Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in United States in February 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Finance startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in United States in February 2025
Investor | Finance United States investments |
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Gokul Rajaram | 10 |
Naval Ravikant | 10 |
Ron Suber | 9 |
David Tisch | 8 |
Peter Thiel | 8 |
Edward Lando | 8 |
Garry Tan | 8 |
Walter Winshall | 7 |
Elad Gil | 7 |
Max Levchin | 7 |
Charley Ma | 6 |
Balaji Srinivasan | 6 |
Cyan Banister | 6 |
Brendan Wallace | 6 |
Barry Silbert | 6 |
Terrence Rohan | 6 |
Nancy J. | 6 |
Lachy Groom | 6 |
Fred Ehrsam | 6 |
Aaron Levie | 6 |
Tom Williams | 5 |
Will Herman | 5 |
Kevin Moore | 5 |
Chris Adelsbach | 5 |
Dave McClure | 5 |
Henry Yoshida | 5 |
Kingsley Advani | 5 |
Nihal Mehta | 5 |
William Hockey | 5 |
Ankur Nagpal | 5 |
Omri Dahan | 5 |
Scott Banister | 5 |
Ben Davenport | 4 |
Hiten Shah | 4 |
Sam Yam | 4 |
Jonathan Weiner | 4 |
Arjun Sethi | 4 |
Anthony Pompliano | 4 |
Tom Blaisdell | 4 |
Max Altman | 4 |
Tim Draper | 4 |
Todd Warren | 4 |
Manik Gupta | 4 |
Howard Lindzon | 4 |
Vikram Pandit | 4 |
Marc Bhargava | 4 |
Mark Goines | 4 |
Bill Boebel | 4 |
Scott Belsky | 4 |
Ryan Selkis | 4 |
Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Atlas — Atlas is an invite-only charge card that unlocks access to exclusive dining and travel experiences.
- TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
- Raspberry AI — Raspberry AI employs artificial intelligence technology to design styles that are in high demand. The platform offers the convenience of instantly generating technical packs and CADs for any product image, providing a comprehensive solution for product design requirements. It also features automated, high-conversion product descriptions andphotography, along with the capability to create new high-fidelity designs from a sketch or reference image.
Part entrepreneur, executive, sales, marketing, branding, mentor and coach. Medium IQ, High EQ, High AQ (Adversity Quotient).Enjoys traveling, teaching, yoga, hanging out with friends and family. Shares observations and lessons from experience on Wall Street, fin-tech and online lending in presentations at conferences globally, at emergingcompanies, at universities and on white boards. History of creating and executing successful strategies, raising debt and equity for fin-tech ventures, collaborating and having fun on winning teams. Enjoys engaging with entrepreneurs to help with their marketing, product development, sales process, hiring, focus and execution of key metrics. President Emeritus and Senior Advisor to Prosper, Executive Vice Chairman and member of the board of directors of Credible. Advisory board member to Docusign, Juvo, Unison, Money360 and eOriginal.Married 26 years, two grown children and living in San Francisco.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Denim — Denim is an all-in-one financial enablement platform for the logistics industry. We work with brokerages to offer freight factoring and back office automation.
- Nabis — Nabis is a licensed cannabis wholesale marketplace that distributes cannabis products to retailers. It provides a lightning-fast distribution, sales, marketing, financing, and data analytics services. The company's technology coordinates the entire cannabis distribution lifecycle from production to delivery.
- Elevate Brands — We buy consumer-leading Amazon FBA brands and elevate them to their full potential. Tap into our unparalleled team to successfully grow your business.
