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Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United States in May 2026

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Publishing startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United States in May 2026

Investor Publishing United States investments
Joanne Wilson 6
William Lohse 4
Mitch Kapor 4
Hesham Zreik 3
David Tisch 3
Andrew Anker 3
Michael Lazerow 3
Tim O'Reilly 3
Darian Shirazi 3
Gary Vaynerchuk 3
Dharmesh Shah 3
Avichal Garg 3
Thomas Lehrman 3
Ramzi Alatri 3
Balaji Srinivasan 3
Joao Kepler Braga 3
John Legend 2
Dan Mannix 2
Bill Warner 2
Kass Lazerow 2
Nir Zohar 2
Brian S. Cohen 2
Matt Rolandson 2
Giora Kaplan 2
Prince Amukamara 2
Pete Flint 2
Mike Verdu 2
John Landry 2
Elio Leoni Sceti 2
Erik Moore 2
Jeremy Yap 2
Geoff Ralston 2
Marc Andreessen 2
Henri Lastenouse 2
Sean Bratches 2
Ram Shriram 2
Bashar Hamood 2
Barry Honig 2
Tarun Poddar 2
Thomas Glocer 2
David Kalt 2
Matthew Kaness 2
Mike Homer 2
Albert Azout 2
John Battelle 2
Cyan Banister 2
Matt Finick 2
Alex Algard 2
Brad Flora 2
Geoff Entress 2

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Joanne Wilson
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Joanne Wilson is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gotham. Joanne Wilson attended Simmons College.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

  • Lately — Lately uses AI to create your social media content and manage your social media marketing and social selling programs.
  • Switchboard — Switchboard's service design, coaching, and software offerings generate real results for higher ed teams and institutions.
  • Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
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William Lohse
Angel · Reno, Nevada, United States

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Social Media, Advertising
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
  • Manifest — Manifest is a product ads platform that helps retailers realize the potential of their catalogs by determining which products to promote across Facebook, Google and others. Customers have used Manifest to optimize over 14 million products in 4 billion ads and have generated over $70 million in ROI-positive revenue. Beyond retargeting,Manifest's Matching Engine helps retailers prospect for new customers as well as activate and re-engage existing customers by exposing them to products they have not yet discovered. Top retailers including Neiman Marcus, Gilt, One Kings Lane and LivingSocial use Manifest, which is backed by investment from First Round Capital, Softtech VC, Cowboy Ventures, and others.
  • SmartNews — SmartNews is the award-winning news app loved by millions. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble. Our algorithms evaluate tens of millions of articles, behaviors and social interactions to deliver only the most interesting and important stories on a global scale—a fascinatingengineering challenge that has attracted a world-class data science and engineering team. SmartNews won numerous “App of the Year” awards and has been downloaded by more than 35 million people and has over 10million monthly active users. SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York. Join our international culture—smart work, smart people and a global mission to bring quality information to the world. Travel between our amazing offices in the U.S. and Japan, and collaborate with coworkers from around the world.
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Mitch Kapor
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Education
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Copia — From one location to thousands, from produce to pizza to paper towels, Copia is the app that makes it easy to donate surplus.
  • Pigeonly — Pigeonly offers reliable inmate communication services, including phone calls, photos, and mail. Stay connected to your loved ones in prison easily and affordably.
  • Flow Laboratories — Buildings are getting smarter except water. Current water management methods are painfully manual and lead to over $10B in annual water damage losses. Our first solution automates water data collection and reporting. This not only improves operational efficiency but also dramatically reduces water damage exposures.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Credit Cooperatif Africain — Crédit Coopératif Africain is a Rwandan microfinance institution established as a private limited company and subsidiary of SCIAC Ltd.
  • Primelocation care givers foundation — Primelocation care givers foundation is the promoter and sponsor of an 80-bed secondary..
  • Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity — Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity is a faith-based non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated.
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David Tisch
Angel · New York, New York, United States

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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

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Investment focus

  • Content, Publishing, Digital Media
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Byliner — Byliner provides current promo codes, vouchers, and deals from online shopping sites. We help you get verified coupons and save more in 2026.
  • PandoDaily — Always on Employee Progression
  • Federated Media — As the largest TV station operator in the U.S. reaching nearly 39 percent of households, Nexstar Media Group offers unrivaled audience access and influence.
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Michael Lazerow
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Advertising
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Israel, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
  • Torre.ai — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
  • Mint Songs — Music artists create NFTs with Mint Songs. Our toolkit and marketplace helps you mint 1/1 music NFTs that you can sell to fans and collectors. Own your creative, own your community in web3.
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Tim O'Reilly
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc. Considered by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Strata: The Business of Data, the Velocity Conference on Web Performance and Operations, andmany others. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O'Reilly's early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online, PeerJ, Code for America, and Maker Media, which was recently spun out from O'Reilly Media.Maker Media's Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution.

