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

## Kevin Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- 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.

## Bryan Rosenblatt
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Retail

Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.

## Joanne Wilson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail

Joanne Wilson is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gotham. Joanne Wilson attended Simmons College.

## Wei Guo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

## Jonathan Keidan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software

Jonathan is the Founder of Torch Capital. A long time entrepreneur and investor, he has spent his career at the intersection of the media, technology and entertainment industries. He is the Co-Founder of digital media company InsideHook and has spent a decade as an active early stage investor and advisor to a number of New York and LA's topstart-ups.

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- 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.

## Scott Belsky
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- 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.

## Mark Cuban
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

## Justin Waldron
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

## Scott Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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.

## Gary Vaynerchuk
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.

## Mark Pincus
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, FinTech, Software

Mark Pincus is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Playful.AI. Mark previously worked at Tribe.net as a CEO and Co-Founder. Mark Pincus attended 
Harvard Business School.

## Clark Landry
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Clark Landry is the Managing Partner of Clover Leaf Ventures.Most recently, Clark was co-founder and COO at CESPPA, a cybersecurity company. Formerly, Clark was co-founder and COO at Maple Media (raised $30 million from private equity investors), co-founder and executive chairman at SHIFT (acquired by Brand Networks), co-founder and CEO at TopLevel Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines - publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM), co-founder and CMO at TagWorld (acquired by Viacom). Clark was a founding investor of Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel), Traffic Marketplace, an advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), Adconion Media Group, a provider of digital media advertising solutions (acquired by Amobee), Conversion Logic, an advertising attribution company, and CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace.Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Yale University.

## Cyan Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Trevor Wright
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Gaming

I am entrepreneur and operator. In the past, I co-Founded and sold Vitrue to Oracle for $300 M. I also co-Founded and sold Black Bag Advertising to WPP for $14 M. I was also on the founding team At Flycast Network which had an IPO and was later acquired for $2.2 B. I am currently an angel investor with company exists totaling over $1 B so far.

## Kevin Love
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Food and Beverage

Kevin Love is an American basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association.

## Matt Mullenweg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce

Matt Mullenweg is the CEO at Automattic Inc. Matt Mullenweg attended the University of Houston.

## Colin Carrier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Gaming

Currently building new things @Oooh and @PinataFarms. Angel Investor. Venture Partner and Startup Advisor. Most recently at @Twitch I was leading a portfolio of incubation projects and corporate development.I like building companies and solving problems creatively. I've spent the better part of my career at three different live videostartups - two of which have been acquired for more than $1.2 billion combined. I've helped raise more than $100 million in fundraising from institutional and private investors. Back in the day, I learned how to PPT and XLS as a strategy consultant focused on media, entertainment and technology.

## Daniel Curran
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

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

## Kyle Vogt
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Kyle Vogt is the CEO of The Bot Company.

## Gabby Dizon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pasig, Rizal, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.

## Kimbal Musk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, News

Kimbal Musk is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Big Green.

## Nick Green
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Wellness, E-Commerce

Nick Green is the Co-Founder and CEO of Thrive Market, a membership-based market that makes high-quality, healthy, and sustainable products available for every budget, lifestyle, and geography. For $60/year, members unlock wholesale prices on top natural and organic products, and Thrive Market matches every paid membership with a free one fora family or individual in need. A serial social impact entrepreneur, Nick began in the education space with his first business, Ivy Insiders, a college test prep and mentorship program that made tutoring more affordable and helped over 20,000 students get into better colleges. Outside of work, Nick loves traveling, investing, reading biographies, and spending time with his wife and 2-year old daughter. He originally hails from Minneapolis, MN and earned his B.A. in Economics from Harvard.

