Top 50 Oil and Gas Angel Investors in United States in September 2025

Investor	Oil and Gas United States investments
Nat Friedman	2
Nat Friedman	2
Ozzy Akay	2
Nat Friedman	2
Donald R. Kendall	2
Chuck Yates	1
Kingsley Advani	1
Bill Gates	1
Romesh Wadhwani	1
Raymond Tonsing	1
Armando Pauker	1
John Collison	1
Ric Fulop	1
Louis Beryl	1
Lon Chow	1
Dylan Taylor	1
Evan Brown	1
Anatoly Yakovenko	1
Nom ‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎	1
Dhruvil Sanghvi	1
Vaughan Brown	1
Erik Peterson	1
bumpkins profile	1
Travis Bradford	1
Brian Long	1
Bill Wood	1
Ed Chandler	1
Ruslan Kogan	1
Raza Shaikh	1
Craig Scroggie	1
Sunmeet Jolly	1
Stepan Simkin	1
Joel Moxley	1
Abhi Desai	1
Jake Zeller	1
Erhan Bilici	1
Bill Gates	1
Philippe Suchet	1
Malcolm Turnbull	1
Geoff Hicks	1
Naruhisa Nakagawa	1
Steven Singh	1
Austin Federa	1
Simon Rothery	1
Jordan Grives	1
Mert Mumtaz	1
Patrick Collison	1
Neal Shear	1
Anatoly Yakovenko	1
Kemal Farid	1

Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nat Friedman has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. Nat Friedman is passionate about building products that delight customers with love and attention to detail.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Natwas a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME Foundation. At Novell, Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Spain

Portfolio highlights

XBOW — XBOW operates autonomously, carrying out commands and analyzing the results to achieve higher-level objectives.
Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company — AIUC certifies and insures AI agents to unlock secure adoption.

Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nat Friedman has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. Nat Friedman is passionate about building products that delight customers with love and attention to detail.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Natwas a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME Foundation. At Novell, Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Spain

Portfolio highlights

XBOW — XBOW operates autonomously, carrying out commands and analyzing the results to achieve higher-level objectives.
Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company — AIUC certifies and insures AI agents to unlock secure adoption.

Ozzy Akay

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Virtual Reality, Oil and Gas
Series A, Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Aptera — Aptera Motors is engaged in designing, engineering, and assembling the most efficient transportation in the world. Aptera Motors, Corp. was formerly known as Accelerated Composites. It was founded in 2006 and is based in Carlsbad, California.
Virtuix — With over 4000 Omnis shipped to date, the patent protected Omni system is the leading and most popular omni-directional treadmill on the market.
Immersed — We immerse distributed teams into the same VR workplace to maximize productivity.

Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nat Friedman has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. Nat Friedman is passionate about building products that delight customers with love and attention to detail.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Natwas a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME Foundation. At Novell, Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

XBOW — XBOW operates autonomously, carrying out commands and analyzing the results to achieve higher-level objectives.
Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company — AIUC certifies and insures AI agents to unlock secure adoption.

Donald R. Kendall - MD & CEO @ Kenmont Solutions Capital

Investment focus

Analytics, Real Time, Oil and Gas
Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Seismos — Discover Seismos Inc., a leading technology provider for the Oil & Gas industry. Our innovative suite offers non-invasive fracture property measurements and real-time analytics, empowering data-driven actions. Join thousands of U.S. plays benefiting from our award-winning solutions.

Yates is a managing partner for the Kayne Anderson Capital Advisor’s energy private equity activities. He is responsible for the origination and execution of private equity transactions in the energy industry.Prior to joining Kayne Anderson in 2001, Mr. Yates was a senior vice president at Stephens Inc., an integrated merchant and investmentbank.Mr. Yates earned a B.A. in Political Science in 1991 and an M.B.A. in Finance in 1994 from Rice University.

Investment focus

Energy, Podcast, Recruiting
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Digital Wildcatters — Digital Wildcatters is a community platform for the next generation of energy professionals. DW provides transformative in-person events, podcasts, and technology that enables professionals to keep up with the latest trends, build their network, and advance their career in energy.

