# Top 50 Local Angel Investors in June 2026 ## Steven Cox - Type: Angel - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Local, Music, Video Steven Cox is the Founder and CEO at TakeLessons. ## Dave Morin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce 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. ## Jason Calacanis - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Max Levchin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile 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. ## Mark Goines - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software 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. ## Clark Landry - Type: Angel - Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology 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. ## Bernardo Hernandez - Type: Angel - Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile Apps, Apps, Delivery 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. ## Joshua Schachter - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet 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. ## Ronald Conway - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley. ## Kevin Hartz - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology 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. ## Andrew Mitchell - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Fashion Andrew Mitchell is the Founder of Brand Foundry Ventures. He is a former Co-Founder of Aspen Industries. He attended Lafayette College. ## George Crowley - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Angel, Series A - Focus: News, Local, Communities George Crowley ## Georges Harik - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning 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. ## Auren Hoffman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Analytics, Mobile CEO, NQB8, Chm, SafeGraph. GP, Flex Capital. Fmr CEO of LiveRamp. Follow @auren ## Tim Schumacher - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, SaaS, Internet 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. ## Fernando Diana - Type: Angel - Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: News, Local, Fitness Fernando Diana - Manager - Acquisitions & Sales Management @ CityNews ## Mehrdad Piroozram - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Insurance, Apps, Software Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc ## Les Szekely - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Customer Service, Travel 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. ## John Brown - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: News, Local, Computer 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. ## Stacy Brown-Philpot - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Apps, Internet, Marketplace 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. ## David Pritchard - Type: Angel - Location: Reading, Reading, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care 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. ## Naval Ravikant - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Blockchain 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. ## Katy Perry - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series E, Series D - Focus: Digital Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Local 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. ## Felix Haas - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Local, Mobile, Sports 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. ## Jean Hammond - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Education, Software, Information Technology 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. ## Larry Marcus - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Music, Fashion 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. ## Andre Iguodala - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: Sports, E-Commerce, Internet Andre Iguodala is an NBA Champion and Finals MVP currently signed with the Golden State Warriors. He advises Twice, a startup acquired by eBay in 2015.Andre Tyler Iguodala is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The swingman was an NBA All-Starin 2012 and has been named to the NBA All-Defensive Team twice. Iguodala won an NBA championship with the Warriors in 2015, when he was named the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP). He was also a member of the United States national team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and 2012 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal both times.Iguodala went to Lanphier High School in Springfield, Illinois before attending the University of Arizona. After completing two years, he declared for the 2004 NBA draft where he was drafted with the ninth overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers. Iguodala played in Philadelphia until the summer of 2012, when he was traded to the Denver Nuggets in a four team trade. He was acquired by Golden State in 2013. In 2014–15, he became a reserve for the first time in his career, but captured the Finals MVP after he returned to the starting lineup in the middle of series. ## Jawed Karim - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, FinTech, Internet 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. ## Keith Rabois - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet 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. ## Richard McIntyre - Type: Angel - Location: Tampa, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: VoIP, Local, Events 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. ## Alexis Ohanian - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Blockchain, Mobile 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. ## Arjun Dev Arora - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Analytics Arjun Dev Arora is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Advisor at Format One. ## Dan Toscano - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, Local, Mobile Dan Toscano is the Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. He attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. ## James Murdoch - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Media and Entertainment, News, Video James Murdoch is a Founder and CEO at Lupa Systems. He attended Harvard University from 1992 to 1995. ## David O. Sacks - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet 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. ## John Borthwick - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Internet, Mobile, Social Media 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. ## Darrin Ginsberg - Type: Angel - Location: Newport Beach, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Local, Software, Messaging Darrin Ginsberg is the CEO at Super G Capital. ## Josh Berman - Type: Angel - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Local, Music, Video Currently Josh is the Co-Founder and CEO of BeachMint, a next generation eCommerce company based in Santa Monica, CA. The company is focused on social and curated commerce and is backed by New Enterprise Associates and Anthem Ventures.Most recently Josh was the President of Slingshot Labs, a division of dedicated to building new Internet companies. Slingshot Labs employs a portfolio approach to the development and launch of businesses, and plans to nurture four to five ventures per year.Josh Berman is a co-founder and was the chief operating officer of Berman formerly co-founded and managed successful Internet companies, ResponseBase Marketing, and Xdrive Technologies. Prior to his start up life, Berman was a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.Berman received his MBA from the University of Southern California, his BA from UC- Santa Barbara, and is a CPA in the State of California. ## Timothy Ferriss - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care 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. ## Tony DiBenedetto - Type: Angel - Location: Tampa, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: IaaS, Local, Events Tony DiBenedetto ## Paul Forster - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Gil Elbaz - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Mobile Co-Executive Chairman at Foursquare. Founding Partner/Co-founder at TenOneTen Ventures. ## Magid Abraham - Type: Angel - Location: Reston, Virginia, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Local, Big Data 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. ## Max Mullen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## David Tisch - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce 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 ## Orlando Bloom - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Local, Banking, Content 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. ## Ed Roberts - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Advertising, Local, Content He is Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, founder and chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, and a prolific founder, investor and board member at numerous start-up companies in high technology. Ed’s portfolio of current and recent companies includes Advanced Magnetics, Inverness Medical, Meditech, Pegasystems, Sohu.com, andVisible Measures. He is the author of several books on technology and entrepreneurship, and holds four degrees from MIT, including a PhD in Economics. ## Dan Martell - Type: Angel - Location: Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Apps, Software, SaaS Dan Martell is the Founder and CEO of Saas Academy. He previously worked at Flowtown as a CMO and Co-Founder. Dan Martell attended Microsoft Certified Professional. ## Payam Zamani - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS Payam Past is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO at One Planet Group. ## Leonard Lodish - Type: Angel - Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Education Leonard Lodish - Operating Partner @ Lumia Capital