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Top 50 Local Angel Investors (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Local startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Local startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Dave Morin
Angel
4 United States, France, Finland Seed, Series A Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce $1M–$13M
Steven Cox
Angel
4 United States Seed, Series A Local, Music, Video $200k–$6M
Jason Calacanis
Angel
4 United States, Australia, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$14M
Auren Hoffman
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Analytics, Mobile $160k–$26M
Joshua Schachter
Angel
3 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Internet $635k–$15M
Georges Harik
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $250k–$18M
Andrew Mitchell
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Health Care, Fashion $1.1M–$14M
Mark Goines
Angel
3 United States, Japan, Brazil Seed, Series A, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $455k–$12M
Max Levchin
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.3M–$50M
George Crowley
Angel
3 United States Angel, Series A News, Local, Communities $900k–$1.5M
Clark Landry
Angel
3 United States, Mexico, Bulgaria Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Information Technology $50k–$24M
Bernardo Hernandez
Angel
3 Spain, United States Seed, Series A Mobile Apps, Apps, Delivery $1M–$9.3M
Kevin Hartz
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology $1.5M–$100M
Ron Conway
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Denmark Series A, Seed, Angel Software, Social Media, Internet $350k–$11M
Adam D’Angelo
Angel
2 United States, India, Sweden Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.3M–$100M
Matthew Ocko
Angel
2 United States, Canada, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Mobile $1M–$143M
Arjun Dev Arora
Angel
2 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Analytics $329k–$3M
Dan Toscano
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A B2B, Local, Mobile
John Borthwick
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Series A, Series B Internet, Mobile, Social Media $450k–$22M
Timothy Ferriss
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $900k–$23M
Gil Elbaz
Angel
2 United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Angel SaaS, Software, Mobile $600k–$12M
Mehrdad Piroozram
Angel
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Insurance, Apps, Software $106k–$2.3M
Les Szekely
Angel
2 Australia Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Customer Service, Travel $163k–$12M
John Brown
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel News, Local, Computer $900k–$1.5M
Felix Haas
Angel
2 Germany, France, Belgium Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Local, Mobile, Sports $1M–$11M
Larry Marcus
Angel
2 United States, Canada Series B, Seed, Series A Mobile, Music, Fashion $600k–$115M
Keith Rabois
Angel
2 United States, Brazil, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1M–$100M
Tim Schumacher
Angel
2 Germany, Sweden, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS $217k–$24M
James Murdoch
Angel
2 United States, India, France Seed, Series A Media and Entertainment, News, Video
David O. Sacks
Angel
2 United States, Israel, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.4M–$100M
Darrin Ginsberg
Angel
2 United States Seed Local, Software, Messaging $800k–$1.8M
Magid Abraham
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A Software, Local, Big Data $950k–$4M
Alexis Ohanian
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Blockchain $1.5M–$152M
Tony DiBenedetto
Angel
2 United States Seed IaaS, Local, Events $500k–$5.8M
Paul Forster
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$18M
Fernando Diana
Angel
2 Italy Seed, Series A News, Local, Fitness $219k–$265k
Orlando Bloom
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Local, Banking, Content
Katy Perry
Angel
2 United States Series A, Series E, Series D Food and Beverage, Digital Entertainment, Local $11M–$300M
Jean Hammond
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Angel Education, Software, Information Technology
Andre Iguodala
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Portugal Seed, Series B, Series A Sports, Internet, E-Commerce $1.5M–$80M
Jawed Karim
Angel
2 United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Angel Software, FinTech, Internet
Naval Ravikant
Angel
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Blockchain
Richard McIntyre
Angel
2 United States Seed VoIP, Local, Events
David Tisch
Angel
2 United States, France, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $850k–$40M
Namik Kural
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel Apps, Local, Security $365k–$645k
Payam Zamani
Angel
2 United States, Australia, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Machine Learning, SaaS $1M–$27M
David Pritchard
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Health Care $524k–$1.9M
Ryan Allis
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Social Media, Apps, Local $480k–$4.2M
Stacy Brown-Philpot
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series B Apps, Internet, Marketplace $500k–$60M
Max Mullen
Angel
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.6M–$120M
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Dave Morin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Local startups

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $2.5M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeel — Zeel delivers Massage On Demand:registered: - top-quality massages from licensed, vetted massage therapists to homes, hotels, workplaces, and events in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. With Zeel, customers enjoy a massage in the comfort, convenience, safety, and privacy of the place and time of their choosing, 7 days a week, 365days a year, with start times as early as 8 am and as late as 10:30 pm. Services by app for iPhone or Android . Our first service offering is Massage On Demand:registered:. Zeel has been offering Massage On Demand since December 2012, launching the app on April 2, 2013. Massage On Demand:registered: is disrupting the $15B US and $80B global massage market.The Zeel app allows customers to get massage at their home, hotel, workplace or event in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. They choose between a soothing Swedish and invigorating deep tissue massage. Customers pay a set price (including tax & tip), charged to their credit card on file. All therapists are fully vetted in person, licensed in their state of practice, insured (minimum of $1M), background-checked and trained by the Zeel team to reach the highest levels of customer service and experience. In September 2013, Zeel launched Massage Zeelot, the first-ever same-day, on-demand massage subscription service. Customers receive at least one in-home, on-demand Zeel Massage per month at a preferred rate, along with a free professional-grade massage table, theirs to keep.
  • Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
  • Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS
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Steven Cox
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 4 investments in Local startups

Steven Cox is the Founder and CEO at TakeLessons.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Local, Music, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$1.8M; Series A $4M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TakeLessons — TakeLessons is the trusted marketplace for finding online and local instructors and taking online classes across a wide array of subjects ranging foreign languages, math and photography to music, dance and acting. Instructors rely on TakeLessons to simplify marketing and manage their business with integrated scheduling, billing, payment, andcommunication tools that work seamlessly across desktop and mobile devices.
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Jason Calacanis
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Local startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 475
  • Round size: Seed $875k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M; Series A $2.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dexla — Build B2B apps quickly with an AI-powered front-end software engineer. Type in what your company does and watch Buck build your app for you.
  • Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
  • Contraline — Contraline is a medical device company that has developed a proprietary injectable hydrogel platform for use in reproductive and contraceptive applications. Contraline's first product, Adam, is implanted into the vas deferens through a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure and once implanted, the gel effectively blocks sperm. Adam isnon-hormonal, designed to last years, and easily reversible.
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Auren Hoffman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Local startups

