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Top 50 Infrastructure Angel Investors in United States in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Infrastructure startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Infrastructure companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Infrastructure Angel Investors in United States in July 2025

Investor	Infrastructure United States investments
Jana Messerschmidt	2
Jaan Tallinn	2
Thomas Howell	2
Jeff Hammerbacher	2
Spencer Kimball	2
Tom Williams	2
Lily Sarafan	2
Adrian Kunzle	2
Amichai Shulman	2
Whitney Bouck	2
Todd Jackson	2
Brian Nichols	2
Ricardo Gonzalez	2
Ariel Maislos	2
Gaurav Garg	2
James Lindenbaum	2
Arash Afrakhteh	2
Shlomo Kramer	2
Shervin Pishevar	2
Mark Tompkins	2
Rajeev Madhavan	2
Joe Graziano	1
Matthias Hilpert	1
Patricio Worthalter	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Kevin Lin	1
Dan Romero	1
Atin Batra	1
Matt Mullenweg	1
Jonathan Seaton	1
JJ Fliegelman	1
Jitendra Jagadev	1
Lex Sokolin	1
David Young	1
Bob Young	1
Justin Mateen	1
Casey Cowell	1
Jeffrey Shealy	1
Anatoly Yakovenko	1
Chad Hurley	1
Manav Garg	1
Aaron Henshaw	1
Matthew Ocko	1
Russell Smith	1
Ram Shriram	1
Nick White	1
Surojit Chatterjee	1
Dan Hesse	1
Tom Mendoza	1
Maxime Bucaille	1

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Jana Messerschmidt - Founding Partner @ #Angels

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Panobi — Supercharge your growth with Panobi, the product observability platform designed specifically for growth teams. Gain valuable real-time insights, improve visibility and enhance your decision-making process. Discover how Panobi can help drive your business forward today.
Magic — We've onboarded 40 million people to the world's leading apps. We're trusted by over 190,000 developers. We're Magic.
Roam — Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LawZero — LawZero is committed to advancing research and creating technical solutions that enable safe-by-design AI systems.
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.

Thomas Howell

Investment focus

SaaS, Generative AI, Developer APIs
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Plastic Labs — Radically Decentralizing Alignment

Jeff Hammerbacher - Partner & Co-Founder @ Techammer

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

257 — The residential energy data platform
Lamin — Lamin Labs provides data infrastructure for biology that enables data scientists and engineers to collaborate on a single data layer for R&D teams of any size. They want to achieve for R&D data what git and GitHub did for code by integrating wet and dry laboratories, people and AI, knowledge and data, and siloed teams and organizations.Lamin Labs is headquartered in Munich, Bayern and was founded in 2022.
Inductive Bio — Bringing the data, ML, software, and expertise needed to rapidly solve your most challenging ADMET problems.

Spencer Kimball is the co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, where he maintains a delicate balance between a love for programming distributed systems and the excitement of helping the company grow smoothly. While in university, he was one of the original authors of the GIMP. He cut his teeth on databases during the dot com heyday, and had a frontrow seat at Google for a decade’s worth of their evolution.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Database
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tensor9 — Tensor9 is a data security company. Tensor9 helps software and AI vendors run their products inside their customer's cloud — so sensitive customer data stays private. For vendors, this unlocks customers that can't share sensitive data.
Bauplan — Bauplan provides Serverless functions + data branches directly over S3. We empower every Python developer to build AI and data applications that are portable, versioned, and reproducible with zero infrastructure management. Enterprise teams already use Bauplan to build analytics and AI applications that serve tens of millions of users daily. -Serverless. Developers can work with zero infrastructure overhead — never deal with provisioning, configuration, containers and dependency management ever again. - Designed for developers. Every developer can script the entire data lifecycle in pure Python without leaving their IDE — ingestion, transformation, modeling, testing, and CI/CD. - Built for S3 on open standards: bauplan leverages native Iceberg support for object storage, ensuring smooth integration with other data platforms and eliminating vendor lock-in.
Blacksmith — Speed up your GitHub actions with Blacksmith. Run CI/CD 2x faster, download caches 4x faster, build Docker images 40x faster, and eliminate queue times. Start free today.

Tom Williams

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Enterprise-grade integrations that sync business-critical tools. Secure, low-cost, two-way sync that anyone can set up and manage.
Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
North One — 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.