Kingsley Advani (born October 24, 1993, in London, United Kingdom) is a British tech entrepreneur, investor, and author based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is the Founder and CEO of Allo, an exchange for tokenized stocks managing over $2 billion in tokenized real-world assets, and the founder of Allocations, a fintech platform that has grownto administer more than $2 billion in assets across 30,000+ high-net-worth clients.Advani began his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 13, launching a digital commerce business on eBay, before discovering Bitcoin in 2011 while studying finance and economics. In 2013, he allocated his IBM internship savings into Bitcoin and other emerging cryptocurrencies, becoming an early investor in what later became a multi-billion-dollar asset class. By his mid-twenties, he had invested in more than 200 companies, including unicorns such as SpaceX, Solana, Coinbase, Robinhood, and eToro.In 2017, he co-founded a global investor syndicate that collectively managed more than $4 billion in assets. Two years later, he launched Allocations, a platform providing infrastructure for fund administration, SPVs, and private market investments. CNBC recognized him as the “Blockchain Oracle” for his early insights into cryptocurrency adoption and market trends.Through his ventures, Advani has become a leading voice in fintech, blockchain, tokenization, private markets, and Web3, with frequent speaking engagements at global conferences including the SF Blockchain Summit, Beyond Blocks, Coinfest Asia, and the Ritossa Summit in Dubai. His commentary emphasizes how blockchain and emerging technologies can democratize access to alternative assets and reduce the barriers to launching micro-funds.Advani is also the author of The Blockchain Oracle: How Technology, Finance, and Vision Shape the Future of Global Investing (2025), a book that explores the intersection of blockchain, fintech, and global finance.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
Ashvattha Therapeutics — Ashvattha Therapeutics creates products that selectively target and treat human diseases. Ashvattha enables precision targeting for therapeutics eliminating off-target toxicity, systemic side effects, and immunogenicity seen in other platforms. Ashvattha has a pipeline of nine therapeutics in neurology, oncology, and ophthalmology.

Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.

Investment focus

Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Series C, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TerraPower — Leading innovations in nuclear applications for reactor and storage technology, while advancing methods to transform the fight against cancer.
Inflection AI — Inflection AI is pioneering the future with human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI that transforms interactions from transactional to reltational, creating enduring value for individuals and enterprises alike.
Lucy Therapeutics — Lucy Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotech with a unifying mitochondrial platform, is developing small molecule treatments for neurological diseases.

Romesh Wadhwani is the Founder and Chairman of SymphonyAI. He previously worked at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a Board of Trustees. Romesh Wadhwani attended Carnegie Mellon University.

Investment focus

Analytics, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Nexant — Globally renowned energy efficiency experts providing unparalleled utility consulting and software solutions across the clean energy sector. Learn more:
SafeGraph — SafeGraph curates the highest quality and most up-to-date Places data to help organizations understand dynamically changing market trends, power informative mapping applications, and analyze consumer behavior.
Windfall — Modern Wealth Intelligence | Engage affluent households with actionable data you can trust

Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director. Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Friend — Your new roommate is waiting.
Blowfish — Blowfish makes it easy to identify & stop fraud before it happens. Join the leading wallets protecting their users funds with the blowfish security engine
Merkle Manufactory — Merkle Manufactory is a software company contributing to the Farcaster protocol and working on clients.

Armando is a general partner with an investment focus in enterprise infrastructure (hardware, software, security) and cleantech. Prior to joining Apex, Armando served as Vice President of Networking Products for Cybernet Systems Corporation, a Linux-based software start-up. Previously, he was a senior product manager for Electronics for Imaging, adeveloper of high performance digital imaging servers. Armando also served as a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, where he worked with clients in technology industries. Prior to Booz, Armando was a senior engineering manager at Tandem Computers, Inc., where he led product strategy, and hardware and software development in computer subsystems. Armando holds an MBA with High Distinction from the University of Michigan, and he received his BS in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.Armando led Apex's investment in Illumitex and Suniva. He previously served on the boards of BrightCloud (acquired by Webroot), Initiate Systems (acquired by IBM), Informative (acquired by Satmetrix), Integrated Chipware (acquired by Serena), EVS (acquired by First American), and SiliconBlue (acquired by Lattice Semiconductor).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Open Source
Seed, Angel, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

Visibly — Visibly is the first online vision test that can deliver a prescription for glasses or contacts. The test can be taken from anywhere, at any time, and a doctor issued prescription can be used to shop everywhere. Visibly is the manufacturer and distributor of Visibly Digital Acuity Product This product has not been approved by the FDA. The dataand recommendations made by the Visibly Digital Acuity Product are adjunctive (supporting) recommendations that will be used by an Eye Care Provider, along with your medical history and profile, prior corrective eyewear prescriptions, and subjective data provided about your vision. It is the responsibility of the patient to provide accurate information through the process as all of this information will be relied upon as accurate by the reviewing Eye Care Provider.
Detective — Turn past wins into future success. Use AI to analyze your customer base and reveal who to target, making every sales and marketing dollar drive maximum results
Context Engines — InContext is an application which automatically organizes your digital life. InContext analyzes the data and relationships from your applications (e.g. mail, contacts, calendar, Evernote, Dropbox/Google drive, desktop folders), organizes it by topic and presents related items in one contextual view ‐ “InContext." Contexts are “virtualsmart folders” which are always up‐to‐date with all the most relevant items in your projects. Breaking down app silos, Contexts help you save time, be prepared, stay organized and find what you need in an instant. InContext organizes your data the way you naturally would – by topic. InContext is the natural way to interact with your digital device. Beyond personal productivity and organization, Contexts help with collaboration. Users will be able to share complete Contexts with co‐workers.

