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Top 50 Energy Angel Investors in May 2025

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Energy startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Energy companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 50 Energy Angel Investors in May 2025

Investor Energy investments
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann 10
Soheila Yalpani 9
Bhavik Bajaj 9
Ian Marchant 8
Mark Cuban 8
Sagar Ratilal Bavarva 8
Ahu Serter 7
Kiran Bhatraju 7
Jackson Moses 7
Bill Gates 7
Bill Gates 7
Danny Hayes 7
Chris Sang 6
Alfred Luger 6
Dylan Taylor 6
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman 6
Jeff Dean 6
Mark Cuban 6
Jordan Mendell 5
Thomas McInerney 5
Paul Forster 5
Edward Ismawan Chamdani 5
Rayyan Islam 5
Bradley Horowitz 5
David Helgason 5
Rand Hindi 5
Erik Peterson 5
Sunmeet Jolly 5
Ishara Yusdian 5
Jeremy Yap 5
Akshay Singhal 5
Felix Jahn 4
Nico Rosberg 4
Rohan Oza 4
David Rowan 4
Bryan Meehan 4
Ralf Dummel 4
Sam Altman 4
Edward Lando 4
David Balensiefen 4
Nicholas Assef 4
Yun-Fang Juan 4
Kai Hansen 4
Ramez Naam 4
Jon Oringer 4
Marc Benioff 4
Sierra Peterson 4
Gokul Rajaram 4
Julie McDermott 4
Daniel Curran 4
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Johann "Hansi" Hansmann Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Fitness
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Austria, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
  • Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
  • Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.
Soheila Yalpani Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
oheila is an entrepreneur with C-team leadership experience on project management and pre-master planning of large-scale smart, resilient green infrastructure projects.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Sustainability, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Mountain Gate — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Bhavik Bajaj Angel
Bhavik Bajaj
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
Ian Marchant Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Ian was Chief Executive of SSE, one of the UK’s leading utility companies and Scotland’s largest industrial company for over ten years. He stepped down from that position in the summer of 2013. Ian is now Chairman of Infinis Energy plc, a renewable energy company; Independent Chairman of the oil services company, the John Wood group and NovaInnovation; as well as holding various advisory and non-executive positions in other organisations. Ian is a renowned and innovative leader in the energy industry, and was welcomed to Synaptec’s advisory board in July 2016.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Information Technology, Information Services
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Piclo — Piclo develop software to make our electricity grids smart, flexible and sustainable.
  • Interpac — Interpac has developed a new packaging production system the corrugator which does not use steam in the manufacturing process. The Interpac system is a revolutionary process that enables on-demand production which significantly reduces packaging costs and emits 90% less greenhouse gases than conventional processes.
  • Labrador — Get paid cash to use less energy. Be notified of when you can switch energy suppliers and save. Automatically be on the cheapest deal available to you, always and for free. Plus, we will match your use to net zero sources for free.
Mark Cuban Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • ESAI — Join over 450,000 students crafting their story
  • Kind Designs — We specialize in Marine Construction and Seawall Repair using advanced 3D-printing technology. Get a free consultation today!
  • Campus Ink - NIL Store — Campus Ink Screen Printing & Embroidery, Champaign - Urbana, Custom T-Shirts, Fraternity & Sorority Apparel Simple
Sagar Ratilal Bavarva Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Sagar Ratilal Bavarva is the Director and Researcher of Aasan Group of Companies. He previously worked at the World Economic Forum as a Digital Associate - Remote. Sagar Ratilal Bavarva attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • India, The Netherlands, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Notte Group — A family run venture organization mainly focused over investment management and project planning within areas of energy, renewables, farming, agritech!
  • AASAN Consultancy — AASAN Consultancy is a management consulting firm providing energy management and engineering services.Its primary focus is on cost reduction, energy consumption analysis, and evaluation, as well as future-oriented planning for the cost-saving strategies for the energy supply. The firm identifies the possibilities to reduce current energy billswithout any impact on the consumer's current quality, volumes, or safety standards.Ratilal M. Bavarva founded the firm in 2018 with its headquarters in Rajkot, Gujarat.
  • Habaple Solar Technology Limited — An intertwine solar technology company with a next generation of 2.1 MW powerhouse grid base module system with an annual source of electricity generation. The project will be under the guideline of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), Ministry of Power.
