# Top 50 Energy Angel Investors in United States in June 2026

## Jackson Moses
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Aerospace, National Security, Military

Jackson Moses is the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures. He previously worked at ThinkOrbital as an Advisor. Jackson attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a focus on Monetary Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a focus on Game Theory.

## Mark Cuban
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain

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.

## Kiran Bhatraju
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management

Kiran Bhatraju is the Founder and CEO of Arcadia.

Kiran has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

## Bill Gates
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing

Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.

## Jeff Dean
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software

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.

## Dylan Taylor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication

Dylan Taylor is based out of Denver, Colorado, and is the Chief Executive Office and Chairman at Voyager Technologies. Dylan Taylor attended University of Arizona.

## Sam Altman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator. Sam attended Stanford University.

## Thomas McInerney
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software

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.

## Sunmeet Jolly
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Chris Sang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

## Sahin Boydas
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

Sahin Boydas is the PEF Chapter Lead of PEF Community. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com as CEO and Founder. Sahin Boydas attended Koç University, where he took a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, and Bahcesehir University, where he took a Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship.

## John Doerr
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Energy

John Doerr is a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Since joining KPCB in 1980, John and his partners have backed some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, including Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt of Google; Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Scott Cook and Bill Campbell of Intuit; and Mark Pincus of Zynga. John’s passion ishelping entrepreneurs create the Next Big Thing in mobile and social networks, greentech innovation, education and economic development. Ventures sponsored by John have created more than 200,000 new jobs.John serves on boards in the areas of Internet technologies and greentech, including Amyris, Bloom Energy, Coursera, Essence Healthcare, Flipboard, FloDesign Wind Turbines, Google, iControl, mCube, Quantumscape, Renmatix, Upthere and Zynga. He also led KPCB's investment in Twitter.John’s technology career began in 1974 at Intel, just as the chipmaker was inventing the groundbreaking 8080 microprocessor. During his Intel years, he held roles in engineering, marketing, management and sales. John also learned about operating excellence from Intel co-founder Andy Grove — insight that he continues to share with entrepreneurs today.He later founded Silicon Compilers, a VLSI CAD software company, and co-founded @Home, the nationwide broadband cable Internet service.Outside of KPCB, John supports entrepreneurs focused on the environment, public education and alleviating global poverty. These include NewSchools.org, TechNet.org, the Climate Reality Project and ONE.org.John earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He also holds several patents for computer memory devices.John is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of U.S. President Barack Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

## Sierra Peterson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Software

Sierra is a Founding Partner at Voyager Ventures.

## Erik Peterson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS

Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.

## Jordan Mendell
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Denver Area, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Sports, Robotics

Jordan Mendell is the chief product officer and head of mobile products at Mendell studied organic chemistry at the University of Colorado atDenver.

## Daniel Curran
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

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

## Walter Robb
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic

Walter Robb is the co-founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Bradley Horowitz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## John Legend
- Type: Angel
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Rohan Oza
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care

Rohan Oza is the co-founder and managing partner of CAVU Venture Partners.

## Julie McDermott
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Marketplace

Early-Stage Tech Investor; Sustainability; Ex-Mortgage Backed Securities Trader, Columbia MBA, 50 countries.

## Shamin Walsh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage

Shamin Walsh has over 13+ years as an active angel investor who gained experience in the consumer space through her early investments in companies such as Sweetgreen, Flexport, and Sir Kensington’s.Prior to joining BAM Ventures as a managing director, she was a consumer-focused partner at an early-stage generalist firm with tangible assets in3PL/fulfillment, cold storage/co-packing, and manufacturing, giving her a holistic perspective through which to evaluate emerging consumer businesses. She managed the investment portfolio and served on several boards, such as Alchemy 43. She also leveraged her experience as a transactional attorney to assist in contract negotiations, fund formation, and fund construction.

## Eric Schmidt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

Eric Schmidt is the CEO of Relativity Space. He is the founding partner of the Schmidt Family Foundation. He previously worked at Alphabet Inc. as an Executive Chairman and Technical Advisor. Eric Schmidt attended Princeton University.