John Collison is a President and Co-founder at Stripe. He attended Harvard University.John and his brother Patrick Collison started Stripe in 2010 while John was studying physics at Harvard. Their goal was to make accepting payments online simpler and more inclusive, after learning firsthand how difficult it was. Today, the 100+ person (andgrowing) Stripe team powers online businesses around the world.Before Stripe, John co-founded Auctomatic, which was acquired by Live Current Media in March 2008. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, John lives in San Francisco, California, where Stripe is based.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
Rivan Industries — Rivan Industries designs and builds modular, vertically integrated, synthetic fuel plants.

Ric Fulop is the CEO and co-founder of Desktop Metal, a company committed to accelerating the transformation of manufacturing with end-to-end metal 3D printing solutions. Founded in 2015 by leaders in advanced manufacturing, materials science, and robotics, the company is addressing the unmet challenges of speed, cost, and quality to make metal 3Dprinting an essential tool for engineers and manufacturers around the world. Prior to founding Desktop Metal in October 2015, Ric was a General Partner at North Bridge, a VC fund with $3 billion under management, for five years following a fifteen-year career as an entrepreneur. Fulop is the founder of six technology companies, including A123 Systems, Boston's largest IPO in the past decade and one of the world’s largest automotive lithium ion suppliers with revenue exceeding $500M in 2016. At North Bridge, Ric led the software and 3D investing practices, and was an early stage investor and board member in Dyn (acquired by Oracle for $600 million), Onshape, MarkForged, Salsify, Lytro and Gridco.Ric is a former Board Member of the Electric Drive Transportation Association and holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School where he was a Sloan Fellow.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Hardware
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

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Gridco — Founded in 2010, Gridco Systems is introducing a new class of intelligent power distribution solutions that enable utilities to meet the evolving demands of the 21st century electric grid. Our solutions leverage recent advances in power electronics in combination with distributed intelligent control systems to dynamically manage power distributionbelow the substation with an unprecedented level of predictability and precision.
Vicarious Surgical — Vicarious Surgical, a next-generation medical robotics company, designs technology for minimally invasive surgery with a focus on abdominal access and visualization through a single port.

3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TokerBud — TokerBud, a cannabis website, is known for its exceptional products. Their website is a showcase of diverse cannabis varieties, from traditional flower strains to potent concentrates and appetizing edibles, serving different customer requirements and tastes. The platform's user-friendly design and commitment to superior quality
UberPlug — UberPlug, an eCommerce website, is known for its exceptional cannabis products. Their website is a showcase of diverse cannabis varieties, from traditional flower strains to potent concentrates and appetizing edibles, serving different customer requirements and tastes. The platform's user-friendly design and commitment to superior quality
OnRamp — Move onboarding projects along faster by putting customers at the center of a simple, guided experience. OnRamp is the customer onboarding platform built for customer success and implementation teams.

Lon Chow is a Partner at Method Capital. Lon Chow attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

New Era ADR — Disputes and litigation are a massive distraction and waste of money and time for you and your business. At least $200B is spent on litigation-related costs each year. New Era solves this. With our fully-digital platform and process, organizations and individuals get access to the most experienced arbitrators and mediators in the U.S. The result isfair, high-quality, and fast resolutions of your disputes, saving you up to 90% in legal fees and time, so you can focus on the things that matter in your life and your business.
Regroup — Access expert virtual behavioral psychiatry and therapy with Array Behavioral Care. Book appointments online and explore partnerships to expand mental health services.
Music Audience Exchange — MAX is powered by an insights engine that matches brands to artists and a proprietary marketing automation system for generating and distributing brand new music content to targeted audiences across audio, video, social, and live. The average American spends 35+ hours a week listening to music, which is no surprise because artists are constantlyreleasing new music and scheduling tours. People anticipate new releases, seek out live shows, and want to engage with their favorite artists on social — this creates a massive opportunity for marketers to brand the release of this new music.

Dylan Taylor is based out of Denver, Colorado, and is the Chief Executive Office and Chairman at Voyager Technologies. Dylan Taylor attended University of Arizona.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Xplore — Xplore is flying commercial missions in Earth orbits with their XCRAFT™, and they invite you to join us. They take civilian, commercial and national security payloads to their desired orbit around Earth for their science or reconnaissance missions.
LeoLabs — LeoLabs' network of ground-based, phased array radars produces high-resolution data on objects in LEO, supporting satellite service industries.
Space Forge — Space Forge make super materials in space that cannot be made on earth.