David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City-based early stage investment fund. BoxGroup is an investor in over 200 seed-stage companies, including Vine, Blue Apron, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Handy and more. David is also the co-founder and Chairman of Spring, a mobile marketplace where customers shopdirectly within the app from a curated community of brands. Spring was named by Apple as one of the Best Apps of 2014.In 2014, David was named Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech, the University’s New York City-based graduate campus focused on digital technologies and the information economy. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence for Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Program.David is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and has served on numerous boards, including Mayor Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology, the Investor Board of Venture for America, and the Entrepreneurship board at NYU. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law, and currently lives in New York City
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Vengo — Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers whilegenerating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
- Keychain — Keychain is a rapidly growing platform dedicated to connecting brands and retailers with the best manufacturing partners worldwide. At Keychain, we utilize AI to streamline the process of finding and vetting manufacturers, making the supply chain more transparent and efficient.
- Even.com — Even offers an affordable on-demand pay product that allows employees to access their paychecks when they need it most—without confusing, hidden, or predatory fees. With a proven track record of reducing employee turnover and increasing retention and productivity, Even is the highest-rated on-demand pay app and has helped employees save more than$82 million to date.
Peter Thiel Is the Managing Partner of The Founders Fund. He previously worked at Stanford Law School as a Visitor. Peter Thiel attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Etched.ai — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
- Mercor — Mercor is a better way to hire. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next employees.
- Enhanced Games — Welcome to the Enhanced Games, the ultimate demonstration of what the human body is capable of. The world's best athletes, enhanced.
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
- SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
- Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.
Garry Tan is the incoming President and CEO of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Posterous.com as a Co-Founder. Garry Tan attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.
- Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
- Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.
Walter A. Winshall serves as a Principal in Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC, an investment firm specializing in the commercialization of early-stage technology. Previously, he was a co-founder and Chairman of SilverPlatter International, NV, a company providing information services for libraries, which was acquired by the Dutchpublishing company Wolters Kluwer in 2001. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of AgaMatrix, Inc., HealthCare IT, Inc., and MOCA Systems, Inc. He graduated from MIT in electrical engineering and from the Harvard Law School. At AgaMatrix, Walt provides guidance in corporate development strategy.
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Investment focus
- Software, Finance, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Avanlee Care — Bring your family closer with the all-in-one elderly care app.
- Rheaply — Rheaply is making the world's resources more discoverable and transferrable in our global economy.
- StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your
Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
- Decagon — Trusted by world-class companies, Decagon is the most advanced AI platform for customer support.
- Braintrust Data — The end-to-end platform for building world-class AI products
Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
- CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
- Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Charley Ma is the GM of Fintech at Alloy . Charley Ma attended University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Knot — Knot powerfully improves products for you and your users, adding revenue-generating features and connecting cardholders to thousands of merchants.
- Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
- Default — The command center for modern sales teams.
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
- Lica World — Hire Lica, AI Video Producer for Product, Sales, And Customer Success Teams
- OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
- TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
- Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.
Brendan Wallace is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall. Brendan Wallace attended Princeton University.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Spain, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- dot.LA — dot.LA is a digital newsroom covering L.A.'s startup and tech community. dot.LA’s mission is to celebrate and empower the Los Angeles startup and tech community, fueling innovation around the world.
- Allbirds — Allbirds is an apparel and fashion company that specializes in manufacturing eco-friendly wool shoes. It is dedicated to making the most sustainable footwear using premium natural materials, designed for the to and fro of everyday life.The company is driven by a mission to prove that comfort, good design, and sustainability don’t have to bemutually exclusive. Its commitment to making better shoes in a better way is fueled by a belief that the shoe industry needs to focus less on flash and more on thoughtfulness.Allbirds is based in San Francisco and founded in 2015.