CEO, NQB8, Chm, SafeGraph. GP, Flex Capital. Fmr CEO of LiveRamp. Follow @auren

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $622k–$5.5M; Angel $160k–$1.2M; Series A $1M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
  • CalypsoAI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
  • Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.
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Joshua Schachter
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in Local startups

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $635k–$5.4M; Angel $1M–$1.5M; Series A $1M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nozomio — How do you discover the future of software engineering? We're building it.Language models can write code better than most humans, but they often destroy codebases due to poor context management and understanding. The future isn't about replacing developers - it's about empowering them to orchestrate AI agents effectively.We're creating systems that enable small teams of developers to manage large-scale agent operations across the entire software lifecycle - from development to QA, security audits, and deployment.It's called Nozomio.
  • Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
  • Urban Machine — Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation. The Machine leverages robotics and AI technology to transform the construction industry by reducing wood waste and promoting circular practices.
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Georges Harik
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in Local startups

Georges Harik is the Co-Founder and Member of Technical Staff of humans&. He previously worked at Notbad AI as Chief Executive Officer. Georges attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a PhD in Computer Science.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$15M; Angel $250k–$800k; Series A $500k–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Athelas — Our breakthrough technologies provide clarity on a patient's most important health metrics, all while increasing revenue for your practice.
  • Apprente — Intelligent voice-based conversational agents for the enterprise.
  • Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
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Andrew Mitchell
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Local startups

Andrew Mitchell is the Founder of Brand Foundry Ventures. He is a former Co-Founder of Aspen Industries. He attended Lafayette College.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ZOZI — ZOZI designs and develops a web-based bookings, payments, and customer management software for tour, activity, and event businesses. It offers introductory flight lessons, vineyard tours and wine tasting by horseback, diving for abalone, ice climbing frozen waterfalls, celebrity and athlete experiences, and various accessible adventures. Thecompany also provides weekend getaways and vacation packages for customers.ZOZI was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.
  • LiquidTalent — LiquidTalent is a web and mobile local talent marketplace for hiring vetted developers and designers through social connection. Our on-demand platform facilitates direct connection between talent and hirers via text messages and call requests. Our community events bring people together. We are creating the future of work platform for the nextgeneration economy.
  • RETAILIGENCE — Retailigence is a hyperlocal marketing platform that utilizes brick-and-mortar inventory data obtained directly from retailers to turn online consumers into offline buyers.
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Mark Goines
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in Local startups

Based in Menlo Park, Mark is a Partner focused on the areas of financial technology, mobile, consumer and small business Internet services. He has an extensive track record of working with high growth companies as an entrepreneur, executive and angel investor. Exits from his angel investments include Mint, Baby Center, PayCycle and Nolo.com.Prior to joining Morgenthaler, Mark was a successful angel investor. His investments included two Morgenthaler portfolio companies, Pageonce and Practice Fusion. He currently represents Morgenthaler on the Practice Fusion board.Previously, Mark helped build and ran Intuit’s Consumer Tax business (TurboTax). He also served as Senior Vice President of Intuit’s International Division, managing businesses on every continent, creating new products, acquiring companies and building partnerships. He then served as General Manager of Intuit’s Consumer Division and helped generate over $200 million in annual revenues, serving 15 million customers across a broad range of software and e-commerce services by 2000.Prior to Intuit, Mark held executive positions at Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab, where he developed and marketed early-stage banking, software and electronic services that formed the foundation of today’s online trading industry.Mark became an active investor and entrepreneur in 2000. He was an investor and board member at Mint, a consumer online financial management company that was sold to Intuit in 2009. He was also an investor and board member in Nolo.com, a self-help law service that was sold to Internet Brands in 2011. Goines co-founded and became chief marketing officer at PassMark Security, which was sold to RSA in 2006. He also invested in WePay (payments), BillFloat (lending) and Cozi (family organization).Mark holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley. He served as president of the Los Altos Educational Foundation and has been elected as a trustee of the Los Altos School Board.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$3.7M; Angel $1M–$1.2M; Series A $1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CoverRight — Use CoverRight's tools to find a personalized Medicare plan and get the best coverage for your situation! Compare and enroll in Medicare Advantage, Medigap, and Prescription Drug Plans, all in one place.
  • Autumn — Autumn connects bereaved families with vetted grief counselors, estate attorneys, funeral directors, and more. Free guides and provider matching included.
  • Credit Mountain — Provide your users with a full-suite of tools designed to help improve credit scores. Offer your members a PATH TO YES!
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Max Levchin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Local startups

Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $4M–$27M; Series B $7.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
  • CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
  • Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
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George Crowley
Angel · 3 investments in Local startups

George Crowley

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Local, Communities
  • Stage:Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $900k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Outside.in — PGA TOUR 2K boasts a cast of noteworthy pros, a collection of world-renowned courses, endless hours of multiplayer fun, and a highly competitive PGA TOUR MyCAREER mode for new and experienced players.
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Clark Landry
Angel · Nashville, Tennessee, United States · 3 investments in Local startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Bulgaria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$5.4M; Angel $50k–$1.1M; Series A $2.8M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Acquicent — Acquicent enables the issuance and trading of blockchain tokens linked to digital and real-world collectibles.
  • PositivEnergy — We are energy architects driven by a desire to make the benefits of clean energy easy, risk-free and available to all. Learn about energy storage systems, EV charging infrastructure and backup power / UPS.
  • Hopscotch — Hopscotch is a network of top therapists committed to supporting your child. Explore our directory to find the right provider for your family.
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Bernardo Hernandez
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 3 investments in Local startups