Lily Sarafan is the Executive Chair of TheKey. She is also an Operating Partner at Cota Capital.An active Stanford alum, Lily serves on the Stanford Alumni Association Board of Directors, the Freeman Spogli Institute Council, and the Stanford Undergraduate Education Cabinet. She is also Founding Partner of Project BIG: The Stanford Brain ImmuneGut Initiative. Lily's board service extends to other high-impact nonprofits including the Women's Alzheimer's Movement and the BerkeleyHaas Center for Innovation Economies, where she is board chair. An appointee to the California Governor’s Alzheimer's Task Force, Lily serves in various leadership roles to advance economic development, civic engagement, and precision health.Lily holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering and B.S. in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University, where she was Eben Tisdale Fellow and Class President. She has been named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Women Health Care Executives Woman of the Year, and a Silicon Valley 40 Under 40. Lily is a Member of Young Presidents' Organization, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Enterprise Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Seniorly — Seniorly helps families and older adults find the right senior living for their needs and budget. Combining the power of machine learning with the high-touch support of a national network of local advisors, Seniorly is modernizing senior living discovery. Through its online platform, Seniorly provides access to thousands of senior livingcommunities, expert insights, and personalized recommendations based search preferences. Seniorly also has a growing marketplace of trusted companies, offering other services and products that are helpful to families at this stage of life. Founded in 2014, Seniorly currently supports over 5 million visitors every year on their senior living journey. Visit http://www.seniorly.com for more information.
January AI — January's AI health app analyzes thousands of data points to help you eat smarter and live healthier. Wear a CGM once, and January creates your "digital twin," and personalized health insights via your 24/7 AI health coach.
NeuraLight — NeuraLight is a VC-backed venture on a mission to transform the lives of the billions of people impacted by neurological disorders by digitizing evaluation and care.

Adrian's full-time role is Head of Product and Strategy at OwnBackup. He was formally EVP of Platform Products at Salesforce and befor that the CTO of JPMorgan Chase. He is an active private investor with a variety of companies.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Sales
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Apiary — Apiary provides the leading API-First platform designed specifically to help companies accelerate and control the design, development, and documentation of APIs.
TruckPay — Job Board, E-Tickets, Dispatch & Fleet Management. Built for Trucking Companies, Aggregate Producers, Material Suppliers & Scrap Metal Processors.
Prime Security — Shift security to the design stage and solve software vulnerabilities before development starts.

Amichai Shulman

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Security, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

SecBI — SecBI gives security analysts the intelligence they need to investigate and respond faster. We’re putting the latest advances in machine learning to work – refining, contextualizing and prioritizing the most valuable information from all of your SIEM and log data so that everything you need is at your fingertips.Then, based on our data analysisand your investigation, we provide highly targeted remediation recommendations that show you exactly what traffic will be blocked and how it will impact your users.
Panorays — Panorays automates, accelerates and scales your third-party security evaluation and management process so you can easily manage and remediate risk.
Entro Security - Non-human Identities — Protect Non-human identities with Entro's automated lifecycle management platform: Seamless integration, comprehensive security & compliance.

Whitney Bouck joined Insight Partners in 2022, where she is a Managing Director. She brings more than 30 years of operating experience to venture capital, with her most recent role being the COO of HelloSign, where she was responsible for growing and scaling the company in partnership with the CEO, CTO and the executive team. HelloSign was acquiredby Dropbox in 2019, and Whitney continued to serve as COO of the business inside Dropbox. Whit serves on the boards of Trengo, PlayPlay, BlueOcean and Paycor; she was previously on the board of Ekata (acquired by Mastercard in 2021), is advisor to ARC and Anvilogic, and invester in LogDNA as well as early stage VC funds.Before joining HelloSign, she ran the global marketing organization at Box and built Box’s Enterprise business from the ground up, helping pivot the company from being an SMB-oriented product. Whitney also spent 15 years with Documentum and then EMC (via acquisition) and held a variety of leadership positions, including CMO of the Information Intelligence division at EMC. Previously, Whitney held a variety of technology and leadership roles at both Sybase and Oracle. She was recognized in 2017 as one of the top 40 Women in Revenue, in 2015 as one of the World’s 100 Most Innovative CMOs, previously recognized with the Silicon Valley Women of Influence award in 2009 and received the Top 40 Under 40 award in 2003.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, B2B
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Mezmo — LogDNA is a centralized log management solution that helps application owners operate more harmoniously in a DevOps world.
Trengo — Shared Multi-Channel Team Inbox
BlueOceanAI — BlueOceanAI is the Agentic AI platform purpose-built for marketing, designed to unlock creativity, accelerate go-to-market, and deliver measurable impact with AI agents across brand, product marketing, content, and more.

Todd Jackson is the Partner at First Round Capital.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

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.
Neyborly — We're changing the way people utilize real-estate in their cities and neighborhoods. We believe that everyone should be able to access beautiful space at an affordable price.Whether you need space for your birthday party, leadership meeting, wedding reception, or art show...we want to provide you with a unique and convenient environment tohost life's great moments.Commercial real-estate is a traditional and outdated industry that has not yet been transformed by technology. We apply design, data, and incredible customer service to create a new way to use real-estate in your neighborhood.We're on a mission to democratize access to Main Street real-estate and create a network of Neyborly spaces that will bring people together to celebrate, create, and inspire.Come join us and build something that has the chance to change the way we use our cities and neighborhoods!
Hava Health — The Hale Vaporizer system is intended to help people who are battling nicotine addiction.