Ahu Serter Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Transportation, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, Greece, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
  • Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
  • Tripy Mobility — Tripy Mobility strives to promote the adoption of electric vehicles while reducing carbon emissions in transportation by increasing the charging station network.
Kiran Bhatraju Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Kiran Bhatraju is the Founder and CEO of Arcadia. Kiran has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Environmental Consulting, Robotics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Amperon — Our AI-powered demand forecasts help companies manage risk and navigate volatile energy markets.
  • Arbor — Arbor is a home energy advisor that assist you automatically decrease your electric rate on an ongoing basis for free.
  • Kopperfield — Discover the digital tools that power contractors to win more work in less time with faster designing, virtual site visits, and unified communications.
Jackson Moses Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
A successful serial entrepreneur and early defense tech investor, Jackson Moses currently serves as the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures, an early stage venture firm that invests in exceptional founders building unrivaled aerospace, defense, and national security startups. He also founded and manages Silent Capital, a privatesyndicate that provides its members exclusive access to leading multi-stage defense and deep tech deals. Additionally, Jackson serves as a Senior Advisor to the founding teams of Castelion and Privateer Space.Prior to founding Silent Ventures, Jackson founded and served as VP of Partnerships at MainStreet: the first tech company to make R&D tax credits accessible to startups and SMBs via industry-leading workflows and integrations. As a founding executive, he was responsible for developing go-to-market strategies, building a world-class sales organization, managing business development initiatives, and scaling annual revenue to over $30M. To date, MainStreet has employed hundreds of people and helped 2,000+ startups claim over $150M in tax savings, collectively extending their runway by centuries.Prior to founding MainStreet, Jackson founded and served as Chairman & CEO of Spectrum Labs (enterprise AIaaS), which was acquired by ActiveFence after last being valued at $137M. Spectrum Labs pioneered multimodal LLMs, specifically a series of proprietary GPT foundation models, designed to make digital communities more profitable for Fortune 500 owners, marketers, influencers, and their users. Its customer base spanned gaming, dating, and social media, and included Tencent (TCEHY), Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), Grindr (NYSE: GRND), Yik Yak, Wildlife Studios, and The Meet Group, among others.Prior to founding Spectrum Labs, Jackson worked in sales (Lynda.com), customer operations, and executive recruiting at LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to this, he worked as a Market Research Analyst at Cisco where he evaluated industry trends, new investment opportunities, and emerging threats to Cisco’s core business lines.Having raised $120M+ across his two companies, Jackson actively advises startups, venture firms, and family offices on private sector aerospace and defense tech trends, investment opportunities, and capital allocation strategies. He serves as a Venture Partner to several large firms and has sourced deals for 8VC, Founders Fund, a16z, Lightspeed, Airbus Ventures, Quiet Capital, Susa Ventures, family offices, defense primes, and university endowments.Jackson holds two B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied Economics, with a concentration in monetary policy, and Political Science, with a concentration in game theory.
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Investment focus
  • Aerospace, National Security, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Amca — Amca acquires and develops critical aerospace and defense products and then scales them to deliver what the industry needs next. The company emphasizes rapid prototyping and delivery of new products, aiming to respond promptly to customer needs. Amca is committed to deploying top engineering and manufacturing talent to assist customers in buildingnew products and solving complex problems.
  • Base Power — Base provides a battery-powered home energy service so you can enjoy power without interruption and save money. Now available in select regions of Texas.
  • Allen Control Systems — Allen Control Systems is a robotics defense company purpose-built to deliver advanced robotic capabilities to fill modernization demands across the defense industry and national security communities.
Bill Gates Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Series C, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Brazil, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Heineken — Welcome to the global website for Heineken International. Find information about our company, history, brands, strategy and careers here.
  • Inflection AI — Inflection AI is a machine learning startup that engages in redefining human-computer interaction.
  • Lucy Therapeutics — Lucy Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotech with a unifying mitochondrial platform, is developing small molecule treatments for neurological diseases.
Bill Gates Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States
Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Brazil, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Heineken — Welcome to the global website for Heineken International. Find information about our company, history, brands, strategy and careers here.
  • Inflection AI — Inflection AI is a machine learning startup that engages in redefining human-computer interaction.
  • Lucy Therapeutics — Lucy Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotech with a unifying mitochondrial platform, is developing small molecule treatments for neurological diseases.