- Yellow — eNaming.com is excited to exclusively offer YELLOW.APP the domain name to the public for the first time. We believe the .APP top-level domain is a critically im
Barry Silbert is the Founder & CEO of Digital Currency Group, a company helping to build the foundation of the digital currency and blockchain technology industry by launching, incubating, and investing in groundbreaking companies that will transform the global financial services ecosystem and usher in the “internet of value”. DCG has been anactive seed investor in the digital currency industry with over 50 investments in 15 countries including BitGo, BitPay, BitPagos, BitPesa, Chain, Circle, Coinbase, Gyft, Kraken, Ripple Labs, TradeBlock, Unocoin, and Xapo.In addition, Barry also created the Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT), a private, open-ended trust sponsored by Grayscale Investments, a Digital Currency Group company. The BIT’s shares are the first publicly quoted securities (ticker: GBTC) solely invested in and deriving value from the price of bitcoin, enabling investors to gain exposure to the price movement of bitcoin without the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping bitcoins.Prior to founding Digital Currency Group, Barry founded SecondMarket, a platform that enables private companies and investment funds to more efficiently raise capital and provide liquidity to their stakeholders by simplifying complex transaction workflows, streamlining investor onboarding, and verifying that investors are accredited.SecondMarket has received numerous accolades in recent years including being named by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and has received honors from Forbes, Fast Company, Deloitte and other organizations. Barry has received several individual honors including being named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and Crain's, and being selected to Fortune's prestigious "40 Under 40" list.Prior to founding SecondMarket in 2004, Barry was an investment banker at Houlihan Lokey and graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, and holds Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Bitcoin, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Voyat — Voyat is the technology company powering direct connections between hotels and customers online and on-property to define a new tier in guest loyalty. Using Voyat’s lightweight platform, hotels can achieve true 1:1 relationships with their guests and present offers, promotions and guest loyalty rewards tailored to every individual. Voyat creates alasting digital link between every guest or visitor at a hotel property via a WiFi connection to strengthen the direct booking channel and increase customer lifetime value. As a result, the guest is recognized as the valued customer that they are and the brand is able to set itself apart in an overcrowded marketplace to keep those loyal customers coming back.Leading hotel brands including The New York Palace, Morgan’s Hotel Group, Mövenpick Hotels and many others rely on Voyat technology to enable personalized interactions with their customers which drive higher direct and repeat bookings and define a new tier in guest loyalty. Voyat, founded in 2012 by Bob Lund and Benjamin Habbel, is a global company headquartered in New York City with offices in Copenhagen, Barcelona and clients across North America and EMEA.For more information please visit www.voyat.com.
- OneName — Onename is a registrar (like GoDaddy) for the .id namespace on the Blockstack network.
- TradeBlock — TradeBlock is the world's leading provider of institutional trading tools for digital currencies.
Terrence Rohan is a seed investor, and the Managing Director of Otherwise, a new type of Founder-Angel Fund. Terrence's early stage investments include Figma, Notion, Hugging Face, Vanta, Robinhood, Patreon, Front, Granola, Justworks, Circle, and Browser Company, among others. He has been ranked by Forbes as part of the Midas Brink list.Before becoming an investor, Terrence Rohan held various roles in product marketing and development at Google and YouTube. He holds an MS in Management from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, an MS in Philosophy from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Fazeshift — Automate Accounts Receivable with Fazeshift's AI-powered platform to save your team valuable time and improve cash flow.
- Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
- 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.
Nancy J.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Norway
Portfolio highlights
Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
- Mainframe — Mainframe is a technology company pioneering the future of human-computer interaction through AI-driven tools. The company’s mission is to redefine productivity and workflow automation by creating intuitive platforms that bridge the gap between humans and intelligent agents.Mainframe’s debut product, Cobot, is a generative AI assistant thatanticipates user needs, streamlines tasks, and transforms the way individuals and teams interact with technology. Designed to feel more like collaborating with a human than using an app, Cobot empowers users to focus on impactful work while AI handles the rest.Founded in 2024, Mainframe is supported by top-tier investors and built by a distributed team of industry-leading talent from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Mainframe’s vision is to create seamless, intelligent software that reshapes how people work and interact with computers in the 21st century.
- Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
Fred Ehrsam is the Co-Founder of Paradigm.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a US solar technology company building high-performance perovskite tandem products. Our mission is to unlock the full potential of solar energy.
- Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.
Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and cofounder Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy, incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads the companyin its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He has served on the Board of Directors since April 2005.Aaron attended the University of Southern California from 2003 to 2005 before leaving to found Box.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
- Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
- Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
Tom Williams
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Unito — Unito keeps your data in sync between multiple tools so everyone is always up-to-date in real-time.
- Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
- NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
Will Herman is an active angel investor, corporate director, author, and startup mentor. He was previously a serial entrepreneur, having started five companies, taking two of them public. Will is an adviser at the hardware incubator, Bolt, and a mentor at TechStars. He lives and works mostly in the Boston area.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- VueBox — VueBox places interactive content in rideshare vehicles
- Pristēm — The laundry & dry cleaning services industry has seen no hardware innovation in a long time resulting in 24 hr+ turnarounds, insanely expensive prices, and a complete lack of reliability. Pristēm has built a magical new clothing care experience that's 150x faster, 10x cheaper, and hassle free. Our smart hardware and consumable cleansyour outfit exactly when you need it, not 24 hours later.Our nationwide network of smart hardware products can be accessed through your mobile phone and a monthly subscription. Pristēm provides the best customer experience that's a faster, greener, and more enjoyable alternative to the laundry and dry cleaning services available today.
- Looking Glass Factory — Introducing Looking Glass Portrait, your first personal holographic display. Designed for people, real and imagined. Available for pre-order today.
Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Redbird — Redbird is an operating system that empowers data driven teams to easily create custom applications that automate advanced analytics work in minutes, without writing code.
- SilkChart — SilkChart helps growth teams improve campaigns based on what users are doing in product - without relying on expensive data scientists. We do this through a no code analytics tool that combines marketing and product usage data to identify which channels, audiences, and content maximize revenue growth.
- Augmend — Create documentation and an AI assistant from any video.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
- Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
- Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
- Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
- Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
Henry is CEO and Co-founder of Rocket Dollar, a web platform that lets people invest IRA money into private and alternative investments. Henry founded venture capital backed robo-advisor Honest Dollar[acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2016, now Marcus Invest], was the founder of a $2.6b assets under management RIA, and spent 10 years at Merrill Lynch.Henry is a Certified Financial Planner and has brought multiple innovative products and methodologies to the market. Yoshida graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, has an MBA from Cornell University, and lives in Austin with his wife and two daughters.Henry graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and has an MBA from both the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and Queen’s University in Canada. He resides in Austin, Texas with his wife and two daughters, Lillianna and Gemma-Day.Henry graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and has an MBA from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, Rachel, and daughter, Lillianna.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, Finance
- Seed, Debt Financing, Convertible Note
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Oliver Technology Corporation — Oliver Technology Corporation is a SaaS Enabled Marketplace revolutionizing the way legal services in the financial industry are delivered. We've developed an integrated SaaS solution that allows banks to manage and oversee legal collections from beginning to end. In addition, the platform provides access to a marketplace of over 300 trainedattorneys across 15 states.
- BlueCheck Inc — BlueCheck provides identity verification, age verification, and photo ID verification infrastructure for digital businesses. Easy to use ID verification.
- Rocket Dollar — Self-Directed retirement investing means that you make all of the investment decisions inside your retirement account.
Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
- Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
- Ashvattha Therapeutics — Ashvattha Therapeutics creates products that selectively target and treat human diseases. Ashvattha enables precision targeting for therapeutics eliminating off-target toxicity, systemic side effects, and immunogenicity seen in other platforms. Ashvattha has a pipeline of nine therapeutics in neurology, oncology, and ophthalmology.
Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Street FC — 100+ Street soccer games every month. Join a club or build one with us.
- Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
- SportsIcon — Venture Studio and Sports Agency harnessing frontier technology to build innovative approaches in sports, media, and entertainment.