Brian Nichols is an author "Taking Charge with Value Investing (McGraw-Hill, 2012), venture capitalist and investor, CEO of HADE Technologies, LLC, and the President of ODP Solutions IncHADE Technologies is a successful startup that develops software (Hade Platform) for equity Research, Finance professionals, and financial institutions thatcombine information technology with powerful applications in data analytics and machine learning. Brian Nichols is also a founder and the President of ODP Solutions, Inc, a company that develops infrastructure for online fiat and blockchain payments to consolidate the payment sector into a single application for businesses and individuals.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Sky Systemz — Sky Systemz allows businesses to accept card payments in store or online with its cloud POS and online store technology with no contracts or monthly fees and local support.Business customers can access their data from anywhere with a login and can manage all of their user permissions, products, inventory, or customer data. Innovative paymenttechnology allows you to accept and process any payment in store through our desktop or mobile application; seamlessly connect with your online store; create and send estimates and payable invoices; card on file and recurring payments

Angel Investor

Investment focus

Software, Infrastructure, Machine Learning
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Virtual Scale — Virtual Scale is an automation platform that delivers an infinite workforce of AI employees who speak, type, and build client profiles from every interaction. Our mission is to enable businesses to scale beyond human limits.

Ariel has been leading technology innovation and entrepreneurship for over 30 years, leading teams, founding companies and mentoring entrepreneurs. He is an active angel investor in startups, and supports technology education as a philanthropist. Ariel is a graduate of the prestigious Talpiot program, and holds a BSc from the Hebrew University ofJerusalem in Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science (Cum Laude) and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
BeWith.io (Superc AI) — Connect residents and foster engagement with a centralized community calendar that brings all city events into one easy-to-access platform
Monto — Monto introduces the future of B2B payments, where getting paid is a touchless process. Connect with any portal to experience transformation.

Gaurav Garg is a Founding Partner of Wing since February 2011. Gaurav has led investments in a number of early stage technology companies and currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at Ruckus Wireless (NYSE: RKUS), FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE), MobileIron (Nasdaq: MOBL), Jasper, Shape Security, Instart Logic, Cohesity, Apprity andpreviously Netscaler (acquired by CTXS). Gaurav has helped build Ruckus and FireEye over 10 years each from incubation into public companies, and he incubated Jasper and Instart Logic from concept stage. Gaurav was a Partner at Sequoia Capital from 2001 to 2010 and a Special Limited Partner from 2010-2012. Gaurav worked extensively with Sequoia Capital’s investments in Aruba Networks (Nasdaq: ARUN), Jawbone (aka Aliph), and RingCentral (NYSE: RNG). Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, Gaurav founded Redback Networks (Nasdaq: RBAK) in 1996, and served as a board member and Senior Vice President of Product Management. Prior to Redback Networks, Gaurav held various engineering positions at SynOptics and Bay Networks. Gaurav holds a B.S. degree and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science, all from Washington University in St. Louis.

Investment focus

Mobile, Artificial Intelligence, Security
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

iTribe — iTribe is a one-stop solution for customers to get news related to stocks, advisors, and investment ideas in real-time without any bundle.
Workspot — Workspot is an intelligent, purpose-built platform that unifies Enterprise Browser, DaaS, and DEX to radically reduce your VDI costs by up to 90%
Tempo AI — Tempo AI is a developer of a smart calendar application used to enhance work activities and schedules.In February 2013, Tempo AI launched the Tempo Smart Calendar mobile app, the first intelligent calendar that’s like having a personal assistant prepare what’s next to save users time and eliminate hassles. Tempo is context-aware to personalizeexperiences so routine tasks take the fewest taps. It learns patterns and behaviors to constantly optimize the smart calendar experience.

James is a hacker and serial entrepreneur with a background in product development, user experience design, platform marketing, and cloud technology. He is one of the founders of Heroku, an advanced platform for application development and deployment. James is known as an "OCD perfectionist", and is chiefly responsible for the look andfeel of Heroku’s brand and products. Following Heroku's acquisition by salesforce.com, James founded Heavybit, a San Francisco-based community and program for developer-focused businesses.He speaks regularly about cloud technology, entrepreneurship, and design, and is an advisor to and investor in many technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Developer APIs, Cloud Computing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Doppler — Doppler is the easiest way to securely manage all your environment variables in one encrypted place. No more sharing secrets over Slack or copying .env files.
Appwrite — Appwrite is an open-source platform for building applications at any scale, using your preferred programming languages and tools.
MobileCoin — Download the Sentz App to send and receive payments globally from anyone you can text in under five seconds for (basically) free!

Arash Afrakhteh currently works as a Partner for Cleveland Cavaliers. He previously worked at Phoenix Suns as a VP of Engineering, Co-Founder, and board of Directors. Arash Afrakhteh attended Sharif University of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Infrastructure, Cloud Computing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Mezmo — LogDNA is a centralized log management solution that helps application owners operate more harmoniously in a DevOps world.
Orby AI — It's like having an efficiency expert scanning the enterprise, identifying repetitive tasks and then automatically generating the related automation scripts
Advex AI — Advex AI assists the world's largest manufacturers in cutting costs and increasing productivity by producing highly dependable computer vision models in hours.