Danny Hayes Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
As the CEO of Climate Transition Swiss AG, I lead a Swiss company that develops and finances green, resilient infrastructure projects across North America, Europe, and Japan. With over 20 years of international business experience, I have a strong track record of delivering sustainable energy solutions that create positive environmental and socialimpact.In addition to my role as CEO, I am also a Lobbyist for Climate Policy at the U.S. House of Representatives, where I focus on influencing environmental initiatives in Japan and Europe. I am passionate about advocating for climate action and fostering global collaboration on this urgent issue. I am also a member of the Forbes Business Council and a regular contributor to their climate section, where I share my insights and expertise on green business and policy.
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Investment focus
  • Clean Energy, Cyber Security, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Development — Climate Transition Development Corporation (CTD) is leading the Green Snow Project – an innovative hybrid renewable energy venture in Northern Japan. The company's mission is to revolutionize Japan’s renewable energy sector by harnessing the abundant low to medium-heat geothermal resources available in the region.Together with ourdevelopment partners, TerraScale Inc. and Global Family, the company is committed to tackling the challenges of the geothermal energy sector and transforming the way Japan generates power. The company's work forms an integral part of the Japan-US collaboration on geothermal energy development and aims to significantly reduce fossil fuel reliance and cut carbon emissions.
Chris Sang Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
  • Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.
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Alfred Luger Angel · Austria, Pangasinan, Philippines
Alfred Luger
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, E-Learning
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
  • Viora - visible through confidence — Ada Growth is on a mission to put a mentor in every woman's pocket. We combine AI with microlearning to provide professional growth and development tools for women in the workplace and help companies attract, retain, and grow female talent. Download the Ada App today!The Ada App is a microlearning app that provides 2 minute short formvideos, miniquizzes, action items, and summaries that lead to long-term behavioral changes in the workplace. It also contains a digital mentor that can provide dynamic coaching in the spirit of the Ada App library of content, so that Ada App users have access to casual lessons when they have a few minutes a day as well as immediate feedback for any upcoming situation.Ada Growth serves the B2B enterprise and SME space primarily to companies with over 400 employees. We sell a professional growth / EdTech / L&D solution to HR, Employee Training and DEI administrators. We are vertical agnostic and provide a growth experience for both white collar and blue collar workers. Most EdTech solutions tend to flow to the corporate office layer of an enterprise, where this is a saturation of resources available. Many of our users have not been given professional growth tools purposefully built for them before or made flexible for their lifestyle, unlocking value for both the employee as well as the employer.We are the first enterprise-ready professional EdTech solution built specifically for women.
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Dylan Taylor Angel · Denver, Colorado, United States
Dylan Taylor is a global business leader, commercial astronaut, thought leader and philanthropist. Currently, Dylan serves as Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space, a multi-national space exploration firm focused on building the next generation of space infrastructure for NASA and other global space agencies.Dylan has been recognized by HarvardUniversity, SpaceNews, the BBC, the Financial Times, Pitchbook, CNBC, CNN and others as having played a seminal role in the growth of the private space industry. As an early-stage investor in more than 50 emerging space ventures, including Axiom, Kepler, York, Astrobotic, LeoLabs, Relativity, and Planet, Dylan is widely considered the most active private space investor in the world.Dylan’s technical background, global business experience and unbridled passion for space make him a unique figure within his industry. As a thought leader and futurist, he has written many popular pieces on the future of the space industry for Forbes, FastCompany, Newsweek, SpaceNews, The Space Review, and Space.com. As a speaker, Dylan has keynoted many of the major space conferences around the world and has appeared regularly on Bloomberg, Fox Business, and CNBC.Dylan has extensive global business experience as both a board director and CEO in several industries, including advanced electronics, finance and real estate. He previously served as a Director for UMB Bank, a Fortune 500 company based in Kansas City and as a mutual fund director for the Jackson Funds where he oversaw assets of $8B across 130 distinct funds. He has also served in the roles of CEO, President and Board Director for multinational companies like Prudential PLC, Honeywell, Colliers and Jones Lang LaSalle. Dylan was recognized as a Fortune 1000 CEO with P&L responsibility in excess of $3B and operations encompassing 15,000 employees in over 60 countries. In addition, Dylan has participated in 4 IPOs over the course of his career. Dylan is a leading advocate of space manufacturing and the utilization of in-space resources to further space exploration and settlement. In 2017, he