# Top 50 Infrastructure Angel Investors in June 2026 ## Ken Hertz - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Video, Infrastructure Kenneth Hertz, is a Senior Partner in the Beverly Hills law firm of Hertz Lichtenstein & Young LLP. Ken and his partners specialize in representing talent and new media companies in the sports and entertainment industries. The firm's clients include Will, Jada, Willow and Jaden Smith, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, The Black Eyed Peas, will.i.am,Keith Richards, Herbie Hancock, Jason Mraz, Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, David Blaine, Shaun White, Wayne Gretzky, Jamie Oliver, James Patterson, Lionel Richie and Enrique Iglesias. ## Nicolas Louvet - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Data Integration, Information Technology CEO of Coinhouse, a Paris-based Blockchain startup and a seasoned Venture Capital investor (Sofinnova, Serena Capital, Société Générale Private Equity and Ecomobilité Venture). Founder of Keya Capital, a consulting company which advises large Corporate in their CVC and Corporate Innovation activities.As a Partner in VC fund, he invested in -Dataiku (colead, Series A) - FinalCad (lead, Series A) - Lengow (lead, Series B) - Ouicar (sold to SNCF) (lead, Seed and Series A), - Solutions30 (IPO), (lead, Series B) - TR Com (sold to Bull) (colead, Seed) - Sensitive Objects (sold to Tyco Electronics) (lead, Seed and Series A, B) - and 15+ other companies... He has also personally invested in several companies : Ledger (seed, Series), Assoconnect (Seed), Zeenea (Seed), Atria Gestion (seed) Skills: - Entrepreneurship, company management, business development - Venture Capital investment (seed to growth capital) in Tech sectors (software, AI, tech, smart cities, telecom, retail) in Europe - Fund management and creation - Corporate Finance (fund raising, build up, merger, acquisition) - Corporate Strategy (business model, growth strategic plan, competitive positioning) ## Ricardo Gonzalez - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Infrastructure, Machine Learning Angel Investor ## Karanpal Singh - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care Karanpal Singh is a steel and mining industrialist and the founder of Hunch Ventures which has been investing in multi-stage companies since 2012.As these investments evolved into larger businesses, Hunch evolved into an organized venture fund and has now taken several large bets across multiple sectors. Hunch has been backing visionary foundersin various industries from Air Mobility, Fine Arts, Sustainable Food Supply chains and food security, Ports and Logistics, Healthtech, F&B, Lifestyle Media and several B2B SaaS platforms. It has investments in India, Canada, the US, Tanzania, Singapore, UAE and the United Kingdom and has now pivoted to environmentally conscious and sustainable businesses. Hunch is one of the largest independent aggregators of food-related infrastructure and technologies and has built the platform for global food technology companies to come to India and establish a local presence. ## Ott Kaukver - Type: Angel - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS Ott Kaukver is Chief Technology Officer at Checkout.com. Attended Estonian Business School. ## Romain Lapeyre - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Software Romain Lapeyre is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Gorgias. ## Chris Gonsalves - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games Cofounder & CEO of Community Gaming ## Shervin Pishevar - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop. ## Todd Jackson - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech Todd Jackson is the Partner at First Round Capital. ## Sergey Gorbunov - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Grant - Focus: Software, Analytics, Education Sergey Gorbunov is a serial founder and a technologist with deep roots in distributed systems and cryptography. He co-founded StealthMine, was on the founding team of Algorand, and co-founded Axelar network. He received PhD from MIT and a professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. ## Nicolas Dessaigne - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS 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. ## Alex Plugaru - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Infrastructure, Information Technology Alex Plugaru is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Gorgias. ## James Lindenbaum - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Developer APIs 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. ## Spencer Kimball - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Database, Information Technology 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. ## Anthony Sassano - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University. ## Ashwin Ramachandran - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Software, FinTech Ashwin Ramachandran is a General Partner at Dragonfly Capital. He was a Research Engineer at ThunderCore. He attended Duke University. ## Feross Aboukhadijeh - Type: Angel - Location: Stanford, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Developer Tools 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 - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet 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. ## Radek Ostrowski - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency A talented developer and an architect able to hit the ground running. With his broad skill set, he has contributed to the success of many small local and big international projects. Effective in taking applications from inception to completion and in improving the existing solutions. Motivated by challenges and driven by ambition agileproblem-solver. ## Lily Sarafan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Enterprise Software 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. ## Shlomo Kramer - Type: Angel - Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Security 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. @office.ceohq@gmail.com ## Raghav Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Entrepreneur, operator, investor and author of the bestselling One to Ten. Currently, Rags is President of Butlr.io