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Top 25 LGBT Angel Investors in United States (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in United States LGBT startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United States LGBT startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Nisha Dua
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Wellness $1.5M–$4M
Amanda Bradford
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A LGBT, Dating, Social $1.5M–$1.5M
Andy Dunn
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Wellness, Health Care $1.1M–$25M
Silvia Mah
Angel
1 United States Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Baby $89k–$2.5M
Patrick Spaulding Ryan
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Information Technology, FinTech, Software $89k–$10M
Audrey Gelman
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Apps, Social, Social Media $1.5M–$4M
Ross Veitch
Angel
1 Singapore, Thailand, United States Seed Internet, Real Estate, Rental $500k–$1.1M
George Godula
Angel
1 United States, China, Algeria Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile $970k–$150M
Albert Lee
Angel
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Apps, LGBT $800k–$2.8M
Lorenzo Thione
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $535k–$30M
Philippe von Borries
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed LGBT, Dating, Social $1.5M–$3.3M
Chris Sinton
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Rental, Travel
Peter Boyce II
Angel
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Software, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence $25k–$6.1M
Shinji Kimura
Angel
1 United States, India, Japan Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1M–$107M
Chelsea Clinton
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Apps $2M–$130M
Peter Moran
Angel
1 United States, China Series B, Series C, Series A Health Care, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
Manuela Rios
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Dating, Social
Marten Mickos
Angel
1 United States, Finland, Sweden Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Antoine Blondeau
Angel
1 United States, France, Austria Seed, Series A, Angel Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.2M–$80M
Joel Simkhai
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Rental, Travel
Sam Altman
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Ghana Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Tim Howes
Angel
1 United States Pre-Seed, Series A, Convertible Note LGBT, SaaS, Music
Mark Suster
Angel
1 United States, Poland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Advertising, Social Media
Lila Steinbach
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Dating, Social
Sean Rad
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A Health Care, Apps, Consumer
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Nisha Dua
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups

Nisha Dua is Co-founder & Managing Partner at BBG Ventures, which she co-founded with Susan Lyne in 2014. BBGV is an NYC-based, early-stage fund leading investments in companies built by underestimated founders that are transforming our collective and lived experiences. BBGV invests across Sustainable and Transparent Commerce, Underestimated& Emerging Consumers, Health & Wellbeing, The Evolving Workforce, and Next Gen Communities. At BBGV Nisha has invested in over 70 start-ups including The Wing, Zola, Pymetrics, KiwiCo, Spring Health, Future Family and Winky Lux. Most recently, BBGV launched Fund III and led investments in Planet FWD, RadSwan, Thousand Fell, Oova, and Starface.Nisha has spent the last decade working in media, tech, strategy and law. She was the General Manager of AOL’s millennial site, Cambio, which she re-launched as a site “for girls, #BUILTBYGIRLS” in partnership with Girls Who Code. She then founded BUILT BY GIRLS, a software platform which connects girls and non-binary talent with professionals to prepare the next generation of leaders to step into careers powered by technology. Nisha was previously Chief of Staff for the AOL Brand Group, working on strategy, operations and special projects. She cut her teeth as a management consultant for Bain & Company and an M&A lawyer at Australian law firm Blake Dawson. Nisha acts as an advisor to numerous start-ups outside her role as an investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Diem — 8,346 Followers, 1,333 Following, 1,194 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diem (@askdiem)
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.
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Amanda Bradford
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups

Amanda Bradford is the founder of The League, an exclusive dating app that matches smart, busy, and ambitious people together. The goal was to create power couples by matching up highly motivated single professionals. She raised $2.1 million in seed funding in January 2015. Amanda studied at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, and worked for SequoiaCapital, Salesforce, and Google before launching The League.After graduating from Carnegie Mellon with a degree in Information Systems, Amanda joined Salesforce as a Sales Engineer. In 2010 she joined Google, where she worked as a product specialist on the DoubleClick team and then moved into New Business Development where she led partnership efforts around the commercialization of Google's BIg Data Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings. Amanda graduated with an MBA frp, Stanford Graduate School of Business and is interested in enterprise saas companies, big-data applications, and e-commerce.In 2014 she founded The League, a new dating app.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Dating, Social
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.
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Andy Dunn
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups

Andy Dunn is co-founder and CEO of Bonobos, an apparel brand renowned for exceptional fit, high energy and great customer experience. Launched in 2007, Bonobos is now the largest apparel brand in the United States ever launched over the web. Previously, Dunn worked as a private equity analyst at Wind Point Partners and as a consultant at Bain& Company. He is a founding board member of education social enterprise Blue Engine and the founder of Red Swan Ventures, an angel investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2M; Series A $3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OffDeal — OffDeal is building an AI-native investment bank for buying and selling small businesses. We use custom AI agents and big data to screen thousands of SMBs each day, matching buyers with the perfect acquisition target in days instead of months. Unlike legacy M&A advisors, we can search for targets for hundreds of buyers concurrently, 24/7.
  • Sanarai — Sanarai is a mental health online platform for the Latinx community. Online platform that connects the Latinx community to mental health professionals in Latin America to provide culturally sensitive Spanish-language emotional support at accessible prices
  • Ours — Modern-day virtual couples therapy and premarital counseling trusted by thousands. Get started with world-class couples therapists today!
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Silvia Mah
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Silvia Mah

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Baby
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $89k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reliabl — Lips is a feminist technology organization at the forefront of the inclusive design movement, building products designed to unlock opportunities for previously underserved and intersectionally marginalized communities. Our first product is a social media platform designed for women and LGBTQ individuals seeking a space to express themselves throughart without the unhealthy aspects of mainstream internet culture such as online harassment, censorship and plagiarism. We are building more inclusive Machine Learning and Contextual AI technologies that can be used across industries to improve the online experience of traditionally marginalized communities.
  • Sēkr — Your complete travel resource to locate campsites, facilities and connect with community.
  • Tot Squad — Tot Squad is a marketplace that connects new parents with health, wellness and safety services both virtually and in person. We're a one-stop shop in the $46B "New Mom Economy" consolidating the highly fragmented providers of services like car seat installation, babyproofing, and lactation consulting. Our car seat installationservices can be found on Amazon and Walmart as an add-on with a car seat purchase.
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Patrick Spaulding Ryan
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Patrick Spaulding Ryan is the Co-Founder, Fractional CFO and CLO of Always Blue Games. He previously worked at TikTok as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Security + Web3 R D. Patrick Spaulding Ryan attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$10M; Angel $222k–$300k; Pre-Seed $89k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitwage — Payroll, invoicing & benefits for digital assets. Bitwage offers services for companies and direct to workers. Workers can sign up and get direct deposit accounts to get paid from any company or client. Workers locally receive unique digital asset benefits. Workers internationally get paid faster & cheaper than traditional wires.
  • IpiNovyx Bio — Orange Grove Bio partners with leading research universities to advance preclinical biotech programs in the oncology space. The company leverages its venture capital and drug development expertise to help patients and build biotech ecosystems.
  • Pigeon — Pigeon Loans is a peer-to-peer lending platform that facilitates loans between family, friends, and loved ones. The platform provides their users the ability to generate legal contracts, make online payments, store loan documentation, enable automatic bank withdrawals, and make international transactions, all in an easy to use interface.PigeonLoans was founded by Brian Bristol and Anna Matilde Tanga in 2020 and is based in San Diego, CA, USA.
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Audrey Gelman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Audrey Gelman is the founder of The Six Bells, a country-inspired homewares brand.She is the co-founder and former CEO of The Wing, a network of women’s spaces that scaled to over a dozen locations in the US + UK under three years and amassed a global following. Audrey has been named Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, FortuneMagazine’s 40 Under 40, and Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30.Before founding The Wing, Gelman worked in politics and public affairs as a Senior Vice President at the political consulting firm SKDKnickerbocker, and as Deputy Communications Director to NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer. She began her career as an aide on Hillary Clinton's 2008 Presidential Campaign.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Social, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Co–Star — Co–Star is powered by AI that merges NASA data with the insight of human astrologers.Co–Star facilitates new ways to relate to others. It’s a filter to express what can be hard to say of emotions and reactions, strengths and weaknesses, pasts and futures. It’s a tool to connect meaningfully with friends and lovers or to tread lightly with strangersand enemies.
  • Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
  • Clubhouse — Clubhouse is an audio-based social app that allows users to join group chats. It describes itself as a space for casual, drop-in audio conversations with friends and other interesting people around the world that allows users to go online anytime to chat with the people they follow, or hop in as a listener and hear what others are talking about.
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Ross Veitch
Angel · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Ross is CEO & Co-Founder at Wego, an online travel marketplace (aka travel metasearch) operating across APAC and MENA backed by top-tier investors including Tiger Global, Crescent Group, Square Peg Capital, MNC Group and MEVP. Ross is a veteran of the Asian internet industry having established Yahoo!s Southeast Asian operations in Singaporeback in 1998 and leading product development efforts across the region for 6+ years. He is also Singapore Co-Chair of H2, the premier global leadership network for the digital industry. Ross has been an active angel investor in the technology sector for a decade and enjoys working with other passionate entrepreneurs. He has worked in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Kuala Lumpur and is now splits his time between Singapore and Dubai. He travels frequently for business but not nearly enough for leisure.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Real Estate, Rental
