# Top 50 Photography Angel Investors in June 2026 ## Reid Hoffman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy. ## 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. ## Friedrich Georg Hoepfner - Type: Angel - Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Video Friedrich Georg Hoepfner - Managing Director @ Hoepfner Brau ## 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. ## Michael Jones - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce Mike Jones is an internet executive, investor, and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful company in college and since then has founded, built, and sold numerous online and mobile businesses.As the co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Science, Inc., Mike brings together the best talent, resources, andfinancing through a centralized platform to build and invest in technology businesses. In 2016 alone, three of Science’s portfolio companies saw big exits -- HelloSociety was acquired by The New York Times, Dollar Shave Club was acquired by Unilever, and FameBit was acquired by Google. His experience and expertise in both large and small companies focuses on strategy, growth, and operational efficiency, resulting in over $2.6B in successful investor outcomes.Prior to Science, Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with joint venture partners in Myspace China and Myspace Japan / Softbank. During his tenure, he was responsible for the relaunch of Myspace, one of the most high-profile turn-around challenges in the industry ## Daniel Curran - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com. ## Gary Vaynerchuk - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College. ## Ned Lamont - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: News, Video, Journalism Edward Miner "Ned" Lamont, Jr. is founder of Campus Televideo.Ned is a twenty-year veteran of the cable television industry and founder of the Company and assists in the management of over one hundred and thirty cable systems nationwide.A graduate of Harvard College and Yale School of Management, Ned managed the start up ofCablevision of Connecticut's 50,000 subscriber addressable system in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Lamont joined the board of Directors at Conservation Services Group in 2007 with a hiatus in 2010 while he ran for CT governor.Lamont has also been active in public service as former Chairman of the State Advisory Board overseeing the $20 billion pension fund, a teacher in entrepreneurship to high school in Bridgeport, CT, and a policy member at The Brookings Institution.Lamont is also a politician who in 2006 defeated the prominent incumbent Senator, Joe Lieberman, for Connecticut's Senatorial Democratic nomination. ## Leo Chan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Audio, Mobile, Hardware Leo Chan is currently a member at Sand Hill Angels. He has over 25 years of experience in delivering enterprise software to market and building scalable internet applications, most recently with Xignite, the leading financial market data cloud service. Leo had previously launched ConnectedWorld LLC, an enterprise instant messaging software company,and assisted a Silicon Valley venture capital group in the establishment of Savvio.com, an internet travel company. Leo managed the database engineering team at Zip2, an online media firm, until it was acquired by AltaVista, prior to developing start-up companies from the ground up. Leo began his career at Oracle, where he held positions as an engineer and a senior manager, and was a member of the team that helped expand UNIX sales from less than $50 million to over a billion dollars in 1996. He was also a key figure in the development of the first web-based database management system, as well as the award-winning "self-tuning database" idea. Leo graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Master's degree in Operations Research from M.I.T. ## Jeremy Yap - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe. ## Scott Banister - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan. ## Bradley Harrison - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS Bradley C. Harrison is based out of Austin, Texas, and is the founder and managing partner of Scout Ventures. Bradley previously worked at BHV as a founder and managing partner. Bradley C. Harrison attended the MIT Sloan School of Management. ## Joachim Bernecker - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Joachim Bernecker ## Alex Welch - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Internet, Social Media, Information Technology Alex Welch - CEO and Co-Founder @ Lasso Media ## Thibaud Elziere - Type: Angel - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin. ## Shaula Alexander Yemini - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: iOS, Apps, EdTech Dr. Shaula Alexander Yemini is a startup mentor, board member and advisor to several technology companies. She is also an angel investor. Until 2007, Shaula was a Vice President at EMC. She joined EMC in 2005 with the acquisition of SMARTS (System Management Arts), a developer of network and system management software that she founded and led asCEO from inception. SMARTS counted among its customers the leading global telecoms, global banks, and multi-national enterprises, as well as thousands of others. Shaula was named as 1 of 10 “Leaders Among Leaders” in Information Technology by Information Week Magazine, and selected as an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Her company SMARTS was an INC 500 company, a Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 company, and won other prestigious awards. ## Shervin Pishevar - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop. ## Jed Carlson - Type: Angel - Location: Durham, North Carolina, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: iOS, Apps, Mobile Jed is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on technology and marketing. He is the CEO of Adwerx, a company committed to providing digital marketing tools that are affordable, effective and accessible to everyone. Previous ventures include SmartPrint, a division of AmeriDisc Inc, and ReverbNation, the music-marketing platform with 3.5 million users.Jed is obsessed with taking on the digital challenges that face small businesses, and building scalable, simple and affordable products to solve them. He is also a trusted advisor and investor in the startup community. He has an MBA from Duke University and lives in Durham with his wife and three children.Before earning his MBA from Duke University, Jed was a successful entrepreneur in Minneapolis with a focus on technology and marketing. His past ventures include The Carlson Print Group, a commercial printing and packaging company, and SmartPrint, a division of AmericDisc Inc. Jed continues to be obsessed with taking on the digital challenges that face small businesses, and building scalable, simple and affordable products to solve them. He is also an active angel investor, mentor and advisor to over ten tech startups.Jed Carlson is also a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences on technology and digital marketing. Jed’s commitment to leveling the playing field for small businesses is equal only to his devotion to guiding other entrepreneurs to success. ## Thomas Lehrman - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Education, FinTech Thomas D. Lehrman is the Board Director at Gerson Lehrman Group.He is a Co - Founder and former Co - Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. Thomas Lehrman most recently served as Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the President's WMDCommission. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Financial Analyst at Tiger Management. He is also a Co - Founder & Board Member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program. Thomas Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and Yale Law School. ## Chris Bouwer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Photography Chris Bouwer ## Adrian Hanauer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Tourism, Internet Adrian is the majority owner of The Seattle Sounders professional soccer club of the United Soccer League, and a part of the ownership group recently granted a Major League Soccer expansion franchise in Seattle (beginning play the 2009 season). He is among the largest shareholders in the Cambridge United Football Club and has promotednumerous international soccer matches. Outside of soccer, Adrian has more than 15 years of business success in a variety of industries, and has invested in numerous early stage technology companies in advertising, infrastructure, and wireless communications. He recently co-founded technology incubator Curious Office Partners, which has invested in or developed multiple technology companies. He owns one of the largest picture framing chains in the United States, a chain of pizza restaurants and, with his family, owns the nation's largest manufacturer of pillows and bedding products. Adrian was an early investor in Amazon.com and a seed stage investor in aQuantive Inc, the largest interactive advertising company recently acquired by Microsoft for US$6 billion. He was also an early investor in Amazon.com. Adrian is involved in many organizations in Seattle and sits on the advisory board of The University of Washington Intercollegiate Sports Master's Degree Program. He also is on the Board of Trustees for the Museum of History and Industry. ## Garry Tan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Garry Tan is based out of Mountain View, California and is the President & CEO of Y Combinator. Garry Tan attended Stanford University. ## Max Jennings - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Marketplace, Photography Max Jennings is the Co-Founder at Console. ## Adam D’Angelo - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Adam D’Angelo is a Founder and CEO of Quora.He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure to ensure scalability as the site expanded.Prior to serving as CTO, Adam led the FacebookPlatform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed, ad targeting and delivery, and worked on scalability and optimization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology. ## 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. ## William O. Perkins, III - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Video, Apps, Audio Bill Perkins is the Founder, Managing Partner & CIO of Skylar Capital Management. He previously worked at Brisa Max Holdings VI as a President. Bill Perkins attended the University of Iowa. ## James Vincent - Type: Angel - Location: Venice, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Blockchain, Photography James Vincent currently works as the founder & CEO at FNDR. He previously worked at Media Arts Lab as founder. James Vincent attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1985. ## Jenny Lefcourt - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle. Jenny earned her B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1998 she left Stanford to found Wedding Channel.com (sold: XOXO). In 2003 she co-founded Bella Pictures (sold: CPI). In 2014 Jenny joined Freestyle,and was promoted to GP in 2015. Some of Jenny’s notable investments include BetterUp, Crexi, Daily.co, Embark, Ridwell, Narvar and WELL Health. She is also a founding member and board member of All Raise. Jenny is an angel investor in Discord, MainStreetHub and Minted. ## Matty Soudagar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Blockchain, Photography Matty Soudagar ## Joi Ito - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Information Technology Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018. ## Roham Gharegozlou - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas ## Marc Randolph - Type: Angel - Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D - Focus: Apps, Internet, Software Marc Randolph founded Netflix in 1997, serving as the online movie service's founding CEO, as the executive producer of it's web site, and as a member of it's board of directors until 2004. Since leaving Netflix he has been an active investor, executive mentor and consultant for numerous early stage tech companies.Prior tofounding Netflix, Marc was a co-founder of numerous other tech start-ups, including IntegrityQA, Visioneer, Microwarehouse, and MacUser Magazine.He currently sits on the boards of Rafter, ReadyForce, Getable, Looker and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); as well as on numerous advisory boards. ## Caterina Fake - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Retail Caterina Fake is the Co-Founder and General Partner and Investor of Yes VC. She previously worked at Should This Exist? as a Host. Caterina Fake attended The New School. ## Giordano Contestabile - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Software CEO - Bloglovin' (www.bloglovin.com). Mobile veteran, angel investor with focus on consumer mobile and e-commerce companies ## Mason Ng - Type: Angel - Location: San Mateo, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Venture Capital, Mobile, Finance Mason Ng - Technology and Product Leader @ Verizon Media ## Sofia Vergara - Type: Angel - Location: Barranquilla, Atlantico, Colombia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Internet, Advertising Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara is a Colombian-American actress and model.Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network Univisión in the late 1990s. Her first notable acting job in English was in the film Chasing Papi (2003). Subsequently, she appeared in other films, including FourBrothers (2005) and two Tyler Perry films: Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009), receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter. Vergara's success on television has earned her roles in films The Smurfs (2011), New Year's Eve (2011), Happy Feet Two (2011), The Three Stooges (2012), Escape from Planet Earth (2013), Machete Kills (2013), Chef (2014), and Hot Pursuit (2015). In 2012, 2013, and 2016, she was the top-earning actress on US television.Vergara stars on the ABC series Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2014, she was ranked as the 32nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. ## Florian Heinemann - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation). ## Will Herman - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software Will Herman is an active angel investor, corporate director, author, and startup mentor. He was previously a serial entrepreneur, having started five companies, taking two of them public. Will is an adviser at the hardware incubator, Bolt, and a mentor at TechStars. He lives and works mostly in the Boston area. ## Joshua Schachter - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## David Heller - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Fitness, Hardware David B. Heller is the Co-founder and Co-chair of the Raga Investment Committee. ## Derek Andersen - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, SaaS, Video Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 50+ cities community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. In 2013 Startup Grind will host 20,000 entrepreneurs at 300 events in 20 countries. After founding Vaporware Labs in 2009, he incubated many products (most of which failed spectacularly) including Startup Grind andprofessional social network Commonred. In 2012 Commonred was sold to Income.com.He is also Ex-Electronic Arts where he worked on games like Burnout, Mirror's Edge, The Sims, and Need For Speed. Having spent 8-years living outside the United States, he currently lives in Palo Alto California with his wife and two children. ## Jonathan Beddoes - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Photography, Film, Video Jonathan began his entrepreneurial career at school aged 17 when he founded a web-hosting company which sold within its first year of trading. After developing an early taste of business success, whilst at university Jonathan co-developed a popular music software application that was downloaded by over 30,000,000 people. For his post-graduatestudies, Jonathan was the youngest person ever to complete a Masterclass in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Following academia, Jonathan joined Zugo in 2008 (a leading search solutions platform and aggregator) that became a cornerstone of distribution for major search engines (most notably Microsoft Bing). In late 2012, Jonathan exited from Zugo and subsequently co-founded Techtopia, a technology incubator located in the heart of 'silicon village' in North West London. Today, Jonathan remains a director of Techtopia, a product visionary, angel investor and an ambassador for the Internet industry. ## 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. ## James Hong - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Internet James Hong ## Yariv Gilat - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Photography, Apps Yariv Gilat is a Tectona ## Guy Kawasaki - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Apps, Internet, Software Guy Kawasaki is the Chief Evangelist of Canva. He previously worked as a co-founder of Alltop.com. ## Safa Rashtchy - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Health Care, Software Safa Rashtchy is the founding Managing Partner of Think + Ventures and a a Silicon Valley investor, advisor, and trendspotter. Safa and sits on the boards of several start-ups and global organizations. Safa has been an Investor/Advisor in AppliedBoard, Angellist, Bina Technologies (acq. by Roche) , Uber, OpenGov, Payjoy, Nimble VR (acq. byFacebook), Signifyd, CleverSense (acq. by Google) and many other investments. Overall, Safa has invested in 30 start-ups, with six exists all to public companies. Safa has pioneered the concept of "Consumer Value Proposition" and the Four-Stage Investment Research Model.From 1997 to 2007, Safa was a Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst focused on Internet media and marketing, and the Lead China analyst at Piper Jaffray and Company. He led the firm’s expansion efforts in the Internet industry and its expansion to China, as well as active involvements with leading Web 2.0 companies. Safa’s current investment portfolio consists of companies focused on Digital Health, consumer, media, and technology innovations, with deep attention to the the value proposition for the users. ## Darren Patterson - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Sports, Travel, Banking Mr Patterson has more than 20 years’ experience working with both start-up and blue-chip technology companies spanning Australia, Europe, US and Asia. As a leading senior executive, his experience includes telecoms, IT, digital media and venture capital. Mr Patterson is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Alchemy Ventures, an ESVCLP venturecapital fund established to invest in teams and ideas which changes lives and industries, whilst having a positive impact on human and environmental wellness.Mr Patterson's international experience has seen him hold senior business development roles with Yahoo, ECI Telecom, Energis Communications / Cable and Wireless PLC and Cisco Systems. He has been an investor in technology ventures Abyss Solutions, Persollo, Republic Capital Management, Firstwave Cloud Technology, Lumific and Datasift where he secured investment from US venture funds.Most recently he was the CEO and Co-Founder of Australia’s only regulated property investment platform, BrickX, and was CEO and executive director of Property Connect Holdings (ASX:PCH).Mr Patterson holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Directors. ## Greg Slyngstad - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Travel, Leisure Greg is an internet entrepreneur who spent 15 years at Microsoft and was GM/ founder of Expedia.com before leaving to co-found VacationSpot.com. VacationSpot.com was sold to Expedia and Greg rejoined Expedia as Exec VP. Since leaving Expedia in 2002, Greg has invested in and advised multiple startups including Roost.com and Kayak.com where heserves on the boards. ## Christian Vollmann - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.