# Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in United States in June 2026 ## Gokul Rajaram - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 11 - 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. ## Ron Suber - Type: Angel - Location: Denver, Colorado, United States - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance 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. ## Naval Ravikant - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Blockchain Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He previously served as the CEO of AngelList. He attended Dartmouth College. ## Peter Thiel - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Garry Tan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Garry Tan is based out of Mountain View, California and is the President & CEO of Y Combinator. Garry Tan attended Stanford University. ## Fred Ehrsam - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Fred Ehrsam is the Co-Founder of Paradigm. ## Walter Winshall - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Finance, SaaS Walter A. Winshall is the Founder of Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners. ## Max Levchin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile 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. ## Edward Lando - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## Nancy J. - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Finance Nancy J. ## Elad Gil - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Brendan Wallace - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech Brendan Wallace is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall. Brendan Wallace attended Princeton University. ## Lachy Groom - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing. ## Charley Ma - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Charley Ma is based out of New York City and is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Pathlight Ventures. Charley previously worked at Alloy as a Growth Advisor. Charley Ma attended the University of Pennsylvania. ## Cyan Banister - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Social Media 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. ## Terrence Rohan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence Terrence Rohan is a seed investor and the Managing Director of Otherwise. Terrence's seed investments include Figma, Front, Notion, Hugging Face, Granola, Vanta, and Robinhood, among others. Forbes has ranked him as part of the Midas Brink list, and Business Insider has named him one of the top seed investors.Terrence was at Index Venturesfor seven years. While at Index, he co-created and eventually led Index’s first Seed Fund and then incubated the firm’s inaugural Founder-Angel Fund, which he served as General Partner and Co-Founder. He launched Otherwise, a novel Founder-Angel Fund inspired by the one he created for Index.Before becoming an investor, Terrence held various roles in product marketing and development at Google and YouTube.Terrence 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. ## Balaji Srinivasan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software 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. 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 anonline MOOC. ## Scott Belsky - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School. ## Aaron Levie - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Barry Silbert - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Chris Adelsbach - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures ## David Tisch - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce 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 ## Tom Williams - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services Tom Williams ## Dave McClure - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software 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. ## William Hockey - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services William Hockey is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-CEO of Column and also Member Board of Directors of Scale. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University. ## Anthony Pompliano - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services 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. ## Omri Dahan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software 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. ## Ankur Nagpal - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Apps Ankur Nagpal Founder of Fedora and Co-Founder of Vibe VC. He attended University of California, Berkeley in 2006. ## Kevin Moore - Type: Angel - Location: Dallas, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce 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. ## Tom Blaisdell - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series C, Series D - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Tom Blaisdell is the Founder and CEO of AlignPact. He attended Dartmouth College and Stanford University. ## Henry Yoshida - Type: Angel - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Finance 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. ## Scott Banister - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan. ## Nihal Mehta - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania. ## Will Herman - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software 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. ## Kingsley Advani - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Biotechnology, Financial Services Kingsley Advani (born October 24, 1993, in London, United Kingdom) is a British tech entrepreneur, investor, and author based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is the Founder and CEO of Allo, an exchange for tokenized stocks managing over $2 billion in tokenized real-world assets, and the founder of Allocations, a fintech platform that has grownto administer more than $2 billion in assets across 30,000+ high-net-worth clients.Advani began his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 13, launching a digital commerce business on eBay, before discovering Bitcoin in 2011 while studying finance and economics. In 2013, he allocated his IBM internship savings into Bitcoin and other emerging cryptocurrencies, becoming an early investor in what later became a multi-billion-dollar asset class. By his mid-twenties, he had invested in more than 200 companies, including unicorns such as SpaceX, Solana, Coinbase, Robinhood, and eToro.In 2017, he co-founded a global investor syndicate that collectively managed more than $4 billion in assets. Two years later, he launched Allocations, a platform providing infrastructure for fund administration, SPVs, and private market investments. CNBC recognized him as the “Blockchain Oracle” for his early insights into cryptocurrency adoption and market trends.Through his ventures, Advani has become a leading voice in fintech, blockchain, tokenization, private markets, and Web3, with frequent speaking engagements at global conferences including the SF Blockchain Summit, Beyond Blocks, Coinfest Asia, and the Ritossa Summit in Dubai. His commentary emphasizes how blockchain and emerging technologies can democratize access to alternative assets and reduce the barriers to launching micro-funds.Advani is also the author of The Blockchain Oracle: How Technology, Finance, and Vision Shape the Future of Global Investing (2025), a book that explores the intersection of blockchain, fintech, and global finance. ## Darian Shirazi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Darian Shirazi is the Managing Partner of Gradient. ## Arash Ferdowsi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008. ## Todd Warren - Type: Angel - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Finance, Information Technology, Enterprise Software Todd Warren is a Managing Director of Divergent Ventures. He was a Board Member at ReadyPulse. He attended Northwestern University. ## Max Altman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech Max Altman - Managing Partner @ Apollo Projects ## Justin Mateen - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. ## Howard Lindzon - Type: Angel - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Howard Lindzon - Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage ## Bill Boebel - Type: Angel - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Debt Financing - Focus: Enterprise Software, SaaS, Software Founder ## Hiten Shah - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Hiten Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nira. He attended the University of California, Berkeley. ## Brandon Metcalf - Type: Angel - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Finance Brandon Metcalf is an accomplished entrepreneur with a strong track record of building and leading successful companies. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Brandon hosts the popular Cash & Burn podcast, where he has real conversations with other SaaS founders and executives about the biggest challenges of scaling software companies. Withhis deep expertise in the software industry, particularly in the realm of Salesforce, he has a wealth of experience in creating, scaling, and managing global businesses.As currently the founder and CEO of three companies - Place, Asymbl, and Blueprint Advisory - Brandon oversees a diverse range of ventures. Place is a Salesforce-powered software that streamlines the process of managing customer subscriptions, billing, financial data, and business analytics for B2B SaaS companies. Asymbl is a staffing and recruiting solution that helps companies optimize their recruitment process using Salesforce, while Blueprint Advisory is a software consulting firm that assists other businesses in building, implementing, and customizing Salesforce-based software.Before his current ventures, Brandon founded and served as President of Talent Rover, a Salesforce-based global staffing and recruitment software company that he grew to become the 9th fastest-growing software company in the US in 2017 (according to Inc. 500). Talent Rover was successfully acquired in March 2018, further cementing Brandon's reputation as a skilled and successful entrepreneur. ## Tim Draper - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School. ## Dharmesh Shah - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham. ## Sam Yam - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Sam Yam is the Co-Founder, President and CTO of Patreon. He attended Stanford University. ## Jacob Gibson - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Manik Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: Los Altos, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet 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. ## Vikram Pandit - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software 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.