became the first private citizen to manufacture an item in space when the gravity meter he co-designed and commissioned was 3D printed on the International Space Station. The historic item is now housed in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.Dylan is an explorer of note. On December 11th, 2021 Dylan became just the 606th human to go to space as part of the crew of Blue Origin’s NewShepard Mission 19. Accordingly, Dylan earned his commercial astronaut wings with the FAA and his universal astronaut wings from the Association of Space Explorers.He is also one of only a handful of humans to have descended to the deepest part of the world’s oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench as part of the Limiting Factor Expedition in July of 2022. In that mission, Dylan descended with pilot Victor Vescovo to a depth in excess of 10,800 meters (35,500 feet) into an area of the Mariana Trench that had never been visited by humans. Dylan is the youngest human to have been to the deepest part of the world’s oceans and crossed the Karman line into Space. Dylan has been a member of the Explorers Club since 2014.Dylan maintains an extensive philanthropic impact on the space industry. In 2017, Dylan founded the nonprofit and social movement, Space for Humanity, which seeks to democratize space exploration and develop solutions to global issues through the scope of human awareness to help solve the world’s most intractable problems. Space for Humanity has successfully sent two citizen astronauts to space via Blue Origin including both the first Mexican-born woman (Katya Echazareta), and first African-born woman (Sara Sabry). Building upon his passion and support for the space industry, Dylan serves as a strategic advisor for both the Archmission and the Human Spaceflight Program and is a co-founding patron of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which promotes the growth of commercial space activity. Additionally, he is also a leading benefactor to the Brooke Owens Fellowship, Patti Grace Smith Fellowship and Mission: Astro Access.Dylan is the founder and Chairman of Multiverse Media, an integrated global media company focused on science and technology, with an emphasis on space. Multiverse is the parent company of the popular space philosophy website 2211.world as well as the Ad Astra Dinners, a Jeffersonian-style dinner series featuring some of the world’s leading influencers discussing the future of humanity in space. Another subsidiary of Multiverse Media, Multiverse Publishing, publishes books by leading authors including Frank White, Isaac Asimov and Gerard K. O’Neill. Multiverse is also the executive producer of the documentary film, The High Frontier and the forthcoming film, Fortitude. For his influence as a global leader and his commitment to creating a positive impact on the world, Dylan has been honored with numerous personal and professional accolades in recent years. The World Economic Forum recognized Dylan as a Young Global Leader in 2011 and a full member of the World Economic Forum in 2014. That same year he was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. In 2020, Dylan was recognized by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation with their top honor for business and finance, following in the footsteps of 2019’s inaugural winner, the late Paul Allen and subsequent winners Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.Dylan Taylor earned an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago and holds a BS in Engineering from the honors college at the University of Arizona, where he graduated Tau Beta Pi and in 2018 was named Alumnus of the year. He is also a graduate of the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at Harvard University.Dylan and his family reside in Denver, Colorado where he is active locally with Colorado Concern and the Colorado Spaceport. In his spare time, Dylan enjoys hiking, competing in triathlons and spending time outdoors. As a weekend warrior athlete, Dylan has more than 25 top ten finishes and 25 age group wins to his credit, and he regularly interviews world class athletes whom have shown extraordinary resilience as the host of the Legendary Podcast. He is married to legal expert, consultant and author Gabrielle V. Taylor with whom he has two teenage daughters.
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Investment focus
  • Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Xplore — Xplore is flying commercial missions in Earth orbits with their XCRAFT™, and they invite you to join us. They take civilian, commercial and national security payloads to their desired orbit around Earth for their science or reconnaissance missions.
  • LeoLabs — LeoLabs' network of ground-based, phased array radars produces high-resolution data on objects in LEO, supporting satellite service industries.
  • Space Forge — Space Forge make super materials in space that cannot be made on earth.
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / -Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger) - Equity Markets - Real Estate - FX - Commodity - Bonds - Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT - Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories: - Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint - Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi - D2C / B2C - Food & Beverages - Pharma - Media & Entertainment
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
  • United Kingdom, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
  • Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
  • Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Toffee Ride is a learning App that is singularly focused on helping your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.