William Hockey is the Co-CEO of Column. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, Pakistan
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- Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
- Maza — Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services.
- Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
Ankur Nagpal Founder of Fedora and Co-Founder of Vibe VC. He attended University of California, Berkeley in 2006.
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- Software, Apps, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, France
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- Phyllo — Easily access verified, creator-consented data such as identity, income, and engagement across hundreds of platforms through our API
- beehiiv — Access the best tools available in email, helping your newsletter scale and monetize like never before.
- Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
Omri serves as Marqeta’s chief revenue officer and is accountable for the company’s growth and financial performance. After joining Marqeta’s early team, he helped pioneer the organization’s customer acquisition and growth strategies which, along with Marqeta’s award-winning technology, catapulted Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform into aglobal, industry-defining business.Omri began his career within the White House, eventually transitioning to the private sector, where he established a reputation for building world-class teams who develop transformational ideas into high-growth businesses. As a partner at The Trium Group, he advised CEOs and executive teams of multinational organizations including AXA, Barclays, and Virgin Atlantic, helping the firm to grow into a leading global strategy consultancy.Omri is a frequent speaker at international and domestic conferences and is a featured guest lecturer at the Columbia Business School’s Institute for Personal Leadership. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
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- ByteChek — ByteChek helps businesses build cybersecurity programs to enhance sales and build trust from customers. The company was founded in 2020 by AJ Yawn is based in Miami, Florida, United States.
- Vertice — The SaaS purchasing platform that gives finance leaders cost control, efficiency and flexibility.
- Credit Mountain — Provide your users with a full-suite of tools designed to help improve credit scores. Offer your members a PATH TO YES!
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
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- Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
- Stell — Stell is a platform that digitizes the relationship between aerospace companies and their suppliers with a living specification workflow
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Ben Davenport is The Venture Partner at Blockchain Capital.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- Strattic — WordPress Hosting: Boost your site's speed & security. powered by Cloud Google & Cloudflare CDN. Affordable, hassle-free WordPress hosting
- Magic — We've onboarded 40 million people to the world's leading apps. We're trusted by over 190,000 developers. We're Magic.
- Culture Biosciences — Culture Biosciences develops automated bio-reactor that helps biotech companies optimize their manufacturing processes and brings products to market faster. The company also builds automated tools for fermentation. It has a digital bio-manufacturing platform to enable scientists to run, monitor, and analyze bio-reactors faster than traditionalapproaches by robotic sample handling and cloud data monitoring and analysis.Culture Biosciences was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Hiten Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nira. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Canada
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- Shopgenie — The all-in-one marketing solution to grow your auto shop. Attract high-quality customers and keep them coming back for repairs with our digital toolbox.
- GarageWorks — Ontdek de inrichting voor je garage, bijkeuken, berging, tuinhuis of schuur; zoals garage kasten, garagevloeren en slimme opbergsystemen.
- Grain — Record, transcribe, clip & share video from Zoom in real-time. An essential tool for modern teams.
Sam Yam is the Co-Founder, President and CTO of Patreon. He attended Stanford University.
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- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Australia
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- Backer — Backer is a smart way to save for your kid's education with help from family and friends. Save 4x more with backers. Invest your savings tax-free with a gold-rated 529 savings plan.
- Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.
- Collective — Collective offers financial solutions designed for self-employed business owners - company formation, tax, accounting & bookkeeping.
Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 200,000 trade shows and conferences
- Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
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- Nibiru Chain — Nibiru is a smart contract ecosystem with a high-performance, EVM-equivalent execution layer. Nibiru is engineered to meet the growing demand for versatile, scalable, and easy-to-use Web3 applications.
- DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Anthony Pompliano currently works as an Entrepreneur and Investor for Pomp Investments. He previously worked at Morgan Creek Digital Assets as a Co-Founder and Partner. Anthony Pompliano attended Bucknell University.