## Timothy Ferriss
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Timothy Ferriss is a start-up angel investor Twitter, Posterous, RescueTime and others, blogger and entrepreneur. Tim's best-known written work is The 4-Hour Workweek, which had been sold into 35 languages and reached #1 on The New York Times, BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.  On May 3, 2009, it celebrated its 2ndstraight year on The New York Times business bestseller list since its publication on April 27, 2007. Tim is a Guest Lecturer in High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering at Princeton University since 2003. Other education-related interests includes social media-based fundraising experiments, such as LitLiberation, which outraised television host Stephen Colbert 3-to-1 with no fixed costs. Most recently, Tim used Twitter as a distributed tool for gathering data on post-campaign donations (see Tweet to Beat). Tim is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org, Evernote, StumbleUpon, Trippy, about.me, TaskRabbit and Uber. Tim has been invited to speak at some of the world’s most innovative organizations, including Google, MIT, Harvard Business School, Nike, PayPal, Facebook, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Microsoft, Ask.com, Nielsen, Princeton University, the Wharton School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Tim has also been invited to speak and keynote at world-renowned technology summits including EG, FOO Camp, E-Tech, Supernova, LeWeb, and the Web 2.0 Exposition, where he shared the stage with figures like Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Google, and Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon. Tim received his B.A. degree from Princeton University in 2000, where he studied in the Neuroscience and East Asian Studies departments.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Walter Robb
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic

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

## Christian Edler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale.  If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

## Wayne Chang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Wayne Chang is the Founder and CEO of Reasoner. He previously worked at Crashlytics as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Wayne Chang attended the University of Massachusetts.

## Max Mullen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Max is the Co-Founder of Instacart. He started the company with two co-founders in 2012. Previously, he's worked for several startups including Schematic, an award-winning interactive agency which was acquired by WPP. Max is originally from Los Angeles where he graduated from the University of Southern California, studying entrepreneurship andcinematic arts.

## Jason Finger
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Jason Finger helped found Salvo Health as an early advisor and Board member. He previously was the founder and CEO of Seamless which he merged with GrubHub.  He was Executive Chairman of LiveAuctioneers and is currently Executive Chair of Upper90, an alternative credit firm with over $1 billion in AUM. Jason Finger attended New York UniversitySchool of Law.

## Güimar Vaca Sittic
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.

## Eden Chen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, PC Games

Founder & CEO of Pragma, Fishermen Labs

## Nate Mitchell
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality

Nate Mitchell is the Chief Product Officer of Sesame.
Nate Mitchell was the Co-Founder and vice president of product at Oculus, the company that’s bringing immersive virtual reality technology to the world. Nate currently heads up Oculus product development, including the highly anticipated Oculus Rift headset. Before Oculus, Nate worked on theproduct teams at Gaikai, the cloud-gaming company acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2012, and at Scaleform, developers of the leading user interface solution for the video game industry, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011.

## Naval Ravikant
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## Scooter Braun
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Wellness, Internet

Scooter Braun is one of the entertainment industry’s biggest entrepreneurs and innovators and the founder of SB Projects, a diversified entertainment and media company with ventures at the intersection of music, film, television, technology, brands, culture, and social good. Braun has a roster of the top pop culture icons under his management,record label, and publishing companies that include Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Zac Brown Band, and Karlie Kloss.Braun has broken more new artists than any other music executive in the last decade and has expanded his reach by establishing a fund, which invests in some of the largest management, media, and rights companies in the industry. SB Projects houses a film and television production division and also continues to impact new verticals under its tech incubator, Silent Labs, which holds investments in Uber, Spotify, Songza, Casper, Waze, and Pinterest.Braun also leads Ithaca Holdings LLC., a fully integrated holding company with interests across multiple verticals. The company has built an elite portfolio of acquisitions and partnerships including the acquisition of Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label Group, Mythos Studios with Marvel Founding Chairman David Maisel, the acquisition of Atlas Publishing, and partnerships with management companies.Braun remains committed to SB Projects’ founding philosophy of giving back by serving on the boards of Pencils of Promise and Fuck Cancer, and he, his clients, and his companies have – together – granted more wishes for Make-A-Wish than any other organization in the history of the foundation.

## Kevin Moore
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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. 

## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

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.

## Kevin Hartz
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Kevin Hartz is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Sauron. He is also a Co-Founder and General Partner at A*. He previously worked at Eventbrite as Co-Founder and Chairman. Kevin attended Stanford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts & Science in History and Applied Earth Science, and the University of Oxford, where he completed an MSt inHistory.

## Justin Kan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

## Chris Sang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

## Shervin Pishevar
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce

Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.

## Jen Rubio
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Jen Rubio is the Co-Founder and CEO at Away.

## Rohan Oza
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care

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

## Lori Greiner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Retail, Pet

Lori Greiner is a television personality and an entrepreneur.