Shlomo is co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks. He is a network security expert and a serial entrepreneur. Shlomo has co-founded Check Point Software, who created the first commercial Firewall, and Imperva, the innovator of the Web Application Firewall. Shlomo has made early investments in successful cybersecurity companies including Palo AltoNetworks, Trusteer, and numerous others. He was named CEO of the Year by SC Magazine in 2008, one of “20 luminaries who changed the network industry” by Network World in 2006, and was inducted into the InfoSec Hall of Fame in April 2013.Shlomo holds a master’s degree in computer science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University.

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Security
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Nagomi Security — Nagomi is changing the way security teams balance risk and defense, empowering customers to focus on what matters now. By mapping customers’ existing security tools to the threats that matter and providing prescriptive remediation plans, the Nagomi Proactive Defense Platform finally makes it possible to optimize, measure, and maximize the ROI ofsecurity investments. By taking a threat-centered, data-driven, and actionable approach to risk and cybersecurity, customers are able to provide high-level cybersecurity maturity metrics to executives while simultaneously showing security practitioners exactly what to do to reduce risk, fix misconfigurations, and make strategic decisions with business context. Learn more at nagomi.security.
Token Security — Token is the new approach designed for the identity boom era. Introducing Machine-First Identity Security.
Clutch Security — Clutch Security provide security teams with comprehensive, clear, and actionable tools for Non-Human Identity security.

Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
Teleport — Meet your most compatible connections. Attend members only curated experiences. Receive proposed matches from your AI Matchmaker.
NUE Life Health — NUE Life aims to improve mental wellness by enhancing brain function, performance, and longevity through evidence based and scientifically proven mental health treatments and products.

Mark Tompkins has served as the senior financial officer at several large companies.Mark was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Innovene, a petroleum refining and chemical polymer business and subsidiary of BP, from May 2005 to January 2006, when Innovene was sold to a strategic buyer. From 2001 to 2005 Tompkins was SeniorVice President and Chief Financial Officer of Vulcan Materials Company, a publicly traded construction materials and chemicals company. From 1998 to 2001, Mark N Tompkins was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Chemtura Corporation (formerly Great Lakes Chemical Corporation), a publicly traded specialty chemicals company. From 1996 to 1998, he was Vice President of Finance and Business Development for the polymers division, and Vice President of Finance and Business Development for the electronic materials division of Honeywell Corporation. From 1990 to 1996, Mark worked at Monsanto Company in various management level finance and accounting positions, including Chief Financial Officer of the growth enterprises division.Mark received a BS in business, with majors in finance and management, and an MBA from Eastern Illinois University. Mark is a CPA, and a director of W.R. Grace & Co., and CVR Energy Inc. Mark N Tompkins is also Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina.

Investment focus

Mobile, Sensor, Genetics
Funding Round, Angel, Private Equity
United States

Portfolio highlights

Aeluma — Aeluma operates as a semiconductor company that specializes in sensors and communications.
Guerrilla RF — Guerrilla RF is a fabless semiconductor company providing high performance, differentiated products. With a strong background in Wi-Fi discrete MMIC's, the Wi-Fi Access Point market is the initial target market for their products. They design and sell the absolute best in class high-performance RF and Microwave IC's, enabling new levelsof performance, range, and coverage in wireless systems. Through patented technology and deep domain expertise, Guerrilla RF addresses the ignored and unmet performance and functionality you need.Guerrilla RF was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
Exicure — Exicure is Formerly Known as AuraSense Therapeuticsis. Exicure is developing a new class of immunomodulatory and gene silencing drugs against validated targets. Our 3-dimensional, spherical nucleic acid (SNA™) architecture unlocks the potential of nucleic acid therapeutics in multiple organs. Our lead programs address diseases from inflammatorydisorders to oncology.SNA constructs overcome one of the most difficult obstacles to nucleic acid therapeutics: safe and effective delivery into cells and tissues. SNA constructs exhibit unparalleled transfection efficiency into numerous cell and tissue types including the skin without carriers or transfection agents. Moreover, SNAs can be used as potent immunotherapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer or infectious disease.

Rajeev Madhavan is a Co-Founder and General Partner of Clear Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that provides startups capital, connections and company-building assistance from the earliest stages of company creation so their visions can grow intro market-leading companies. Clear Ventures launched its debut fund with $120 millioncommitted capital from a world-class investor base and an active portfolio that includes early positions in Cyphort, Espresa, Falcon, Paysa, Reflektion, Robin Systems, Swift Navigation, and Vera.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

DRIVEU — Hire professional car drivers for local and outstation drives. Services available 24x7 on-demand. Download the app to book now and explore many car services on your fingertips such as car wash, car servicing, insurance renewal, FASTag recharge & much more... Get rewarded for every transaction.
Reflektion — Reflektion’s AI-powered personalization platform listens to the behaviors of each individual shopper, utilizes artificial intelligence to calculate their preferences and intent, and then responds to every moment-to-moment interaction by displaying the most relevant content and products in real-time and across the digital touchpoints that mattermost—including site search, product recommendations, category and landing pages, and email. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.
Robin.io — Automate deployment of complex 5G & enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost with cloud native Kubernetes storage on the Robin platform.