Bernardo Hernandez is leading Spanish Business Angel. He graduated from ICADE, a top Business School in Madrid Spain in 1993. He has a Masters in Finance from Boston College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. At the age of 29, after 5 years as an analyst and portfolio manager in the asset management industry with companieslike Fidelity and Putnam Investments, he started his first internet venture idealista.com, now the leading real estate online portal in Spain. Since then he has participated in other online start-ups as a Business Angel, like floresfrescas.com, planetaki.com, 11870.com or the leading social network in Spain, tuenti.com.His latest venture is StepOne.com, a company that helps Spanish businesses to get established in the US. He is also member of the board at Bodaclick.com, the first Spanish internet company to go public.Bernardo joined Google in 2005 and is currently Director of Product Management and Managing Director for Zagat. He is based in New York.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Apps, Delivery
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Spain, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.2M; Series A $1.2M–$9.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fiuter — La primera plataforma que permite crear segmentos inteligentes de tus clientes para mejorar el marketing y las ventas de tu Ecommerce.
  • Citibox — Citibox is the software platform that automatically connects all couriers with online shoppers, allowing all parcels to be delivered conveniently and efficiently in low cost smart parcel boxes inside residential buildings, with no need for the receiver to be at home. Couriers benefit from a boost in productivity while online shoppers are able tosafely receive their parcels in their building and to pick them up at their convenience. The company was founded by David Bernabeu, a serial entrepreneur, and has received support of top tier accelerators, business angels and VCs of the Spanish startup ecosystem.
  • Verse — Verse is the payments technology platform that takes the friction out of storing, spending and sharing money. The mobile app allows you to share payments easily, instantly and with no hidden fees and also allows you to choose whether your transactions are private or public so that you can have fun while keeping track of your financial activities.Verse is available for both Android and iOS-based phones and transactions are completed in less than two business days. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.
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Kevin Hartz
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Local startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $18M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vybe — Vybe is a software company that provides pre-built integrations and AI tools for users to develop and launch internal AI-powered apps.
  • Wabi — Create, discover, and remix any mini-app in minutes. The era of personal software is here.
  • Mozart AI — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.
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Ron Conway
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Local startups

Ron Conway is based out of San Francisco, California, and was the Founder and Managing Partner of SV Angel. Ron Conway attended San Jose State University. Ron previously worked at Salesforce Foundation as a Board Member. Ron Conway has received the Best Angel at the TechCrunch Crunchies Awards.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Angel $350k–$1.7M; Series A $1.2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
  • World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
  • Blip Energy — Blip Energy is building a new category of energy storage that is smart, affordable, and flexible to add millions of homes to the smart grid network. A hybrid hardware/software solution for energy management that works in any home without barriers around permitting and installation. Power outages across the U.S. cost $150B annually. On Avg.500K Americans lose power daily without backup solutions and 84% of Americans are concerned. Existing grid vulnerability is exacerbated by energy transition volatility. The U.S. power grid had the most outages in history in the past two years. Households need power security, and utilities need levers on the smart grid to balance loads and prevent blackouts. Blip envisions a future where every household has access to smart IoT energy storage to provide critical backup power. Blip solves the growing need for reliable energy with the lowest cost energy storage on the global battery market. Simultaneously, this adds millions of otherwise inaccessible customers to the smart grid. Blip's business model reflects current resilience needs, cost savings, and a data-driven future, by wrapping our hardware endpoint with data and grid services.
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Adam D’Angelo
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Adam D’Angelo is a Founder and CEO of Quora.He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure to ensure scalability as the site expanded.Prior to serving as CTO, Adam led the FacebookPlatform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed, ad targeting and delivery, and worked on scalability and optimization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$18M; Series A $6.6M–$100M; Series B $20M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Espa — Espa provides an AI assistant platform that helps individuals and organizations manage email, scheduling, and personal or work tasks. The service connects to users’ inboxes and calendars to flag priority messages, draft context-aware responses, and coordinate meeting times. Users can interact with Espa via messaging channels such as text, WhatsApp,and other chat tools to book appointments, set reminders, and follow up on tasks. The platform offers plans for personal use, professional assistants, and larger enterprises, with options for multiple inboxes, synced calendars, and integrations with tools like email, calendar, storage, and collaboration systems. Espa emphasizes privacy controls, encryption, and user management features for larger teams.
  • roomix — AI os for real estate
  • Simile — Simile is an artificial intelligence company that provides a platform for automating and improving communication and collaboration through AI-driven tools. It offers solutions for creating and managing conversations, generating content, and analyzing interactions to support business workflows. The company integrates AI models to assist teams indrafting messages, responding to queries, and enhancing productivity across digital communication channels. Its platform combines natural language processing, automation, and data analysis to streamline communication tasks and improve organizational efficiency.
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Matthew Ocko
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.5M; Series A $5.7M–$45M; Series B $13M–$143M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hybron — Hybron is a company that focus on composites manufacturing technology that develops composite parts, particularly for industries.
  • FetchyFox AI — FetchyFox is the digital infrastructure and intelligence platform to help public spaces, like airports, improve the customer experience, maximize revenue, and extract insights with AI. We are a passionate team of technologists and innovators on a mission to deliver seamless end-to-end customer experiences of the future.Based in the heart ofSilicon Valley, California, the AI company has attracted top industry experts from AI, airports, airlines, and leading organizations around the world to invent the ultimate end-to-end integrated travel experience of the future. As avid adventurers, curious engineers, climbers, martial artists and travelers, ourselves - we are working tirelessly to improve the customer experience for everyone, everywhere.
  • formsense — formsense technology helps improve player potential and avoid injuries by better understanding functional and dynamic form in real-time.
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Arjun Dev Arora
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Arjun Dev Arora is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Advisor at Format One.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Portal to Bitcoin — The only custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin. Swap native BTC, Ordinals, Runes with L2s and L1s
  • Cimphony — Cimphony is revolutionizing the legal landscape for businesses! Our cutting-edge Gen AI technology platform, combined with our legal expert providers, offers fixed price or à la carte legal solutions that are up to 10x faster, more affordable, and predictably priced than traditional law firms. Our mission? To supercharge your business'sgrowth by delivering full-stack legal support for every stage of your journey - from incorporation and launch to commercial contracts, fundraising, data privacy, and employment compliance. With Cimphony, you can ditch the tedious legal legwork and laser-focus on what matters most: building your dream company. Cimphony is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • Upshift — The convenience of owning a car without all the headaches.
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Dan Toscano
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Dan Toscano is the Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. He attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Local, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pear (formerly Apparel Media Group) — Design premium custom merch to sell online or place a direct order. Upload your design in our free online tool & choose products to print on. Get started today!
  • DinnerCal — DinnerCall is a mobile app that enables users to search, order, and pickup family-style dinner from grocery stores. It was launched by Gerry Hays, Ashton Chaffee, and Akram Mnif in September 2015 and it operates from San Francisco, California.
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John Borthwick
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