Jeff Dean Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 24 investments in the past 12 months
Jeff Dean is the Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research. He joined Google in 1999 and has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technical foundations. He currently focuses on advancing AI and deep learning research across Google’s research teams.He co-founded and led the Google Brain team, helping drive innovations indeep learning for speech recognition, computer vision, natural language understanding, and a wide range of predictive applications. Over the years, he has co-designed and implemented several generations of Google's core systems, including its web search infrastructure, crawling and indexing pipelines, and advertising technologies such as AdSense for Content.He is also a key contributor to Google's distributed computing infrastructure, having co-designed and implemented systems like MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, Protocol Buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow—one of the most widely used open-source machine learning platforms.Jeff Dean earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences and the Mark Weiser Award.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Samaya AI — The company specializes in developing AI research agents that streamline knowledge workflows.
  • Akido Labs — At Akido, we collaborate with healthcare, government, and non-profit institutions to implement programs that tackle inequities in public health.
  • Stately Bio — Stately Bio is the trade-off between measuring cells and keeping them alive. Our patented ML technology measures cell identity, behavior, and maturation—all directly from live-cell, label-free imaging.
Mark Cuban Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States
Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Vietnam, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Bot-It — Online automation for everyone. Let Bot-It automatically complete your online tasks.
  • Allstar — Free, fast, and easy clip capture with zero FPS drop for Counter-Strike 2, League of Legends, Fortnite, and Dota 2.
  • Glove Wrap — Glove Wrap is a latex-free, thermoplastic elastomer band with the precise thickness, width, and length required to break in and shape your complete baseball glove while making the ideal pocket. Wrapping your glove with Glove Wrap applies pressure to the glove, reshaping it for easy use.
Jordan Mendell Angel · Greater Denver Area, Colorado, United States
Jordan Mendell is the chief product officer and head of mobile products at Mendell studied organic chemistry at the University of Colorado atDenver.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Consumer Electronics, Sports
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Rachio — Yard care is effortless with Rachio's smart irrigation controllers and easy-to-use app.
  • SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
  • Hammerhead — The Karoo 2 is the most advanced cycling computer ever, combining cutting-edge technology with the best maps and navigation, training, and features that enhance every aspect of your ride.
Thomas McInerney Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
Tom McInerney is a notable angel investor. He was a seed investor in Segment, Notion, GetAround, Tala, MemSQL, Mode Analytics, OpenTrons, Arcadia Power, and more.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Ware — Ware deploys autonomous, self-flying drones—combined with machine learning—inside warehouses to automate their inventory tracking. Designed to solve some of the $1.9 trillion warehousing industry’s most pressing issues, Ware’s product helps their customers operate more efficiently. A partner of Skydio and funded by Bloomberg Beta, Ware works withthe world’s largest 3PL’s and global brands to improve their accuracy, workflows, and save money.
  • Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
  • Replenysh — Replenysh is a set of tools for communities and companies to build circularity in days, not years.
Paul Forster Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Paul Forster
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
  • Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
  • Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Edward Ismawan Chamdani Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Managing and Founding Partner of Ideosource Venture Capital, an Indonesia focused venture capital firm dedicated on early-stage to later-stage investments.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Lifestyle, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Foom — We are an Indonesian-based tech-enabled consumer product startup with mission to aid adult sm*krs move away from combustible sm*kng and encourage people to shift to safer way of consuming nic. No Hassle, No Worries! Switch Now!
  • PasarMIKRO — PasarMIKRO, aplikasi perdagangan komoditas pertanian dan hasil laut. Solusi inovatif untuk petani, nelayan dan pedagang mikro indonesia!