Evan Brown is a Managing Director, Deputy COO at BMO Capital Markets. He attended Dartmouth College from 1991 to 1995.

Investment focus

Chemical, B2B, Agriculture
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

CryptoSlam — An NFT industry data aggregator backed by Mark Cuban. Features project analytics, NFT values, rarity, scarcity, most popular collections, activity history & more.
Datasembly — Datasembly provides brands, CPGs & retailers with unmatched market intelligence - real-time data from every product, every store, every day.
Gradient Health — One of the biggest barriers to accelerating AI development is access to large datasets of labeled pathologies.

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
MagicBlock — MagicBlock Labs is a gaming and technology firm that creates infrastructure for fully on-chain games.
Vanish Trade — Vanish Trade is a Solana-based trading platform focused on anonymity.

Nom is the CEO and co-founder of MonkeDAO.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed

Portfolio highlights

Elmnts — A tokenized commodity ecosystem, backed by real-world assets.
Vanish Trade — Vanish Trade is a Solana-based trading platform focused on anonymity.
Ranger Finance — Ranger Finance is perpetual DEX aggregator that offers deep aggregated liquidity, smart order routing, and comprehensive data insight.

Dhruvil is the founder of LogiNext. As the founder of LogiNext, I have been leading a global SaaS company that provides logistics and supply chain technology platform to enterprises across various industries. Since 2015, we have grown to serve over 200 large clients live in 50 countries, being supported by our offices in the US, India, UAE, andMalaysia. We have also raised over $50 million in funding from marquee investors, and have been recognized by Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Deloitte as one of the fastest-growing and most innovative companies in our domain.My passion for entrepreneurship, technology, and social impact drives me to create products that solve real-world problems and create value for our customers and stakeholders. I have also been actively involved in the start-up ecosystem as a CEO, early-stage angel investor, mentor and co-founder of various initiatives that support and empower aspiring entrepreneurs, especially in US, UAE and India. I have invested in over 50 start-ups across sectors such as SaaS, fintech, edtech, healthtech, e-commerce, and media, and have mentored hundreds of founders and management teams through various platforms and programs.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Retail Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

SpotDraft — SpotDraft's contract management solution has been built from ground up to work with contract management processes of teams of all sizes. Bring your legal agreements to the 21st century with SpotDraft's award winning, AI-driven platform.
Goodmeetings — Transform your sales and customer success teams. Record calls / customer meetings, review AI-curated reels of key meeting moments, human-level summaries / notes. Coach and collaborate with meeting insights
Uniper-care Technologies — With Uniper, members can join the community, contribute at their own pace, and Connect to Life!

Vaughan Brown

Investment focus

Sensor, Aerospace, Oil and Gas
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.

Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
United States, Canada, Algeria

Portfolio highlights

Hideout — Hideout makes high-quality food that is available for delivery. Danielle Sobel established the company in Los Angeles, California.
Abalone Bio — Our Functional Antibody Selection Technology platform (FAST) taps into the potential of the body's biological activities, expanding the reach of antibody drugs.
Altay Therapeutics — Altay Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on finding and discovering small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory conditions. It is currently focused on finding curative therapies for fibrosis, NASH, and liver cancer. It develops novel small molecule drugs against transcriptional regulators that are validated drivers of disease. It wasfounded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
Hoth Intelligence — Hoth Intelligence home page. Space age surgical technology brought down to earth.
Floating Point Group — Floating Point Group is a trading platform provider offering innovative, industry-leading trade execution and settlement

Travis Bradford is the Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is also a full-time Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University, teaching energy and natural resource markets and innovation at SIPA, CBS, and the Earth Institute.Travis is also the founderand president of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, a nonprofit organization focused on harnessing the power of the business sector to develop cost-effective and sustainable solutions in technologies, including energy, water, food, and recycling. Through the Institute, he helped launch many organizations, including Greentech Media and the Carbon War Room.Previously, Travis has been a professor at the University of Chicago and Duke University MBA programs, and has lectured on finance, entrepreneurship, and alternative energy economics at many leading universities in the U.S. His published works include “Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry”, in addition to dozens of global market research reports on all aspects of the energy industry.Travis earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Georgia State University in 1992 and an MBA in 1996 from the NYU Stern School of Business. In 2006, he received an MPA degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has previously worked at the Federal Reserve, as a partner at various public and private equity investment firms, and as a board member of numerous publicly traded, private, and non-profit firms in the US and abroad.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, CleanTech
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Solmentum — Get the premium .com domain you deserve. Seamless and professional transactions. Payment plans available.

