# Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in June 2026

## Joanne Wilson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail

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.

## Sven Fund
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Publishing, Digital Media, Information Technology

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

## Miles Morland
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Education, Publishing

Miles co-founded DPI in 2007 after having become non-executive Chairman of Blakeney Management (Blakeney) in July 2006 by which time the firm was considered to be one of the largest portfolio investors in many African stock markets. Blakeney was set up by Miles in 1990, first as a consultancy and, since 1994, as an asset management firm, investingin Africa and the Middle East. Blakeney was one of the first investors in many African markets and Miles played an active role in the development of markets in countries such as Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya and Tunisia.Before starting Blakeney, Miles spent 22 years in money management and investment banking in London and on Wall Street.Miles is also on the boards of SABMiller plc, the world’s second largest brewer and SouthWest Energy (BVI) Ltd, an Ethiopian oil exploration company. He was the founder and chairman for five years of the London Business School’s Africa Board. He read Law at the University of Oxford. Miles is a British citizen.

## Ali Omar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

## Tim O'Reilly
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Publishing, Software, Analytics

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.

## Mitch Kapor
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Education

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.

## William Lohse
- Type: Angel
- Location: Reno, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Advertising

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

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.

## Thomas Glocer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Analytics

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

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Simon Franks
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Health Care, Payments

Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org)

## Alain Bankier
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Publishing, SaaS, Video

Alain Bankier is an Operating Partner to the Management Company. Mr. Bankier is a serial entrepreneur and an active early stage investor, with over 20 years of experience investing in early stage and start-up companies. Until late 2013, Mr. Bankier was Co-President and chief executive officer of The Manischewitz Company. In 2002, Mr. Bankierco-founded the Saveur Food Group (“SFG”) to create, acquire and build branded food companies and in 2008 Manischewitz was merged with SFG. In the mid 90’s, Mr. Bankier was the co-founder of a leading New York based angel investment group, which was the precursor of the New York Angels. As a leading member of the New York Angels, Mr. Bankier invests in a wide variety of technology, media and content companies, as well as companies in France and Israel. Mr. Bankier is a board member and advisor to a variety of companies and has been instrumental in achieving exit opportunities for several of these business. Combining his operating experience and his knowledge of the technology startup world, Mr. Bankier has focused on investment opportunities which leverage technology and data to disrupt, or add efficiencies, to traditional media and manufacturing industries. Before being involved as the chief executive officer of operating companies, Mr. Bankier was a founder of an international boutique investment bank, which he sold to BNP Paribas and where he remained as the head of mergers and acquisitions-corporate finance North America for over 10 years. Mr. Bankier has a has a BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, a BS in economics from The Wharton School and an MBA from New York University and from HEC, Paris.

## Michael Lazerow
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Advertising

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

## Andrew Anker
- Type: Angel
- Location: Half Moon Bay, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Content, Publishing, Digital Media

Andrew Anker

## Brian S. Cohen
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

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.

## David Tisch
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

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

## Alexander Chesterman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.

## Avichal Garg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stanford, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Internet

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.

## Toon Coppens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Sales Automation

Toon Coppens (Belgium, 1981), graduated as a Master of Science in Informatics at the University of Ghent.In june 2000, during his first year at university, he successfully launched the first Belgian social networking site, which later became Redbox.be.He is the co-founder of Massive Media, the social media company behind the successfuldigital brands Netlog.com and Twoo.com. Massive Media enables members to meet nearby people instantly. Today, Over 80 million people have joined our sites on web and mobile.Toon lives in Ghent (Belgium) and London (UK), loves snowboarding and used to deejay and play volleyball a lot.>> Toon's personal Netlog (dutch)>> Twoo.com (dutch)

## Ramzi Alatri
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Information Services, Mobile Apps

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.

## Dharmesh Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS

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

## 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.

## Michael Leeman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Publishing

Michael is the San Diego based Senior VP Business Development for Cognician, a self coaching and behavior change platform based in San Francisco. He is also a shareholder and director.
Michael also has array of investments in and advisory roles with a number of other start ups, including Gyft, Yola, ChessCube and Skyrove.

## Samuel Kwame Boadu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Focus: News, Publishing, Digital Media

Editor-In-Chief @ Accra Sports News
Editor-In-Chief & Founder @ Accra Street Journal


## Joao Kepler Braga
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS

Joao Kepler Braga is a partner at Bossa Nova Investimentos.

