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Top 50 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in United States in May 2025

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

Top 50 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in United States in May 2025

Investor Crowdfunding United States investments
Ron Suber 4
Blaine Vess 3
Jason Calacanis 2
Dave Shaver 2
Tikhon Bernstam 2
Nihal Mehta 2
Jeffrey Tarrant 2
Daniel Schryer 2
Dan Cunningham 2
Payam Zamani 2
Paul Graham 2
Dave Morin 2
Bill Ullman 2
Max Levchin 2
Ankur Nagpal 2
Erik Peterson 2
Amir Banifatemi 2
Steve Schoettler 2
Taylor Merritt 1
Ben Goldhirsh 1
Patrick Sullivan 1
Vinod Khosla 1
Bill Boyle 1
Ellen Levy 1
David VanEgmond 1
Joi Ito 1
Marc Benioff 1
Eric Ries 1
Anand Agarawala 1
Jack Greco 1
Jennifer Hyman 1
Tom Vorisek 1
Mark Kolokotrones 1
Ryan Petersen 1
Patrick Gannon 1
David O. Sacks 1
Chris Powers 1
Jonathan Golden 1
Dan Rosensweig 1
Jack Dorsey 1
Chris Dixon 1
Ihar Mahaniok 1
Vikal K 1
Adam Ayers 1
Naval Ravikant 1
Matt Mullenweg 1
Mark Schwartz 1
Mark Gillespie 1
Garry Tan 1
Joe Greenstein 1
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Ron Suber Angel · Denver, Colorado, United States
Part entrepreneur, executive, sales, marketing, branding, mentor and coach. Medium IQ, High EQ, High AQ (Adversity Quotient).Enjoys traveling, teaching, yoga, hanging out with friends and family. Shares observations and lessons from experience on Wall Street, fin-tech and online lending in presentations at conferences globally, at emergingcompanies, at universities and on white boards. History of creating and executing successful strategies, raising debt and equity for fin-tech ventures, collaborating and having fun on winning teams. Enjoys engaging with entrepreneurs to help with their marketing, product development, sales process, hiring, focus and execution of key metrics. President Emeritus and Senior Advisor to Prosper, Executive Vice Chairman and member of the board of directors of Credible. Advisory board member to Docusign, Juvo, Unison, Money360 and eOriginal.Married 26 years, two grown children and living in San Francisco.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Denim — Denim is an all-in-one financial enablement platform for the logistics industry. We work with brokerages to offer freight factoring and back office automation.
  • Nabis — Nabis is a licensed cannabis wholesale marketplace that distributes cannabis products to retailers. It provides a lightning-fast distribution, sales, marketing, financing, and data analytics services. The company's technology coordinates the entire cannabis distribution lifecycle from production to delivery.
  • Elevate Brands — We buy consumer-leading Amazon FBA brands and elevate them to their full potential. Tap into our unparalleled team to successfully grow your business.
Blaine Vess Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. He previously worked at Solve as a Co-Founder and CEO. Blaine Vess attended San Jose State University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
  • Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
  • Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
Jason Calacanis Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
  • Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
  • Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
Dave Shaver Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States
Dave Shaver Founded Corepoint Health LLC in 1997 and also serves as its Chief Technology Officer.
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Investment focus
  • PaaS, Software, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Convertible Note
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • FarmRaiser, inc — Schools and cause fundraising with Farmraiser helps students become champions for eating healthy food and raises money effectively
Tikhon Bernstam Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Tikhon Bernstam is an American entrepreneur who cofounded the companies Scribd and Parse.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • Aviator — Avoid broken builds, long code-reviews, cumbersome merge processes and flaky tests. Put your mundane, frustrating workflows on autopilot.
  • LemonEdge — LemonEdge is the first and only low-code development platform for the complex accounting demands of the private equity industry. LemonEdge enables businesses to develop or customise solutions 10x faster than traditional approaches.
Nihal Mehta Angel · New York, New York, United States
Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Street FC — 100+ Street soccer games every month. Join a club or build one with us.
  • Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
  • SportsIcon — Venture Studio and Sports Agency harnessing frontier technology to build innovative approaches in sports, media, and entertainment.
Jeffrey Tarrant Angel
Jeffrey Tarrant
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Investment focus
  • Crowdfunding, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Republic — Republic gives people the opportunity to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startup, real estate, crypto, and video game investments. Focused on creating a diverse, sustainable, and connected world, Republic has facilitated over $500 million in investments from over one million members of the global community. With a globalteam in six countries, Republic is backed by Galaxy Digital, The Motley Fool, Binance, Naspers, AngelList, and more.
Daniel Schryer Angel
Dan Schryer was formerly CEO of DCI Data Centers, a Blackstone backed technology real estate company. Together with Guru Gowrappan, formerly CEO of Verizon Media, he co-founded Bali Venture Partners, LLC to invest in seed and growth stage debt and equity opportunities.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • United States, India, Panama
Portfolio highlights
  • 54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
  • SOS Hydration — Rescue yourself from dehydration with SOS, doctor formulated rapid hydration with 80x less sugar than sports drinks and only 3g carbs and 10 calories.
