# Top 50 Digital Media Angel Investors in June 2026 ## Oleg Parashchak - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, InsurTech Enterpreneur, Private Investor, Insurance Media, InsurTech & Crypto Enthusiast ## Joanne Wilson - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail Joanne Wilson is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gotham. Joanne Wilson attended Simmons College. ## Chris M. Willliams - Type: Angel - Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Digital Media, Video Streaming, Internet Chris M. Williams is the Founder & CEO at pocket.watch. ## Gary Vaynerchuk - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College. ## Auren Hoffman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Analytics, Mobile CEO, NQB8, Chm, SafeGraph. GP, Flex Capital. Fmr CEO of LiveRamp. Follow @auren ## Ronald Conway - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley. ## Greg Castle - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality An entrepreneur and corporate marketer turned VC, with an interest in early-stage, disruptive technology. Over 100 seed stage investments including Oculus, Flexport, Rec Room, Anduril, Flock Safety, OssoVR and Mux. ## Michael Kassan - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Advertising, Digital Media, Video Michael E. Kassan helps bridge the gaps between media, marketers, and technologists.Kassan founded MediaLink in 2003 to be a transformational partner to the world’s leading media, marketing, and technology companies. Bringing these groups together while balancing strategic insight with pragmatic execution, MediaLink guides its clients throughan increasingly fragmented media landscape. As Chairman and CEO, Kassan has led the firm’s expansion from strategic advisory into multiple business lines including executive search, financial due diligence, agency benchmarking/reviews, and trade marketing. With a culture focused on both confidentiality and transparency, MediaLink now sits at the epicenter of major cross-industry initiatives and legislation helping to build consensus between government, marketers, and publishers.Kassan maintains a deep commitment to advising the media industry’s leadership. He acts as Special Advisor to numerous CEO’s helping them “break through the noise” in today’s marketplace and advising on issues ranging from corporate strategy and partnerships to M&A.Drawing on a combination of experience, relationships, and insights, Kassan writes extensively as a noted blogger and serves frequently as a moderator and keynote speaker at global industry conferences. He has built instrumental partnerships with the Consumer Electronics Show and the Cannes Lions. He also produces and hosts a radio show on WOR 710 AM and Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio, “Medialinked — Inside Advertising and Media with Michael Kassan.”Prior to MediaLink, Kassan led Initiative Media Worldwide as COO and Vice-Chairman from 1994 to 2001. Kassan helped grow the company’s initial $1.5 billion in billings nearly ten-fold. Prior to Initiative, he was President and COO of International Video Entertainment (Artisan Entertainment). In his first career, Kassan spent ten years as a tax lawyer specializing in the entertainment industry.Kassan currently serves as Chair of the UJA-New York Marketing Communications Committee as well as on the Boards of the American Advertising Federation, the Ad Council, and the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. He served as Chairman of the California State Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry. ## Michael Jones - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce Mike Jones is an internet executive, investor, and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful company in college and since then has founded, built, and sold numerous online and mobile businesses.As the co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Science, Inc., Mike brings together the best talent, resources, andfinancing through a centralized platform to build and invest in technology businesses. In 2016 alone, three of Science’s portfolio companies saw big exits -- HelloSociety was acquired by The New York Times, Dollar Shave Club was acquired by Unilever, and FameBit was acquired by Google. His experience and expertise in both large and small companies focuses on strategy, growth, and operational efficiency, resulting in over $2.6B in successful investor outcomes.Prior to Science, Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with joint venture partners in Myspace China and Myspace Japan / Softbank. During his tenure, he was responsible for the relaunch of Myspace, one of the most high-profile turn-around challenges in the industry ## Reid Hoffman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy. ## Sergii Mashevskyi - Type: Angel - Location: Irvine, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Animation, Digital Media, Creative Agency Sergii Mashevskyi - Founder, CEO @ Cameo FX ## Michael Lazerow - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, Advertising Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures. ## Nasir Jones - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play. ## Bradley Harrison - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS Bradley C. Harrison is based out of Austin, Texas, and is the founder and managing partner of Scout Ventures. Bradley previously worked at BHV as a founder and managing partner. Bradley C. Harrison attended the MIT Sloan School of Management. ## Scott Becker - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Digital Media, Advertising Scott Becker, Vice President of Enterprise Products, joined Schrödinger in 2012. He received his BS in Computational Biology from University of Pennsylvania. Scott is a technical entrepreneur, startup advisor, and angel investor. He was Co-Founder and CTO of Invite Media, a venture backed advertising startup that was acquired by Google in2010. ## John Legend - Type: Angel - Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Beauty, Retail John Legend is a nine-time Grammy Award winning recording artist, critically-acclaimed concert performer, philanthropist/social activist, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. Legend’s debut album, Get Lifted (2004) sold more than three million copies worldwide and earned an astounding eight Grammy nominations withthree wins for Best New Artist, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B album. Legend’s follow-up album, Once Again (2006) earned RIAA platinum certification and a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. High off the success of his third consecutive Top 10 album, Evolver (2008), Legend embarked on an extensive world tour with an 11 piece band - his largest traveling show to date. Inspired by the monumental 2008 Presidential