# Top 50 Medical Device Angel Investors in June 2026

## Jan Hammer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device

Jan Hammer is the partner at Index and the Board observer of Harmonic. Jan attended Oxford University.

## Farzad Nazem
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Analytics

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

## Christina Jenkins
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, mHealth

Dr. Christina Jenkins is a Venture Partner at Phoenix Venture Partners.

## Namita Thapar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail

Namita Thapar is an Executive Director at Emcure Pharmaceuticals. She previously worked as a senior manager at Abbott. She attended Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

## Josh Hannah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Josh Hannah

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Fred Moll, M.D
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Frederic H. Moll, M.D. serves as Chief Development Officer of Johnson & Johnson’s Digital Surgery Group. Prior to Johnson & Johnson, Dr. Moll was CEO of Auris Health, Inc., located in Redwood City, California. Prior to Auris, Dr. Moll founded Hansen Medical and served as the company’s first CEO, and in 1995, founded Intuitive Surgical,Inc. (Nasdaq: ISRG).Dr. Moll earned a M.D. from the University of Washington, School of Medicine, a M.S. degree in Management from Stanford University’s Sloan Program, and a B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

## sherwin matian
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Wearables, Health Care

sherwin matian

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.

## Frank A. Bonsal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Education, Health Care

Mr. Bonsal has been an active advisor to Outcome Capital since its inception in 1998. Mr. Bonsal is a Co-Founder and General Partner at New Enterprise Associates, one of the country’s largest venture capital firms. NEA invests in early-stage companies and works with management to nurture and build companies of real and lasting value. His investmentactivities focus on a broad range of technical and service-oriented companies. Mr. Bonsal is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a member of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Endowment Board. Also, Mr. Bonsal serves on the Boards of Directors of Ceratech, CIBERNET Corporation, and COVEGA Corporation, as well as an investment advisory firm, Brown Investment Advisory and Trust Co. Before co-founding NEA, Mr. Bonsal was a general partner of Alex. Brown & Sons.

## Vishal Rao
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Advisory CTO and Angel Investor

## bumpkins profile
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Robotics

blah - teh software was teh busted and they didn't want to fix it or hire someone to fix it, odd folks, these.

## Jennifer Fried
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device

Jennifer Fried is the CEO & Co-Founder of ExplORer Surgical .

## Jaffray Woodriff
- Type: Angel
- Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Angel Investor located in Charlottesville, VA

## Kevin Moore
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates. 

## Pierre Rigaux
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ougrée, Liege, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Sports, Medical Device

Pierre Rigaux

## Coco Meers
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Medical, Recruiting

Coco Meers is CEO & Co-Founder at Equilibria.

## Schnidar Harald
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: mHealth, Software, Biopharma

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Scientist and Inventor

## Joshua Browder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Joshua Browder is the Founder and CEO of DoNotPay.

## Adrian Fenty
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Fashion

Adrian Fenty is the founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital

## Jeff Hammerbacher
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology

Jeff Hammerbacher - Partner & Co-Founder @ Techammer

## Jacky Chen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Jacky is dedicated to angel investment and has built up a portfolio of more than thirty startup companies in Canada and the US. His target investments are the early-stage B2B companies with disruptive technologies and business potential in enterprise software, information technologies, MedTech, and Advanced Manufacturing.Jacky has acquiredconcrete business experiences as a successful founder in the startup ecosystem and an executive of Fortune 500 companies over two decades. His remarkable accomplishments range from building startups from scratch to leading a billion-dollar business with the leverage of 14,000 enterprise channel partners. The unique journey has shaped Jacky's outstanding of investing in early startups.Jacky holds the degrees of Mater's E.E. and MBA, and he graduated from CEIBS and The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.

## Cory Levy
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Advertising

Cory Levy is the Founder of Z Fellows. He previously worked at DoSomething.org as a Board Member. Cory attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he took Computer Science.

## Jessica Livingston
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Education, Health Care, Medical Device

Jessica Livingston is a Co-founding partner. She is also the organizer of Startup School, the big annual startup conference, and the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with successful startup founders.

## Yann Fleureau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Gaming

Yann Fleureau is based ourt of France and is the Co-Founder of Project Numina. Yann previously worked at Cardiologs as a Co-founder and General Manager. Yann Fleureau attended Ecole Polytechnique.