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- Financial Services, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Tom Blaisdell is the Founder and CEO of AlignPact. He attended Dartmouth College and Stanford University.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Series C, Series D, Seed
- United States, Spain
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- Paraclete — Paraclete is the world’s first SoulCare platform for the workforce that provides access to experienced professionals who - without agenda or judgement - guide workers processing inevitable, unknown and unique life circumstances. Through confidential conversations, Paraclete helps business leaders actualize a thriving workforce where workers cantruly bring their whole selves to work, becoming more healthy and engaged.
- Forte — Forte is the mental wellness platform that connects employees with unlimited access to certified Guides.
- Backer — Backer is a smart way to save for your kid's education with help from family and friends. Save 4x more with backers. Invest your savings tax-free with a gold-rated 529 savings plan.
Max Altman - Managing Partner @ Apollo Projects
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
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- Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Yuzu Health — Powering innovative health plans
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.
Todd Warren is a Managing Director of Divergent Ventures. He was a Board Member at ReadyPulse. He attended Northwestern University.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States
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- One4All — Download the Cauze app and donate to any nonprofit in the US at the tap of a button. Recruit your friends to amplify your donations and change the world when inspiration strikes. Available for iOS in the Apple App Store and for Android in the Google Play Store.
- Thinkfuse — Thinkfuse is an enterprise SaaS provider that integrates closely with email to streamline scheduled communications like status reports and project updates without changing the way people work. It helps helps teams collaborate while building intelligence about work done across an organization.
- Highlighter — Host a live TV show in your browser. Share the Highlights.
Manik Gupta is the Chief Product Officer at Uber. Prior to taking on this role, Manik ran Uber's Marketplace and Maps product teams, where he was responsible for creating best-in-class mapping solutions and marketplace technologies. Throughout his career, Manik has focused on the problems around “helping move X from point A to point B.” Priorto Uber, Manik worked on Google Maps for over 7 years. He led the creation and curation of all the maps and business data to make Google Maps the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful map of the world.Manik grew up in India and spent many years in Singapore, where he founded an e-commerce startup, BuyItTogether.com, right out of college. The company was successfully acquired by a Norwegian company, CoShopper.com, and Manik subsequently managed Hewlett Packard's e-commerce initiatives in Asia-Pacific and Japan. He studied computer engineering at Nanyang Technological University and received an MBA from Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Canada
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- SigScalr — SigScalr provides insights on petabytes of logs, metrics and traces data. An innovative architecture that swiftly filters through compressed data without the need for costly decompression, resulting in significant reductions in compute and storage.
- Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
- Arta Finance — Arta is a digital wealth platform offering unifying your investments, financial planning, tax and estate planning in one. Access elite private investment fund managers, along with intelligent investment tools for public markets.
Howard Lindzon - Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Swag Golf — Premium milled golf putters designed and assembled in the USA, insane limited release golf club head covers, men's golf clothing & apparel, and the coolest golf accessories for all players who don't give a putt.
- Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
- Whoosh — Modern golf operations software for private golf clubs that streamlines your workflows to improve member experiences and reduce revenue loss.
In 1973, Pandit began study at Columbia University at age 16. Three years later, he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and the year after that a master's. In 1986 he received a Ph.D. in finance.Pandit joined Morgan Stanley as an associate in 1983. Seven years later, he was named head of Morgan Stanley's U.S.stock business. In 2000, he was named head of investment banking. In 2005 he left Morgan Stanley and a year later helped found a hedge fund, Old Lane. Citigroup bought the fund in April 2007 and fast-tracked him to replace Charles Prince as CEO in December of that year. After leading Citi through the financial crisis of 2008 and the tumultuous years that followed, Pandit resigned as CEO in October 2012.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel, The Netherlands
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- Sardine — Solve risk, compliance, and payments with one powerful API.