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Investment focus

  • Publishing, Software, Analytics
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Medium — Medium is an open platform where readers find dynamic thinking, and where expert and undiscovered voices can share their writing on any topic.
  • Metabiota — Strengthening global capacity to improve health outcomes and mitigate infectious disease threats. Metabiota strives to protect lives and to prevent, detect, and respond to the impact of outbreaks and epidemics on human and animal health, healthcare infrastructure, and global health security. Metabiota provides experience, training, and insights. Managing, stopping, and preventing epidemics requires global health expertize and capacity.
  • ElevenLabs — Create lifelike speech with our AI voice generator and voice agents platform. Access 5,000+ voices in 70+ languages with secure APIs and SDKs.
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Darian Shirazi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Darian Shirazi is the Managing Partner of Gradient.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Twenty (YC S23) — Building a better Salesforce, powered by the Open Source community.
  • Twenty — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.
  • Harmattan AI — Building the Future of Autonomous Warfare.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Stan — We work 1-on-1 with the Top Creators to monetize their business
  • OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
  • Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.
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Dharmesh Shah
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • CrewAI — CrewAI is a multi-agent automation platform for enterprises to automate complex tasks. With its automation platform, organizations can deploy and manage AI agents to automate complex tasks and to value across a wide range of use cases, from research and analysis to coding and reporting.The company also offers a range of advanced new featuresincluding self-iteration, performance evaluation, persistent memory, and a range of new agent collaboration structures.
  • Persana AI — Hyperpersonalized AI enables businesses to easily identify qualified leads, surface customer insights and send personalized outreach at scale.
  • Twenty — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.
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Avichal Garg
Angel · Stanford, California, United States

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Blockchain, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • Key AI — Unlock new networking and career opportunities with Key, the leading AI-powered professional networking platform. Build and manage communities, host and join exclusive events, and create meaningful connections to supercharge your growth all in one place.
  • Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
  • Bluenote Health — Bluenote Health operates as an AI platform for life sciences.
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Thomas Lehrman
Angel · New York, New York, United States

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Education, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
  • G2 — Compare the best business software and services based on user ratings and social data. Reviews for CRM, ERP, HR, CAD, PDM and Marketing software.
  • Journeyfront — Journeyfront helps you get hiring right. Hiring accuracy solves costly problems including low job performance and turnover before you even hire.
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Ramzi Alatri
Angel

A result-oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. Having worked with many Venture Capital firms around the world, Ramzi has acquired a lot of expertise in the investment area and especially in small-sized and medium-sized businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Information Services, Mobile Apps
  • Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Flyrent — A platform allowing people to share private flights.
  • NewsAnalyse — NewsAnalyse is news crawler, analyzer, and matcher. It crawls and extracts news from major newspapers and news agencies online. It analyzes the content of the news to extract main entities such as location, people involved, time and organization. The engine identified topics or themes in the news. It can also resume the news. NewsAnalyse has also alearning component whereby the system will learn the preferences of each user through their likes and rating and then use that info to filter or suggest important news to the user.
  • BookThatBook — BookThatBook offers a solution where sellers and buyers of books can discover each other and exchange books. The solution asks the customer to define the type of book (school, university or other) and thus enable easier search and matching. The solution is available as a mobile app and accessible also through HTML5 from feature phones or fromPC/laptops.
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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
  • Blitz Electric Mobility — Blitz provides electric vehicles and fleet management software to food and beverage delivery, courier, and logistics companies.
  • Blueprint Bryan Johnson — On the surface, Blueprint may seem something about health, wellness and aging. It's really a system to make tomorrow better for you, me, the planet and our shared future with AI.
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Joao Kepler Braga
Angel · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Joao Kepler Braga is a partner at Bossa Nova Investimentos.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Financial Services, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Plano — Plano brings financial education for people to achieve financial goals.
  • Vista Fintech — Vista Fintech connect financial planners with clients using technology.
  • Abler Recrutamento Digital — For companies that are struggling to hire, Abler is a platform that compares requirements and skills, facilitates management and simplifies communication by offering simplicity, automation and better experiences through technology. For professionals looking for job opportunities and suffering from the lack of references and evaluations in the jobmarket, Abler is a platform that through the comparison of requirements and skills, guides and indicates opportunities according to their profile providing feedbacks, automation and better experiences for candidates.
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John Legend
Angel · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

John Legend is a nine-time Grammy Award winning recording artist, critically-acclaimed concert performer, philanthropist/social activist, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. Legend’s debut album, Get Lifted (2004) sold more than three million copies worldwide and earned an astounding eight Grammy nominations withthree wins for Best New Artist, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B album. Legend’s follow-up album, Once Again (2006) earned RIAA platinum certification and a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. High off the success of his third consecutive Top 10 album, Evolver (2008), Legend embarked on an extensive world tour with an 11 piece band - his largest traveling show to date. Inspired by the monumental 2008 Presidential election, Legend teamed up with The Roots to release the socially conscious album, Wake Up! (2010.) The album was nominated for five Grammy Awards and won Best R&B Album, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B song (for “Shine”- an original composition also featured in Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim’s documentary film Waiting for Superman) along with two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Album and Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration. In 2007, Legend launched the Show Me Campaign, a nonprofit organization fighting poverty around the world. John also sits on the Boards of The Education Equality Project, Teach for America, and the Harlem Village Academies. Legend has been honored several times for his activism, including the 2010 BET Humanitarian of the Year award, the 2009 CARE Humanitarian Award for Global Change, and the 2009 Africare’s Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award. In early 2012, Legend released one of the hottest songs of his career, the RIAA gold-certified hit “Tonight (Best You’ve Ever Had),” which sat atop the Urban AC radio chart for six consecutive weeks. Legend recently released his fifth studio album Love in the Future, with executive producers Kanye West and Dave Tozer, and will embark on a North American tour this autumn.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Beauty, Retail
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • BirthFund — Standing in the gap for families, one birth at a time.
  • Tally Health — Founded to change the way we age, Tally Health helps you unlock a new biological destiny and slow cellular aging. Find out your biological age with our proprietary diagnostic test and get personalized Action Plans and unique daily supplements. Based on cutting-edge longevity research, so you can live better, longer.
  • Fantasy Life — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
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Dan Mannix
Angel