  • Evry Health — Evry Health makes healthcare affordable and high quality again by providing expanded benefits at an affordable price. The company is responding to the need to make healthcare affordable and accessible again. Evry Health is based in Mountain View, California and was founded in 2017.
Dan Cunningham Angel · Tempe, Arizona, United States
Seed Investor - Managing Partner at Menagerie Investments & HoldingsStrategic Advisor - Chief Strategist at 396West, the strategic advisory arm of Menagerie Investments & Holdings. 369West serves startups and emerging growth companies by providing high level strategies and execution for marketing, business development, operating plans,crisis management, and pivots. Film/TV Producer - President of Production at Busted Buggy Entertainment. BBE is a dynamic, independent film and television production company. Their NY TIMES Critic's Pick, THE GIRL IN THE BOOK, can be seen on Netflix, and their recent micro-budget success, RESCUE DOGS, can be seen on Showtime. Small Business Advisor - Founder of Worth Becoming Consulting. Worth Becoming provides hands-on advisory and execution services for small, local businesses. Leveraging the vast experience in the start-up world to help small businesses get the edge in their community by thinking high level strategy at a global level, while executing at a local level.
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Investment focus
  • Crowdfunding, Apps, Brand Marketing
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Speakr — Based in Hollywood, California, Speakr is one of the leaders and foundingcompanies within the influencer marketing space. Speakr has been marryingtechnology and social psychographic data with highly creative content forthe biggest brands, agencies, and publishers since 2010. Through a fullybuilt influencer media-buying platform thataggregates 6,000 data points perinfluencer, Speakr enables advertisers to activate and sell their own influencermarketing programs and custom-built networks with the same control, scalability,and predictability of traditional media buying. With unmatched innovation andaward-winning campaign creation, 90% of all Speakr campaigns over deliver tosurpass client goals and KPIs.
  • Seed&Spark — Crowdfunding, events and community that celebrate diverse voices and foster vibrant conversation. Find your next spark of curiosity, inspiration and community!
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Payam Zamani Angel
Payam Past is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO at One Planet Group.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Machine Learning, Education
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Gybe — Water Quality Monitoring. Gybe is a technology start-up that provides autonomous measurements of water quality for lakes, rivers and coastal areas. We help businesses and governments reduce pollution and improve the health of watersheds, communities, and cities.
  • Glass — G-Commerce is where Government agencies can search, sort and buy from verified diverse businesses with government prices, while businesses can set up Government Online Stores in seconds and start selling to governments seamlessly.
  • Predict Health — Predict Health helps healthcare organizations grow their Medicare, consumer, individual, group, and patient populations by using AI and data analytics. Predict Health uses Health AI and Data Analytics to accelerate Medicare growth and improve Medicare STARS scores. www.predicthealth.ai
Paul Graham Angel · Mountain View, California, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Paul Graham
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Egypt, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
  • Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
  • Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible
Dave Morin Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, France, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
  • Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
  • Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS
Bill Ullman Angel · New York, New York, United States
Bill Ullman
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bread — Bread partners with retailers to offer pay-over-time solutions that make financing easier and more transparent. The company uses technology to advance consumer-friendly credit by improving access, transparency, ease-of-use, and cost. Their products help their merchant partners to grow sales by making their products accessible to more consumers.Bread was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, NY.
  • Stocktwits — Stocktwits provides real-time stock, crypto & international market data to keep you up-to-date. Find top news headlines, discover your next trade idea, share & gain insights from traders and investors from around the world, build a watchlist, buy US stocks, & create and manage your portfolio.
  • Mirador — Mirador is the leading front-end small business lending platform supporting established lenders with borrower acquisition, digital application, decisioning, and borrower communication. Mirador leverages a streamlined, delightful user experience to create profitability and efficiencies in the lending process, giving traditional lenders the edge theyneed to compete. Mirador’s core lending platform can be supplemented with two modules that support highly prequalified lead generation and a second look program, enabling lenders to implement or expand a fully functioning small business loan program with a single trusted partner. Through the implementation of Mirador’s core platform, lenders have seen a 69% increase in efficiency in the small business lending process and an average reduction of $1550 in the cost to originate a loan, supporting greater profitability in the small business lending business unit. Mirador supports small business lending products including term loans, collateralized loans, SBA guaranteed loans, commercial real estate, and quick decision or docless loans, from $1k-$20M+.
Max Levchin Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
Ankur Nagpal Angel · New York, New York, United States
Ankur Nagpal Founder of Fedora and Co-Founder of Vibe VC. He attended University of California, Berkeley in 2006.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Phyllo — Easily access verified, creator-consented data such as identity, income, and engagement across hundreds of platforms through our API
  • beehiiv — Access the best tools available in email, helping your newsletter scale and monetize like never before.
  • Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
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.
Amir Banifatemi Angel · Newport Beach, California, United States
Amir Banifatemi is the Responsible AI Chair at GPAI. He is also Taskforce member for the Open Quantum Initiative at GESDA Amir BanifatemiAmir is an entrepreneur, investor, and innovation strategist. He is the General Manager of Innovation and Growth with the XPRIZE foundation. He is a co-founder of the AI Commons, and co-founder and curator ofthe AI for Good Global Summit with the ITU and UN Agencies. He has managed two venture capital funds and continues to support and advise companies and initiatives with a focus on the transformation of humanity and society. Mr. Banifatemi is a guest lecturer and an adjunct MBA professor at UC Berkeley, Chapman University, Claremont McKenna College, UC Irvine, and HEC Paris. He holds Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology of Compiègne, a Doctorate in System Design and Cognitive Sciences from the University Paris Descartes, as well as an MBA from HEC Paris.
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Investment focus
  • Crowdfunding, Financial Services, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Digsy — Digsy is an online platform that makes it easy for small business owners & startups to find new office space & services — free of charge.Small business owners don't have time to search for new office space & services, and while traditionally the solution would be to hire a commercial real estate agent, agents don't want torepresent small business owners (commissions are too small). So, the 28M U.S. small business owners are left out in the cold when it comes to getting help finding a new office for their business.With Digsy, we've built a solution that uses software automation + a network of 3,000 relocation experts to make it easy for business owners find their dream office & get the best deals on telecom/internet, office equipment & movers. That way, they can focus all their energy on growing their business, while Digsy helps them find a new home.We get paid by landlords, brokers and service providers for connecting them directly with new tenants & customers.
  • Immediately — Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce.Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, tosending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows.We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.
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Steve Schoettler Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Steve Schoettler is the Founder and CEO of Junyo and an angel investor. At Junyo, Steve combines a passion for education with two decades of experience in early-stage tech companies that have the power to transform industries. Previously, he was co-founder, employee #1 and VP Platform Services at Zynga, one of the fastest growing companiesever, where he led the development of payment processing, virtual currency purchases, and fraud detection. Prior to Zynga, Steve led teams at GO, General Magic, and Kontiki to develop innovative technologies in mobile, security, and distributed computing. He is a board member of both Full Circle Fund and Indiegogo, and he is actively involved in social entrepreneurship. Steve earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sokikom — Discover Sokikom, the interactive platform transforming math education with fun, engaging games for kids.
  • Indiegogo — Crowdfund innovations in tech and design before they go mainstream and support entrepreneurs that are working to bring their dreams to life.
Taylor Merritt Angel
Taylor Merritt
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Lending
  • Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Patch of Land — Patch of Land is a real estate crowdfunding site that brings together borrowers and investors through a simple online interface. It is a real estate marketplace lender that uses proprietary technology and data to provide transparent, scalable, and efficient lending solutions. The company also offers borrowers access to reliable capital forresidential and commercial real estate projects while providing investors easy diversification into real estate with low minimums and a best-in-class secured loan structure.Patch of Land mission is to solve the problem of slow, inefficient, fragmented, and obscure private real estate lending by using the latest technology, data, and process efficiency to more accurately assign risk profiles and project viability, while greatly reducing the time and cost of loan underwriting for borrowers with real estate projects that are overlooked or rejected by banks and traditional lenders.It was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
Ben Goldhirsh Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Ben Goldhirsh is the Co-Founder and Board Director of GOOD and a Chairman at Goldhirsh Foundation. He attended Brown University.
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Investment focus
  • News, Content, FinTech
  • Angel, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
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  • GOOD Worldwide — GOOD Worldwide is a media firm driving results through business and society to work with brands and communities. It operates as a mission-driven media company that reaches 200MM+ people per month, largely through social media.
Patrick Sullivan Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Patrick Sullivan - Managing Partner, Founder @ Arches Capital
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Investment focus
  • CRM, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BoostUp — BoostUp is a savings platform that helps people reach their big purchase goals and buy with confidence. BoostUp users automate a daily savings plan to start by saving as little as $1/day, plus they can RoundUp their everyday purchases, crowdfund gifts from family and friends, and receive exclusive purchase offers from BoostUp brand partners.Saving money has never been so easy or so rewarding. BoostUp has over 53,000 users who have used their BoostUp savings to purchase over $165,000,000 worth of products and services from BoostUp partners. To save for free with BoostUp, visit the App Store, Google Play, or BoostUp.com.
Vinod Khosla Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States
Vinod Khosla is the Partner of Khosla Ventures. Vinod Khosla attended Carnegie Mellon University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Watsi — Watsi is a nonprofit that brings people together through technology to fund life-changing healthcare.