  • Gayo Capital — Investing Tomorrow's Winner
Rayyan Islam Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Rayyan Islam is the Co-Founder and General Partner at 8090 Industries. As serial entrepreneur, investor and advisor focused on industrial technology and the low-carbon economy, the companies Rayyan's invested in, sourced and advised have grown to over $8B in market value and have gone to raise further financing from the likes of SequoiaCapital, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Venrock, Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Rayyan previously spent time helping source technology investments for multiple family offices globally, particularly focused towards industrialists based in the Texas and American midwest region and began his VC career at leading East Coast seed stage venture firm, Romulus Capital, where he sourced the firm’s most valued investment, EquipmentShare.A product manager by trade, he worked stints at Spotify, was on the founding team of a subscription airline and began his career supporting M&A transactions for industrial clients at Deloitte as well as economic developments efforts for Deloitte Consulting’s Emerging Markets Practice. Rayyan is a Forbes 30U30 Fellow, served as a United Nations Youth Delegate and is a recipient of the Outstanding Youth Delegate Award.Influenced by his family upbringing in Bangladesh, he personally witnessed energy security issues and the ramifications of climate change at a young age and its impact on communities around the world. Determined to make a serious dent on the issue, Rayyan supports a cadre of climate solutions, drafted policy recommendations to President Joe Biden’s climate transition team and is the editor of Decarbon Weekly, a decarbonization focused newsletter which counts leading climate scientists, members of state and local governments, climate tech founders and ESG focused investors and foundations amongst its subscription base. Rayyan co-founded the industrial decarbonization fund at 8090 Partners, in partnership with prominent industrial and energy families from around the world to invest, support and accelerate breakthrough technology companies decarbonizing every industrial sector driven by radical economic advantages.Rayyan and his work has been featured on Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Huffington Post and Forbes.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Biotechnology, Energy
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
  • Cache — Biomolecules are the next bits of the 21st century. So we're developing the first wet operating system for storing, accessing, and computing biomolecules at scale to make them widely accessible and useful. We're enabling the storage and access to the whole data universe—digital and biological—forever so that we don't have to deleteor dispose of anything ever again.
  • Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.
Bradley Horowitz Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
  • Odyssey — We're pioneering world models, the next frontier of artificial intelligence.
  • Overture Life — We are making In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) more accessible than ever before while improving success rates. An embryology lab in a box.
David Helgason Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
  • Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
  • Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Rand Hindi Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor in 50+ deeptech and web3 companies. He is the CEO at Zama, a homomorphic encryption startup. Rand started coding at the age of 10, created a social network at 14, and started his PhD at 21. He then created Snips, the first private-by-design voice assistant, which was acquired by Sonos. He was electedan MIT TR35, a Forbes “30 under 30”, and was a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris as well as a member of the French Digital Council.He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL).
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Twin — Agentic AI, made actionable.
  • Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
  • Brink Therapeutics — Brink Therapeutics is a Biotechnology Research firm conducting cell therapy research using reprogrammed recombinases.
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.
Sunmeet Jolly Angel · San Jose, California, United States
Managing Partner @ Jolly VC, LLCFounder and Patent holder - GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 44 pre-IPO technology startups. Frequently invited by accelerators and angel forums to Judge startup competitions and discuss technology innovation. Former IT Consulting industry executive who sold hundreds of millions of dollars inconsulting services to Fortune 500 companies working for Cap Gemini, HCL, L&T, NTT data.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Rentberry — Find your next home for long-term rent in any country at Rentberry.
  • AtomBeam — AtomBeam is a software company that is developing an artificial intelligence driven ecosystem of algorithms and computational paradigms that will transform the way data is transferred and stored, dramatically reducing the size of data transferred but without adding latency, using only modest computing power. This technology has profound benefitsfor a very large number of applications, in particular IoT and edge computing. The technology's advantages are unmatched and give it a wide range of uses: a) it can act on very small packet sizes, enabling it to stream data, b) computational latency is near zero, c) it is not sensitive to data errors, and c) it provides random file access. It has the potential to be virtually universal, especially in IoT.
  • Pops Diabetes Care — If you are an employer, caregiver, or just someone who wants an easy diabetes management system, Click here to learn how we can help!
Ishara Yusdian Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Investor | Storyologist | Builder
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
  • Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Foom — We are an Indonesian-based tech-enabled consumer product startup with mission to aid adult sm*krs move away from combustible sm*kng and encourage people to shift to safer way of consuming nic. No Hassle, No Worries! Switch Now!
  • PasarMIKRO — PasarMIKRO, aplikasi perdagangan komoditas pertanian dan hasil laut. Solusi inovatif untuk petani, nelayan dan pedagang mikro indonesia!
  • Gayo Capital — Investing Tomorrow's Winner
Jeremy Yap Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
  • Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
  • Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future
Akshay Singhal Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Akshay Singhal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Log 9 Materials a sub-organization of Log 9 Spill Containment.
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Investment focus
  • Pet, AgTech, Battery
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Loopworm — Insect Biosciences and Biomanufacturing Company Sustainable Proteins & Fats for Animals Active Ingredients forPlant Biostimulants Silkworm Biofactories for Recombinant Proteins Pet Nutrition and Wellness We utilize insects as a bioresource.We develop technologies to process insects into value-added products.The world is moving towards alternative bioresources and we choose insects because they are sustainable and have an
  • Climes — The easiest way for individuals and brands to become climate-friendly. Take real climate action alongside everyday consumption. All in a single click.