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).

## Dave McClure
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.

## Darian Shirazi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Darian Shirazi is the Managing Partner of Gradient.

## Thomas Lehrman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Marc Andreessen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

## Bob Pasker
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Bob Pasker - Founder @ Bob Pasker's Syndicate

## Avi Fogel
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

Avi is a principal at Majorlee Investment Corp, an asset management firm based in NYC, investing in private equity angel investment, public technology companies and income generating investments. Avi is also an active member in two angel groups - New York Angels, the largest angel group in New York, and Launchpad Venture Group of Boston.Prior to the current role Avi was an Exec-In-Residence at American Capital Strategies, the chairman and CEO at ProActivity, Inc, which he sold to EMC in mid-2006, and a Venture Partner at Infinity Venture Capital

## Prince Amukamara
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Phoenix Area, Arizona, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Sports

Prince Amukamara

## Karl Jacob
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, Quintana Roo, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, E-Commerce, Software

Karl Jacob is the Founder and CEO of LoanSnap. He was a Founder and CEO at Wallop. He attended the University of Southern California in 1992.

## Pete Flint
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce

Pete Flint is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the General Partner of NGX and a Board Member of On Me. Pete previously worked at Peek as a Board Member.  Pete Flint attended the University of Oxford.

## John Legend
- Type: Angel
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Beauty, Retail

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.

## Geoff Ralston
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Education, Social Media

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

## Pierre Schurmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Finance, Software

Pierre Schurmann is the Founder & CEO at Nuvini. He attended Nova Southeastern University.

## Morton Meyerson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Content, Marketing

Morton Meyerson is a director at ChaCha, a mobile Q&A service that enables advertisers and marketers to reach and engage with their customers in real time.

## Pieter Casneuf
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SEO, SaaS

Pieter Casneuf

## Scott Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Dan Mannix
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Sports, Publishing

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

## Julian Farrior
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Film, Comics

Julian Farrior

## Didac Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Banking, Real Estate

Prior to founding Galdana Ventures, Didac has been an entrepreneur for more than 20 years, funding more than 15 tech companies (among others: Inspirit, TradeInn, Fhios, Peninsula, Threepoints - Planeta, Safe365) which today account for more than 800 employees and €300 million turnover.Dídac is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Galdana Ventures.With 1B USD fund invested in Silicon Valley (50%), China (30%) and Europe (20%), Galdana Ventures is considered one of the best performing Venture Capital Fund of Funds globally.Dídac is a former Board Member of FC Barcelona, he served on the Board for 10 years from 2010 to 2020. Since 2018, he was Head of Digital, an internationally recognized reference in its field, with 370M followers in social media and more than 100M Euros in turnover. Among Lee´s achievements at FCB, one of the biggest is the leading of the digitalization of the Club; his legacy is applauded by many. During his career, Dídac has received several awards, including the following: Doctor Honoris Causa (Universidad del Siglo 21), Entrepreneur of the Year (Pimec, 2019), Business Angel of the Year (AEBAN, 2019), Best European Startup Mentor Award (The Founder Institute, 2013), he has been listed by IESE as one of 20 most influential entrepreneurs under 40, and selected by WIRED magazine as one of the Top 100 European Digital Influencers (number 2 in Spain).Didac was born in Figueres (close to Barcelona), his parents are from China and he is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.Galdana Ventures (Co-Founder - 2015/Current)Galdana is a Venture Capital fund of funds founded and invested by successful tech entrepreneurs that invests in some of the top tier firms in the United States, Asia, Israel and EuropeGaldana’s management team counts on more than 80 years of accumulated experience as successful entrepreneurs and investors. It has taken part in the creation of 17 companies with an aggregate value of $1.5 billion and managed investments for approximately $240 million in 30 companies with an aggregate final value of $1 billion.Our investor base includes entrepreneurs who have founded companies worth more than $4 billion in aggregated value, and we work to further increase this base with successful entrepreneurs from all the regions where we invest.In addition to this, Galdana has partnered with Altamar Capital Partners, a fund of funds management company specialized in private equity, real estate and infrastructure with approximately $3.4 billion in historically committed capital.

## David Kalt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Music, Software

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.

## Albert Azout
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, News, Automotive

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.

## Ines Ures
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps

Ines Ures is a Partner at IRIS Ventures.

## Caio Maia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Government

Caio Maia

## Geoff Entress
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

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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