election, Legend teamed up with The Roots to release the socially conscious album, Wake Up! (2010.) The album was nominated for five Grammy Awards and won Best R&B Album, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B song (for “Shine”- an original composition also featured in Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim’s documentary film Waiting for Superman) along with two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Album and Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration. In 2007, Legend launched the Show Me Campaign, a nonprofit organization fighting poverty around the world. John also sits on the Boards of The Education Equality Project, Teach for America, and the Harlem Village Academies. Legend has been honored several times for his activism, including the 2010 BET Humanitarian of the Year award, the 2009 CARE Humanitarian Award for Global Change, and the 2009 Africare’s Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award. In early 2012, Legend released one of the hottest songs of his career, the RIAA gold-certified hit “Tonight (Best You’ve Ever Had),” which sat atop the Urban AC radio chart for six consecutive weeks. Legend recently released his fifth studio album Love in the Future, with executive producers Kanye West and Dave Tozer, and will embark on a North American tour this autumn. ## Fredrik Mansson - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle Fredrik Mansson - Investor @ Propel Capital ## Rajan Anandan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago. ## Vijay Sharma - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, News, Software Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering. ## Geoff Judge - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Advertising, Software, Marketing Partner iNovia CapitalGeoff was a co-founder of 24/7 Media; previously the President of Interactive Imaginations, 1 of 3 companies that merged to form 24/7 Media in 1997. 24/7 Media went public in August 1998 and was acquired by WPP in 2007 for $649MM. He was at iMarket prior, a venture backed start-up, where he was on themanagement team as VP Marketing. Geoff Judge spent nine years at American Express in the Card Division in several roles including VP and GM, Travel & Corp. Insurance Group. He was an investor in IndustryBrains (sold to Marchex), on the Board of Fetchback (sold to GSI), Oggifinogi (sold to Collective) and current board member of Global Cash Access (NYSE: GCA), Collective, PexCard, Spanfeller Media, and Lenddo, and an observer on Chango, Resonate, Routehappy, 33 Across, and others. He’s a founding board member of Children for Children, and a Trustee for the Sacred Heart School in Manhattan for 6 years. Education: M.B.A. from Columbia, B.A. in Economics from Northwestern. ## Mitch Kapor - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Mobile, Education Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management. ## Anthony Saleh - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion Anthony Saleh is the Founder and CEO of Emagen Investment Group, Inc. and General Partner of WndrCo. ## Paul Buchheit - Type: Angel - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University. ## Clark Landry - Type: Angel - Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Clark Landry is the Managing Partner of Clover Leaf Ventures.Most recently, Clark was co-founder and COO at CESPPA, a cybersecurity company. Formerly, Clark was co-founder and COO at Maple Media (raised $30 million from private equity investors), co-founder and executive chairman at SHIFT (acquired by Brand Networks), co-founder and CEO at TopLevel Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines - publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM), co-founder and CMO at TagWorld (acquired by Viacom). Clark was a founding investor of Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel), Traffic Marketplace, an advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), Adconion Media Group, a provider of digital media advertising solutions (acquired by Amobee), Conversion Logic, an advertising attribution company, and CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace.Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Yale University. ## Alexis Ohanian - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile, Blockchain Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia. ## Scott Banister - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan. ## Bo Mattsson - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Software, Information Technology Bo Mattsson is a director of Previously, Mattsson founded Cint and served the same company as its chief executive office, chairman, and general and sales manager. Hewas also the head of Swedbank Securities.Mattsson holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA, both from the Stockholm School of Economics. ## Wei Guo - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited. ## Tim O'Reilly - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Publishing, Digital Media, Social Media Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc. Considered by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Strata: The Business of Data, the Velocity Conference on Web Performance and Operations, andmany others. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O'Reilly's early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online, PeerJ, Code for America, and Maker Media, which was recently spun out from O'Reilly Media.Maker Media's Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution. ## Michael Birch - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Apps, Internet, Social Media Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo. He previously worked at Blab as a Co-Founder. Michael Birch attended Imperial College London. ## Joe Thomas - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Productivity Tools Joe Thomas is the Co-founder and CEO of Loom. ## Andrew Anker - Type: Angel - Location: Half Moon Bay, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Content, Publishing, Digital Media Andrew Anker ## Dave Carlson - Type: Angel - Location: Centennial, Colorado, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Finance, Software Dave Carlson is the Founder and Managing Director of eonBusiness. Dave established eonBusiness in 1997 to meet the needs of start-ups and early development stage companies for building Internet based businesses. He has founded five businesses with three successful exits to date while supporting dozens of other companies. While eonBusiness startedas primarily a web development services organization, it transitioned to an incubator and then subsequently a boutique venture capital firm investing in software as a service (SaaS) and mobile opportunities.Dave is actively involved as an advisor