## Scott Belsky
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School.

## Ashish Kacholia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Retail, Manufacturing, Health Care

Ashish Kacholia is the founder and Director - Research at Lucky Investment Managers.

## Simanta Das
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Education

Simanta Das is a Managing Partner at Stalhmarg and Founder of Rising Stars Ventures.

## Maurice Ferre, M.D.
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Medical Device, Medical, Health Care

Dr. Maurice R. Ferré was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of MAKO Surgical Corp, serving from 2004 until the acquisition of the company by Stryker Corp. for $1.7 billion in 2014.In June 2007, Dr. Ferré received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 award for emerging companies in Florida. In 1993, he foundedVisualization Technology, Inc., a medical device company for image-guided surgery, where he served as Chief Executive Officer until 2002 when the company was acquired by GE Healthcare, the healthcare division of the General Electric Company. Dr. Ferré served as Vice President of Strategic Development for GE Navigation, a Division of GE Healthcare, until 2004.Dr. Ferré holds an M.D. and a Master’s degree in Public Health from Boston University.

## Paul Heydon
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps

I have 30+ years as a founder, operator, investor, board member and advisor. I have founded/co-founded multiple companies and have dealt with cofounder issues directly. I have invested in individual companies that have achieved $2b in revenue, $1b in profit, $30b in valuation. Plus on the other side of the spectrum, I have seen lots ofdifferent poor behaviour by some investors, founders and lawyers. My value add is:
- the ability to quickly filter out the wrong people. 
- fundraising
- strategy
- focus
- making tough decisions
- cashflow planningCurrently investing directly in startups (mainly tech) at all stages and in funds (most asset classes) as an LP globally. I invested early in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity Software (NYSE:U), Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), Gameclub (acquired by Take-Two Interactive), Doppio Games (acquired by Fortis). Previously, I cofounded a seed VC firm & was an investment banker at various firms. I have both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.If you message me with a pitch deck link for your company or fund then do not send me a docsend link or anything requesting an email and or password as I will ignore it. And make sure you detail the team background, why it’s the best team and why you will win.I’m also open to board positions for companies in Europe and North America. Owner of https://www.heathfieldestatenewforest.co.uk/

## Sophia Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

## Marc Benioff
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Marc Benioff is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Founder of Salesforce. Marc previously worked at Oracle as a Vice President. Marc Benioff attended the University of Southern California. Marc Benioff has been awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

## Zohar Gilon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

Mr. Zohar Gilon is a Managing Partner at Tamar Technology Ventures. He has personally invested in over 45 start-ups and has achieved 13 exits. Mr. Gilon has also served as the Transaction Manager for some of Israel's most highly recognized exits and has managed each deal from inception through completion, including pricing and distributions.He has extensive investment experience including activity as an angel investor and an Investment Advisor to the Gilon Group. Mr. Gilon is a private investor in numerous high-technology companies, including affiliates of Radcom Ltd. in Israel. From 1974 to 1993, Mr. Gilon served as the President of various companies representing major U.S. aerospace and electronics corporations. From November 1993 to August 1995, he served as the President of W.S.P. Capital Holdings Ltd. Previously he served, as the Managing Director of Shaked Technologies Ltd. He serves as a Director of HCL CleanTech Ltd., RIT, AVT Ltd., Oberon Media, Inc., Edge Medical, Exlibris, OrSense Ltd., and WisAir Ltd. He served as a Director of RAD Ventures. Mr. Gilon served as a Director of RiT Technologies Ltd. since 1995, Ceragon Networks Ltd. since June 1999, Radware Ltd. from October 2006 to July 2009 and Radcom Ltd. since June 1995. He served as Member of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) Limited. He served as an Outside Director of Silicom Ltd. since 1994.