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, Thailand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
  • Light — Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
  • PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
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George Godula
Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments. Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, China, Algeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $970k–$13M; Series A $6.3M–$49M; Series B $12M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mila Cares — Mila is the best smart air purifier for home use. Award-winning design, quieter performance, and powerful clean air for every room.
  • Yassir — Access on-demand daily services like ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments with Yassir, your super app.
  • Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential
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Albert Lee
Angel · San Carlos, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Albert Lee is co-founders of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Over the course of his career, Albert has focused on creating both consumer and business related products within some of the industry's most successful companies including eBay, Paypal and Yahoo. He also has deep experience in bothaffiliate marketing and online commerce from his time as Vice President of Marketing for Webjuice, an advertising technology startup focused on performance-based internet marketing. Albert has a B.A. in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Apps, LGBT
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $800k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sock Finance — Sock is a mobile finance app that is the easiest way in the world to earn interest (yield) on your crypto. With Sock, you can send crypto, invest, and earn with crypto anywhere in the world while maintaining self-custody.
  • Revery — The team at Revery is on a mission to make access to wellness affordable and accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, through the medium of gaming.
  • SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
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Lorenzo Thione
Angel · Manhattan, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Lorenzo Thione is the co-founder of Powerset, Inc., an innovative search startup founded in 2005, with the vision of bringing to consumers a more natural and effective type of Internet search than conventional keyword search. Funded by notable Silicon Valley VCs and angel investors, Powerset was acquired by Microsoft Corp. in 2008 to complement andinnovate on its own search technology and offering. Currently, he is a Principal Program Manager in charge of the Powerset division of Bing, Microsoft's innovative "Decision Engine". Lorenzo is an active angel investor, board member and advisor in several startup, including Dolores Labs, an exciting and energetic San Francisco startup building a scalable platform for human-based computing and crowdsourcing, Crowdflower, and several others at various stages, in the US and abroad, like Kidlandia, Etacts, 8Coupons, and iBrii. In addition to his Internet-tech endeavors, Lorenzo is a theater producer currently busy in bringing several new works to the Broadway stage, including the recently emerging Green Day musical, American Idiot of which he's Associate Producer. His current and most ambitious project is a brand new musical bound for the Broadway stage. Jay Kuo's original musical Allegiance, starring George Takei and Lea Salonga, follows the story of a Japanese American family during the years of the WWII Japanese American internment, and is currently aiming for a 2012 Broadway debut.Lorenzo is a founding board member of StartOut (www.startout.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering and developing entrepreneurship within the LGBT community, and during his service on the board of StartOut, the non-profit, founded in 2009, has grown to a membership of over 1000 individuals nationwide and three active chapters in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with plans for faster growth. He serves on the board of trustees of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and Reason To Party, a SF-based non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of underserved Bay Area residents by raising money for charity groups through events held in collaboration with local businesses. A native of Milan, Italy, Lorenzo moved to Austin, Texas at age 21, to complete his studies at the University of Texas at Austin, from which he holds a M.S. in Computer Engineering, and has co-authored several publications in Software Engineering and Computational Linguistics. He is a named inventor on 10 issued and over 20 pending patents in the US and world-wide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $535k–$3M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SELECT — SELECT partners with elite restaurants, hotels, nightlife venues, retailers and more to give you access to VIP treatment in your city and across the globe. From unpublished rates at 1,300,000+ hotels, to complimentary cocktails at the hottest dining &...
  • misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
  • Suma Wealth — SUMA is a revolutionary financial wellness company with the mission to engage, educate, and empower the Latinx community via a holistic approach of Digital Media, Experiences, and FinTech. By creating culturally relevant content, virtual experiences, and providing financial tools that demystify and reimagine financial wellness throughentertainment, we aim to become the trusted source to help Latinos own their economic power, overcome financial challenges, and better prepare for a more prosperous future.
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Philippe von Borries
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Philippe von Borries is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Red Ventures and the President of Lonely Planet. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Refinery2 9.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Dating, Social
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • The Garden — The Garden is an online media company.
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Chris Sinton
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