to numerous eonBusiness portfolio companies. He also currently serves on the board of directors of mobileStorm for eonBusiness.Dave also serves as a Mentor to the TechStars mentorship driven seed stage investment program.In 2001 Dave founded and incubated GO TOAST and subsequently started eonMedia in 2002. Both companies were acquired in 2003 by aQuantive which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007. Other personal startups include eonBusiness, AllAboardToys.com (acquired in 2008) and HomePoint.Prior to founding eonBusiness, Dave was a senior executive at EchoStar (DISH Network) for 12 years, where he was an integral part of the launch of the DISH Network and the initiation of EchoStar's global business expansion. Dave's EchoStar career included a six-year stint in The Netherlands as Managing Director of European, African and Middle Eastern Operations.Dave earned a B.A. in Communications with a minor in Business Administration at Bethany College and a Masters Degree in International Business Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. ## Mark Pincus - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, FinTech, Software Mark Pincus is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Playful.AI. Mark previously worked at Tribe.net as a CEO and Co-Founder. Mark Pincus attended Harvard Business School. ## James Hong - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Internet James Hong ## Raymond Tonsing - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director. Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder. ## Edward Lando - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School. ## Jaffray Woodriff - Type: Angel - Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care Angel Investor located in Charlottesville, VA ## Chris Sang - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer ## Justin Waldron - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program. ## Tom Ryan - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Music, E-Commerce, Mobile Tom Ryan is CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto TV and President, CEO, and Streaming at Paramount, the leading free streaming television service in America that is also available in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America. Pluto TV carries and programs more than 250 live channels and thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows in partnership withhundreds of major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Each month over 36 million viewers tune in to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, live events, cartoons, and trending digital series on mobile, web, and living room devices. Pluto TV is a top free app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Android mobile, and also powers built-in streaming television services on Vizio LG, and Samsung smart TVs. Earlier in his career, Tom served as CEO of Threadless (a popular crowdsourced design and e-commerce company), SVP of Digital Strategy at EMI Music as well as co-founder of Cductive (an early digital music retailer company that he merged with eMusic). He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from INSEAD in France. ## Garry Tan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Garry Tan is based out of Mountain View, California and is the President & CEO of Y Combinator. Garry Tan attended Stanford University. ## Walter Winshall - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Finance, Education Walter A. Winshall is the Founder of Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners. ## David Calone - Type: Angel - Location: East Setauket, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Grant - Focus: Digital Media, Information Technology, B2B David L. Calone is the President and CEO of Jove Equity Partners, LLC, a private equity and venture capital firm which invests in the internet, software, digital media, real estate and health care industries. He serves as a director of seven privately-held companies located throughout the United States.Prior to Jove Equity Partners, Mr. Caloneserved as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the New York State Attorney General’s Office. From 1999 through 2003, Mr. Calone was a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He was one of two federal prosecutors nationwide to receive the 2003 Attorney General’s Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Employee, in recognition of his work fighting terrorism-related and corporate international crime including his role in the September 11th-related prosecutions. He served as a guest instructor at the U.S. Army European Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia. ## Marc Andreessen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems. ## Chris Hughes - Type: Angel - Location: Shokan, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Social Media, Information Technology, Digital Media Chris Hughes - Co-Chair @ Economic Security Project ## Gordon Crovitz - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: News, Journalism, Digital Media Gordon Crovitz - Member of the Board of Directors @ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ## Baron Davis - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Mobile Apps Baron Davis is the Founder at Baron Davis Enterprise. ## Paul Sethi - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Internet, Enterprise Software Paul Sethi is a co-founder and Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures, the Founder and Managing Partner at Trajectory Capital Partners, and the Co-founding Partner of OpenFortune. For 7+ years prior to 2048 Ventures, Paul was CEO of, the leading sales data and intelligence platform for the marketing industry (acquired by List Partners). He alsoco-founded Robuzz, an advanced ML/NLP practice, with a real-time alerts and data extraction engine built for the enterprise. Paul has been a first-check angel for over a decade, including in Flexport, SeatGeek, Transfix, Knotel and LearnVest. He serves as Advisor to Transfix and OpenFortune and graduated with honors from Wharton (UPenn) and Columbia. Early in his career, he was a public company investor focused on the tech sector. ## Ryan Shuler - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet of Things, Fashion Ryan Shuler is a venture executive having held senior leadership roles leading direct-to-consumer practices in startup organizations across the private and public sectors. Prior to Legendary Ventures, he was the co-founder of a southern California-based 501(c)(3) non-profit. His entrepreneurial spirit subsequently led him to launch his own dietarysupplement company primarily targeting women. Ryan’s exemplary work ethic complement his natural affinity to “bridge gap” in some of the fastest growing startup categories in the venture ecosystem.