  • SWIZZLE — SWIZZLE delivers cocktail kits at home.
Felix Jahn Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Admi — Admi is a government technology company that helps towns and municipalities develop and operate photovoltaic systems on public lands.
  • YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
  • Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.
Nico Rosberg Angel · Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fyxer — Technology focused Virtual assistance service
  • SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
  • Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.
Rohan Oza Angel · Beverly Hills, California, United States
Rohan Oza is the co-founder and managing partner of CAVU Venture Partners.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cue — Cue helps users track their health at the molecular level, revealing the interplay of activity, food, and sleep. Consumers can track 5 key health and lifestyle indicators: inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, influenza, and testosterone in just minutes, at home. Cue sends the data via Bluetooth 4.0 to the user's smartphone, where the free Cueapp reveals the interplay of activity, food, and sleep shaping the user at a molecular level.
  • Gobble — Gobble delivers gourmet 15-minute meal kits right to your doorstep. These chef-designed meals are easy to prepare, with simple recipe steps and fresh ingredients that have been chopped, portioned, and simmered so that dinner is both fast and flavorful.Gobble combines the convenience of takeout with the health, satisfaction, and freshness of ahome-cooked meal. Our Executive Chef Thomas Ricci carefully curates each recipe so that anyone can create a dynamic meal at home in just minutes - think of us as personal sous chefs! New, seasonal menus are released weekly, and include dishes for every palate. Whether you're looking for global cuisine, low-calorie options, comfort classics, vegetarian recipes, or kid-friendly meals, we have you covered. Plus, we think beyond dinner with delicious options for breakfast, lunch, sides, desserts, and more!Our CEO Ooshma Garg was inspired to help people cook up happiness even on the busiest evenings, and since founding Gobble in 2010, she has graced Forbes’ Top 30 Innovators Under 30 list. Our operations have grown rapidly, serving 47 states and spanning offices in California, Pennsylvania, and Toronto. Find out why our customers call us a life-saver on busy weeknights. We're dedicated to helping households across the country spend less time working in the kitchen, and more time at the table with the people they love. Visit www.gobble.com to check out our latest culinary creations.
  • Rocean — Rocean makes smart appliances to change how we consume water. Our first product the Rocean One is a seamless, reusable water ecosystem with best-in-class filtration that carbonates, flavors and enhances tap water. The Rocean One gives consumers more choice and convenience than they will find in their local supermarket.
David Rowan Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Croatia
Portfolio highlights
  • EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
  • Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
  • Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.
Bryan Meehan Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Bryan Meehan is the Co-Founder of NUDE Skincare.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Sustainability, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • LOLIWARE — LOLIWARE is rewriting the story of destructive packaging. By harnessing the power of seaweed to replace plastic at scale, LOLIWARE is tapping into its potential to regenerate our ocean and decarbonize our planet.
  • Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
  • 8B Education Investments — 8B African Education Investments helps African students succeed at global universities with tools, resources, and world-class support to master every step of their educational journey.
Ralf Dummel Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design
  • Angel, Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
  • Frinsh — Many ready-to-drink ginger shots are sweetened or blended with fruit juice and thus contain a lot of sugar. The Frinish Ginger Cubes, on the other hand, is made entirely with ginger. Our fresh ginger is processed into a fine ginger puree and then frozen promptly. This implies that the flavor and nutrients are kept better.
  • TeaBlobs — TeaBlobs allows you to make tea fast, responsibly, and without using a bag. Now available in seven delectable flavors.
Sam Altman Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator from 2016 through 2019. Sam Altman attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
  • 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.
  • Campus — Live courses with top professors.
Edward Lando Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Volta — Our mission is to empower brands, wholesalers, and distributors with the tools and support to thrive in today's digital economy.
  • Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
  • Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.
David Balensiefen Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
David Balensiefen - CEO and Founder @ gridX
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability, SaaS
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
  • Heimladen — Heimladen is a renewable energy source that drives human mobility. They offer a platform that acts as a real estate partner, controls the charging infrastructure, and takes care of project planning while keeping costs low, and enabling tenants.
  • Greenflash — Greenflash places a premium on quality, efficiency, and client happiness. We collaborate with world-class partners to deliver you high-quality components and cutting-edge technologies. Our customized energy solutions are tailored to your specific needs and circumstances in order to get the best potential outcome for you.