Joe Graziano was formerly CFO of Apple

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Security
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pertino — Cradlepoint unlocks the power of LTE and 5G to wirelessly connect fixed and temporary sites, vehicles, field forces, and IoT devices, anywhere. Learn more!
Talk City — Talk City is a telecommunication services company. It provides online communities and interactive services for businesses and consumers. For businesses, Talk City's services, includes designing integrated customized communities, producing online events, conducting online market research, and facilitating online meetings. The company offersconsumers a combination of chat rooms, home pages, web-based clubs, online events, discussion boards, and other community tools.Talk City was founded by Bernard Bernstein and is headquartered in North Andover, Massachusetts.

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

Patricio Worthalter is the Founder of POAP - The Proof of Attendance Protocol. He previously worked at Milliwatt as a CEO.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Art
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Argentina, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
Taiko Labs — Taiko is a fully permissionless, Ethereum-equivalent based rollup. Inspired, secured, and sequenced by Ethereum.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Sandeep Nailwal - Co-Founder @ Polygon

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
Compute Labs — computing Labs is a tokenized real-world asset (RWA) company dedicated to democratizing access to the computing industry using blockchain technology.
OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.

Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.

Angel investor. Former VP and early employee at Coinbase.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Messaging
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Commonware — Commonware is a startup that supplies developers with a "anti-framework" — effectively all of the building pieces for developing a blockchain — in order to go beyond the era of standardized, general-purpose software kits.
Praxis — We are Praxis: a global community of creatives and technologists working to build the city of the future.
Merit Systems — Merit aims to solve the "attribution problem" in software development. In the world of open source, which powers more than 97% of the apps that customers use daily, both IT titans and freelance programmers contribute to products that are freely available for anybody to access and enhance.

Atin Batra is the Founder & solo GP at 27V, where he's backing a group of thoughtful founders building the future of learning and labor (EdTech + Future of Work). 27V is the perfect marriage of Atin's passion for education, entrepreneurship and helping founders build 0->1. He has been a venture investor for 7 years, havingpreviously worked at a corporate accelerator and a deep tech VC firm. An ex-entrepreneur and an ultra-marathon trail runner, Atin lives by the maxim "company building, same as a life well-lived, is not a sprint, it's a marathon".

Investment focus

Software, Education, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Unit — Unit is the banking-as-a-service platform that lets you embed powerful financial features into your product. Build in minutes, launch in weeks.
Toggle — How will we build the next generation of cities and infrastructure when key construction methods have remained unchanged for a generation? As the built environment grows larger and more complex Toggle is introducing industrial robotics and automation to critical construction methods and materials. Starting with rebar for reinforced concrete Toggleis reinventing the way we build our world.
Byteboard — A technical interview redesigned to be more effective, efficient, and equitable for all. Request a demo today!

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

AppFlowy — AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data
Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.

Jonathan Seaton is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Twinkl.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bippit — Bippit is a financial support system for employees, which provides them with a 1-1 financial coach, powerful tools, and practical resources.Research has shown that 3/4 staff members have financial concerns that directly affect them at work, but only 1/10 have been able to speak to an expert about them. This has a huge impact onbusinesses, as 15% of payroll cost can be lost from reduced productivity, presenteeism, and an increase in staff turnover, due to the financial worries of their workforce.Bippit makes professional financial support completely free for employees, whenever and wherever they need it, and is backed by early stage investors in Monzo, Freetrade, and Calm.
Wally Health — Unlimited dental cleanings and whitening for $199/year
Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.

JJ Fliegelman is currently working at WayUp as Co-Founder and CTO and as a Visiting Group Partner at Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed
United States, Canada, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Reducto — Reducto is an API that provides high quality data ingestion for large language models (LLMs). It works with any vector database or embedding system. It can parse PDFs, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
DryMerge — DryMerge lets you connect your apps and automate repetitive tasks in minutes. Try for free today and save hours of time with 30 seconds.
Circleback — AI-powered meeting notes and automations. Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles, and in-person conversations. Get started for free.

Jitendra Jagadev is the Founder and CEO of Helloworld Technologies.