  • Quaise — Quaise is an energy company unlocking geothermal energy for the world population through millimeter wave drilling technology.
  • Loop — Loop Health is bringing ease and choice to patients seeking major medical treatments. We've brought together family physicians, top specialists, and leading hospitals in Pune – to provide options, transparency, and ease to patients and their families. Loop Coordinators help patients match with a doctor, compare treatment costs, get secondopinions, and complete admission formalities – removing the stress and making lives easier for the patient and their families.
Bill Boyle Angel
Bill Boyle - Board Member @ DivvyCloud
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Investment focus
  • PaaS, Security, Software
  • Series A, Convertible Note
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • DivvyCloud — DivvyCloud protects cloud and container environments from misconfigurations, policy violations, threats, and IAM challenges.
  • FarmRaiser, inc — Schools and cause fundraising with Farmraiser helps students become champions for eating healthy food and raises money effectively
Ellen Levy Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Ellen Levy is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Connect.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Upwage — Our mission is to create $1 trillion in new wealth for the 44% of Americans who make less than $16/hr, using the power of big data & AI.
  • Stake — Renters earn Cash back for rent. Building operators outperform the market. That's the Stake win-win. Find out how we're building the financial tools for the next generation of rentals.
  • Rattle — Sales automation for scaling teams. Learn how revenue leaders use Rattle to effortlessly update Salesforce, improve pipeline accuracy and skyrocket their success.
David VanEgmond Angel · New York, New York, United States
David VanEgmond is a Head of Strategy & Corporate Development at Barstool Sports.
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Investment focus
  • Sports, Content, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Compliable — Rebric uses machine learning and AI systems to help companies stay compliant with sanction list regulations and keep terrorists, human traffickers, and other criminals from receiving or sending money.
  • Betsperts Media & Technology Group — BETSPERTS Allows You to Find Experts in Every League, Conference, Division and Team
Joi Ito Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • KLKTN — KLKTN is a curated music, manga and art NFT platform connecting creators with fans through special experiences. The platform allows fans to access special edition digital art and behind-the-scenes moments of artists' creative process. In collaboration with top creators and artists and powered by blockchain technology, KLKTN is takingartist-fan engagement and the best of creative experiential culture into the digital world. Artworks are available as a limited supply of authenticated digital products or NFTs, for purchase via credit card, with a fixed cost per item. KLKTN's co-founders are Jeff Miyahara, Chief Creative Officer and a renowned record producer and songwriter who has produced over 260 international artists; Fabiano Soriani, Chief Technology Officer and former lead blockchain engineer for Dapper Labs; and Daisuke Iwase, Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Business School graduate, former World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a digital pioneer known for co-founding Lifenet, a disruptive fintech venture, which he took to IPO. Built on the Flow blockchain to achieve affordable and environmentally-sustainable minting, KLKTN leaves more for artists, fans, and the planet.
  • Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
  • Shibuya — Welcome to Shibuya, a platform for high potential short films. We provide creators with a full-stack solution to fund films and shorts, build community, and foster an engaged fanbase. Fans can fund their favorite films, participate in the creative process, and join communities for the films they love most.
Marc Benioff Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Marc Benioff is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Salesforce. Marc Benioff attended the University of Southern California.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Fyxer — Save 1 hour every day with an AI assistant. Fyxer AI organizes your inbox, drafts extraordinary emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes.
  • Norm AI — Norm Ai provides solutions for sludge problem by enabling compliance teams to delegate tasks to Regulatory AI via high-level instructions, while at the same time validating the resulting work product.
  • SandboxAQ — SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society.
Eric Ries Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Eric is the author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, The Startup Way, and The Leaders Guide (funded by one of the top Kickstarter book campaigns of all time). He's also the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, practiced by individuals and companies around the world and the inspiration behind the LTSE. He has founded a numberof startups, including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies across many industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Serbia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
  • Aug X Labs — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
  • Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
Anand Agarawala Angel · New York, New York, United States
Anand Agarawala is the creator of BumpTop, an irresistible new desktop interface with a satisfyingly three-dimensional physicality and a fresh approach to interactivity.Anand completed his Master thesis in 2006 which pioneered a novel physically based desktop interface leveraging expressive power and casual nature of real desks. His Masters ofComputer Science was completed at the University of Toronto. He completed his undergraduate thesis in 2004 at the University of Calgary. In his free time, Anand enjoys competitive team sports such as hockey and basketball. He often travels to India and across Europe and North America.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Mobile, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Watsi — Watsi is a nonprofit that brings people together through technology to fund life-changing healthcare.
  • FANtium — Build your portfolio of sports assets, participate in their success, and become part of the team.
  • Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
Jack Greco Angel · Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Jack Greco - GP @ Far Out Ventures
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Investment focus
  • Marketplace, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • ShearShare — Reimagining how, when, and where you work. The #1 Salon and Barbershop Booth Rental App. List your space, or find rental locations near you now!