## Shane Neman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Founder of EZ Texting and JoonBug. Serial entrepreneur and investor in Tech, Real Estate & Hospitality.cA forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

## Ryan Moore
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sports, FinTech

Ryan is known as a founding investor who takes on the riskiest sectors and business models. Undaunted by regulatory risk around antiquated gambling laws and convinced of a new generation of sports fans indoctrinated into the world of reality TV and experiential media, he was the first institutional investor in the United States to bet on andvalidate Daily Fantasy Sports and online gambling. In 2011 a small team of performance marketers at Vistaprint founded DraftKings; Ryan seeded the company with $500k and for the first two years of the company’s existence was its sole institutional investor. In 2013 Ryan brokered DraftKings’ landmark partnership with Major League Baseball, paving the way for the company to establish partnerships with every major professional league and a majority of professional teams in the US. He has structured every round of capital on DraftKings’ cap table since its founding, facilitating over $900M in fundraising despite significant regulatory headwinds. Today, DraftKings is operating the first legal online sportsbook in the US and has 11M, active users, on its platform that generate over $3B in entry fees and handle.In 2012 Ryan was the founding investor in Plastiq, an online payments platform founded by Harvard undergrads. Payments is a legacy industry reluctant to change and fraught with regulatory barriers, but Ryan was undaunted by the risk of both the sector and first-time founders.  Since founding, Ryan sourced and facilitated each of the company’s fundraising rounds, most recently bringing in Kleiner Perkins and DST for a $27M financing. Plastiq processes over $1B in transactions annually.In 2013 Ryan was the founding investor in Crew, a design and development services marketplace. In 2017 he and the founders crafted and spun out Unsplash, the world’s largest photo-sharing community built on the theme of decentralization of photos and visual content. Unsplash has outpaced both Shutterstock and Getty combined. In 2018, Ryan facilitated Unsplash’s $12M Series A with Bedrock Capital.Ryan is a well-networked fundraiser. Most recently he sourced and structured financings at Currencycloud (Sapphire Ventures, Series C/D, $43M; Google Ventures, Series E) and Skillz (Telstra and Liberty Media, Series C, $17M; NFL and Wildcat, Series D, $35M). Before joining Atlas, he sourced and facilitated the sale of Enpocket to Nokia, WHERE to Paypal, and Vela Systems to Autodesk.Ryan also sits on the board of MOO, Globoforce, and Secret Escapes, all of which generate over $100M in revenue annually. He graduated with an AB in economics from Princeton, where he captained the football team and served in the ROTC.

## John Legend
- Type: Angel
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Beauty, Retail

John Legend is a nine-time Grammy Award winning recording artist, critically-acclaimed concert performer, philanthropist/social activist, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. Legend’s debut album, Get Lifted (2004) sold more than three million copies worldwide and earned an astounding eight Grammy nominations withthree wins for Best New Artist, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B album. Legend’s follow-up album, Once Again (2006) earned RIAA platinum certification and a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. High off the success of his third consecutive Top 10 album, Evolver (2008), Legend embarked on an extensive world tour with an 11 piece band - his largest traveling show to date. Inspired by the monumental 2008 Presidential election, Legend teamed up with The Roots to release the socially conscious album, Wake Up! (2010.) The album was nominated for five Grammy Awards and won Best R&B Album, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B song (for “Shine”- an original composition also featured in Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim’s documentary film Waiting for Superman) along with two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Album and Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration. In 2007, Legend launched the Show Me Campaign, a nonprofit organization fighting poverty around the world. John also sits on the Boards of The Education Equality Project, Teach for America, and the Harlem Village Academies. Legend has been honored several times for his activism, including the 2010 BET Humanitarian of the Year award, the 2009 CARE Humanitarian Award for Global Change, and the 2009 Africare’s Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award. In early 2012, Legend released one of the hottest songs of his career, the RIAA gold-certified hit “Tonight (Best You’ve Ever Had),” which sat atop the Urban AC radio chart for six consecutive weeks. Legend recently released his fifth studio album Love in the Future, with executive producers Kanye West and Dave Tozer, and will embark on a North American tour this autumn.

## Alexis Ohanian
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Mobile

Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

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