Investment focus

Fitness, Database, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bonatra — Bonatra is holistic men's health company creating a convergence of medical science, data science and technology to manage and reverse chronic men's diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, and other issues.
NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Lex is a builder and investor working on the next generation of socio-economics and financial services. He is the Managing Partner and co-Founder of Generative Ventures, an engaged venture capital fund investing in the Machine Economy powered by Fintech, accelerated by AI, and settled on Web3.Previously, Lex held the roles of Chief Economist,Chief Marketing Officer, and Global Fintech Co-Head at Consensys, a leading Web3 blockchain software company, where he focused on protocol cryptoeconomics, digital assets, public and private blockchains, decentralized finance, and DAOs. Prior, he was the Global Director of Fintech Strategy at Autonomous Research, an equity research firm serving institutional investors, where he covered artificial intelligence, blockchain, neobanks, digital lenders, roboadvisors, payments, insurtech, and mixed reality. Before Autonomous, Lex was Chief Operating Officer at AdvisorEngine, a digital wealthtech platform, and CEO of NestEgg Wealth, a roboadvisor that partnered with financial advisors. Lex started his career in investment management and banking at Barclays, Lehman Brothers, and Deutsche Bank. Lex has contributed thought leadership to the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Bloomberg, FT, Reuters, Coindesk, American Banker, ThinkAdvisor, Investment News, among others. His industry newsletter, the Fintech Blueprint, reaches over 180,000 subscribers. Lex earned a JD/MBA from Columbia University and a B.A. in Economics and Law from Amherst College.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Blockchain, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Austria, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lobus — Lobus is aiming to commoditize blockchain tech with an asset management platform that they hope can bring creator-friendly mechanisms from NFT marketplaces like SuperRare to the physical art world as well, allowing art owners to maintain partial ownership of the works they sell so that they can benefit from secondary transactions down the line.
Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
Gaia — GaiaNet is a pioneer in decentralized AI technology, committed to transforming the IT industry through user privacy, transparency, and control. The cutting-edge open network infrastructure empowers users by ensuring privacy and censorship resistance in daily AI operations through a dynamic network of peer-to-peer edge nodes.

David Young is the CEO and Founder of Joyent. David founded Joyent in 2004 to provide a comprehensive suite of internet-delivered software and on-demand infrastructure for small to medium organizations. Prior to Joyent, David worked at Moodyâ€™s Investor Service (1989-1999) in the Structured Finance,International, and Digital Media groups asGeneral Manager and corporate Vice President and was co-founder and CTO of manageStar (2000-2004), an enterprise services management software company whose customers included TimeWarner, Sodexho, and Global Signal. David was the principal architect of manageStarâ€™s Harmony platform for service delivery and managed a team of 80+ developers in San Francisco and Bangalore, India. via:

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Automotive
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Joyent — Joyent, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung, helps its customers build and operate modern cloud native applications across multiple clouds. With Joyent, users can experience a new level of operational dexterity and control by leveraging a single infrastructure for managed private cloud, on-premise cloud, or managed hardware cloud, or acombination. It is the cloud infrastructure that delivers bare-metal performance from a virtual machine, enabling applications to run faster and more reliably than on traditional public or private cloud infrastructure. In addition, as the corporate steward of Node.js, Joyent offers exclusive debugging and performance tools for Node.js applications. These capabilities, combined with its expertise and global support, transform companies’ ability to manage and scale cloud applications.Joyent was founded in 2004 by Dean Allen, Jason Hoffman, & David Young. It is headquartered in San Francisco, C.A.

Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, a premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 300,000 recently published titles and more than 15,000 new creators from 80 different countries joining each week.Lulu.com, founded in 2002, is Young's most recent endeavour. The success of this companyhas earned Young notable recognition; he was named one of the "Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006" and was ranked as the fourth "Top Entrepreneur for 2006," both by Silicon.com.In 1993, Young co-founded Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the open-source software company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology. Red Hat is a Fortune 500 company and chief rival to Microsoft. His success at Red Hat won him industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week's "Top Entrepreneurs" in 1999.Before founding Red Hat, Young spent 20 years at the helm of two computer-leasing companies that he founded. His experiences as a high tech entrepreneur combined with his innate marketing savvy led to Red Hat's success. His book, "Under the Radar", chronicles how Red Hat's open source strategy successfully won wide industry acceptance in a market previously dominated by proprietary binary-only systems. Young has also imparted the lessons learned from his entrepreneurial experiences through his contributions to the books to "You've GOT to Read This Book!" and "Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul."In 2000, Young co-founded the Center for Public Domain, a non-profit foundation created to bolster healthy conversation of intellectual property, patent and copyright law, and the management of the public domain for the common good. Grant recipients included the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, and the Future of Music Coalition.Young graduated from the University of Toronto in 1976 prior to beginning his career in the computer finance arena.In 2003, Young purchased the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League and currently serves as the league's vice chairman.In addition to enjoying fly fishing, Young collects calculators and antique typewriters, a nod to his beginnings as a typewriter salesman and can usually be found sporting a pair of red socks. However, instead of red on his head, Young now tips his orange hat.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

AppFlowy — AppFlowy is an AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data
Rocket.Chat — Explore Rocket.Chat, where we put data privacy into every conversation and enable teams to collaborate seamlessly.
Bluesky — Bluesky is a new social media platform.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.