  • Bounce Imaging — 360 degree cameras for tactical, police, military, and rescue applications. Used as pole cam, K9 camera, throw phone, or inspection camera. Throwable and iOS, Android, and ATAK-app enabled.
  • Go Fish Capital — We invented a new form of Crowdfunding that finances the scaling up of any eCommerce site in exchange for promised profits generated by the customers. We call it "Customer Crowdfunding. It is “far” better than Equity Crowdfunding where an investor must wait 2 years for liquidity - at Go Fish income begins right away. It’s also far better thantypical Revenue Share Crowdfunding, because Go Fish pays crowdfunders in perpetuity and recruits far more crowdfunders for merchants than any other form of crowdfunding.
Jennifer Hyman Angel · New York, New York, United States
Jennifer Hyman is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rent the Runway, a fashion company with a technology soul that is disrupting the way women get dressed. In her role, she sets the strategic priorities of the business and leads the company in growing all areas of the business, including marketing, technology, product, and analytics.She co-founded Rent the Runway in 2009 with Jennifer Fleiss, and has since raised $126 million in venture capital, growing the business to over 6 million members, 950 employees and 400 designer brands.Jennifer has been honored with numerous recognitions including: Forbes' "Women Entrepreneurs to Watch", TriBeCa Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Awards”, Fortune Magazine’s “Trailblazers, 11 People Changing Business in 2013,” “Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs,” and “40 Under 40”; Inc. Magazine’s “30 Under 30”; and Fast Company’s “Most Influential Women in Technology.” She has been a featured speaker at Fortune Brainstorm Tech, the Forbes Women’s Summit, Tech Crunch Disrupt, and Marie Claire’s Power Trip, and has appeared as a guest on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, and CNN Money, among many others.In 2015, Jennifer launched the Rent the Runway Foundation with Jennifer Fleiss to inspire and ignite the next generation of female entrepreneurs. The foundation’s first initiative, in partnership with UBS, is Project Entrepreneur, a venture competition and educational program designed to provide women entrepreneurs nationwide with the tools to build high-growth, high-impact businesses.Prior to Rent the Runway, Jennifer was the Director of Business Development at IMG where she focused on the creation of new media businesses for IMG's Fashion Division. She also ran an online advertising sales team at WeddingChannel.com and was an in-house entrepreneur at Starwood Hotels, creating Starwood’s first wedding business which was recognized on the Oprah Winfrey Show for its innovation. She received her BA from Harvard University and MBA from Harvard Business School. Jennifer is a Bloomberg Fellow, a TechStars mentor, and a member of both the Entrepreneurship Board at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Women in Business Board at Harvard University. She is an investor in and advisor to several high-growth startups throughout the U.S.
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Investment focus
  • Professional Services, SaaS, Mobile Apps
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Brit + Co — Brit + Co curates the best fashion deals, beauty tips, show and movie news, easy recipes, and more. Find inspiration and expert picks all in one place!
  • Prefer — Prefer is a referral network for independent professionals to grow their businesses.
  • Homepolish — Homepolish is a new approach to interior design that brings savvy, expert designers – recruited from the top firms in the country – right to your doorstep. Unlike traditional interior design firms, they don’t charge product markups and their designers work with clients as true design partners, minus the industry ego.
Tom Vorisek Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Founder Esalen Ventures, LLC which has made more than 75 private/angel investments from pre-seed to mezzanine stages and is an LP in 8 PE Funds. Tom is also an International Fine Art Dealer with a focus on paintings of 20th century American, European and Asian artists.Prior to his current roles, Tom was an experienced executive with over 20years in cross-disciplined leadership roles in Advertising-General, Digital and Mobile, Ad Tech, Emerging Media, Technology and Early Stage Venture. Co-Founder FCB Sports Marketing, FCB/SF, IDG, Flycast (IPO), McGrath Rentcorp (IPO) and Ad Infuse (acq by Velti).
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series B, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Wave Sports + Entertainment — Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next generation of digital super fans.
  • Quiver — Quiver is a retail tech company that delivers e-commerce orders. Quiver was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in London.
  • Hammock — Hammock gives landlords full control over their property finances. We provide real-time monitoring of all payments, made and received, bookkeeping and property tax statements, all in one place.
Mark Kolokotrones Angel
Mark Kolokotrones - Co -Founder @ Knight & Bishop
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Video
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Squabbler — Squabbler powers video conversation and engagement.Squabbler is the first video engagement platform that allows users to respond to web content and interact with one another through video submission.Our platform allows publishers to embed customized modules into their web properties, social media and mobile applications to increase thelevel of engagement of their users and redefine the way people interact with their content.Please contact us for a demo.
  • Invested.in — Invested.in is an enterprise white-label solution that provides crowdfunding software solutions for its users. The platform allows businesses to deploy their own crowdfunding websites to support its clients in launching both fundraising campaigns and crowdfunding portals. Invested.in was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Monica, C.A.