## Gary Hirshberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Londonderry, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Organic Food

Gary R. Hirshberg, Ph.D., Co-Founded Spiffly, Inc. in 2014. Gary Hirshberg serves as a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He serves as an Advisor at Renewable2 Management Company and Renewal2 Investment Fund. Gary Hirshberg co-founded Stonyfield Farm, Inc. (Stonyfield Farm Yogurt) in September 1983 and served as its Chief Executive Officer,since September 1983 until January 2012, President, since 1989. He oversaw Stonyfield's phenomenal growth, from its infancy as a seven-cow organic farming school to its $330 million in annual sales. In 2001, Stonyfield Farm entered into a partnership with Groupe Danone and in 2005, he was named Managing Director of Stonyfield Europe. He served as Director of the Rural Education Center at Stonyfield. Gary Hirshberg was a Managing Director at Stonyfield Europe. Previously, he served as an Executive Director at The New Alchemy Institute. He has extensive experience as an environmental activist, including terms as the Founding President of the Cape and Island Self Reliance Corporation and as the Founding President of the Cape Cod Environmental Alliance. Prior positions include serving as a Water-Pumping Windmill Specialist and an Environmental Education Director at the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Gary Hirshberg served as an Advisor at Renewal Partners LLC, Solera Capital, the Heinz Center Leadership Summit and the Corporate Ecoforum. Gary Hirshberg is Co-Founder and Chairman of O'Naturals. He served as the Chairman of Stonyfield Farm, Inc. He served as the Chairman of The Social Venture Network. Gary Hirshberg serves on several corporate and non-profit Boards including Applegate Farms, the Dannon Company, Honest Tea, Peak Organic Brewing Company, The Full Yield, Climate Counts, Stonyfield Europe, Ltd, Glenisk, Ltd, Solera Capital and Sambazon. He serves as Member of Advisory Board at Spiffly, Inc. He has been a Director at Blue Apron, Inc. and since February 27, 2017 Blue Apron Holdings, Inc. since October 2016. Gary Hirshberg serves as Director of Sweetgreen, Inc., Danone Communities and Quantum Designs, LLC. He serves as a Director of Ramp Sports LLC and The Full Yield, Inc. He served as a Director of Stonyfield Farm, Inc. Gary Hirshberg served as a Director of Monogram Energy, Inc. since June 1995. He served as a Trustee of Leadership New Hampshire, Inc. He serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of Simon Equity, LLC. He serves as Member of Social Advisory Board at Commons Capital Management LLC. Gary Hirshberg served as a Director of the New Hampshire Audobon Society and the Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod. Gary Hirshberg is the Author of the book Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World. He is a frequent speaker on topics including sustainability, climate change, the profitability of green and socially responsible business, organic agriculture and sustainable economic development. Gary Hirshberg has won numerous awards for corporate and environmental leadership, including Global Green USA's "1999 Green Cross Millennium Award for Corporate Environmental Leadership." He was named "Business Leader of the Year" by Business NH Magazine and "New Hampshire's 1998 Small Business Person of the Year" by the U.S. Small Business Administration. More recently, 2009 was a year of big wins as Gary Hirshberg was named one of "America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs" by Business Week magazine, Stonyfield was chosen "Business of the Year - Manufacturing" by Business NH magazine and Stonyfield won an EPA Clean Air Excellence award. He also is featured in 2009's most successful documentary, "Food, Inc." Gary Hirshberg served on the Advisory Panel for Newsweek magazine's Global Environmental Leadership Conference. He has received eight honorary doctorates and was named a Gordon Grand Fellow at Yale University. Gary Hirshberg holds an honorary Doctor of Science from New Hampshire College, an Honorary Doctor of Law from Notre Dame College in Manchester, New Hampshire and a B.A. from Hampshire College.

## Gokul Rajaram
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services

Gokul Rajaram is a founding partner at Marathon Management Partners and Board of Director of Niural.