## Ray Muzyka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

Originally trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Ray Muzyka cofounded BioWare, a video game development studio focusing on story and character, in the early 1990s. He practiced emergency/family medicine for two years full time, with medicine transitioning to part-time over the following decade as he focused on his role as BioWare’s CEO. BioWare wasacquired by Electronic Arts in 2007, and Dr. Muzyka took on the roles of Senior Vice President at Electronic Arts and General Manager of EA’s BioWare division, which grew over the next five years to span eight development locations worldwide with about 2000 staff (1400 full time). He retired from video games in October 2012, with his third “career chapter” at ThresholdImpact, where he focused on sustainable, profitable impact investing: mentoring and angel investing in information technology, new media, and medical innovations with social entrepreneurs. An active angel investor and entrepreneurial mentor, Dr. Muzyka is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the A100, the Ashoka Support Network, and the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta (serving as Chair of the Human Resources Committee and on the Learning and Discovery Committee and as a member of the University of Alberta Advancement Council). He is Chair of the University of Alberta’s entrepreneur Venture Mentoring Service, a venture advisor at iNovia Venture Capital, and a member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Advisory Committee and the Alberta Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy. He also serves on a number of private company boards. He previously served on the board of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from 2001-2008 and was on the Board of Trustees of the Stollery Children’s Health Foundation from 2012-2015. He was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the International Game Developers’ Choice Awards 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Muzyka received the inaugural Alumni Innovation Award in 2015 from the University of Alberta. He additionally was named as the 2017 Allard Chair in Business at the MacEwan University’s School of Business and as an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club International in 2016, in recognition for his philanthropic efforts. Other awards include entry into Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and Ernst and Young’s 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year (IT, Prairies).He obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Alberta in 1990, his Doctorate of Medicine from there in 1992, and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business) in 2001.

## Ariel Poler
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet

Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

## Bill Smith
- Type: Angel
- Location: Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Real Estate

Bill Smith is currently working at Landing as Founder and CEO and Co-founder and Director of CommerceOne Bank.

## Ron C
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Therapeutics, Medical Device

Ron C

## Maria Rankka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical Device, Medical, Health Care

Maria Rankka

## Eric Kwan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce

Eric Kwan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Locus Ventures

## Bradley Horowitz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation.  He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

## Jeff Rothschild
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Jeff Rothschild joined Accel as an advisor and venture partner in 1999.Most notably, Jeff was the VP of Infrastructure Engineering at Facebook from 2005 to 2010. Jeff joined Facebook shortly after the Accel investment and focused on scaling, availability and performance of the site. He was Facebook’s first VP Engineering and established a numberof functional organizations within the company including User Operations, Site Integrity, Data Analytics and Infrastructure Engineering.Before Facebook, Jeff was the cofounder of Veritas Software, which became the leading storage management software company with annual sales of more than $1.5B. He also cofounded the online gaming company Mpath/Hearme, and has contributed to the development of Accel portfolio companies including Walmart.com and Rhapsody Networks.Jeff started his career at Honeywell and Intel, where he worked on the development of the Intel 3805 mainframe storage system. After leaving Intel, he developed a consultancy focused on network storage technologies and worked with Locus Computing on the development of AT&T’s DOS-Merge and Sun’s PC-NFS redirector.Jeff has a BS in Psychology and a MS in Computer Science, both from Vanderbilt University.

## Esther Dyson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical

Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

## Brian Pokorny
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, Mobile

Brian Pokorny is a General Partner of SV Angel. Prior to this, he was at Airbnb, where he joined via an acquisition of DailyBooth/Batch. DailyBooth was a venture backed social media start-up that Brian led for 3 years as their CEO. Before this, Brian was a partner at SV Angel with David Lee and Ron Conway upon the launch of the firm. Prior toSV Angel he was a founding team member and partner at Baseline Ventures, a leading seed-stage investment firm. Before joining Baseline, Brian spent close to 4 years at Google within various positions in the Content Partnerships team and Direct Sales Organization. Before this, he had various roles within sales operations and finance at Juniper Networks, TIBCO Software, and Applied Materials. Brian graduated with a degree in Operations and Management Information Systems from Santa Clara University. Brian's first angel investment was in Twitter and he is also a personal angel investor in Square, OMGPOP (Acquired by Zynga), Tweetdeck (Acquired by Twitter), Milo (Acquired by eBay), Chomp (Acquired by Apple) and others. Brian has advisory positions with Ooyala (Acquired by Telstra), Rupture (Acquired by EA). At SV Angel, Brian has also originated investments in companies such as Instacart, Patreon, Mesosphere, Credit Karma, and foursquare.

## Ashley Roethlisberger
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Therapeutics

Ashley Roethlisberger

## Aman Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing

Aman Gupta - Co Founder & CMO @ boAt

## Chris Gasteratos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Medical Device, Gaming

Chris Gasteratos

## Trevor Wright
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Gaming

I am entrepreneur and operator. In the past, I co-Founded and sold Vitrue to Oracle for $300 M. I also co-Founded and sold Black Bag Advertising to WPP for $14 M. I was also on the founding team At Flycast Network which had an IPO and was later acquired for $2.2 B. I am currently an angel investor with company exists totaling over $1 B so far.