  • Perfect Price — Get expert GTM strategy advice & achieve results for your business. We support & advise technical founders in many areas from marketing to pricing strategy.
Ryan Petersen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • TruckSmarter — Our mission is to empower truck drivers lives across the US through technology and grit.
  • Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.
  • Little Umbrella — Future is Fun with Social & AI Games. At Little Umbrella, we create AI-powered games that deliver immersive experiences, bringing families, friends, and communities closer together. Proudly serving a growing community of over 30 million players
Patrick Gannon Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
I start, run, advise, and invest in technology companies. My experience has been in financial services (real estate, trading, credit, payments, wealth management) and technology (internet, software) companies. My passions outside of business are in math, technology, music, real estate and education.Specialties: Fintech, Investing, Acceleration,Starting Companies & Building Products MBA in Finance and Strategic Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT.
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Investment focus
  • iOS, Apps, Video
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • just.me Inc — just.me is a free mobile messaging platform that successfully brings the functionality of the camera app, video capture, voice messages, texting, email and other messaging apps all into one powerful application. The user can save memories for themselves; share with family, friends or colleagues; or publish for the world to see; all with asingle app. Memories, Messages or Posts can have unlimited photos, videos, voice and text. Recording life events and deciding who to share them with is here, and its free.Because just.me sits on the smartphone address book, it puts the user in control as to who sees each shared message. There is no ambiguity as to who will see what you share.At just.me it is all about you as you are in control of your information and messages.The app is in beta for iPhone and under development for Android. There is also a web version with reduced publishing features.
  • Patch of Land — Patch of Land is a real estate crowdfunding site that brings together borrowers and investors through a simple online interface. It is a real estate marketplace lender that uses proprietary technology and data to provide transparent, scalable, and efficient lending solutions. The company also offers borrowers access to reliable capital forresidential and commercial real estate projects while providing investors easy diversification into real estate with low minimums and a best-in-class secured loan structure.Patch of Land mission is to solve the problem of slow, inefficient, fragmented, and obscure private real estate lending by using the latest technology, data, and process efficiency to more accurately assign risk profiles and project viability, while greatly reducing the time and cost of loan underwriting for borrowers with real estate projects that are overlooked or rejected by banks and traditional lenders.It was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
David O. Sacks Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Israel, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Waitroom — Rumi.ai redefines meetings with AI-synced notes and tasks, streamlining your workflow and ensuring productive action tracking
  • Index — Index wants companies to use its no-code dashboard builder to help visualize their KPIs and track performance. The tool boasts integration with a variety of data providers so that users aren’t forced to manually enter data into another tool. The startup hopes that building embeddable dashboards will help their solution catch fire and that startupswill turn to their tool when they want to track progress on goals.
  • Sandbox VR — Step inside a new dimension and experience a new reality with your friends. See, touch, and hear. VR as it was meant to be. Sandbox VR, In Here, It's Possible.
Chris Powers Angel · Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Chris Powers is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Fort Capital.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Computer, Internet
  • Seed, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zego — Zego is a PropTech company providing property management services and solutions to property managers, owners, developers, HOAs and more.
  • Tilt — Tilt. com is a free and simple way for individuals to collect money with a group, while enterprise tools like Tilt Pro allow businesses to host, brand, and customize their own crowdfunding experience.We all love doing things as a group. Like most experiences, it's not what you do – it's the people you do it with that really matters.So at Tilt, we’re excited to be building software that makes pooling resources with a group just a little bit easier. Since 2012, over 500,000 groups have used Tilt to turn their ideas, large and small, into reality. Our users have done a lot to make us proud, from thousands of tailgates, fantasy football leagues, and party buses, all the way to sending the Jamaican Bobsled Team to the Sochi Olympics, fundraising the construction of an entire elementary school in India, and bringing the Foo Fighters to perform in their home town.Tilt - make something happen!
Jonathan Golden Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Jonathan Golden is a Partner at NEA.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Merlin — Merlin is an internet company that specializes in the fields of the marketplace, consumer software, delivery, and human resources. It provides a software platform that helps employers to find, screen and select the candidates for every opening. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, United States.
  • Twenty (YC S23) — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.
  • Twenty — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.
Dan Rosensweig Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Dan Rosensweig is the Executive Chairman of Chegg. He previously worked at Yahoo! as a Chief Operating Officer. Dan Rosensweig attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, EdTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
  • Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
  • Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.
Jack Dorsey Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder and CEO of Block, Inc. He previously worked at Elliott Investment Management as a CEO.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Mobile
  • Series A, Seed, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Ocean — Ocean empowers miners to reclaim control of the intelligent portions of mining and is designed to be non-custodial, transparent, and permissionless.
  • Mercor — Mercor is a better way to hire. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next team members.
  • SimpleX Chat — SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.