## Tom Werner
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Apps

Tom Werner serves as SunPower’s CEO and chairman of the SunPower board of directors. Prior to joining SunPower, he held the position of chief executive officer of Silicon Light Machines, Inc., an optical solutions subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. Previously, Werner was vice president and general manager of the Business ConnectivityGroup of 3Com Corp., a network solutions company, and has also held a number of executive management positions at Oak Industries, Inc. and General Electric Co. He currently serves as a board member of Cree, Inc., Silver Spring Networks, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and is a member of the Marquette University board of trustees. Werner holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University and a master's degree in business administration from George Washington University.

## JB Straubel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Carson City, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Sustainability, Solar

JB Straubel is based out of Carson City, Nevada, and is the Founder and CEO of Redwood Materials. JB previously worked at Tesla as a Co-Founder and CTO. JB Straubel attended Stanford University. JB Straubel has been awarded the 2024 Benchmark Lifetime Achievement Award.

## Hadi Partovi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Hadi Partovi is an entrepreneur and investor, and CEO of the education non-profit Code.org. In 2013 Hadi and his twin brother Ali launched the education nonprofit Code.org which Hadi continues to lead full-time as CEO. Code.org has established computer science classes in 15% of US classrooms, created the most popular curriculum platform for K-12computer science, and launched the global Hour of Code movement that has reached over 100 million students.A computer science graduate of Harvard University, Hadi began his career during the browser wars in the 1990s, when he was Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer. In a second stint at Microsoft, he was General Manager of the MSN portal, delivering its first year of profit. As an entrepreneur, Hadi was on the founding teams of Tellme Networks and iLike, which were acquired by Microsoft and MySpace, respectively. Hadi has served as an early advisor to numerous startups including Facebook and Dropbox, and as a tech investor his portfolio also includes airbnb, Uber, Zappos, IndieGogo, Change.org, and others. Aside from his investments, Hadi also serves as a Director on the boards of TASER International and Convoy.

## Joanne Wilson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Soheila Yalpani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Consulting, GreenTech, Cyber Security

oheila is an entrepreneur with C-team leadership experience on project management and pre-master planning of large-scale smart, resilient green infrastructure projects.

## Howard Wenger
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Solar, Energy

Howard Wenger serves as SunPower president, regions and is responsible for the company’s global residential, commercial, utilities and power plants business, including sales, business development, customer operations, sales and finance operations, and engineering, procurement and construction.  Wenger also serves as president of SunPowerCorporation, Systems, the company’s turn-key power systems group.  Previously, he was SunPower president, utility and power plant (UPP), and from 2007 through 2009, Wenger served as president, global business units, where he helped grow SunPower’s sales more than 500 percent.  Prior to the company’s acquisition of PowerLight Corporation in 2007, Wenger held positions at PowerLight as executive vice president and a member of its board, and as vice president, North American Business, for AstroPower, Inc (acquired by General Electric.)  During his career in the solar and utility power field, Wenger has authored dozens of papers and public policies to mainstream solar power and developed software programs and tools still in use today.  Wenger holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.S. in Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

## Louis Beryl
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.

## Yun-Fang Juan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Silicon Valley, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Yun-Fang Juan

## Slava Agafonov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Battery, Big Data

Technical leader and architect in enterprise software including S&P 500 customers for Microsoft. Built web portals for IBM with Team International, created medical FDA-approved devices with Medtronic over Global Logic. , and certified phone station in telecom business over the globe with Alcatel over Altron. Excellent background in distributedsystems, artificial intelligence, and Big Data. Passionate about tuning robust, high-performance systems that scale well. Two Master's degrees in Technical Management from Foster School of Business - The University of Washington in the USA and also computer science masters from Kharkiv Aerospace University in Ukraine. Slava received customer obsessions awards in Microsoft and always acting as a bridge from business to technology with a pioneering spirit. Viacheslav is passionate about leadership roles on strategic and impact projects with metrics-driven, high-performance, and scalable development. Expert in lean software development - it means rapid, agile prototyping with development cycles that fail fast to learn quickly and to apply innovative solutions in iterations. Clients hire me to develop new software products for innovative markets that are rapidly growing. They know that the best products come from great empathy and customer insights, but also require courage, hard work, and perseverance.

