ValueBase, what brought us together and why we decided that accurate appraisal was important. It also explains why we focus on mass appraisal and statistical techniques like regression.
Daren Cotter Angel · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AnyCreek — AnyCreek is a platform that facilitates the booking of outdoor adventures such as fishing or hunting trips. It aims to connect adventure-seekers with guides and outfitters, providing a space for them to discover and book the best outdoor experiences. The platform is designed to be guide-friendly, empowering guides and outfitters to reach a wideraudience.
  • Coldcart — Coldcart is a technology platform which orchestrates, optimizes and scales frozen and refrigerated parcel logistics for leading D2C and B2B companies - unlocking unprecedented new efficiencies in perishable parcel logistics.
  • Refr Sports — Welcome to Refr Sports, the world's fastest growing assigning solution. Our comprehensive suite of services saves you time and money while allowing you to be the assignor people love to work with.
Bradley Horowitz Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Mill — Meet the cleanest, easiest way to prevent food waste at home. Mill recycles your peels, bones, stalks, and forgotten leftovers.
  • Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
  • Overture Life — We are making In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) more accessible than ever before while improving success rates. An embryology lab in a box.
Timothy A. Springer Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Timothy Springer is an internationally recognized leader in structural biology and immunology. With over 500 peer-reviewed publications that have received over 90,000 citations, he is one of the most highly cited scientists in any field. Timothy Springer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976, and subsequent post-doctoral training withDr. Cesar Milstein in Cambridge, UK. Timothy Springer has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among numerous awards and honors, Timothy Springer is a recipient of the Royal Society of Medicine Medal, the William B. Coley Medal from the Cancer Research Institute, and the Crafoord Prize from the Swedish Academy of Sciences. Timothy Springer's research laid the foundation for a new class of pharmaceuticals, the selective adhesion molecule inhibitors, which include the approved drugs, alefacept, efalizumab, and natalizumab. Timothy Springer was the Founder of LeukoSite, a biotechnology company acquired by Millennium Pharmaceuticals in 1999. LeukoSite developed therapeutics for inflammatory, autoimmune, and cancer applications, including FDA-approved Campath™.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Prenuvo — Changing the medical paradigm from sick care to proactive healthcare
  • Seismic Therapeutic — Seismic Therapeutic is a biotechnology company integrating machine learning across the entire biologics discovery process to accelerate immunology drug development. Using its IMPACT™ platform, the company is addressing the central challenges of biologics discovery and development by fully integrating machine learning with the key elements ofbiologics drug discovery – structural biology, protein engineering, and translational immunology – to create optimized therapies on an accelerated path to patients. Seismic Therapeutic has an emerging pipeline of novel biologics to address adaptive immune system dysregulation to treat autoimmune diseases.
  • Tectonic Therapeutic — Tectonic and AVROBIO have completed their anticipated merger.Please follow this link to our press release for additional information.
Jeremy Yap Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Paebbl — The modular technology from Paebbl may be included in any carbon capture system and is industrially scalable. As a result, Paebbl provides a raw material stream that is carbon-negative, radically altering the economics of preventing carbon from entering our environment.
  • Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
  • Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future
Jonathan Downey
Founder, CEO, and Head of Product @ Candidate Labs
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Investment focus
  • Software, Science/Engineering, Data and Analytics
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
Aaron Levie Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and cofounder Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy, incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads the companyin its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He has served on the Board of Directors since April 2005.Aaron attended the University of Southern California from 2003 to 2005 before leaving to found Box.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
  • BoomPop — Work culture resources, virtual event inspiration, team building ideas, and fresh perspectives on the future work, brought to you by the BoomPop team.
  • Superblocks — Superblocks is the fast, easy and secure way for developers to build custom internal tools fast. Connect your databases & APIs. Drag and drop UI components. Extend with Python or Javascript. Deploy in 1-click. Secure and Monitor using your favorite tools
Matthew Dellavedova Angel · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Matthew is an Angel Investor and Australian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks. He played college basketball for Saint Mary's College of California and has played on the Australian national team. Dellavedova won an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Sports
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Swan Bitcoin — Swan is a leading Bitcoin financial services company.
  • Orange Pill App — Find Bitcoiners & Bitcoin Events near you.
  • Proteus Motion — The Proteus system by Proteus Motion Inc. (formerly Boston Biomotion) is a new category of intelligent exercise and rehab equipment designed to strengthen, optimize, and restore movements using patented 3D resistance and 3D measurement. One system is used to train and measure any movement during post-op through peak performance, and enhancemovement efficiency through a unique neuromuscular stimulation that can only be achieved by moving in water or mud. Compared to traditional tools like free weights and cable machines, 3D resistance produces up to 3x more muscle stimulation, lower strain on the joints, and greater neuromuscular stimulation to accelerate "muscle memory" and more efficient movement patterns. Subscription software profiles strength for users using a new and comprehensive way to measure muscle performance, offers personalized insights and recommendations, and tracks progress across a suite of 6 proprietary metrics.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Arda Kara Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Human API — Health data platform that connects to all data sources, enabling companies to build new technologies & deliver better experiences to customers.
  • Levels — Levels helps you see how food affects your health with data from biosensors like continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)
  • Blackrock Neurotech — Blackrock Neurotech innovative brain technologies provide new hope for people with paralysis & other neurological disorders.
Adrian Aoun Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Adrian Aoun is the founder and CEO of Forward, an AI-based healthcare system combining world-class private doctors with new technology to enable proactive, data-driven primary care. Most recently, he was the head of Special Projects for the CEO of Google/Alphabet, where he founded one of the Alphabet companies Sidewalk Labs. Adrian arrivedat Google upon the acquisition of his AI startup Wavii, and spent his first year at Google helping to create and build their AI division. Additionally, Adrian is an active angel investor and advisor to a number of technology startups and funds.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Fuse — Fuse is securing clean, reliable, global energy abundance, along with US competitiveness, through nuclear fusion & nuclear effects testing.
  • Range — Experience all-in-one wealth management from Range. Access wealth management services from our team of Certified Financial Planners and unified financial management through one thoughtfully designed platform. Learn more about becoming a member.
  • ShareWell — Struggling with mental health? ShareWell provides online peer support, a proven mental health alternative for therapy. Get group support when you need it.
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