Chris Dixon Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Chris Dixon is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and co-leads its $350M crypto fund. Previously, Chris was the cofounder and CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technologycompany that was acquired by eBay in 2011.Chris has been a prolific seed investor, cofounding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies. Chris started programming as a kid, and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm, Arbitrade. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard. He has written about his theories and experiences as an entrepreneur and investor on Medium, and before that at cdixon.org; his a16z Podcast appearances can be found at https://a16z.com/author/chris-dixon/
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Blockchain
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.
  • Canonical Crypto — Canonical Crypto is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in technology companies building blockchain infrastructure
  • Redbeard Ventures — Red Beard Ventures is a full-stack web3 fund investing across Web 3.0 and crypto, including consumer applications, infrastructure, gaming, the metaverse, and DeFi with a focus on pre-seed through Series B investments in equity and tokens.
Ihar Mahaniok Angel · New York, New York, United States
Ihar Mahaniok is the Managing Partner at Geek Ventures. Ihar Mahaniok attended Belarusian State University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
  • Localie — A platform for travelers to find verified locals who can show around and help with all aspects of a trip.
  • Workee — Workee is a back-office for freelancers. We are helping appointment led professionals (such as coaches, health experts, tutors, lawyers) to manage their accounting, invoices, client and work management in one place out of the box. We save at least 4 hours per week and at least $200-$400 per month.
  • Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.
Vikal K Angel
Vikal Kapoor of New York, NY is a global executive, investor and futurist with a keen sense of the global forces and next-gen tech that unlock value for founders, investors and markets that yield socially positive consequences. He focuses on the confluence of strategy, sales and tech as applied to VC, PE and LP backed cos including success atProton Enterprises, Bloomberg, SevenTrain Ventures, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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Investment focus
  • Hospitality, Restaurants, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Arlo Skye — Luggage and travel accessories for the design-obsessed. Enjoy free shipping and returns, plus a 90 day trial.
  • EquityNet — EquityNet is a financial services company that specializes in providing solutions in the fields of angel investors, investment banking, business funding, and venture capital. It provides access to thousands of approved, self-accredited investors and has helped entrepreneurs across North America raise over $300MM in equity, debt, and alternativelysourced capital.The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Resy, American Express Global Dining Network — Resy connects you to the best restaurants in the world
Adam Ayers Angel · West Hollywood, California, United States
Customer and Product Obsessed Technical Leader. Investor. Wine Collector.Full Stack Engineering, Product, and Technology leader experienced in a variety of environments including LAMP, MEAN/MERN, EFK hosted on AWS. Extensive experience with a wide array of High-Growth Startups ($5M-$100M/yr) as well as Larger E-Commerce Companies($100M+/yr).Technologies utilized: Shopify Plus, LAMP, MEAN/MERN, EFK, AWS (EC2, S3, ElasticSearch, Kibana, RDS-MYSQL, RDS-PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Route53), NGINX, PHP (Laravel, Lumen, Twig, Wordpress), Javascript (Express, Node, React, Angular, Vue), HTML, CSS (Bootstrap 4, Material), Payment Processors and Payment Gateways (Stripe, Paypal, Braintree, Amazon Payments), CDN (Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Akamai, and InstartLogic), Fraud and Chargeback Prevention (Signifyed, Forter, Stripe Radar), Email (MailChimp, SailThru, SendGrid), Automated deployment (Git, Github, and Jenkins), Fluentd, Nagios, Pingdom, Heroku, Twilio, Google Tag Manager, Slack.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • WeStrive — Grow your revenue with the best software for personal trainers and gym owners in 2022 - WeStrive. #1 app for personal training, try completely free for 14 days.
  • Winc — Discover why Winc is the best! The #1 modern wine subscription club with top-rated wines delivered straight to your doorstep.
  • The Ticket Fairy — The Ticket Fairy is a marketing and analytics solution that helps events to get more, relevant attendees and secure their ticket income in advance. Running events is a huge risk. Costs can be massive (in the millions of dollars) and multiple factors affect attendance - even something as simple as rain can result in a 25% drop in on-the-door sales.They are used by large events to: - Increase revenue (typically by 10-25%) - Lower marketing costs - Increase social reach, to the right people - Manage and optimise advertising campaigns across multiple channels, including automating audience targeting - Reduce ticket resale fraud/scalping - Automate day-to-day business admin - Gain insights into customer demographics & brand engagement via social profile analytics - Plan future events via data-driven decision making, increasing event relevancy
Naval Ravikant Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He previously served as the CEO of AngelList. He attended Dartmouth College.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
  • The ePlane Company — The ePlane Co. aims to end your traffic woes by building one of the most innovative mobility solutions for up to 10x faster urban commutes. Our mission is to revolutionize city travel with efficient and sustainable aerial technology.
  • Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker provides water for farms, watersheds, and ecosystems, fortifying growth and stewarding the natural world.