## Rayyan Islam
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Biotechnology

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.

## Patrick Soon-Shiong
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Energy

Patrick Soon-Shiong is the Executive Chairman of ImmunityBio. He previously worked at Wibbitz as a Board member. Patrick Soon-Shiong attended the University of the Witwatersrand.

## Jacob Gibson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Jacob Gibson is the Co-Founder and Partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures. He is a former co-founder and COO at NerdWallet. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Steve Case
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Enterprise Software

Steve Case is a Chairman, Founder, and CEO at Revolution, a Chairman at The Case Foundation, a Founding Chair at Startup America Partnership, and a Chairman at Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. He attended Williams College.

## Sherman Williams II
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication

Sherman is an experienced advisor and investor who focuses on investing in early-stage companies. Sherman's investment areas include healthcare and frontier technology (including space technology). Prior to becoming a full-time investor, he worked as an M&A Investment Banker.Prior to his career in finance, Sherman was a Naval Officer. Heholds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy. Sherman resides in New York City.

## Josh Manchester
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Satellite Communication

Josh loves studying companies or trends which have touch points with governance or with large industries or parts of society that are off the Silicon Valley radar. He previously founded Champion Hill Labs, which performed consulting services for venture firms and hedge funds, and through which he invested in SpaceX, Flexport, and RigettiComputing.  Before that he cut his teeth in the venture industry during six years on the team at TrueBridge Capital Partners, committing about $1 billion to venture capital firms globally as an LP, and leading the team’s investments in several mid-stage companies.  He began his career in finance at USAA Real Estate Company. Before becoming an investor, Josh spent about six years as an officer in the US Marine Corps, in infantry and combat engineering roles, and has led three different platoons ranging from 10-60 Marines.  In his last role he led a reinforced rifle platoon and was responsible for the security and civil development of a city of 10,000 people along the Euphrates River.  He graduated from Duke University.  When not chasing his young kids he enjoys Alan Furst novels and any time spent in the great outdoors.

## Rand Hindi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Software, Information Technology

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).

## Ulrich Gall
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Music, Cloud Computing

Ulrich Gall has over 15 years of experience with all major aspects of high-stakes auctions, with a particular focus on auction software. Since he developed the first clock auction software for high-stakes online auctions, in 2001, he has built a team that has now supported over 200 high-stakes auctions in a variety of industries. In 2013, heassembled an interdisciplinary team to facilitate the Applicant Auction for generic Top Level Domains, and directed marketing, contracting, software, escrow, auction management, and settlement. He continues to apply learnings from all aspects of high-stakes auctions to improve IAL's software and processes.

## Nat Friedman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nat Friedman has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. Nat Friedman is passionate about building products that delight customers with love and attention to detail.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Natwas a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME Foundation. At Novell, Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.

## Tobias Harris
- Type: Angel
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Sports, FinTech, Wellness

Tobias Harris is a professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers.

## Brad Flora
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience.

Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

## Michal Klar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing

Michal Klar Supporting & accelerating new protein sector in the Asia Pacific.

## Tyler Willis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence

Tyler is the President and Co-Founder of Unsupervised, which helps Fortune 500 companies become more data-driven by allowing them to analyze infinitely complex data and autonomously discover the biggest opportunities that their analysts and teams should be focused on.Tyler is also an angel investor, with investments in companies like LambdaSchool, Patreon, Lyft (IPO), Loungebuddy (acquired by Amex), and This is L. (acquired by P&G). Prior to Unsupervised, Tyler worked at AngelList, Hired.com, Unified, and Involver.

## 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.

## Ashton Kutcher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps

Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigiesand entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.”Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others.Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV's hit series, “Punk'd,” and The CW's reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.

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