Brian Long is the Co-Founder of Triton One. He previously worked at proxyRAIN, LLC as an Owner. Brian Long attended the University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Oil and Gas, Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Elmnts — A tokenized commodity ecosystem, backed by real-world assets.

Prior to founding Silverton Partners, Bill Wood began his venture career in 1984 as a founding partner of Austin Ventures which has since become one of the largest venture capital firms in the country.Bill is a past recipient of both the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur-of-the-Year Award and the Austin Technology Pillar Award, recognizing hislifetime contribution to the development of the Austin technology community.Bill received his BA from Brown University Phi Beta Kappa and his MBA from Harvard Business School.Bill sits on the board of Boundless Network, Javelin Semiconductor, Sailpoint Technologies, Silicon Labs, Tk20 and UnboundID.

Investment focus

SaaS, Cyber Security, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Stoplight — Using Stoplight you can create OpenAPI descriptions, documentation, mock servers much faster than other API tools, with no specialized knowledge required in one centralized platform.
Praetorian — Praetorian helps enterprises reduce cyber risk with continuous offensive security, attack surface management, vulnerability testing, red teaming, and threat intelligence.
MineralAnswers.com — MineralAnswers.com - The ultimate resource for mineral owners and oil and gas professionals to get answers to their oil and gas questions.

Edward Chandler is a founder and managing director of Portage Venture Partners, which manages the Portage, DFJ Portage, and Graystone Venture Funds. He currently manages the firm's investments in Aleri, Centerpost, Cythera, MobileAware, Pericor Science and Vbrick Systems.Prior to forming Portage and Graystone, Chandler was a founder andthe managing principal of Prairie Capital, a venture capital investment firm formed in 1990 to acquire a venture portfolio from the private equity investment subsidiary of Continental Bank. During his tenures at Continental, Prairie, and Graystone, Chandler has served as a director of HNC Software, Inc., Meridian Data, Inc., Worldtalk Communications, Inc., Iwerks Entertainment, Inc., and Datawatch Corp., as well as several other companies which are still privately held.He joined Continental Illinois' venture capital affiliates in 1984. From 1980 to 1982, Chandler was an Associate with the Boston Consulting Group.Chandler holds an MBA from Harvard University, where he graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar. He earned a BA in economics, magna cum laude, from Yale University.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, CleanTech
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Solmentum — Get the premium .com domain you deserve. Seamless and professional transactions. Payment plans available.

Ruslan Kogan is a serial entrepreneur, having created and run many successful businesses. He is one of the pioneers of online retail in Australia, and his Internet ventures have expanded to include a global footprint. His companies have operations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, with much more international expansion planned. Histremendous success made him Australia's wealthiest self-made person under the age of 30. The technology manufacturer and online retailer he created, Kogan.com, has gone on to become the biggest online retailer in Australia, valued at over $400 million.Ruslan Kogan is a regular guest contributor to TechCrunch, Forbes, Gizmodo, and other outlets.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.

Raza Shaikh is the Managing Director of the Launchpad Venture Group.

Investment focus

SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Gravyty — Gravyty's donor engagement and fundraising platform transforms donor experience for proven fundraising results and engages and inspires your community of supporters.
MarketMuse — Our AI-powered software tells you what content to write (and how much) to leverage your experience and rank higher where competitors are weak.
Kuva Systems — MultiSensor Scientific offers a non-thermal optical gas imaging camera platform for detection. Its services focus on gas detection, identification, and safety. The company is currently working on is developing a machine vision software and sensing platform for creating color images of gas leaks across leak inspection and gas safety industries.MultiSensor Scientific was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Craig Scroggie NEXTDC

Investment focus

Sensor, Aerospace, Oil and Gas
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.

Managing Partner @ Jolly VC, LLCFounder and Patent holder - GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 44 pre-IPO technology startups. Frequently invited by accelerators and angel forums to Judge startup competitions and discuss technology innovation. Former IT Consulting industry executive who sold hundreds of millions of dollars inconsulting services to Fortune 500 companies working for Cap Gemini, HCL, L&T, NTT data.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Rentberry — Find your next home for long-term rent in any country at Rentberry.
AtomBeam — AtomBeam is a software company that is developing an artificial intelligence driven ecosystem of algorithms and computational paradigms that will transform the way data is transferred and stored, dramatically reducing the size of data transferred but without adding latency, using only modest computing power. This technology has profound benefitsfor a very large number of applications, in particular IoT and edge computing. The technology's advantages are unmatched and give it a wide range of uses: a) it can act on very small packet sizes, enabling it to stream data, b) computational latency is near zero, c) it is not sensitive to data errors, and c) it provides random file access. It has the potential to be virtually universal, especially in IoT.
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Stepan Simkin is the co-founder of Squads.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Oil and Gas, Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Elmnts — A tokenized commodity ecosystem, backed by real-world assets.
Regolith Labs — Regolith Labs is the operator of a software company dedicated to assisting token airdrops in defending against sybil assaults and spam.
Exponent Finance — Exponent Finance is a Solana Network DeFi fixed price market that creates time-locked tokens that can generate set returns or be traded for yield.