In 1994, at Cisco Systems, he pioneered the B2B Internet with cisco.com identifying, articulating and helping create a new business paradigm, the Global Networked Business. In 2000, as an early driver of digital philanthropy, he saw that as the Internet changed the way business was done, it had could change the way people helped each other. Usingthe power of the Internet for good, Chris Co-Founded NetAid innovating with online volunteering and the first mobile app for donations on the Palm VII. Chris was a founding board member of the ePhilanthropy Foundation, founded Cisco’s ePhilanthropy office, and was Co-Founder and Founding President & CEO of Network for Good raising $1B for nonprofits. He’s served on boards with local nonprofits, Internet startups, and produced a documentary. He currently serves on StartOut's Board of Directors. StartOut fosters LGBT entrepreneurs. While Board Chair at StartOut he helped professionalize and scale the organization to 12,000 members, opening chapters in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Rental, Travel
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
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Peter Boyce II
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Peter Boyce II is the Founder of Stellation Capital. Peter is a graduate of Harvard University wherein he earned a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and a Secondary in Computer Science, with a focus on Behavioral Economics and Network Theory.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $25k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swsh — Swsh is a social app that aims to strengthen true friendships rather than superficial relationships with followers.
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • PromptLayer — Advanced prompt management and prompt engineering. Powerful prompt engineering tools for evaluation, deployment, observability, and analytics. Enable team collaboration, get help writing prompts, monitor AI agents, and improve prompt quality.
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Shinji Kimura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$107M; Series B $5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
  • Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
  • AlpacaJapan — Alpaca is a technology company developing financial system platforms powered by the collaboration of AI and people.
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Chelsea Clinton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Chelsea Clinton is based out of New York, New York, and was the Board of Director of Clover Health. Chelsea Clinton attended the University of Oxford.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $10M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kindbody — Kindbody offers fertility assessments, fertility testing, egg freezing, IVF, virtual fertility telemedicine and women's wellness.
  • Euphoria.LGBT — A better gender transition starts today. We're here to help make this process easier than ever. A complete transition in two years or less.
  • Summer Health — Get answers from an expert, board-certified pediatricians in 15 minutes. From child health to development, Summer Health gets you answers any time, day or night.
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Peter Moran
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Peter Moran is a Member of the Board of Directors at Iterative Scopes. He attended Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT - Sloan School of Management, and Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
  • Sound Health — Sound Health uses acoustic resonance to provide nasal relief. Its current product is an app that scans the face to map the bone structure and then a headband that plays music at personalized frequencies for 10 minutes. The headband is off the shelf and the sound levels are akin to wearing earpods. It envisions the headband to be over-the-counter(OTC) so it’s easily accessible to patients, whether prescribed by doctors or not.
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Manuela Rios
Angel · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Manuela Rios is a individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Dating, Social
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
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Marten Mickos
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Marten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, Inc. the leading vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. Previously Marten was the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, acquired by Hewlett-Packard where he served as head of the cloud business. As the CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 to 2008, Marten grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largestopen source company in the world. Marten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Finland, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
  • ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is the leading startup news publication covering the Nordics and Baltics delivering the latest insights on the hottest startups in the region
  • Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
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Antoine Blondeau
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Antoine is a technology entrepreneur and an investor in technology companies in California and China. He has 20 years of leadership experience in technology marketing worldwide, as CEO, senior officer and director/advisor in listed companies, start-ups, turnarounds and midsize-to-large companies. Antoine has traded in the currency and stockmarkets for 10 years. Antoine's career highlights include working with the Tokyo representation of the French Prime Minister's DATAR unit to negotiate the setup of Mitsubishi Electric, Canon, Toshiba and Sony's industrial facilities in France, and a 4-year stint at Nortel Networks where he headed the OEM and Asia/Pacific unit of the company's digital wireless terminals business. Antoine was also president & COO of Zi Corporation, a developer of intelligent user interface software listed on the NASDAQ Main Board, and CEO of Dejima, Inc., a developer of distributed artificial intelligence software, which he sold to Sybase, Inc. In addition, Antoine worked at salesforce.com, the leader in on-demand enterprise applications, as vice-president, and at Good Technology, the last independent challenger to RIM Blackberry, as senior vice president. He is an investor, board member and advisor in a number of companies in California, Greater China and Japan. He is the author or co-author of 5 patents. Antoine holds a MBA from the Paris Graduate School of Management (ESCP) and has studied at the faculties of Economics and Commerce of Chuo University in Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, France, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$31M; Series A $4.3M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoShare — Moving, hauling, and delivery help is just a tap away with GoShare's easy app. Get a truck or cargo van in less than an hour.
  • LogicInk — LogicInk is developing bio-chemical signals that can be worn daily, to support your wellbeing with increased knowledge about your health and daily peace of mind.
  • Pathship — Choosing the right domain name can be overwhelming. Our personalized customer service helps you get a great domain.
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Joel Simkhai
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Joel Simkhai - Chief Executive Officer @ Blendr