Dan Mannix is a Co-Founder, Stealth Mode Startup. He Attended University of Richmond during 1985-1989.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Sports, Publishing
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Opendorse — The best NIL deal marketplace for athletes to build and monetize their name, image, and likeness value. Support your favorite collegiate athlete.
  • X2 Performance — X2 Kawhi Leonard offers energy drinks, pre workout powder and pre workout shots that naturally produce sustained energy. Get 10% off promo code SAVE10.
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Bill Warner
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Bill loves the process of starting and building great companies. In 1987 he started Avid Technology, Inc. They built a great product and a great team, and today Avid is the world leader in video, film, and music editing systems.In 1991 Bill started Wildfire Communications along with co-founders Nick d’Arbleloff, Rich Miner, and Tony Lovell. Theybuilt a ground-breaking speech-based electronic assistant that worked over the phone. Wildfire was sold to Orange, PLC in 2000.In 1999 Bill started FutureBoston which built advanced mapping tools that let you understand the story of a place by looking precisely aligned maps over time. This is now the Boston Atlas – a great online resource maintained by the Boston Redevelopment Authority.In 2002 he created a shared workspace called the Collaboration Space at Warner Research, in Cambridge, near Fresh Pond. Bill believes that shared workspaces are one key to creating the energy and relationships for startups. Now called the Brickyard Collaboration Space, it is run by the owner of the building.Starting in 2004, and continuing to today, he began work on a book about “How to Build Your Startup From the Heart.” This book is based on my experiences and on what he has learned from angel investing over the years.In 2008, Bill worked with Tom Hopcroft and Heather Johnson at MassTLC, they created a new type of conference focused on helping early stage entrepreneurs. Called the MassTLC Innovation unConference, the most recent event sponsored 160 entrepreneurs and gathered over 600 people to help them.Bill’s focus now is on helping entrepreneurs with tools that are part of my Build Your Startup From the Heart work. One of those tools is very early stage investing, usually about $25,000. He generally likes to be the very first money into the company. He is willing (and even prefer) investing so early that the only traction is in the entrepreneur’s head. Bill chooses his investments based mainly on the entrepreneur, and not on the details of the idea.

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Investment focus

  • Finance, Crowdfunding, Film
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Testive — Testive combines technology with human coaches to keep your college-bound kid on track and ready to conquer the ACT or SAT.
  • Seed&Spark — Crowdfunding, events and community that celebrate diverse voices and foster vibrant conversation. Find your next spark of curiosity, inspiration and community!
  • FORTIFIED Bicycle — Hoki178 adalah situs slot88 online terbaik dan judi slot online terpercaya yang menyediakan berbagai provider slot gacor resmi dengan jackpot besar dan rtp live slot tertinggi.
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Kass Lazerow
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Kass is a successful entrepreneur with extensive experience in marketing, consulting and business operations.Kass has founded several successful companies. Prior to Buddy Media, Kass founded GOLF.com, which was sold to Time Inc. in 2006. At GOLF.com, Kass served as co-founder, President and COO, where she helped take the company from an idea toa multi-million dollar consumer internet company.In her current role as co-founder and COO of Buddy Media, Kass’ responsibilities include managing the day-to-day operations of the business, including marketing, PR, general operations, HR and more. This multifaceted position allows Kass to leverage her understanding of the internet and her experience as a proven entrepreneur.

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Investment focus

  • Publishing, Social Network, Apps
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Tile — Tile Bluetooth trackers help you find your keys, wallet, phone and everything that matters. Join the world's largest lost and found community and never lose anything again.
  • Torre.ai — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
  • Mashable — Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
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Nir Zohar
Angel