Joel Moxley - Patner @ Echelon

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Remedy — Remedy is a prescriptive chronic care analytics platform employing artificial intelligence to help value-based health systems determine who should get what care, when, how, and by whom to maximize patient health outcomes per dollar spent. We are a design-driven company with core medical AI technology capable of diagnosing disease, catching hiddenhigh-risk diagnoses, and projecting the development of patient’s health into the future. Built around our core AI engine, our first product Remedy Sentinel helps value-based providers identify hidden chronic, co-morbid conditions and intervene by engaging high-risk patients prior to onset. We envision a world where healthcare marries the science of “health” with the art of “care”: scientific, data-driven decision making drives the best outcomes for each individual patient, and frees providers to focus on applying their human touch.Remedy combines novel artificial intelligence algorithms for predictive medical analytics with a healthcare-optimized product development process to give leaders the tools they need to transform their delivery networks and thrive in a value-based care environment. With this approach, Remedy builds a scalable suite of products that, when deployed, learn from experience, and grow into a solution optimized to fit the needs of specific provider groups and the populations they serve.Remedy systematically maximizes the patient health outcome achieved with each dollar spent by using AI to help determine what care is delivered to whom, when it is delivered, where it is delivered, how it is delivered, followed, and supported, and who should deliver it. We not only surface insights, but also build the necessary tools and helps coordinate step-by-step implementation processes to affect real change.
Vestorly — Vestorly is a technology company whose award-winning AI-driven Content Management Engine (CME) unleashes the power of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to leverage content across different business activities. Vestorly’s content engine combines the primary components of content marketing and management together tointelligently curate original and third-party content. It does three things exceptionally well; content discovery, content filtering, and content personalization to deliver game-winning customer engagement, lead generation, and brand intent for major brands and publishers. Vestorly’s content management engine is built to meet the content compliance needs of FINRA, SEC, IIROC, HIPAA, and FCA regulated companiesVestorly was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
TO THE MARKET — TO THE MARKET is the turn key solution for ethical manufacturing and sourcing of apparel, accessories and home goods. We enable the supply chain of the future, in which retail manufacturing empowers people, protects the planet, and delivers quality products that result in a better bottom line.

Abhi Desai

Investment focus

Drones, Sensor, Robotics
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Ki Hydrogen — Creating the world's most affordable green hydrogen and biogenic carbon.
Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.

Jake Zeller is a Venture Hacker at AngelList and investor in early-stage technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Fashinza — New Generation Supply Chain And Product Development Platform For Fashion Industry. No matter where you are! We provide one stop solution from design to delivery.
Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
dWallet Labs — dWallet Labs Ltd., based in Tel Aviv, Israel, a cybersecurity company specializing in blockchain technology, is building SingleWallet, the first interface to interact with dWallets on the Odsy Network. The mission of dWallet Labs is to build protocols and solutions on top of the Odsy Network.

Risk Management professional, experienced in Stress Testing and Capital Planning. Economist, Investment Analyst, Financial Consultant. Interested in FinTech.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Nada — Finance, Invest and Bank your real estate.
DigiBuild — DigiBuild develops a construction management software that utilizes blockchain technology. It captures transactions from all of the different systems being utilized on the project and puts them into a filterable, searchable, and comparable project timeline to remove the waste and fraud for better data insights and decision making that will stopbudget overages.
Upright — Meet Upright, the good for you go-to. Our first product is a category-defining high-protein, allergen-free Instant Oatmilk in three creamy, delicious flavors: original, vanilla, and chocolate. Each tasty cup of our oatmilk packs the same key nutrients as dairy, without the unwanted allergens or environmental impact.

Bill Gates is the Co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended Harvard University.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TerraPower — Leading innovations in nuclear applications for reactor and storage technology, while advancing methods to transform the fight against cancer. Learn about our projects, mission, and impact.
Inflection AI — Inflection AI is a machine learning startup that engages in redefining human-computer interaction.
Lucy Therapeutics — Lucy Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotech with a unifying mitochondrial platform, is developing small molecule treatments for neurological diseases.

Philippe Suchet joined Spider Capital as Venture Partner in 2015.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Israel, France

Portfolio highlights

Qwak — Build, deploy, maintain, and monitor ML models and features in a single platform.
Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
Nilos — Pay, track and reconcile your crypto wallets and fiat accounts in one platform.

Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is an Australian former politician who was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He served twice as Leader of the Liberal Party, firstly from 2008 to 2009 when he was also Leader of the Opposition and a second time from 2015 to 2018. He was the MP for Wentworth in the House of Representatives from 2004 to2018.Turnbull graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws, before attending Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a Bachelor of Civil Law. For over two decades prior to entering politics, he worked as a journalist, lawyer, merchant banker, and venture capitalist. He served as Chair of the Australian Republican Movement from 1993 to 2000 and was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful "Yes" campaign in the 1999 republic referendum. He was first elected to the Australian House of Representatives for the Division of Wentworth in New South Wales at the 2004 federal election and was Minister for the Environment and Water from January 2007 until December 2007.After coming second in the 2007 leadership election, Turnbull won the leadership of the Liberal Party in September 2008 and became Leader of the Opposition. However, his support of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme proposed by the Rudd Government in December 2009 led to a leadership challenge by Tony Abbott, who defeated Turnbull by a single vote. Though initially planning to leave politics after this, Turnbull chose to stay and was later appointed Minister for Communications in the Abbott Government following the 2013 federal election.Citing consistently poor opinion polling for the government, Turnbull resigned from the Cabinet on 14 September 2015 and challenged Abbott, reclaiming the leadership of the Liberal Party by ten votes. He was sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia the following day. At the 2016 federal election, Turnbull led the Coalition to victory by a single seat, the smallest majority since the 1961 federal election. In August 2018, a challenge by Peter Dutton led to two Liberal leadership spills. When the second spill motion passed on 24 August 2018, Turnbull did not contest the ballot and subsequently resigned as Prime Minister. Treasurer Scott Morrison defeated Dutton in the contest. Turnbull resigned from parliament on 31 August 2018, triggering a by-election in his former seat of Wentworth. The Liberal Party lost the by-election to independent candidate Kerryn Phelps, which resulted in the Coalition losing its majority in the House of Representatives.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, SaaS
Series C, Seed, Series B
Australia, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

NexWafe — NexWafe will supply high quality wafers to solar cell producers .Their wafers will be fully compatible with common cell and module fabrication .They will be available at a fraction of the cost of standard wafers.
Emerald AI — Emerald AI creates a platform that enables AI data centers to adjust power consumption from electricity grids dynamically. This system orchestrates computing loads across data centers to bolster grid reliability. The technology aims to advance AI innovation while ensuring power affordability and electric system stability.
GlassPoint Solar — GlassPoint provides solar steam generators to the oil and gas industry for applications such as Enhanced Oil Recovery. It replaces gas-fired steam generation with solar, GlassPoint can reduce EOR gas consumption by up to 80 percent. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fremont, California.

founder of Hicks Oilfield

Investment focus

Analytics, Real Time, Oil and Gas
Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Seismos — Discover Seismos Inc., a leading technology provider for the Oil & Gas industry. Our innovative suite offers non-invasive fracture property measurements and real-time analytics, empowering data-driven actions. Join thousands of U.S. plays benefiting from our award-winning solutions.

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting
Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zeigo — Zeigo by Schneider Electric provides sustainability software for efficient carbon reduction and supply chain decarbonization, aiming for a carbon-free future.
Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.

Business Travel magazine recently named Concur’s CEO S. Steven Singh among the ’25 most influential people in travel’. Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR), is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions.S. Steven Singh has served as Concur’s Chief Executive Officer since 1996 and as a director since 1993, including service asChairman of the Board of Directors since September 1999. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Singh was General Manager of the Contact Management Division at Symantec Corporation, an international technology firm focused on protecting information and computer systems.Mr. Singh serves as Chairman of the NBTA Foundation Board, serves on the board of directors of RightNow Technologies, AdReady and Washington Roundtable.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

MinIO — MinIO's High Performance Object Storage is Open Source, Amazon S3 compatible, Kubernetes Native and is designed for cloud native workloads like AI.
Modumetal — Modumetal has enabled a revolutionary new class of nanolaminated materials with broad application in structural, corrosion and high temperature performance of coatings, bulk materials and partsModumetal is based on the interaction of different materials at their interfaces. By laminating metals, Modumetal creates a new way to influence materialproperties. By growing metal using low-cost electrochemical methods, Modumetal enables a whole new class of applications of these materials.Modumetal is currently producing nanolaminated alloys for applications in construction, energy and aerospace markets.
Pioneer Square Labs — PSL is a startup studio and early-stage venture capital fund in Seattle, WA.

Austin Federa is based out of New York, New York and is the Co-Founder of DoubleZero. Austin previously worked at the Solana Foundation as a Head of Strategy. Austin Federa attended Lawrence University.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Web3, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Upexi — Upexi is a multi-faceted brand owner that focuses on direct-to-consumer and Amazon brands. The company pursues organic growth for its present brands while operating in sectors with high growth trends. The objective of Upexi is to keep gathering consumer information and develop a sizable client database across all markets we serve.
Elmnts — A tokenized commodity ecosystem, backed by real-world assets.
ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.