Casey G. Cowell serves as Principal at Boomerang Catapult, LLC. He serves as Principal Owner at Durandal Inc. He also serves as an Advisor at Grand Ventures. Prior to that, he co-founded U.S. Robotics and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer. He serves as a Vice-Chairman at 3Com Corp. He serves as a Director at CDW Government Inc. Heserves as a Director at Northwestern Memorial Corp. He serves as Director at 3Com Corporation, Mastering Inc., and System Software Associates. He serves as a Director at Seurat Company, Illinois Coalition, May & Speh Inc., and JobsOnline.com Inc. He serves as Chairman at Durandal Inc. He serves on the Boards of Munson Healthcare, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities and is actively involved in economic development. Prior to that, he served as a Director at CDW Corp. Prior to that, he served as a Director at Mastering Computers Inc. Prior to that, he served as a Director at U.S. Robotics Corp. Prior to that, he served as Past Chairman at U.S. Robotics Corp., He received numerous industry honors including being named one of the 25 Top Managers in the world by Business Week in 1995 and Executive of the Year in 1996 by Crain's Chicago Business. He is an active investor, advisor, and board member in a broad range of companies with an emphasis on start-ups and early stages. He is engaged in many civic and philanthropic efforts and organizations with emphasis. He holds Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1975.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Water
Funding Round, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

GeoTix — Evvnt: The Event Success Company offering comprehensive solutions in ticketing, marketing, and event discovery. We serve publishers, event creators, and event-consumers, ensuring seamless experiences from planning to participation. Discover the difference with Evvnt today.
Xaptum — Xaptum is the telecom for the internet of things, providing the infrastructure behind real-time, smart-thing communication.
Naveego — Naveego is headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan, and has been delivering Master DataManagement, Data Integration, and Business Intelligence solutions.They believe companies perform best when they are able to use best-of-breed applications for each function of their business. We see a world where data moves freely between these applications,regardless of where it lives. By creating this ecosystem of data, a company is able to provide clean and trustworthy information to its users, when and where they need it

Jeffrey Shealy

Investment focus

Mobile, Sensor, Wireless
Funding Round, Private Equity
United States

Portfolio highlights

Aeluma — Aeluma operates as a semiconductor company that specializes in sensors and communications.
Guerrilla RF — Guerrilla RF is a fabless semiconductor company providing high performance, differentiated products. With a strong background in Wi-Fi discrete MMIC's, the Wi-Fi Access Point market is the initial target market for their products. They design and sell the absolute best in class high-performance RF and Microwave IC's, enabling new levelsof performance, range, and coverage in wireless systems. Through patented technology and deep domain expertise, Guerrilla RF addresses the ignored and unmet performance and functionality you need.Guerrilla RF was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Ellipsis Labs — Ellipsis Labs is building Phoenix, a decentralized limit order book on Solana that is fully on-chain, non-custodial, and crankless.
Parallel — Parallel is a Sci-Fi Card Game based on the Ethereum blockchain. Parallel is an application that provides users with the opportunity to purchase, collect, and showcase digital blockchain collectibles.
Zeus Network — Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.

Chad Hurley is the Co-Founder and Chairman at Greenpark Sports and the Co-Founder of AVOS Systems. He earned his bachelor's degree in fine art at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Internet, Sports, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Polycam — Polycam is a 3D creation tool company that develops a sensor app to capture 3D scans of objects. Its tool for photorealistic 3D asset creation is used to capture, document, edit, and share digital 3D content. Its sensors use computer vision and artificial intelligence technology such as a colorization engine to create 3D objects and spaces.
NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.

Manav Garg is the CEO and Founder of Eka Software Solutions. Besides the overall responsibility of managing Eka, Manav oversees the areas of business strategy and corporate finance. Manav founded Eka after a brief stint as a trader with a large global commodity trading house. It was during his trading days that he saw the deficiencies intraditional trading and risk management software. Realizing the market opportunity, and combining this with his passion for technology, Manav setup Eka with venture capital funding. The first few years of organizational building at Eka were an invaluable experience, helping him gain deep and unique insights into all aspects of the business, and the needs of customers across the globe. Today, with Eka having shown significant growth in revenues, profitability, customer base and employees, Manav provides leadership and overall direction in such strategic areas as talent management, product direction and growth strategy. He constantly strives to achieve ever higher levels of organizational excellence and customer satisfaction by encouraging responsibility and accountability at all levels.Born in 1974, Manav graduated as an engineer from REC (Regional Engineering College) Jalandhar, and followed this by an MBA from IIFT (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade), Delhi. He was recently awarded the Star Entrepreneur Award for 2008-09 at the 2nd Indira International India Innovation Summit.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

OSlash — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
Signeasy — Trusted by millions for electronic signatures, Signeasy is the best cross-platform eSignature solution for your business to get documents signed from anywhere, anytime.
NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Aaron Henshaw is the Head of Engineering at Grand St.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Infrastructure, Venture Capital
Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Atomic Loans — Atomic Loans is a protocol for bitcoin and crypto-backed loans on your terms, without middlemen. By extending atomic swap technology, Atomic Loans enables users to interact with trustless, cross-chain debt agreements. We use the functionality of the native Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains to enable lending without requiring customers to delegatetrust to centralized custodians, ensuring their funds will never be stolen or seized.
Credibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Matthew Ocko has nearly three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive and venture capitalist, with over 20 patents granted or pending in areas as diverse as hardware systems and social games. He still reads C++ code but admits to occasional struggles with Erlang. Matthew is a co-founder & co-managing partner ofData Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. During his venture capital tenure, he has invested in and/or helped grow a variety of companies including XenSource (CTRX), Zynga (ZNGA), Impermium, Verisign (VRSN), Facebook (FB), Virtuata (CSCO), Akimbi Systems (VMW), Cotendo (AKAM), Tango.me, MetaWeb (GOOG), FlashSoft (SNDK), DataMirror (IBM), UltraDNS (NSR), Kenshoo, Metamarkets, Fortinet (FTNT), SupportSoft (SPRT), Alantro (TXN), CouchBase, Spool (FB), BranchOut, On-Ramp Wireless, and many others.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Russell Smith is a Supporter at Beam. He attended Durham University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, IaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
Incredible — Pay off credit cards faster, reduce your interest payments and reclaim your financial freedom.

Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000. From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company. Prior tothat, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation. Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Madras, India.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Yupp — Yupp a discovering, contrasting, and utilizing the newest AIs is made simple and enjoyable, which also contributes to the field's future development..
World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
Unbound Security — The reliable way to secure consumer Gen AI apps.

Dr. Nicholas E. White serves as Senior Vice President for Science by leading the space science operating sector within USRA and providing oversight of scientific activity across USRA institutes and programs. This sector spans work in astronomy and astrophysics, lunar and planetary science, biomedical and life sciences, Earth science, spacetechnology, and advanced scientific computing.White came to USRA after a distinguished career at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. of more than 20 years. White led the Sciences and Exploration Directorate, where he was a leader in space and Earth science and a trusted steward of the center's projects and research programs. Throughout the course of his career, White pioneered space-based research both as a scientist and a Senior Executive. White previously held the positions of director of Goddard's Astrophysics Science Division and Chief of the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics. White was the founding director of the highly successful High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center. Prior to joining NASA, White worked for the European Space Agency. His research is primarily in the area of X-ray astronomy, studying black holes and neutron stars. His pedigree includes more than 200 publications in refereed journals.Amongst the many recognitions of his leadership are the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award and the Goddard Space Flight Center Exceptional Achievement Award. White is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Leicester and a doctorate in Space Science from University College London.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Big Data
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Texxi Global — The Transit Exchange XXI Century works to enable cities and municipalities to price and manage roads fairly
Skip — Tools for sovereign communities

Surojit Chatterjee is an Angel Investor at Angel Investor. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management, the University at Buffalo, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.
Credibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Dan Hesse currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), where he serves as chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee, and PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) where he chairs the Technology Subcommittee.Dan served as President and CEO of Sprint Corporation from December 2007 toAugust 2014. Previously, Hesse was the Chairman and CEO of Embarq Corporation, Chairman, President and CEO of Terabeam Corporation, and he spent 23 years at AT&T, where from 1997 - 2000, he served as the President and CEO of AT&T Wireless Services, at the time the United States' largest wireless carrier.He received a BA from Notre Dame, an MBA from Cornell, and an MS from MIT where he was awarded the Brooks Thesis Prize. He holds a Carnegie Mellon University/NACD CERT certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight.In addition to receiving Corporate Responsibility magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award, he has been named "Most Influential Person in Mobile Technology" by LAPTOP magazine (Steve Jobs was #2), Wireless Industry "Person of the Year" by RCR magazine, "Executive of the Year" by Wireless Business and Technology magazine, "CEO of the Year" by the National Eagle Leadership Institute, “Kansas City’s Best CEO” in a readership poll by Ingram’s Magazine, one of the five "Best Turnaround CEO's of All Time" by Fierce Wireless, one of "10 Inspirational Leaders who Turned Around Their Companies" by Entrepreneur magazine, and he has twice received Wireless Week magazine's Leadership Award. Glassdoor regularly named Hesse one of America’s highest rated CEO's by employees. He serves on the National Board of Governors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and on the board of directors of the JUST Capital Foundation.The 2014 American Customer Satisfaction Index recognized Sprint as the most improved U.S. company in overall customer satisfaction, across all 43 industries, over the previous six years. During Dan’s years at Sprint, the company was recognized 20 times by J.D. Power and Associates for excellence in customer service, and the Reputation Institute recognized Sprint as the most improved company in overall corporate reputation among all of the 1000 largest global public companies it evaluates. For his last two full calendar years as CEO, Sprint’s Total Shareholder Return, assuming reinvested dividends, ranked #1 among all S&P 500 companies (Netflix was #2).

Investment focus

Water, Railroad, Cyber Security
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Xaptum — Xaptum is the telecom for the internet of things, providing the infrastructure behind real-time, smart-thing communication.

Tom Mendoza - Board Vice Chairman @ NetApp

Investment focus

Infrastructure
Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Caw Networks — The California Caw Foundation nonprofit website honoring the late Dr. Bruce Nelson and fiscal sponsor to the Gary Atkinson Imagine Scholarship Fund.

Maxime Bucaille

Investment focus

Payments, Freelance, Cryptocurrency
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.

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