Nir has been with Wix since 2007 and he’s been the driving force behind the successful scaling of the company's operations from a small start-up into an international company serving tens of millions of users. Nir spearheads all efforts to develop and implement Wix' strategic plans geared towards accommodating the company's growthobjectives and business goals.Prior to joining Wix, Nir was the Budget and Production Manager for two years at M.B. Contact Ltd., a private Israeli event production company. Before that, Nir worked for The Jewish Agency and the Israeli Scouts. Nir’s experience stems from his position as Lieutenant Commander and Chief Engineer in the Israeli Navy.On his day off you catch him reading or avidly following the NBA scores.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Publishing, B2B
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
  • Villiger — Villiger provides an app that unites parents and their support network within a private social network where they can share stories, recommendations, and resources, as well as book and pay for services.Users can download the app and upload friends to their Village via Facebook Connect or their address book.The platform allows parents to sharetheir support network within a “Trusted Village,” then receive recommendations, advice, requests and contacts within the Village. The platform provides direct booking and payment for a variety of support providers including sitters, tutors, music teachers, housekeepers, coaches, and more.
  • Demostack — Deliver tailored demos that drive discovery, build connection, and win more business.
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Brian S. Cohen
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Considered one of the fathers of science & technology strategic communications - founded Technology Solutions, Inc. in 1983. Client list read like a who's who list of startup technology companies in computing, communication, software, education, and entertainment. Maintained a strategic communications partnership with Sony & IBMCorporation (10 years). Received the Gold CIPRA award in 1998 for the IBM Deep Blue/Gary Kasparov Chess Match. In 1996, TSI was recognized as the #1 fastest growing agency in the United States. Sold the company to The McCann Erickson World Group in 1997 and became the Vice Chairman. Created Focus Technology, an organization that provided qualitative research and instituted the RPM model of integrated strategic communications providing ultra-competitive technology clients the ability to quickly discover and leverage their key strengths as well as mitigate their destructive weaknesses.Brian was a pioneer in the founding of a number of the first computing publications including Computer Systems News and InformationWeek magazine. Now serves as Chairman of the New York Angels. He is very devoted to the New York City startup community.Developed the AIMS (Applied Internet Media Studies) Program, a senior/graduate level college semester program where students will be rigorously trained to use the internet professionally.Frequent speaker on strategic communication, entrepreneurism and early startup investing. Now writing a book for McGraw Hill - a new organizational product launch model.Received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, holds a Masters Degree in Science Communications from Boston University's School of Communications.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Authorea — Authorea is a provider of a collaborative platform that is designed to read, write, discuss, and publish research. Its platform serves as a powerful document editor for researchers and provides collaborative editing, automatic citation formatting, tracking changes and it has the ability to make any document public or fully private that enablesresearchers to write documents together and attach references, figures, data, and source code. It improves how researchers work and make breakthrough discoveries by tackling one of the most important parts of the research cycle which is communication.
  • CourseHorse — CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
  • Boundless Mind — Thrive Global's mission is to end the burnout epidemic with sustainable, science-based solutions that unlock employee performance and enhance well-being through our behavior change technology.
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Matt Rolandson
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States

Matt Rolandson is a Partner at Ammunition.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Social Media, Events
  • Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Seen — Seen’s mission is to connect people more deeply to the world and their collective stories by making every event visible. New tools for a new type of media, Seen identifies signal in the noise of the real time web, reconstructing stories from their social data. At the heart of Seen is an engine that can automatically surface real-time trends withinfeeds. Seen is built on Google award-winning research, and was selected as one of the first companies for The New York Times incubator initiative,
  • Thington — Thington is a San Francisco-based company, founded by Dopplr founder Matt Biddulph and ex-Yahoo Brickhouse Head of Product Tom Coates is building out a new consumer-facing product that combines Smart Home technology with their expertise in location, social networks and the web of data.
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Giora Kaplan
Angel

Giora Kaplan is our Co-Founder, and has served as our Chief Technology Officer since March 2008, was our Co-Chief Executive Officer from 2006 to March 2008, and has served as one of our directors since 2006. From 2004 to 2006, he served as a technology and product management consultant to several start-up companies.Giora was the founder andChief Executive Officer of Promotix Technologies Ltd., an Internet advertising and publishing company, from 1999 to 2001. He also co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer or Optimedia Ltd., an electronic and online publishing company, from 1992 to 1999. Giora served in the Israeli Defense Forces' elite computer intelligence unit from 1988 until 1991.

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Investment focus

  • Video, Internet, Software
  • Series A, Seed
  • United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Apester — Supercharge your marketing and funnel with interactive content experiences that generate more leads, engage and convert users, and boost retention
  • OpenWeb — It's time to save online conversations
  • SHOWBOX — Showbox is a cloud-based video creation platform that enables Brands, Online Marketplaces and Websites to provide their communities with fully controlled, easy-to-use, video creation tools, ensuring high quality results.
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Prince Amukamara
Angel · Greater Phoenix Area, Arizona, United States