Simon Rothery is the CEO of Goldman Sachs.

Investment focus

Sensor, Aerospace, Oil and Gas
Series A, Series B, Private Equity
Australia, United States

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Whizz — Whizz makes managing your household easy! Book online or through the APP. Whizz has over 2,500 professional service providers ready. Book today.
FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.
Synergis — Synergis Fund is a scalable wholesale investment fund transforming disability housing in Australia.

Jordan Grives

Investment focus

Sensor, Aerospace, Oil and Gas
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.

Mert Mumtaz, Co-founder & CEO at Helius.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Web3
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Commonware — Commonware is a startup that supplies developers with a "anti-framework" — effectively all of the building pieces for developing a blockchain — in order to go beyond the era of standardized, general-purpose software kits.
MagicBlock — MagicBlock Labs is a gaming and technology firm that creates infrastructure for fully on-chain games.
Warlock Labs — Warlock Labs is a provider of an omni-chain liquidation engine that improves the safety and profitability of decentralized protocols by recapturing the maximum extractable value.

Patrick Collison is a CEO of Stripe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Fundamental Research Labs — Altera build digital human beings that live, love and grow.
Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.

Neal Shear is the former Global Head of Commodities at Morgan Stanley and former CEO of Cheniere Energy.

Investment focus

Energy, FinTech, Wholesale
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Apis Point Energy — Apis Point Energy provides innovative price stability and risk management solutions for fuel wholesalers, distributors, and commercial buyers. Its proprietary platform offers forward contracts with fixed prices, ceilings, or floors on physically delivered refined fuels and natural gas liquids (NGLs), enabling clients to effectively manage fuelcosts amid market volatility. Apis Point helps fuel distributors offer stable and competitive pricing to their customers, which enhances customer loyalty and supports longer-term commitments. The platform uses advanced analytics to provide real-time forecasting and strategic market insights, streamlining complex hedging processes so clients can focus on their core business of delivering energy.

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
MagicBlock — MagicBlock Labs is a gaming and technology firm that creates infrastructure for fully on-chain games.
Vanish Trade — Vanish Trade is a Solana-based trading platform focused on anonymity.

Kemal Farid is the General Partner of L37. He Previously worked at Merrick Systems as a Founder, CEO, Board of Directors Member. Kemal Farid attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Oil and Gas, DIY, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Seismos — Discover Seismos Inc., a leading technology provider for the Oil & Gas industry. Our innovative suite offers non-invasive fracture property measurements and real-time analytics, empowering data-driven actions. Join thousands of U.S. plays benefiting from our award-winning solutions.
Kraftwurx — Kraftwurx is the world's platform for 3D printing in the cloud. With 74 materials and more than 121 production facilities worldwide, kraftwurx is the vanguard of the democratized manufacturing movement.Established in 2011, Kraftwurx is the brainchild of co founders Chris Norman and Kevin Hasley. kraftwurx is a spinout of Digital Reality, acompany established in April 2006 who first demonstrated mass customization using browser-based interactive controls with a website of the same name.Kraftwurx was awarded the first of several patents for mass customization in September 2011 called Made to Order Digital Manufacturing Enterprise. The patent claims priority filing date to provisional application filed in 2006. The patent is embodied in a product called Digital Factory. The company claims 6 additional co pending CIP applications scheduled to award in 2013-2014.Kraftwurx operates under the concept of an Edge Manufacturing Network which attempts to optimize cost and location of production using computerized algorithms that include decision making including load balancing, production scheduling, supply chain optimization, nesting, stacking and other quality parameters that collectively optimize production worldwide. All features covered by utility patent.Products in the system exist only as a 3D model stored on a computer hard drive until the item is requested to be produced on demand. This methodology creates both optimized manufacturing and disruptively lean manufacturing by eliminating inventory and providing limitless product variety without warehousing.
Data Gumbo — Data Gumbo is the smart contract company trusted by global industrial enterprises. The only network of enterprises and their customers, suppliers and vendors that successfully incorporates real-time sensor level and field data to validate transactions, GumboNet™ reduces costs by more than 10% for all network members by automatically eliminatingpayment delays, disputes and complicated reconciliations.To date, Data Gumbo has received equity funding with Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, the venture subsidiary of Saudi Aramco; Equinor Ventures, the venture subsidiary of Equinor, Norway’s leading energy operator; and L37, a hybrid venture capital and private equity company. Data Gumbo is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with global offices in Stavanger, Norway, and London, UK. For more information, visit www.datagumbo.com.