and venture partner at Hyperplane. Prior to Butlr, Rags was COO at Humatics, GM EMEA at Ooyala, CCO at Videoplaza (sold to Telstra/Ooyala) and part of the founding management team at Brightcove (IPO). ## Amichai Shulman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Cyber Security, Security, Software Amichai Shulman ## Farzad Nazem - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Software, Analytics 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. ## Jonathan Siegel - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Jonathan Siegel is the Partner of Bass and Siegel. He previously worked at Earth Class Mail as a Chairman. Jonathan Siegel attended Brown University. ## Wei Guo - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited. ## Jeff Hammerbacher - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology Jeff Hammerbacher - Partner & Co-Founder @ Techammer ## Tom Williams - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services Tom Williams ## Michael Stoppelman - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet 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. ## Eduardo Steiner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Mobile, Fashion, Lifestyle Eduardo Steiner is Regional CFO at Publicis Worldwide. ## Whitney Bouck - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: SaaS, Software, B2B 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. ## Brian Nichols - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Payments 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. ## Adrian Kunzle - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Sales 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. ## Mark Cuban - Type: Angel - Location: Dallas, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Artificial Intelligence Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington. ## Ariel Maislos - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## Arash Afrakhteh - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics 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. ## Rajeev Madhavan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D - Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce 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. ## Chris Nguyen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Chris Nguyen is the Co-Founder and CEO at LogDNA.Prior to founding LogDNA, he founded two other companies: TeamSave, which is a white label e-Commerce platform that provides sales, technology, and customer support for the social commerce and digital coupons space for two eBay Classified Group portfolio companies and JobLoft, which was acquired byonTargetjobs. Chris also held various leadership positions at onTargetjobs ranging from Vice President of Product, Vice President of E-Commerce and General Manager of online personals site. Chris received his Bachelors of Commerce degree from Ryerson University with a major in Information Technology Management. He has been recognized through many awards for his accomplishments and leadership, including: Impact.org’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year; and received Ryerson University’s Isadore Sharp Alumni Achievement Awards. He was a board member of Ryerson University’s Accelerator Seed Fund from 2012-2014. ## Thomas Howell - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Generative AI, Developer APIs Thomas Howell ## Anatoly Yakovenko - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones. ## Mark Tompkins - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Private Equity - Focus: Mobile, Sensor, Genetics 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. ## Jaan Tallinn - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute. ## Joyce Yang - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech Joyce Yang - Founder @ Global Coin Research ## Gareth Williams - Type: Angel - Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS Gareth Williams co-founded Skyscanner Limited in 2001 and has been its CEO through to 2018. Chairman to Jan 2020. We spent $6m of primary capital raised through to $1.8bn sale to Trip.com. Now ‘funemployed’ and learning. ## Jana Messerschmidt - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Jana Messerschmidt - Founding Partner @ #Angels ## Dan Magnuszewski - Type: Angel - Location: Buffalo, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: FinTech, B2B, Retail Dan Magnuszewski - Cofounder & CTO @ ACV ## Joe Graziano - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Internet, Security Joe Graziano was formerly CFO of Apple ## Cliff Holekamp - Type: Angel - Location: Greenville, South Carolina, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, CRM Cliff Holekamp is Cofounder, Managing Director, and a General Partner of Cultivation Capital. Cliff has been recognized by Business Insider as one of the “Seed 100 Best Early Stage Investors” in the United States and as the top angel investor located in South Carolina.Cliff started his career in enterprise sales for IBM. Following graduateschool, he was the Founder and President of Foot Healers (sold to private equity in 2007). Subsequently, he served as the Professor of Practice and Academic Director for Entrepreneurship at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis (retired in 2019) where he was named one of the Top 100 Entrepreneurship Professors in the World and where he led the entrepreneurship program to being ranked #1 in the world (Inc. Magazine, 2019).His nonprofit board service includes work for the South Carolina Research Authority (SC Launch), Clemson University Research Foundation, NextGEN, Christ Church Episcopal School, Holekamp Seed Fund and Skandalaris Center at Washington University in St. Louis, and the Board of Trustees of Washington & Lee University.Cliff holds a BA from Washington and Lee University and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. ## Yair Goldfinger - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, FinTech, Software Yair Goldfinger is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AppCard. He was an Investor / Advisor to Board at Volicon. He attended Tel Aviv University. ## Gaurav Garg - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Mobile, Software, Security 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.