John Borthwick is the CEO and Founder of Betaworks. He leads the company building and investment process since 2008. Previously, John was SVP of Alliances and Technology Strategy for Time Warner Inc.; CEO of Fotolog, one of the first social photo sharing sites; and head of AOL’s product development studio after they acquired his first company, WPStudio, one of Silicon Alley’s first content studios.John Borthwick studied at Wesleyan University and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Mobile, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$2M; Series A $800k–$10M; Series B $3.3M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dasher — Dasher is a Messaging app company. Dasher is a chat app that’s all about features. The app has live location sharing, map sharing, GIFs, photos, the ability to poll your group of friends with yes-or-no questions, and the ability to delete messages after they’ve been sent. It also offers peer-to-peer payments through an integration with Venmo, abeta feature it launched months before Facebook Messenger announced payments.
  • Dots — Dots is a meditative puzzle game.
  • Outside.in — PGA TOUR 2K boasts a cast of noteworthy pros, a collection of world-renowned courses, endless hours of multiplayer fun, and a highly competitive PGA TOUR MyCAREER mode for new and experienced players.
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Timothy Ferriss
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Series A $900k–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mentava — Our mission is to give options to kids whose learning needs aren't being met. Our first product teaches preschoolers to read.
  • Harbor — Harbor offers the first and only baby monitoring system with a dedicated, local Monitor that works without internet and securely connects to the cloud if and when you want it to, allowing you to access remotely with failsafe notifications. Learn why Harbor is better than Nanit & Owlet at harbor.co!
  • Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
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Gil Elbaz
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Co-Executive Chairman at Foursquare. Founding Partner/Co-founder at TenOneTen Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5.3M; Series A $750k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nyne.ai — Nyne provides APIs that give AI agents and applications structured context about real people and organizations across the web, powering people data enrichment, person search, and identity resolution.
  • OneSignal — OneSignal is a customer messaging and engagement platform that allows businesses to provide a seamless messaging experience to create meaningful customer connections. OneSignal's multi-channel platform enables businesses to deliver over 8 billion messages daily. OneSignal is designed to scale with businesses and deliver messages more quickly.The platform leverages machine learning to send communications at the optimal time by creating personalized messages and send them to the right audiences by comparing performance, enabling clients to deliver engaging mobile and web push messages across all platforms.
  • Smashing — The smartest way to read articles
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Mehrdad Piroozram
Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Local startups

Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Insurance, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $425k–$2.3M; Angel $106k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cola — Best IPL betting apps for Indian players. Real money cricket betting, secure payments, live streaming.
  • Poshtel
  • Golf Post AG
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Les Szekely
Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in Local startups

Les Szekely B.A. LL.M. FAICD, is an active business angel, mentor, and M&A consultant. He started GPC in 2010 after a career of almost 30 years as a tax consulting partner and director with Horwaths Chartered Accountants and then Deloitte. He is the author of over a dozen books on taxation law, has been an active angel investor since 1999 andis currently a director of several early stage and maturing companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Customer Service, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $168k–$1M; Angel $163k–$976k; Series A $1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oneflare — Oneflare is a new online startup that connects customers with home services providers.Oneflare challenges the traditional Yellow Pages model by creating a revolutionary online marketplace. This marketplace eliminates the need for customers to search for tradies and tradies to search for customers. With Oneflare, all it takes is one stop toget any job done. Entrepreneur and Co-founder Tommy Lim explains, ‘Our aim is to make hiring a service provider as easy as booking a flight on Expedia.’Oneflare tips the process of looking for a service provider on its head. Requesting a service is effortless and free. Customers complete a simple form detailing the job then sit back and relax while Oneflare does the finding. Oneflare’s unique matching technology alerts relevant businesses of each request, allowing them to submit competing price quotes for the job. Quotes are then pre-filtered and presented to the customer, ensuring that the only work the customer has to do is make the buying decision. Launched in January 2012, Oneflare’s innovative offering has driven drastic growth. Oneflare features 40,000 businesses spanning 40 categories throughout Australia. 90% of requests posted receive 3 or more competing quotes which leaves extra cash in happy customers’ pockets. With most quotes appearing within 15 minutes, Oneflare also puts free time back into busy customers’ schedules. Oneflare’s winning combination has generated over $5 million worth of jobs to date. While saving time and money is exciting, 69% of customers have stated that reputation comes before price when hiring tradies (Newspoll Survey sourced by Oneflare). Oneflare has implemented an assortment of trust and safety features to ensure that customers always find a quality service provider. Reviews and ratings by previous customers coupled with business profiles featuring photos, testimonials and verification create an open community on the platform. Oneflare’s Home Care Guarantee also covers customers up to $500 if something goes wrong, providing the ultimate peace of mind no matter the size of the job. Customers aren’t the only ones who Oneflare caters to. Oneflare has created a unique value proposition for businesses which only requires them to pay for successful connections. It’s free for service providers to register for the site and it’s free to receive leads, providing businesses with an incredible incentive to join. Gone are the days of businesses submitting their advert to the Yellow Pages, hoping it will lead to sales. Instead, Oneflare brings the work to them.Oneflare is driven by clever technology that is hidden behind a user-friendly interface. Oneflare uses natural language processing to match every request to the right service provider. Real time SMS and email updates are sent to customers and businesses alike. Users on the go can enjoy the Oneflare mobile site which can be particularly useful for those pesky jobs that need to get done fast. With a patented iPhone App in the pipeline, Oneflare has utilised the latest technology to deliver superior customer service. In the future, Oneflare aims to take Australian households into the 21st century by becoming the go to source for hiring quality tradies.www.oneflare.com.au
  • SiteMinder — SiteMinder is the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, ranked among technology pioneers for opening up every hotel’s access to online commerce. It’s this central role that has earned SiteMinder the trust of tens of thousands of hotels, across 150 countries, to sell, market, manage and grow their business. The global company, headquarteredin Sydney with offices in Bangkok, Berlin, Dallas, Galway, London and Manila, generated more than 100 million reservations worth over US$35 billion in revenue for hotels in the last year prior to the start of the pandemic.
  • DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,328,201 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
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John Brown
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