## Joe Mandato
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series D
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Joe joined De Novo Ventures as a Managing Director in March 2003. Prior to joining De Novo, Joe served as Chairman of Confer Software, a developer of software used to create efficiencies and streamline processes in healthcare. He also served as President/CEO of Origin Medsystems, a developer of minimally invasive surgical devices for usein general, cardio-thoracic, and ob-gyn surgery, which was acquired by Eli Lilly & Company in 1992 and spun out as one of the units which formed Guidant Corporation in 1995. At Guidant, Joe served as a member of the founding management committee and CEO of two of its five operating units, Origin and Heart Rhythm Technology. He also co-founded and served as CEO of Gynecare, a women’s health spin-out of Guidant, which was acquired by Johnson & Johnson. Subsequent to his tenure at Guidant, he served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mayfield Fund, a venture capital firm. Earlier in his career, he was CEO of Ioptex Research, a developer of intraocular lenses used in cataract surgery, which was acquired by Smith & Nephew PLC. He joined Ioptex from Cilco AG in Zug, Switzerland, the Europe, Middle East, and Africa headquarters of a unit of Rorer Group, where he served as CEO. He began his career in healthcare as a Captain in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps.Joe received his Doctor of Management from Case Western Reserve University, and serves on its Board of Trustees. His research focused on the evolving role of boards in ensuring effective governance. He serves on the adjunct faculty of The University of San Francisco’s Graduate School of Management and co-teaches the course Medical Device Innovation at Stanford University. He also serves on the boards of The Institute of International Education and Save the Children.Joe sits on the boards of Axogen, Endogastric Solutions, Facet Solutions, Hansen Medical (NASDAQ: HNSN), iScience Interventional, InSound Medical, Kolis Scientific, Luminous Medical, M2 Medical and WaveTec Vision Systems.

## Christian Wenger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

Christian Wenger - Chairman @ Startup INVEST

## Shimon Eckhouse
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Shimon Eckhouse, Ph.D., is a leading Israeli medical entrepreneur who has founded more than 20 startups including Syneron Medical Ltd., Lumenis Ltd., Ventor and Real-View Imaging.
He is the current Chairman of Butterfly Medical Ltd, Active Chairman of Synerion Medical and serves as Executive of Matteris Ltd. Shimon Eckhouse served as the ChiefExecutive Officer of Syneron Medical Ltd. from April 17, 2013 to February 18, 2014. Shimon Eckhouse Co-Founded Colorchip Inc. in 2000 and served as its Chairman from 2003 to January 2004 and as Chief Executive Officer from 2001 to 2003. He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ESC Medical Systems since its inception in 1992. He was also a co-founder and Chairman of Ventor Medical Technologies Ltd. He Co-Founded at Navotek Medical Ltd. Mr. Eckhouse took ESC public in 1996 and raised more than $250M in public offerings. He served as Chairman of Syneron Medical Ltd. from May 2004 to May 2013. He worked at Lumenis Ltd. Prior to that, Shimon Eckhouse served as Head of Product Development and Technical Director at Maxwell Technologies in San Diego, California. From 1969 to 1986, he worked at Rafael, Armament Development Authority of Israel as a Scientist, Team Leader and Head of Department and was active in various areas of research and development including lasers and electro-optics. Shimon Eckhouse has been the Founder of Orsense, Ventor, Tulip, Cardiodex, Opticul Diagnostic, C3D and NanoCyte, Inc. Shimon Eckhouse serves as the Chairman of Fluorinex Active Ltd. Shimon Eckhouse serves as the Chairman at Starling Advanced Communications Ltd. since July 2010. He serves as Chairman at OrSense Ltd. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Ossense Ltd., Navotek Medical Ltd., and Replicom Ltd. and Edge Medical Devices Ltd. He has been a Director at Syneron Medical Ltd. since May 2004. He serves as a Director of Cardiodex and NanoCyte, Inc. Shimon Eckhouse serves as a Member of Advisory Board of Agate Medical Investments LP and JGV Growth Equity Fund, L.P. Shimon Eckhouse serves as a Director of the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology. He served as a Director of Zend Technologies Ltd. He served as a Director of WideMed Ltd. Shimon Eckhouse has more than 25 registered patents and published more than 50 papers in leading reference journals and conferences. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Irvine and a B.Sc. in Physics from the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology.