Top 50 Infrastructure Angel Investors in United States in January 2026

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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.

Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.

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Jeff Hammerbacher - Partner & Co-Founder @ Techammer

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Todd Jackson is the Partner at First Round Capital.

Feross is founder and CEO at Socket (https://socket.dev), a developer-first security platform. Feross has worked in open source software for 10+ years writing some of the most-downloaded JavaScript packages. Feross is a lecturer at Stanford where he teaches CS 253 Web Security. Socket makes a developer-first security platform thatprevents vulnerable and malicious open source dependencies from infiltrating your software supply chain. Thousands of organizations in every industry use Socket to safely discover, audit, and manage OSS at scale.

Jeff Lawson is a Co-Founder and CEO at Twilio. He is a serial inventor with over 15 years of entrepreneurial and product experience. Prior to co-founding Twilio, Jeff was Founder & CTO of NineStar, Founding CTO of Stubhub.com and Founder, CEO & CTO of Versity. He was also one of the original product managers for Amazon Web Services.Atevery business, Jeff identified the fundamental need for a platform for developers and companies to easily build communications-based business solutions.Jeff grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, started his first company in middle school, and earned his BS in Computer Science & Film/Video from University of Michigan.

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

Michael Stoppelman is an active angel/seed investor in Los Angeles. He's the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at Yelp. He started at Yelp as a software engineer working on the search engine. He took over as head engineering in 2012 after serving as a manager and Director of Engineering in the proceeding years. He scaled theengineering team from 30 to over 500 engineers. Prior to Yelp he was a software engineer at Google for 3.5 years and served as the tech lead for the AdSense Traffic Quality team. He received his BS in Computer Science from Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2003.

Farzad (Zod) Nazem has been a prolific angel investor and advisor to tech startup companies since his retirement from Yahoo! in 2007. He has invested in more than 60 early stage companies, and sits on the boards of Hand Foundation, and The Nueva School. His area of investment is about two thirds Big Data and Cloud platforms, and one third Healthand Medical. He was the Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo from 1996 to mid 2007. He helped acquire and integrate over 50 companies and managed over six thousand engineers representing half of the company's employees. Between 1985 and 1996, Mr. Nazem held various software development and management positions at Oracle Corporation culminating in his role as Vice President of Media and Web Server Division. His tenure at Oracle also included membership in the company's Product Division Management Committee, which set overall strategy for Oracle products. Previously, Mr. Nazem was recruited from California Polytechnic State University by Rolm Corporation to be a software engineer in the VLCBX division. At age 19, he earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science with highest honors.

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.

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.

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Joe McCann is the Founder, CEO, and CIO of Asymmetric. He was a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at NodeSource. He attended Portland State University.

Nicolas is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies and am focused on building just that at Algolia where team empowerment is how they accomplish their goals. Prior to co-founding Algolia with Julien, he spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.At Algolia they believe every website and app deserves greatsearch! they offer a hosted Search API that helps developers deliver an instant and relevant search experience. We’ve seen that search is a great touch point to optimize – they regularly see double digit increases in engagement on sites when they improve their search UX.When they founded Algolia in 2012 it was originally going to be a local SDK for mobile app search. They changed direction and realized that they needed to offer search as a hosted SaaS service, but it was those early mobile optimizations that gave us their unique advantage. They are one of the few search solutions that has been developed from scratch, and they never would have gone that direction if they hadn’t originally been focused on mobile search.His focus has been first and foremost on making Algolia a great place to work. They have a unique culture here that values ownership as its pillar. They want to create a company where every team member takes initiative, gets out of their comfort zone, is empowered to make decisions; in short: be free to be their best.He is recently spoken at SaaStock on the challenges of running a company based in both Paris and San Francisco. His priority lately has been on scaling their growth and ramping up their team size.

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.

Matt Humphrey is a Partner at Quiet Capital. He was the Co-Founder and CEO of LendingHome Corporation before that. Matt graduated from Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business.

Jake Hartnell is co-founder of Public Awesome.

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A serial entrepreneur with deep international experience, Bertrand Diard is the co-founder of Syroco, the next generation innovation lab that looks at improving the systemic efficiency of energy and transportation industries. Before Syroco, Bertrand had co-founded and managed Talend, one of the most successful open source vendors in the world andone of the very few French companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and Influans, an ultrapersonalization marketing platform that was sold to Ogury in 2018. Bertrand is also a board member for BonitaSoft, CybelAngel, Hull.io, iBanFirst and The Galion Project and was the president of Tech In France for several years. He launched alongside Serena Capital, Serena Data Ventures, the first European fund dedicated to data and artificial intelligence, and invests as a Business Angel in innovative startups.

Tod Sacerdoti is the Founder and CEO of Pipedream.com. He attended Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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.

Kulveer Taggar is a CEO and Co-founder at Zeus and he was a Co-founder at Auctomatic. He has a master's degree from the University of Oxford.

Bogomil Balkansky is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. He started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Bogomil holds a bachelor of arts in Mathematics from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Keith J. Masback is Principal Consultant at Plum Run LLC, providing strategic advisory services to startups working in geospatial intelligence and related fields. He is a prolific angel investor in early stage companies in the sector, where he also serves as a board member and advisor. Immediately prior, for over a decade, he served as CEO of theUnited States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. Before USGIF, he spent over 20 years as an officer in the U.S. Army and as a government civilian, culminating as a senior executive at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. He holds a BA in Political Science from Gettysburg College. He is a past Chair of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee, a member of the Geographical and Geospatial Sciences Committee of the National Academies, a member of the Landsat Advisory Group, a former member of the Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing, a Counselor and Fellow of the American Geographical Society, and a member of the Advisory Board of the International Spy Museum.

Dylan Taylor is a global business leader, commercial astronaut, thought leader and philanthropist. Currently, Dylan serves as Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space, a multi-national space exploration firm focused on building the next generation of space infrastructure for NASA and other global space agencies.Dylan has been recognized by HarvardUniversity, SpaceNews, the BBC, the Financial Times, Pitchbook, CNBC, CNN and others as having played a seminal role in the growth of the private space industry. As an early-stage investor in more than 50 emerging space ventures, including Axiom, Kepler, York, Astrobotic, LeoLabs, Relativity, and Planet, Dylan is widely considered the most active private space investor in the world.Dylan’s technical background, global business experience and unbridled passion for space make him a unique figure within his industry. As a thought leader and futurist, he has written many popular pieces on the future of the space industry for Forbes, FastCompany, Newsweek, SpaceNews, The Space Review, and Space.com. As a speaker, Dylan has keynoted many of the major space conferences around the world and has appeared regularly on Bloomberg, Fox Business, and CNBC.Dylan has extensive global business experience as both a board director and CEO in several industries, including advanced electronics, finance and real estate. He previously served as a Director for UMB Bank, a Fortune 500 company based in Kansas City and as a mutual fund director for the Jackson Funds where he oversaw assets of $8B across 130 distinct funds. He has also served in the roles of CEO, President and Board Director for multinational companies like Prudential PLC, Honeywell, Colliers and Jones Lang LaSalle. Dylan was recognized as a Fortune 1000 CEO with P&L responsibility in excess of $3B and operations encompassing 15,000 employees in over 60 countries. In addition, Dylan has participated in 4 IPOs over the course of his career. Dylan is a leading advocate of space manufacturing and the utilization of in-space resources to further space exploration and settlement. In 2017, he became the first private citizen to manufacture an item in space when the gravity meter he co-designed and commissioned was 3D printed on the International Space Station. The historic item is now housed in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.Dylan is an explorer of note. On December 11th, 2021 Dylan became just the 606th human to go to space as part of the crew of Blue Origin’s NewShepard Mission 19. Accordingly, Dylan earned his commercial astronaut wings with the FAA and his universal astronaut wings from the Association of Space Explorers.He is also one of only a handful of humans to have descended to the deepest part of the world’s oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench as part of the Limiting Factor Expedition in July of 2022. In that mission, Dylan descended with pilot Victor Vescovo to a depth in excess of 10,800 meters (35,500 feet) into an area of the Mariana Trench that had never been visited by humans. Dylan is the youngest human to have been to the deepest part of the world’s oceans and crossed the Karman line into Space. Dylan has been a member of the Explorers Club since 2014.Dylan maintains an extensive philanthropic impact on the space industry. In 2017, Dylan founded the nonprofit and social movement, Space for Humanity, which seeks to democratize space exploration and develop solutions to global issues through the scope of human awareness to help solve the world’s most intractable problems. Space for Humanity has successfully sent two citizen astronauts to space via Blue Origin including both the first Mexican-born woman (Katya Echazareta), and first African-born woman (Sara Sabry). Building upon his passion and support for the space industry, Dylan serves as a strategic advisor for both the Archmission and the Human Spaceflight Program and is a co-founding patron of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which promotes the growth of commercial space activity. Additionally, he is also a leading benefactor to the Brooke Owens Fellowship, Patti Grace Smith Fellowship and Mission: Astro Access.Dylan is the founder and Chairman of Multiverse Media, an integrated global media company focused on science and technology, with an emphasis on space. Multiverse is the parent company of the popular space philosophy website 2211.world as well as the Ad Astra Dinners, a Jeffersonian-style dinner series featuring some of the world’s leading influencers discussing the future of humanity in space. Another subsidiary of Multiverse Media, Multiverse Publishing, publishes books by leading authors including Frank White, Isaac Asimov and Gerard K. O’Neill. Multiverse is also the executive producer of the documentary film, The High Frontier and the forthcoming film, Fortitude. For his influence as a global leader and his commitment to creating a positive impact on the world, Dylan has been honored with numerous personal and professional accolades in recent years. The World Economic Forum recognized Dylan as a Young Global Leader in 2011 and a full member of the World Economic Forum in 2014. That same year he was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. In 2020, Dylan was recognized by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation with their top honor for business and finance, following in the footsteps of 2019’s inaugural winner, the late Paul Allen and subsequent winners Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.Dylan Taylor earned an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago and holds a BS in Engineering from the honors college at the University of Arizona, where he graduated Tau Beta Pi and in 2018 was named Alumnus of the year. He is also a graduate of the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at Harvard University.Dylan and his family reside in Denver, Colorado where he is active locally with Colorado Concern and the Colorado Spaceport. In his spare time, Dylan enjoys hiking, competing in triathlons and spending time outdoors. As a weekend warrior athlete, Dylan has more than 25 top ten finishes and 25 age group wins to his credit, and he regularly interviews world class athletes whom have shown extraordinary resilience as the host of the Legendary Podcast. He is married to legal expert, consultant and author Gabrielle V. Taylor with whom he has two teenage daughters.

Henrique Dubugras is the co-founder and Chairman of Brex. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was sixteen years old. In just three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in the volume of transactions processed. In the fall of 2016, Henrique sold Pagar.me and enrolled at StanfordUniversity. After eight months, he left school and founded Brex, which raised $215M in funding across three rounds in its first 22 months and was the fastest U.S. business-to-business company to be valued at over $1bn.

As Executive Vice President, David Hitz is responsible for the future strategy and direction of NetApp.Dave Hitz and James Lau founded NetApp in 1992 with a desire to simplify storage the way Cisco simplified networking. Dave and James believed that general-purpose computing systems were too complex, so they built dedicated devices calledappliances. These appliances were designed to handle one thing well: storage.Prior to 1992, Dave worked as a senior engineer at Auspex Corporation, an enterprise storage solutions provider, where he was responsible for file systems and microkernel design. He also held engineering positions at MIPS Computer, focusing on file system and I/O subsystem design for the System V kernel development effort.Before his career in the computer industry, Dave worked as a cowboy, getting valuable management experience by herding, branding and castrating cattle. Dave documented these and other formative business experiences in his autobiography, “How To Castrate A Bull, Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business.“Dave holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering from Princeton University.

Tom is a General Partner and an entrepreneurial executive with a strong track record in technology leadership and innovation with more than 15 years’ experience participating on boards of directors of fast-growing companies.Prior to joining SPV in 2017, Tom was founder and chief strategy officer of DocuSign, The Global Standard for eSignature. Hebegan his career at Apple Computer, Wildfire Communications, McCaw Cellular, and AT&T Wireless, then launched and ran several companies focused on SaaS, Financial Services, and GPS Technology. Experienced in corporate development, raising venture capital, strategic business planning, M&A, international business expansion, and business model development.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Nik Milanović works on Business Development and Strategy at Google Finance He was formerly Head of Strategy at Petal He previously directed strategic partnerships at Funding Circle, an online marketplace for business loans. Milanović holds a BA from Stanford University.

Bob Morrell is a leading authority on risk management technology solutions. He co-founded Riskonnect in July 2007 with a vision to develop and market comprehensive software solutions addressing strategic and traditional, insurable risk management. Morrell is widely regarded as the pioneer of cloud-computing in risk and insurance management, and heis recognized for his visionary leadership and innovation. Under his direction, Riskonnect has grown from a revolutionary idea into the leading technology solution for the risk management industry.Morrell started programming professionally as a 15-year-old high school student who had to take the school bus to a job where he was the first employee without a college degree. His early taste for technology and a lifelong penchant for programming led Morrell to co-found his first risk management software firm, Risk Laboratories, while a sophomore at Georgia Tech. That firm has since been divested and is now part Aon Corporation, the number two brokerage worldwide.Morrell continues to lead the technology revolution for risk and safety professionals with Riskonnect’s cloud-computing platform and world-class team of risk technology innovators. Morrell was named the winner of Risk & Insurance magazine’s 2008 Risk Innovators Award for the utility sector. Riskonnect also won CIO Risk Management Solution Provider 2014, the coveted Best Fit Integrator Award 2013, the GRC Value Award 2013 in Insurance & Claims, the TAG Top 40 Innovative Company in Georgia Award in 2011 and 2013, the Risk & Insurance Risk Innovator Award 2011, and the Salesforce.com 2008 Appy Award for the Force.com Breakthrough App of the Year.As a thought-leader in the risk management industry, Morrell speaks on numerous Enterprise Risk Management and risk management-related topics to local, national and international groups.

Umur Cubukcu is a Founder & CEO at Citus Data

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.

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William Hockey is the Co-CEO of Column. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University.

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.