John Brown is the Board Director of Amazon.com .He is also an Independent Co - Chairman of the Deloitte’s Center for the Edge. A visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at University of Southern California (USC). Prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)—a positionhe held for nearly two decades. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as the management of radical innovation, organizational learning, complex adaptive systems, and nano technologies. He was a Co - Founder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). His personal research interests include digital youth culture, digital media and institutional innovation. John, or as he is often called JSB. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education.Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and of AAAS and a Trustee of the MacArthur Foundation. He serves on numerous public Boards,Amazon, Corning, Varian Medical Systems and private Boards of Directors. He has published over 100 papers in scientific journals. With Paul Duguid he co-authored the acclaimed book The Social Life of Information (HBS Press, 2000) that has been translated into 9 languages with a second addition in April 2002. With John Hagel he Co - Authored the book The Only Sustainable Edge which is about new forms of collaborative innovation and The Power of Pull: how small moves, smartly made can set big things in motion, published April 2010. His current book, The New Culture of Learning Co - Authored with Professor Doug Thomas at USC, was released January 2011.JSB received a BA from Brown University in 1962 in Mathematics & Physics, PhD from University of Michigan in 1970 in Computer & Communication Sciences. He has received six Honorary Degrees including: May 2000, Brown University, Doctor of Science Degree, July 2001, the London Business School, Honorary Doctor of Science in Economics,May 2004, Claremont Graduate University, Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters,May 2005, University of Michigan, Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, May 2009, North Carolina State University, Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, May 2011, Illinois Institute of Technology, Honorary Doctor of Design.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Local, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $900k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
  • Outside.in — PGA TOUR 2K boasts a cast of noteworthy pros, a collection of world-renowned courses, endless hours of multiplayer fun, and a highly competitive PGA TOUR MyCAREER mode for new and experienced players.
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Felix Haas
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Local startups

Felix Haas is the Executive Chairman and Founder of IDnow. He previously worked at amiando GmbH as a CEO and Co-Founder. Felix Haas attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Local, Mobile, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, France, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.8M; Series A $6.4M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
  • LemonSwan — LemonSwan is the dating service for singles with serious intentions. Prof. Dr. Peter Michael Bak developed the LemonSwan® principle with us: a special test procedure based on modern, international standards, thus creating the best conditions for successful matching.
  • Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
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Larry Marcus
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Actively making new investments in consumer and culture with Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm co-founded with JAY-Z and Jay Brown. Managing Director at Walden Venture CapitalInvestments include: Savage X Fenty, Pela, Hungry, Wheels, Hipcamp, Partake Foods, Pandora (founding investor - IPO, exit to Sirius XM) , SoundHound, Aarki, goTenna, HatchBaby, TouchBistro (exit), Robust Wealth (acquired by Principal Financial Group), Terayon (acquired by Motorola). Angel investments: include Netflix (IPO), BandPage (acquired by Google), Maestro, Jukely, LyricFind. Prior to Walden, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown. Led IPOs of Terayon, CBS MarketWatch, Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing), Maxis (acquired by Electronic Arts), Edmark (acquired by IBM) and among other equity and debt financings (Broderbund, Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Education: Larry received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. See the music he loves at www.pandora.com/people/larry. He was named to the Billboard Power 100 in music and the Twitter 140 to follow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Music, Fashion
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$8M; Series A $1.7M–$50M; Series B $7M–$115M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pela — World's First 100% Compostable, Eco-Friendly iPhone and Android phone cases working towards plastic free oceans!
  • Maestro Interactive Inc — Explore Maestro, a leading interactive video platform. Learn how our interactive video tools can help you create more powerful experiences for your audience.
  • Fetch Delivery — With Fetch, you can get free gift cards simply for shopping, snapping all your receipts and playing games on your phone! Try our rewards app today.
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Keith Rabois
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Keith Rabois is based out of United States and is the Managing Director of Khosla Ventures and also Board of Directors of Spellbook. Keith previously worked at Square as a COO. Keith Rabois attended the Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 197
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Series A $4M–$28M; Series B $8M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hey — Heyday’s mission is to help people remember the story of their life: the places they go, things they do, and people they’re with – privately, beautifully and effortlessly. Heyday is built around the life, for people to remember life the way they lived it. Heyday is headquartered in San Francisco.Heyday is an automatic journal. It willautomatically keep track of the places people go and the things they see, so they can remember moments big & small. Photos they take are automatically arranged into beautiful collages, which are easily customizable with exclusive layouts and filters. Using Heyday, people can instantly rediscover meaningful moments and memories from years ago. Search the story of their life by time, place, and people.
  • ThirdLove — Bras designed for your body so you always look & feel your best. Available in A-H and half-cup sizes.
  • Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
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Tim Schumacher
Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Local startups

Tim Schumacher is a Managing General Partner at World Fund. Tim previously worked at Sedo.com as a Member Board Of Directors. He attended University of Cologne and Stockholm School of Economics.Tim Schumacher Co-Founded and was the longtime CEO of the publicly traded company Sedo AG, which currently has revenues of 130m euros per year andmaintains approximately 350 employees. Since 2012 he has dedicated his professional career to the German startup scene, acting both as a business angel and mentor for young companies with economic potential. His current startups, among many others, are Eyeo/Adblock Plus, Aklamio, Hitfox and Ecosia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Sweden, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $247k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $217k–$2.4M; Series A $1M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JUMiNGO — Jumingo is an international digital shipping and carrier service provider. It is an innovative startup that has made the logistics industry clear and transparent for customers through a digital shipping platform. They facilitate both business and private customers to compare prices, packaging, and booking services from numerous shipping serviceproviders such as UPS, DHL Express, TNT, FedEx, GLS, and DPD with up to 80% discounted rates. Jumingo saves time and money with benefit from the dynamics and flexibility of their comprehensive range of services without any contractual obligations.
  • CareerOS — Gain a competitive edge with our innovative tools, virtual career collaboration, real-time data, and AI enhancements. Guide students each step of the way!
  • CareerOS
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James Murdoch
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Local startups