Prince Amukamara

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Investment focus

  • Apps, SaaS, Sports
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Joy — Create a free wedding website with 600+ templates, a zero-fee cash registry, smart RSVP, guest list tools, and a matching mobile app. Join millions of couples planning with Joy.
  • Opendorse — The best NIL deal marketplace for athletes to build and monetize their name, image, and likeness value. Support your favorite collegiate athlete.
  • Ember Technologies — Ember is a design-led temperature control brand and technology platform, whose mission is to revolutionize the way people eat, drink and live. Founded by inventor and serial entrepreneur Clay Alexander, Ember creates, designs, and develops temperature control products that offer people complete customization.Named one of TIME magazine’s BestInventions, the award-winning temperature control Ember Travel Mug² and Ember Mug² are the most advanced coffee mugs on the market, allowing individuals to set and maintain their preferred drinking temperature for hot beverages.Ember’s temperature control smart mugs are available in over 10,000 retail doors in 27 countries worldwide, including top retailers such as Best Buy, Apple, Williams Sonoma, Bloomingdale’s, and Target.Ember is applying its innovative temperature control technology to new categories, including healthcare and infant feeding.
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Pete Flint
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Pete Flint is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Oxford.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Peek — Peek is a booking software and marketplace for fun things to do. Choose from over 20k virtual and in-person experiences for travelers and locals.
  • Instashowing — Instashowing is on a mission to simplify showing management, helping agents and consumers get to closing faster.
  • Hippo Insurance — Hippo Insurance Services offers a different kind of home insurance, built from the ground up to provide a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Our goal is to make homes safer and better protected so customers spend less time worrying about the burdens of homeownership and more time enjoying their homes and the life within. Harnessingreal-time data, smart home technology, and a growing suite of home services, we are creating the first integrated home protection platform. Hippo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas, and insurance products available to more than 80 percent of U.S. homeowners in 37 states. Hippo Insurance Services is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies.
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Mike Verdu
Angel · Cardiff By The Sea, California, United States

Mike Verdu is the VP of Games at Netflix.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Software, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Azarus — Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways. The core of the Azarus network is a 'smart-challenge' system that creates a new dynamic between and among Streamers and Gamers. As part of the pilot program, Azarus will allow a select number of Rainbow 6 Streamers, viaa proprietary Twitch extension, to award tokens to Viewers who correctly answer real time questions about their streams. Get creative, define your own rules and start challenging your friends on games you love.
  • Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
  • Rogue Games — Rogue Games is here to make your craziest, wildest, and even unhinged gaming dreams a reality. We publish your games irreverently.
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John Landry
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

John Landry has spent nearly 30 years helping people connect with one another while building world-class software companies. John is currently Managing Director of Lead Dog Ventures, a business accelerator providing emerging technology enterprises access to a well-developed network of relationship, technology and financial capital. John wasVice President for Technology Strategy at IBM where he discovered and evaluated new technologies emerging from new companies for IBM's corporate strategy. Prior to IBM, John was senior vice president of development and CTO at Lotus Development Corporation in Cambridge, MA.Prior to Lotus, John served as senior vice president and CTO at Dun & Bradstreet, Cullinet Software, Distribution Management Systems, and McCormack & Dodge. Additionally, Landry has served as Chairman/CTO of Agility Systems acquired by Dun and Bradstreet, Chairman of Narrative Communications acquired by Excite@Home, Chairman/CTO of Anyday.com acquired by Palm and Chairman/CTO of Adjoin Solutions acquired by Computer Associates.John has been a director of over 36 companies, and is currently a director and investor in several private high technology companies. He is a long-time Trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and an Overseer of Boston's Museum of Science. He holds a BA in Finance from Babson College, where he serves as Trustee and part-time instructor.

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Investment focus

  • News, EBooks, Finance
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Zagster — Zagster is a transportation provider offering turnkey bike-sharing systems. The company designs, builds, and operates private bike-sharing programs for universities, corporate campuses, hotels, and residential communities across the United States.Moreover, Zagster provides customers a complete bike sharing solution - including system design,installation, sharing technology, maintenance, rider support, and marketing services.Zagster was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
  • Peach — Brighten your workday with hand-picked lunches delivered from top local restaurants. Sign up today at peachd.com.
  • Prolific Works — Accelerating Great Stories and Big Ideas
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Elio Leoni Sceti
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Elio Leoni Sceti is the Co-founder & Chief Crafter of The Craftory. He previously worked at Beamly as a Chairman & Seed Capital. Elio Leoni Sceti attended LUISS Guido Carli University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Lifestyle, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

  • Meural — Meural is a provider of an art technology platform designed to offer a digital frame to render images lifelike and textured. Its art technology platform combines art, technology, and design to create a digitally connected canvas built to showcase artwork and photography that provide consumers with newfound access to art from the past, present, andfuture while meaningfully improving the personal space.It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.
  • Fabula AI Limited — Fabula AI is now part of Twitter on 31 May 2019
  • Narwhal Media Group — Narwhal Media Group provides complete digital services specializing in branding, marketing, and designing. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Bristol, UK.
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Erik Moore
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Erik Moore is the Founder and Managing Director of Base Ventures, an early-stage tech venture fund. He was one of the first investors in Zappos (sold for 1.2B to Amazon) and an early investor in Plangrid, sold to Autodesk for $875mm. Prior to Base Ventures, Erik spent 15 years in investment banking at Merrill Lynch. He recently joined the boardof the Common Ground Foundation, founded by Grammy, Oscar and Emmy award winning artist, Common, and he currently serves as a board member for P.A.C.E, a private philanthropic group. He was recognized as #10 on a list of the top 25 most influential blacks in tech by Business Insider (John Thompson, Chairman of Microsoft was ranked #1). He mentors and advises several known professional athletes. Erik earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College, an MA in French from the University of Pennsylvania, and his MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

