# Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in June 2026

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 93
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 88
- 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.

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 71
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.

## Kunal Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 71
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Kunal Shah

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 57
- 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.

## Gokul Rajaram
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 46
- 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.

## Philippe Teixeira da Mota
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 44
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

## Robert DeMaio
- Type: Angel
- Location: Incline Village, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 43
- Stages: Convertible Note
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Health Care

Robert DeMaio is the founder, CEO, and controlling and majority shareholder of Phinge® Corporation. He is an inventor with over 30 granted patents, including software (Such as App-Less technologies and hardware verification) and patents for modular hardware and devices.

## Naval Ravikant
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 43
- 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.

## Amrish Rau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 40
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

## Stani Kulechov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Como, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 38
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is  also  a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.

## Kain Warwick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 33
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 33
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Charles Songhurst  is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

## Meltem Demirors
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 33
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.

## Louis Beryl
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 33
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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

## Didier Valet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 33
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Didier Valet

## Tim Draper
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 33
- 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.

## Max Levchin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 33
- 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.

## Charles Delingpole
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 33
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

## Lachy Groom
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 32
- 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.

## Elad Gil
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 32
- 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.

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 31
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD.

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 31
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

## Jonathan Weiner
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

## Ryan Selkis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

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.

## Mark Ransford
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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## Peter Thiel
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 28
- 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.

## Scott Belsky
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 27
- 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.

## William Hockey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 27
- 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.

## Arjun Sethi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 26
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO	of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.

## Immad Akhund
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 26
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 26
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

## Scott Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- 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.

## Errol Damelin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. 
Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

## Ramakant Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce

Ramakant Sharma is the Founder and CEO of Livspace. He previously worked at Jungle Ventures as an Operating Partner. Ramakant attended the Indian School of Business, where he earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he completed a Bachelor of Technology (BTech).

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Paul Taylor
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3

Paul Taylor is an angel investor and advisor to 100+ companies in the web3 industry. He was the most active angel investor based in the US for crypto in 2024 (Crunchbase). He previously worked at Fancy Studios as a Core Contributor. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partners team. Paul attended Emory University where hereceived his BBA degree. He is also a 4-time national chess champion, international best-selling author, and mined Bitcoin back in 2011.

## Matt Robinson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.

## Robert Leshner
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Robert Leshner is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superstate. He previously worked at Compound Labs as a Founder. Robert Leshner attended CFA Institute.

## Will Neale
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

## Jacob Gibson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- 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.

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.

## Mandeep Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor at multiple firms. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.

## Will Brooks
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Arash Ferdowsi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## Anatoly Yakovenko
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

## Daniel Curran
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

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

## Will Martin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## DCF GOD
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

DCF GOD