James Murdoch is a Founder and CEO at Lupa Systems. He attended Harvard University from 1992 to 1995.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, News, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brut — Brut is an international video content publisher, focused on news and feature-based, short-form content. They cover topics from politics to technology and social justice, culture and more. Brut videos are viewed more than 400 million times a month and touch more than 150 million worldwide.Brut. is a global media company that creates short-formvideo content for audiences around the world. With offices on two continents, Brut. publishes content daily in three languages and across eight social platforms generating over 500MM views a month.
  • THE VOID — The most immersive VR destination ... ever.
  • Breezeworks — Breezeworks Scheduling Software for Service Businesses helps professionals get to appointments efficiently on time. Manages team and syncs across all devices.
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David O. Sacks
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

David O. Sacks is the Co-Founder and Partner of Craft Ventures. He previously worked at Zenefits as an Investor, COO, and Interim CEO. David Sacks attended the University of Chicago Law School and Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.6M; Series A $4M–$21M; Series B $15M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rumi.ai — Rumi.ai redefines meetings with AI-synced notes and tasks, streamlining your workflow and ensuring productive action tracking
  • Index — Index wants companies to use its no-code dashboard builder to help visualize their KPIs and track performance. The tool boasts integration with a variety of data providers so that users aren’t forced to manually enter data into another tool. The startup hopes that building embeddable dashboards will help their solution catch fire and that startupswill turn to their tool when they want to track progress on goals.
  • Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
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Darrin Ginsberg
Angel · Newport Beach, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Darrin Ginsberg is the CEO at Super G Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Local, Software, Messaging
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Minbox — All of Minbox is real-time, including comments. Engage others in conversation on a file or in a project. Or click on an image to leave an annotation. Simply type the @ symbol and a menu will appear to mention any of your team members. Draw their attention to something specific anywhere in the app.
  • SupportLocal — SupportLocal is changing the way people discover local businesses and places by improving upon the oldest and greatest factor in making life’s daily decisions – word of mouth. SupportLocal enables people to give and get local business recommendations from the people they know and trust. Based in Denver, Colorado within the unique Galvanizecampus, SupportLocal was started by industry veterans, including CEO, Justin Sanger, who is recognized as a leading authority in local search. The teams’ last company, LocalLaunch was an award winning local search platform for small businesses was acquired by Denver based Dex One in 2006. At SupportLocal we are helping people build support for everyday live. In doing so, we will remain dedicated to the principles of trust, privacy, sharing, and community.
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Magid Abraham
Angel · Reston, Virginia, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Magid Abraham is the Co-Founder of comScore, Inc., and currently serves as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Magid served as Chief Executive Officer from the company’s founding in 1999 until March 2014. Prior to co-founding comScore, Magid was Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Paragren Technologies, Inc., which specializedin delivering large scale Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) systems for strategic and target marketing. Paragren is now part of Siebel Systems. Before founding Paragren, Magid was President and Chief Operating Officer at Information Resources, Inc., a major international research company, which he led through a period of rapid growth in revenues, market share and profit. Throughout his IRI career, Magid has been a prolific innovator who designed a number of pioneering marketing applications that became standards of CPG marketing practice. Magid is a widely recognized expert on market research, consumer modeling and innovative information solutions. Magid has authored many articles in a variety of academic and industry journals. Magid's most recent honor, received in January 2011, was the Buck Weaver Award for Marketing, established by MIT’s Sloan School of Management for individuals who have made important contributions to the advancement of theory and practice in marketing science. In 2009 he received the AMA’s Parlin Award, a preeminent national honor recognizing one individual annually who has demonstrated “outstanding leadership and sustained impact on advancing the evolving profession of marketing research over an extended period of time.” Magid has received the Paul Green award by the American Marketing Association (AMA) for the "best article that shows or demonstrates the most potential to contribute to the practice of marketing research and research in marketing," and the AMA’s William F. O’Dell Award for an article “that has made the most significant long-term contribution to the marketing discipline.” Magid was also named Ernst & Young® Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008. Magid was also inducted in the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, designated along with comScore as a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and was named a “Great Mind” by the Advertising Research Foundation. Magid has given numerous speeches on Internet industry trends and marketing subjects in various industry conferences and forums. Magid received a Ph.D. in Operations Research and an MBA from MIT. Magid also holds an Engineering degree from the École Polytechnique, France's premier science and engineering school.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Local, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $950k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Milo — Buy & sell electronics, cars, clothes, collectibles & more on eBay, the world's online marketplace. Top brands, low prices & free shipping on many items.
  • Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
  • Zoomdata — Zoomdata, developers of big data exploration, visualization, and analytics platform, lets business users see and interact with data in all-new ways. Designed mobile and touch first, its patented micro-query architecture delivers results on billions of records in seconds and gives users a single plane of access for bridging old data and new data.The Zoomdata interface allows users to easily Connect, Visualize, and Interact with data on browsers and mobile devices. Once deployed, users are able to create dashboards, fuse disparate data sources from across the enterprise into single user experience and create a corporate data quilt that lets business users collaborate on the data that drives their business.
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Alexis Ohanian
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 193
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7M; Series A $6M–$35M; Series B $12M–$152M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arkero — AI-powered operations platform for sports teams. Connect your ticketing, CRM, and data systems to automate gameday planning workflows and insights.
  • Left Field — Left Field is a dating app that matches users based on shared connections, locations, and personal overlaps.
  • Screen Skinz — Shop Screen Skinz for the #1 trusted custom screen protectors for iPhone and Samsung. Design your own or choose from officially licensed screens from NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, Colleges, and Sanrio. Disappearing designs within the glass combine premium protection with personalization.
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Tony DiBenedetto
Angel · Tampa, Florida, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Tony DiBenedetto

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Investment focus

  • Industry: IaaS, Local, Events
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BlockSpaces — Accelerating Blockchain Adoption for Enterprise
  • MyArea Network — Social Networking on the local & national level with MyArea Network by creating a FREE personal profile to get connected.
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Paul Forster
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.9M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oraion — Your single source of truth for enterprise data
  • Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
  • Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
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Fernando Diana
Angel · Roma, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in Local startups