  • Swapbox — Swapbox is an easy and convenient delivery system that enables people to send and receive packages using a Swapbox kiosk. The kiosks, which are completely automated, are situated in convenient locations including grocery stores, petrol stations and coffee shops, meaning that customers do not need to rush to the post office by 3pm to send theirpackages. Customers simply place their item/s in the Swapbox kiosk and input their details using the touchscreen. The recipient then collects the package from a local Swapbox using the code they received through text or email. Swapbox sets itself apart by focusing on consumer satisfaction, experience and convenience.Swapbox is currently available in San Francisco and Santa Clara.
  • Pigeonly — Pigeonly offers reliable inmate communication services, including phone calls, photos, and mail. Stay connected to your loved ones in prison easily and affordably.
  • Share Practice — Share Practice helps doctors identify and understand the most effective clinical treatments based on the success of other doctors.
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Jeremy Yap
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Snaplet — Snaplet gives developers production-accurate data and preview databases they can code against, so they can focus on shipping. Ditch the seed script forever!
  • Dust — Break down knowledge silos and amplify team performance with data-augmented, customizable and secure AI agents. Deploy in minutes, no coding required.
  • Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable digital future
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Geoff Ralston
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Education, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, India, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

  • Elpha — Elpha is where women succeed at work together. Become a member to access daily conversations with experts, insider job opportunities, and a lot of women talking candidly about work and life. Plus membership is free!
  • Aesthetic — Aesthetic is the easiest way to discover and purchase NFTs across chains.
  • Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
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Marc Andreessen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
  • Phi — Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities
  • Quillette — What is Quillette? Quillette is an Australian based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. We are politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values. Quillette hosts the Quillette and Quillette Cetera podcasts, and every year we throw Quillette Socials for our
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Henri Lastenouse
Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium

Henri Lastenouse - Equity Partner @ 20 STM

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Investment focus

  • Real Time, Journalism, Publishing
  • Angel, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Storify — Turn what people post on social media into compelling stories. With Storify, you collect the best photos, video, quotes from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and more to publish them as simple, beautiful stories that can be embedded anywhere. It's the best way to capture an event whether it's a news event, a conference, a product launch, awedding, ...Social media streams flow, but stories last.
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Sean Bratches
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Sean Bratches was named Managing Director of the Formula 1® Commercial Operations division in January 2017.With three decades of leadership, management and operating experience at multi-billion dollar scale in the media, entertainment, and sports business. He spent 27 years at ESPN where for 10 years he served as Executive Vice President of Salesand Marketing.Sean lead a sales and marketing team that provided national advertisers access to ESPN and its media, marketing and content platforms. He was also responsible for the first unified sales organization that represents The Walt Disney Company’s premier collection of sports assets across all media platforms.In addition, he oversaw all distribution, licensing, marketing for the domestic cable and satellite networks of The Walt Disney Company to its linear and emerging multi-channel affiliates. In 2010, his team introduced the first live, streaming cable channels online and on mobile devices through WatchESPN.Sean was also responsible for ESPN’s marketing efforts including the development, direction and implementation of all branding, creative services and marketing for its growing media businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Sports, SaaS, Casino
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Opendorse — The best NIL deal marketplace for athletes to build and monetize their name, image, and likeness value. Support your favorite collegiate athlete.
  • Boom Entertainment — Boom Entertainment creates world-class products for the online gaming era. That includes slot machine games, innovative sportsbook products and free to play sports applications. We work with media companies, pro sports leagues, retail brands, and casinos.
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Ram Shriram
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000. From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company. Prior tothat, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation. Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Madras, India.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
  • Manifold Labs — Manifold Labs is a decentralized AI infrastructure company.
  • Unbound Security — Protect AI apps and agents with Unbound AI security
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 9 investments in the past 12 months

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.
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Barry Honig
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Barry Honig - CEO @ Majesco Entertainment

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Investment focus

  • News, SaaS, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Polymorph — Native ads are ads that seamlessly integrate into your feed, homepage, search results, and more.
  • Rant — Rant, Inc. and its expanding internet property lineup have established itself as an innovator in online media consumption. Known for the well-established brand RantSports, Rant, Inc. has recently launched RantLifestyle and RantChic to expand its reach towards the areas of lifestyle, fitness, exercise, entertainment, and celebrities.Co-foundersBrett Rosin and Grant Brown founded the company in 2010 in Winfield, Illinois and began to build and manage a rich collection of 155 sports team blogs that would eventually blossom into one centralized hub known today as RantSports. In 2012, RantSports expanded its operations to offices in Downers Grove, Illinois and San Francisco, CA and in 2013, the San Francisco, CA office expanded and moved to Laguna Beach, CA where it launched new web properties. In January 2014, the company moved to a new office in Irvine, CA where its 24 full-time employees complement its expansive writing staff.
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Tarun Poddar
Angel