- Kryptomon — Kryptomon is an NFT Play-and-Earn blockchain game, where Pokémon meets Tamagotchi and CryptoKitties. Breed, Train and Fight with your NFT Kryptomon. It's a new world where trainers can live a new adventure on Blockchain. Set in the Kryptomon metaverse, community members play as ‘Trainers’ of their own individual monsters — Kryptomons — each ofwhich is a completely unique digital asset connected to an NFT. Each has a unique but mutable genetic code made up of 38 randomised parameters that determine all of the aspects — physical and behavioral — of the creature. This not only ensures that each Kryptomon is unique but also brings to life each Kryptomon as a digital companion in the Kryptomon metaverse. They are capable of learning, falling sick, getting hungry, and protecting their trainers when out on an adventure in the physical world. In turn, trainers will have to care for, feed, and train their Kryptomon partners in order to grow and prepare for the battles ahead. Kryptomon creates the next step in the evolution of crypto-gaming by using advanced blockchain technologies, digital genetics, and location-based technologies. So what are you waiting for? Play and participate in the Kryptomon league to become the Kryptomon Metaverse Champion!
- Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Marc Bhargava is the Managing Director at General Catalyst. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
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- Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
- Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Based in Menlo Park, Mark is a Partner focused on the areas of financial technology, mobile, consumer and small business Internet services. He has an extensive track record of working with high growth companies as an entrepreneur, executive and angel investor. Exits from his angel investments include Mint, Baby Center, PayCycle and Nolo.com.Prior to joining Morgenthaler, Mark was a successful angel investor. His investments included two Morgenthaler portfolio companies, Pageonce and Practice Fusion. He currently represents Morgenthaler on the Practice Fusion board.Previously, Mark helped build and ran Intuit’s Consumer Tax business (TurboTax). He also served as Senior Vice President of Intuit’s International Division, managing businesses on every continent, creating new products, acquiring companies and building partnerships. He then served as General Manager of Intuit’s Consumer Division and helped generate over $200 million in annual revenues, serving 15 million customers across a broad range of software and e-commerce services by 2000.Prior to Intuit, Mark held executive positions at Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab, where he developed and marketed early-stage banking, software and electronic services that formed the foundation of today’s online trading industry.Mark became an active investor and entrepreneur in 2000. He was an investor and board member at Mint, a consumer online financial management company that was sold to Intuit in 2009. He was also an investor and board member in Nolo.com, a self-help law service that was sold to Internet Brands in 2011. Goines co-founded and became chief marketing officer at PassMark Security, which was sold to RSA in 2006. He also invested in WePay (payments), BillFloat (lending) and Cozi (family organization).Mark holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley. He served as president of the Los Altos Educational Foundation and has been elected as a trustee of the Los Altos School Board.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Japan, Brazil
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- Autumn — Autumn modernizes the way Americans manage loss with the world’s first deathcare marketplace. With free guides and tools, and over 500,000 providers for hire, Autumn is on a mission to transform the American deathcare landscape for the better.
- Credit Mountain — Provide your users with a full-suite of tools designed to help improve credit scores. Offer your members a PATH TO YES!
- Trustworthy. — Trustworthy offers state of the art operating system for families that need help organizing family documents. Find out how we can help make your life easier.
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- Enterprise Software, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
- United States
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- XMTP — XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.
- BlockJoy — Easily deploy and manage enterprise-scale blockchain nodes on any infrastructure for up to 80% less than the cloud.
- Fun Country — Hop on to a virtual, interactive space just right for team standups, one-on-ones, and happy hours.
Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Oboe — Oboe is an AI-powered educational platform that offers resources for learning.
- Tako — Tako is an AI search engine that embed intelligence.
- Sapien — Sapien is a platform for creating autonomous coworkers for finance professionals. It promotes its service as an AI-native system created from the ground up that connects with Excel, ERP systems, and customer relationship management platforms.
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, India
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- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Agora — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.
- StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
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