Fernando Diana - Manager - Acquisitions & Sales Management @ CityNews

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Local, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$265k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CityNews — Citynews is an italian based network of local newspaper sites. Actually active in 9 cities Citynews planning to open in the 30 principal italian cities. Actually 1,4 million visits each months.
  • Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
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Orlando Bloom
Angel · 2 investments in Local startups

Orlando Bloom is an English actor known for his breakthrough character as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean. He was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, England.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Local, Banking, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
  • DeSo Foundation — DeSo is a layer -1 blockchain designed to build and scale decentralized social apps to 1 Billion users. Take back ownership of your content and social graph with web3 versions of Twitter and LinkedIn.
  • Collectibles.com — Collectibles is the Home of Collectors: Cards, Comics, Coins, Stamps and more. Connect with Likeminds, Trade and Showoff your Collection for free
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Katy Perry
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Katy Perry was born October 25, 1984, in Santa Barbara, California. After having three record deals fall apart, she signed with Capitol in 2007. Later that year, she released her first single, "Ur So Gay." Still, her career did not fully take off until the release of her next single, "I Kissed a Girl". Her album Teenage Dreamswas released in August 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Digital Entertainment, Local
  • Stage:Series A, Series E, Series D
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $11M–$20M; Series E $250M–$300M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
  • Audius — Audius is a music streaming and sharing platform that puts power back into the hands of content creators.
  • Apeel Sciences — Apeel Sciences' plant-derived solution for fresh food providers doubles the lifespan of harvested fruits and vegetables even without refrigeration. It develops low-cost, natural technologies to help to eliminate food spoilage, reduce water and energy use, and preserve natural ecosystems.Apeel's private investors and philanthropicpartners include Andreessen Horowitz, Viking Global Investors, Upfront Ventures, S2G Ventures, Powerplant Ventures, DBL Partners, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation.Apeel Sciences was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.
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Jean Hammond
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Jean Hammond is an angel investor and the founder of LearnLaunch.Jean Hammond is an active angel investor usually focusing on early stage high tech start-ups. She was a founder of the Boston branch of Golden Seeds (focused on investing in women-managed businesses) and a member of Launchpad and Hub Angels. In addition to TenMarks, Jeanserves on the boards of The Technology Capital Network, Thompson Island Outward Bound and of Boston Rising. She plays or played an active board level role with a number of her Boston area investments including: Crimson Hexagon, Hire Reach, Home Portfolio, iTeam, and ZipCar. Jean is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in the high-tech industry. Her entrepreneurial activities include co-founding and managing Quarry Technologies and AXON Networks and following 3Com's acquisition of AXON, focusing 3Com's WAN strategy. She earned a B.S. from Boston University and an M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she is currently a part time Entrepreneur in Residence.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zulama — Carnegie Learning is shaping the future of math learning with the best math curriculum and supplemental curricular solutions.
  • Skookii — Ask any parent and they’ll tell you the same thing: paying for the countless number of athletics, after-school care, lunch, classroom supplies, donations, field-trips, and other school-related fees is extremely difficult to keep up with. Add in multiple kids at different schools with different payment procedures and systems and the process getsdownright impossible. Ask any school business manager and they'll tell you how hard it's to collect and track payments. That's where Skookii comes in.Skookii is the first and only completely free online payment/finance system for schools and educational nonprofits. It’s simple: schools get a robust SaaS solution in less than 20 minutes and parents get a simple web/mobile app to instantly pay for their kids’ aftercare, donations, athletics, or anything else.
  • Choosito — Choosito! search and learn optimizes learning with personalized search. We analyze human language to identify quality resources that match the student's comprehension ability for any subject. Choosito! is transforming the web into a revolutionary learning tool.see less
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Andre Iguodala
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Andre Iguodala is based out of New York, New York and is the Executive Director of National Basketball Players Association.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $12M–$21M; Series B $13M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rye — Rye builds developer tools and APIs to build the next generation of eCommerce experiences.
  • Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
  • TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
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Jawed Karim
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Jawed Karim is a Co-Founder of the popular video-sharing website YouTube. Prior to YouTube, he was a software architect at PayPal. Jawed holds degrees in computer science from UIUC and from Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Corgea — Corgea is an AI-powered security platform that automatically finds, triages, and fixes insecure code. Sign up today for free to try Corgea.
  • Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
  • Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
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Naval Ravikant
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 189
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tera AI — Tera is creating a software-only, platform-neutral spatial reasoning framework that will allow any robot to use its existing camera to traverse novel environments.
  • The ePlane Company — The ePlane Co. aims to end your traffic woes by building one of the most innovative mobility solutions for up to 10x faster urban commutes. Our mission is to revolutionize city travel with efficient and sustainable aerial technology.
  • Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker uses drone-based cloud seeding to increase rainfall, restore ecosystems, and fight drought. Learn how our scalable weather technology brings water to the West.
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Richard McIntyre
Angel · Tampa, Florida, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Education: Allegheny College, BS Chemistry 1988, Carnegie Mellon University MBA 1992, University of Pittsburgh JD 1992. Work: Kass Shuler 1992 - 1994, Trenam Kemker 1994 - 2006, McIntyre Thanasides 2006 to present. Richard McIntyre enjoys providing business and legal consulting services to technology companies. Mr. McIntyre has invested 10+local technology companies with investments ranging from $10,000 to $300,000. With some local friends and clients he started First Round Tampa Bay, which has pooled investments to fund two local technology startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: VoIP, Local, Events
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Phonism by Inlayer — Phonism offers device management & provisioning solutions that enables VoIP organizations (Service providers, Call centers...) to set up and manage all of their VoIP devices in a single pane of glass. Phonism's Portals & APIs provide our customers with the ability to offer true zero-touch deployments and eliminate support costs ofon-site visits.
  • MyArea Network — Social Networking on the local & national level with MyArea Network by creating a FREE personal profile to get connected.
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David Tisch
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City-based early stage investment fund. BoxGroup is an investor in over 200 seed-stage companies, including Vine, Blue Apron, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Handy and more. David is also the co-founder and Chairman of Spring, a mobile marketplace where customers shopdirectly within the app from a curated community of brands. Spring was named by Apple as one of the Best Apps of 2014.In 2014, David was named Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech, the University’s New York City-based graduate campus focused on digital technologies and the information economy. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence for Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Program.David is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and has served on numerous boards, including Mayor Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology, the Investor Board of Venture for America, and the Entrepreneurship board at NYU. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law, and currently lives in New York City