Tarun Poddar an accomplished entrepreneur and business leader, has made significant contributions to the Indian start-up ecosystem in Finance industry. As the India Head and Managing Director of Foxhog Ventures Corp, Tarun has played a pivotal role in providing funding and support to numerous aspiring entrepreneurs, especially in rural areas of thecountry. With a diverse background and a passion for empowering others, Tarun has garnered recognition and acclaim for his achievements in the business world. Early Life & BackgroundBorn on March 16, 1994, Tarun Poddar spent his formative years in Delhi, India. He pursued his education in different boarding and private schools in the city. Despite the lack of extensive family support, Tarun displayed exceptional drive and determination from an early age. During his first year of graduation from Delhi University, he embarked on his professional journey by joining a Delhi-based Edtech Startup called "SMART SCHOOL EDUCATION PVT.LTD" as a sales executive, earning a monthly salary of INR 13,000. After a brief stint, he joined his mother's NGO, "SHAKUNTALA FOUNDATION," where he played a pivotal role in establishing its reputation and impact.Tarun's ambition led him to Bangalore, where he aimed to improve his family's lifestyle. He completed his Bachelor of Science degree from Delhi University in 2015. Subsequently, he joined Aegis Ltd, a BPO company, and served there for three months. Tarun's unwavering determination and entrepreneurial spirit continued to guide him toward his future endeavours.CareerTarun Poddar's professional journey has been marked by remarkable achievements and notable leadership roles. After gaining valuable experience working with established organizations such as Apple Singapore, Aegis Ltd, and Sonata Software, Tarun founded Foxhog Ventures in March 2020. The primary objective of Foxhog Ventures was to provide funding and support to Indian start-ups, allowing them to fulfil their entrepreneurial dreams. Under Tarun's guidance, Foxhog Ventures expanded its network by bringing various venture capitalists, bankers, and angel investors on board. Through Foxhog Ventures, Tarun facilitated investments in a wide range of sectors, including agriculture, technology, edu-tech, beauty, fashion, real estate, healthcare, aerospace and more. The company also established subsidiaries like Budding Beats, Foxhog Academy, COOK N EAT, Indian Cyber Army, Sumanchna Springedge Healthcare, and Foxhog Small Finance. Tarun's leadership and strategic vision have helped shape the success and growth of these ventures, making a lasting impact on the Indian business landscape. Under his leadership, Foxhog Ventures filled the draft to raise INR 630 crores via IPO.EducationBsc. From Delhi University & MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • News, Information Technology, Non Profit
  • Grant, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • SUCCESS — Business New Survey Shows Airbnb Has Bad Blood With Neighbors: What It Means for Homeowners, Hosts and Hospitality By Veronica Booth Only 40% of Americans | SUCCESS
  • Saint Agnes Healthcare — In 1862, The Daughters of Charity began Saint Agnes Hospital, carrying on their centuries-old mission of service. The first Catholic hospital in Baltimore, Saint Agnes was originally created to provide nursing care for the poor. The facility moved to its present location in 1876 and was reorganized as a full-service hospital in 1906.In 1999,Saint Agnes’ parent organization, The Daughters of Charity National Health System, joined the Sisters of St. Joseph Health System to create Ascension Health, the largest non-profit health care organization in the nation. As the current parent organization of Saint Agnes Hospital, Ascension Health is dedicated to reaching new heights in health care and service to our communities, as well as serving as a model for faith-based health care throughout the world.At Saint Agnes Hospital, they believe that the care we provide our patients is second to none. They offer a full range of health care services and are proud that the doctors, nurses and health care professionals on our staff are the best in the industry. We believe it is our privilege to serve the people of the Baltimore/Washington area and to care for all patients who enter our doors.
  • Budding Beats Magazine — Budding Beats is a USA based Business magazine run by Foxhog Ventures Corp. A venture capital firm based at California USA.The magazine Focuses on stories of young and dynamic personality, business and people from different verticals including Healthcare, Investment, lifestyle, hospitality and more.The magazine has 3 platforms including web,Emagazine and print edition with the circulation of good numbers of copies in India and USA.Magazine claims their Copyright for BB MAGAZINE,BUDDING BEATS INDIA, BUDDING BEATS USA, BB HUMANS,BB UNDER 30 & BB SAYINGS.
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Thomas Glocer
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Analytics
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Superlegal — Superlegal, the world's #1 contract automation platform, is the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to negotiate and close deals.
  • Cradle — Using robust prediction algorithms and AI design recommendations, Cradle assists biologists in rapidly designing better proteins. Cradle gives you complete ownership of the intellectual property while maintaining the privacy and security of your sequences and data.
  • Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
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David Kalt
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States

David's background is a blend between entrepreneurship, building technology firms, and a passion for music and gear. David Kalt is the founder and CEO of Reverb.com, an online marketplace for used, vintage and handmade guitars and gear. Kalt is also the owner of the Chicago Music Exchange, one of the world's largest vintage guitardealers.Prior to launching Reverb.com, Kalt was the cofounder and CEO of online broker optionsXpress (#10 on the 2005 Inc 500 list), which went public in 2005 and was sold to Schwab in 2008 for $1 billion.Kalt was also the founder of ClientBASE, the first CRM solution for travel agents and tour group operators, which is now offered by the Sabre Travel Network.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Music, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • 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.
  • Songfinch — Give a unique gift with an original song from Songfinch. The perfect gift for anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, wedding or just to say "I love yo...
  • Fleet Device Management — Open-source IT and security for teams with lots of workstations and servers. (Linux, macOS, Windows, cloud, data center, OT/ICS, Chrome)
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Matthew Kaness
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Matthew Kaness