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Rental, Travel
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
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Sam Altman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator from 2016 through 2019. Sam Altman attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
  • Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
  • Campus — Live courses with top professors.
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Tim Howes
Angel · Oakland, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Tim Howes is the Co-founder of Know Yourself.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, SaaS, Music
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Opal Security — Trusted by world-class companies, Opal enables companies to accelerate approval workflows, automate least privilege without custom code, and make SOC-2 a breeze!
  • Tokn Music — Tokn Music bridges the gap between artist and fans on our peer to peer investment marketplace and launchpad. Artists build deeper connections to fans, keep 100% copyrights, and aren't trapped in an agreement they can't back out of. Fans connect to artists like never before and capitalize off their growth and royalties. We enable everyoneto thrive and get rewarded for making contributions to the Tokn ecosystem.
  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
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Mark Suster
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Mark Suster is the Board member at GumGum. Mark Suster is the General Partner of Upfront Ventures. He previously worked at salesforce.com as a Vice President. Mark Suster attended the University of Chicago.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Poland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Secfense — Deploy phishing-resistant authentication to any app in minutes. No code, no changes to your stack. Stay compliant and secure with Secfense UASB.
  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
  • InfoSum — InfoSum has developed a decentralized platform designed to remove the trust barriers between progress and privacy. Its platform enables advertisers, media owners, data providers, and other advertising technology firms to collaborate across multiple data sources, without requiring the underlying data to be moved or pooled. The company was foundedin 2016 and is headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
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Lila Steinbach
Angel · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Lila Steinbach is a individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Dating, Social
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
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Sean Rad
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Sean Rad is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. 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. Rad served as Tinder's CEO and Chairman at various times from the company's inception until 2017. Rad also foundedCardify in 2012, Adly in 2009, and Orgoo in 2004.In 2020, Forbes included Rad on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. In May 2016, he was awarded an honoree diploma from the University of Southern California while delivering their undergraduate commencement.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Apps, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Scener — Watch shows and movies synced together and hang out over video chat
  • SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
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LGBT Angel investor funding in United States at a glance

Stats across 16 deals from 38 investors.

38
investors
in United States LGBT startups
16
deals
in United States LGBT startups
$1.5M
median round
in United States LGBT startups
8%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage

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