Nicholas Assef Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Investment banker, founder, angel capitalist. FOcussed on industrial technology applications including renewable energy and recycling technology.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Energy, Battery
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Battery Pollution — Battery Pollution Technologies is establishing a national circular economy for lithium-ion batteries. Our comprehensive technology encompasses the entire lifecycle, from safe end-of-life management to eco-friendly repurposing and novel chemical recovery of critical battery materials.
  • Dumaresq Solar Farm — Large Scale Solar Farm & Battery Storage Development based in northern NSW, Australia
Yun-Fang Juan Angel · Silicon Valley, California, United States
Yun-Fang Juan
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Dimension — Trash Warrior is an early-stage urban tech startup in San Francisco, developing an on-demand platform of waste management for business clients, including America's biggest companies such as Amazon, Holiday Inn. Trash Warrior is a 500 Startups company, with other investments from notable institutions including Altair Capital, LightspeedVentures and Alumni Ventures Group.
  • Spruce — Your Keys, Your Data - Spruce lets users control their data across the web. We believe that the world is evolving toward one based on cryptography, networks, and digital economies that are user-controlled. Today, the dominant use case for user keys is the signing of blockchain transactions, but we think this barely scratches the surface of what is possible.
Kai Hansen Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
  • Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
  • Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.
Ramez Naam Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States
Ramez Naam is Chief Futurist and Partner at Prime Movers Lab.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Energy, Automotive
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Xeal — Xeal Energy provides the world's most advanced electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, designed especially for commercial, business & apartment use.
  • WeaveGrid — WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills.
  • Distributed Energy — Distributed Energy is a development and aggregation platform that connects renewable projects with funders.They are experienced platform aggregators who have come together to enable renewable energy projects in the developing world.The Distributed Energy platform reviews, screens and lists fundable projects on their marketplace. Investors canexpress interest to invest in credible opportunities. Their smart contracts and blockchain produce a robust link between parties, automating payments. They also provide ongoing reporting on performance of the assets.
Jon Oringer Angel · New York, New York, United States
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
  • Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
  • Unsloth AI — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.
Marc Benioff Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 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
  • weev.one — Weev.one is a tech-enabled platform that delivers a simplified and holistic solution to the digitization of the product creation chain. The company connects brands and suppliers on a shared platform to make the creation process faster, more transparent, and more sustainable. It was founded in 2018 and is located in Glattbrugg, Zurich.
  • SandboxAQ — SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society.
  • World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
Sierra Peterson Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Sierra is a Founding Partner at Voyager Ventures.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Patch — We make carbon removal as simple as writing a few lines of code. Build sustainable products with ease and put your climate goals on autopilot.
  • Remora — Carbon capture for semi-trucks
  • Glacier — Glacier is the creator of the first affordable, high-performing, and space-efficient AI-enabled robot for recycling.
Gokul Rajaram Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member. Gokul is a Partner at Firebolt Ventures.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Onyx — The open-source AI enterprise search platform that helps teams find information across all company data.
  • Wisdom AI — WisdomAI is a data analytics platform that enables enterprise users to ask natural-language questions and receive answers from both structured and unstructured data sources—even when the data is messy or incomplete. It allows business leaders to quickly drill into insights, replacing the need for time-consuming analyst reports with real-time,accurate responses. The platform avoids hallucinations by using generative AI only to generate queries, not the answers themselves. Early adopters include companies across sectors like oil and gas, who use WisdomAI to query data from documents, telemetry, and databases.
  • Freed — Join thousands of happy clinicians saving 2+ hours a day. Use Freed's AI medical scribe for instant clinical documentation.
Julie McDermott Angel · New York, New York, United States
Early-Stage Tech Investor; Sustainability; Ex-Mortgage Backed Securities Trader, Columbia MBA, 50 countries.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Information Technology
  • Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Brandefy — Dupe Alert | The app helping beauty enthusiasts find affordable alternatives to cult-favorite products through extensive comparative reviews.
  • TomoCredit — TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum fromCoinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley.
  • Matriark Foods — Matriark Foods is a social enterprise business that captures surplus produce and upcycled fresh-cut remnants within local food systems and creates nutritious and affordable value-added products for food service businesses, schools and hospitals.
Daniel Curran Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
  • GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
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