Matt Mullenweg Angel · Houston, Texas, United States
Matt Mullenweg is the CEO at Automattic Inc. Matt Mullenweg attended the University of Houston.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • AppFlowy — AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data
  • Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
  • Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
Mark Schwartz Angel
Mr. Schwartz has been Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs and Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific since rejoining the firm in June 2012. He initially joined the firm in 1979 in the Investment Banking Division. In 1985, he moved to Fixed Income, where he founded and led the High Yield Department until 1990. From 1991 to 1997 he was Head of the CapitalMarkets Department, from 1997 to 2001 he was President of Goldman Sachs Japan, and from 1999 to 2001 he was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia.Prior to rejoining the firm, Mr. Schwartz was the Chairman of MissionPoint Capital Partners, an investment firm he co-founded and which is focused on the transition to a lower-carbon economy. He previously served as a Senior Advisor and then as President and Chief Executive Officer of Soros Fund Management.Mr. Schwartz serves on the Boards of Directors of MasterCard Inc. and Softbank Corp. He is a trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital , a member of its Executive Committee and Vice Chairman of its Audit Committee. Mark is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. He serves as trustee at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and on the Board of Directors of the Ragon Institute of MGH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
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Investment focus
  • Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate, Grocery
  • Seed, Series B, Series G
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cherre — Connect all your real estate data and make it available to the entire organization for better investment, management, and underwriting decisions.
  • PayDragon — With the free PayDragon iPhone or Android app, you can buy an item blocks away from a store and have it ready for you to pick up by the time you arrive. This saves you time and the aggravation of waiting in line just to order and pay.
  • Invested.in — Invested.in is an enterprise white-label solution that provides crowdfunding software solutions for its users. The platform allows businesses to deploy their own crowdfunding websites to support its clients in launching both fundraising campaigns and crowdfunding portals. Invested.in was founded in 2009 and is based in Santa Monica, C.A.
Mark Gillespie Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Mark Gillespie, born in Solihull, August 30th 1981, is a prominent music industry executive and entrepreneur, currently serving as the CEO of Three Six Zero, a global entertainment management company. With a career spanning over two decades, Gillespie has been instrumental in managing and guiding the careers of high-profile artists, producers,and creatives, including internationally acclaimed stars like Calvin Harris, Frank Ocean and Kid Cudi. Beyond his role at Three Six Zero, he owns the record label, Three Six Zero Recordings, Three Six Zero Music Publishing, and an interest in UK film distribution company, True Brit Entertainment. He is also credited as an executive producer on the movies Vox Lux (starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law) The Brutalist (starring Adrien Brody, Joe Alwyn and Felicity Jones) and Marching Powder (starring Danny Dyer).In 2023 he purchased the legendary SARM Recording Studios in London.Additionally Mark is an active investor in the technology space and holds a portfolio of investments in businesses such as Openai, SpaceX, Doordash, Figma, Stripe, OpenSea Gemini and Lyft. As well as being an LP at Andreessen Horowitz.He serves on the entertainment board of the charity Children In Conflict. His forward thinking vision and innovative approach to talent management have positioned Three Six Zero as a leading entity in the industry, known for representing leading talent in their respective fields of music, film, television and sports.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Internet, Video
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Bkstg — Bkstg was founded by tech and music entrepreneurs to reinvent the way artists and fans connect by creating a new form of direct relationship that’s never existed before.
  • Hyperice — HyperIce is a recovery and movement enhancement technology company specializing in vibration, percussion, and thermal technology. Its technology is used by the athletes in professional and collegiate training rooms and fitness facilities globally.The company is driven by a mission to provide everyone with the innovative technology in acceleratingrecovery time, preventing injury, and enhancing the body’s ability to move efficiently. HyperIce was founded in 2010 by Anthony Katz.
  • Biosceptre — A Promise Beyond Cancer Envisioning the future of targeted therapeutics Biosceptre is driving innovation to bring new and progressive therapies to a wide range of cancer patients. Our focus is a multiple-targeted universal CAR T system with the potential to improve the lives of millions of patients across the world who are suffering from
Garry Tan Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Garry Tan is the incoming President and CEO of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Posterous.com as a Co-Founder. Garry Tan attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Giga ML — We are introducing X1 Large 32k. Most powerful On-prem LLM for the enterprise.
  • Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
  • ResearchHub — We're a community seeking to improve prioritization, collaboration, reproducibility, and funding of scientific research. Discuss and discover academic research on ResearchHub
Joe Greenstein Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Joe Greenstein is the Co-Founder and Assistant Zookeeper at Innerspace. He attended the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Topknot — Learn about yourself, make plans, take action.
  • Gently — Find secondhand clothing, effortlessly. Wearloom sends you the best new listings from sites like Poshmark, Depop, eBay, ThredUp, and Vestiaire Collective.
  • Reveri — Hypnotize yourself to relieve pain and stress, improve your sleep, and build better habits.
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