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Investment focus

  • Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Italic — Life is luxury
  • Maker Wine — Craft canned wine, delivered to you. Maker works with the best small producers to bring you award-winning, zero sugar, minimal intervention wines in cans.
  • Interlace Ventures — Interlace Ventures is a seed stage fund partnering with ambitious founders in their first round of financing in the future of retail. We leverage our years of international entrepreneurial experience to help bring companies from seed to growth with time and care.
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Mike Homer
Angel · Atherton, California, United States

Mike Homer

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Investment focus

  • Content, Publishing, Advertising
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • InfraSearch — Infrasearch, Inc. offers person to person information sharing services. The company is a provider of distributed, peer to peer search engine and networking technology. Infrasearch, Inc. is based in Burlingame, California. As of March 14, 2001, InfraSearch, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  • Federated Media — As the largest TV station operator in the U.S. reaching nearly 39 percent of households, Nexstar Media Group offers unrivaled audience access and influence.
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Albert Azout
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Albert Azout is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Level Ventures as well as a Partner of Cota Capital and a Managing Director in Cota Ventures II. Albert has a B.A. in Finance and Economics from Babson College.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, News, Automotive
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Qwiki — Qwiki is an industry leader in automated video production. Most recently, Qwiki released an iPhone app that automatically turns the pictures and videos from a user camera roll into brief, beautiful movies to share.
  • DeepScale — Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!
  • WaveOne — Building AI-native video.   WaveOne is leveraging the latest advancements in machine learning and deep learning to reinvent the way video is compressed, transported, stored, and analyzed.
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John Battelle
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

John Battelle is co-founder, executive chair at Recount Media.

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Investment focus

  • Publishing, Digital Media, Analytics
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • NewCo — Through events and business partnerships NewCo connects people with businesses on a mission.
  • Flymachine — Flymachine is a virtual venue for live entertainment that brings the immersion and community of real life performances to the digital realm.
  • The Hustle — Sign up for the free, 5-minute newsletter keeping 2M+ innovators in the loop with stories on business, tech, and the internet.
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Cyan Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Social Media
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Remynt — Remynt is revolutionizing debt recovery by enabling creditors to recoup revenue from non-performing delinquencies and empowering consumers to rebuild their credit.
  • Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
  • Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.
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Matt Finick
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Matt Finick is a Member of the Board of Directors of MELON. He attended Skidmore College.

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Investment focus

  • Comics, Gaming, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Voyceme — Read action-packed and diverse English-originated webcomics, comics, webnovels, manga, and manhwa/manhua for FREE. Download the VoyceMe app now and connect with your favorite creators or monetize your stories while building a dedicated fanbase.
  • LOVO — Your Voice for Metaverse. Capture the most realistic AI voices on the web.
  • MELON — MELON is the metaverse's premier development studio.
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Alex Algard
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Alex Algard is the Founder and CEO of Hiya. He attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Social Media, Internet, Payments
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Ekata — Global customer identity verification and fraud prevention for the payments, ecommerce, and financial services industries. Trusted by 2,000+ companies worldwide.
  • Swarmia — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a demo or a free 14-day trial.
  • Trestle — Your partner for quality identity data APIs. Trestle provides the identity data APIs you need to create, develop and reinforce customer relationships. Contact Sales API Docs Find new customers, build better relationships. Trestle's foundation is wide and deep, spanning many ethical data sources with valuable and unique customer insights. Reverse Phone API Your most promising
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Brad Flora
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
  • Truewind — Using AI to power bookkeeping & finance means less errors, more transparency, and faster monthly close
  • Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.
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Geoff Entress
Angel · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group. Prior to PSL, Geoff was the most active angel investor in the region and has invested in over 200 private Pacific Northwest companies during the last two decades.Geoff represents PSL on the Board ofDirectors for JetClosing. He is also a current investor in over eighty private companies in the region and is a board member of Hiya, Meritage Soups, Bonanza, Foodee and LiquidPlanner.Geoff is also a long-time member of the Executive and Screening committees of the Alliance of Angels, the largest angel investor organization in the Pacific Northwest, as well as serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington, the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame and the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, he has also held positions at Perkins Coie, Jones Day, UrbanEarth.com, Salomon Brothers, The Prudential Home Mortgage Company, Mellon Bank, Priority Investment Management and Duquesne Capital Management. Geoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

  • Migo, Inc. — Founded in 2016, Migo is a free mobile search app for personal transportation, helping consumers choose the best way from Point A to Point B.
  • Lockstep — Connected accounting starts at Lockstep. Eliminate cash traps with our AR automation software and discover our modern, easy-use accounting API platform.
  • Trainiac — Trainiac by Gympass helps you get into an effective exercise routine by pairing you with a dedicated fitness coach for a personalized fitness plan and weekly workouts you can do anywhere. Available exclusively for Gympass members.
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