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 216
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$3.5M; Series A $1.1M–$15M; Series B $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PillPack — PillPack is a full-service pharmacy that sorts medication by dose and offers door-to-door delivery. They fill, sort, and deliver all medications in personalized packets based on when you need to take them. Their service helps you take the right meds at the right time, every time.
  • Vengo — Massive national network of digital screens accessible through every major SSP. Buy retail and point-of-purchase screens on your preferred platform.
  • Even.com — Even offers an affordable on-demand pay product that allows employees to access their paychecks when they need it most—without confusing, hidden, or predatory fees. With a proven track record of reducing employee turnover and increasing retention and productivity, Even is the highest-rated on-demand pay app and has helped employees save more than$82 million to date.
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Namik Kural
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Local startups

Namik Kural is a Board Member at Visionteractive.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Local, Security
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $365k–$645k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
  • LOKI — LOKI is a cloud-based secure network platform that can be managed without any technical knowledge.The company enables companies to manage and secure their networks by changing how they interact with cybersecurity products. LOKI platform offers a cloud-based secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that automatically scansand protects all network traffic from threats.
  • eTasin — https://etasin.com
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Payam Zamani
Angel · Walnut Creek, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Payam Zamani is based out of Walnut Creek, California, and is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of One Planet Group. Payam previously worked at Inspirato as a CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Payam Zamani attended the University of California, Davis. Payam Zamani has been awarded the Tahirih Justice Center’s Hope Award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $7.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gybe — Water Quality Monitoring. Gybe is a technology start-up that provides autonomous measurements of water quality for lakes, rivers and coastal areas. We help businesses and governments reduce pollution and improve the health of watersheds, communities, and cities.
  • Glass — G-Commerce is where Government agencies can search, sort and buy from verified diverse businesses with government prices, while businesses can set up Government Online Stores in seconds and start selling to governments seamlessly.
  • Predict Health — Predict Health helps healthcare organizations grow their Medicare, consumer, individual, group, and patient populations by using AI and data analytics. Predict Health uses Health AI and Data Analytics to accelerate Medicare growth and improve Medicare STARS scores. www.predicthealth.ai
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David Pritchard
Angel · Reading, Reading, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Local startups

David Pritchard serves as an advisor of Hassle.com. David was Founder and Managing Director of OpenTable Europe. David has enjoyed a 30 year transatlantic career as a senior operating executive in primarily US based software before becoming an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Feedr — Probieren Sie Deutschlands Top Catering Service | EatFirst
  • Allegrow — Allegrow is the #1 inbox placement platform, we're helping more of your emails land in the primary inbox, not spam or unfocused folders.
  • JENA — JENA is building the "Shopify for service professionals", starting with personal care. The company is on a mission to empower Solopreneurs to thrive on their own terms with radically simple business tools. JENA provides Solopreneurs with an Operating System (OS) providing them a full tech-stack: website, AI-powered booking system,payments, CRM, marketing, and e-commerce in one app.
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Ryan Allis
Angel · Boulder, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Ryan Allis is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He is currently a Managing Partner at HeartRithm (www.heartrithm.com), a crypto quant fund,and the Chairman Hive (www.hive.org).Ryan was previously the co-founder and CEO of iContact from 2003 until 2012. iContact grew to 300 employees, 70,000 customers, and $50M in annual sales before its Feb2012 sale to Vocus (NASDAQ:VOCS) for $170M.Ryan is also an angel investor and has invested in 34 firms including SpaceX, Robinhood, LendingClub, Change.org, and Off-Grid Electric.Ryan served as a National Co-Chairperson for Tech for Obama during the 2012 Presidential Election along with Reid Hoffman and Marc Benioff and was a inaugural member of the United Nations Global Entrepreneur Council. Ryan is the author of The Startup Guide: Building a Better World Through Entrepreneurship at www.startupguide.com and the book Zero to One Million (McGraw-Hill, 2008).Ryan attended the University of North Carolina and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Apps, Local
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Crux — Crux is a messaging app for college students. It lets you share, discover and organize what's happening right now on campus. It has a smart, channel-based group chat that makes it faster and easier to run an entire group in one place. It also offers a location-based feed of everything that’s happening on campus. We're based in Venice,CA and launched in January 2015. Our investors include Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH fund, Ryan Allis, Big Colors, and Patrick Gannon of Lending Club. We're also featured on the App Store.Download the app here: http://dl.crux.la/m/XFtbNympZl
  • Bento — The refreshingly delightful email marketing platform. Send product, marketing, and transactional emails with Bento.
  • Butter.ai — The rush of bots may be exciting to contemplate — there is a lot of promise in the idea of combining artificial intelligence, natural conversation and super fast computing to make our lives easier.
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Stacy Brown-Philpot
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups

Stacy Brown-Philpot is the Founder and Managing Partner of Cherryrock Capital. She previously worked at TaskRabbit as a CEO. Stacy Brown-Philpot attended The Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$8.8M; Series B $22M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
  • Virtualness — Track and grow your brand's visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot. OptimizeGEO measures AI share of voice, citations, sentiment, and AI search visibility.
  • Braintrust — Braintrust is the new model for how work gets done. We connect organizations with top technical talent to complete strategic projects and drive innovation.
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Max Mullen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Local startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$8.8M; Series A $11M–$39M; Series C $50M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stedi — Stedi is the only programmable healthcare clearinghouse. We offer modern, AI-ready APIs for eligibility checks, claims, transaction enrollment, and more.
  • ChampAI — Champ is your AI operations teammate that automates SOP-driven work across browsers, documents, and internal systems.
  • Viktor
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Local Angel investor funding at a glance

Stats across 197 deals from 416 investors.

416
investors
in Local startups
197
deals
in Local startups
$1.5M
median round
in Local startups
4%
lead investors
lead at least one round
43%
Seed
most common funding stage

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