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Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in United States in May 2026

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

Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in United States in May 2026

Investor Recruiting United States investments
Elad Gil 5
Kyle Vogt 4
Jason Calacanis 4
Sam Altman 4
Jack Altman 4
Paul Buchheit 3
Aaron Levie 3
Hans Robertson 3
Eric Wu 3
Paul Graham 3
Jacob Gibson 3
Michael Lynton 3
Diego Piacentini 3
Ilya Sukhar 3
Avichal Garg 3
Daniel Gross 3
Michael Seibel 3
Lauren DeLuca 3
Jessica Livingston 3
Tikhon Bernstam 3
Emmett Shear 3
Drew Houston 3
David Windley 3
James Beshara 3
Rudy Gadre 3
Shannon Sweeney Offen 2
David King 2
Ben Walton 2
Kevin Hale 2
Axel Sven Springer 2
Kevin Mahaffey 2
Laszlo Bock 2
Tony Xu 2
Ross Mason 2
Joe Montana 2
Joe Greenstein 2
John Jahr 2
Ryan Holmes 2
Tom Friel 2
Brian Spaly 2
Thomas Lehrman 2
Russell Fradin 2
David Wieland 2
Howard Tullman 2
Joseph Mansueto 2
Brendan Wallace 2
Julia Hartz 2
Joel Peterson 2
Josh James 2
Tim Mayeur 2

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Elad Gil
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • RunSybil — RunSybil is an AI-driven offensive security platform that continuously evaluates applications and infrastructure for vulnerabilities. Leveraging cutting-edge AI techniques, it autonomously identifies and exploits real-world security flaws through sophisticated penetration testing. By automating hacker-like intuition, RunSybil delivers proactivedefense capabilities, empowering organizations to strengthen the security of modern applications.
  • Netic — Netic provides an AI-driven platform designed to automate and optimize customer engagement and operational workflows for essential service industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and appliance services. The platform autonomously handles inbound communications across various channels—such as calls, texts, and web chats—by bookingappointments and managing inquiries directly within existing CRM or field service management systems . Utilizing generative AI models, Netic's system assesses customer interactions to prioritize urgent requests, predict maintenance needs, and initiate targeted outreach campaigns based on factors like weather patterns and service history . This approach aims to enhance technician utilization and reduce missed revenue opportunities during periods of fluctuating demand . Additionally, Netic offers analytics tools that provide insights into customer interactions and operational performance, supporting data-informed decision-making .
  • Decagon — Trusted by world-class companies, Decagon is the most advanced AI platform for customer support.
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Kyle Vogt
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Kyle Vogt is the CEO of The Bot Company.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Basis — AI agents built specifically for accountants.
  • Mach9 — Mach9 is building the operating system for cities. We're monitoring surface and underground infrastructure to predict and prevent infrastructure failures.
  • Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
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Jason Calacanis
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Orreco — Orreco Their mission is to deliver a cutting edge biomarker program to optimise player performance, recovery and welfare. A tailored biomarker program can optimise player health and welfare and use sports science resources to target key or “at risk” players which will lead to increased player availability. Tailoring of recovery and playermanagement strategies to individuals’ own biomarker profiles backs up decision making processes with data giving your team an informed recovery strategy.
  • Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
  • latchkey — Latchkey helps software teams ship faster by eliminating CI/CD investigations.
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Sam Altman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator. Sam attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

  • NOYACK — NOYACK builds agentic AI technology for wealth management, starting with NOYACK.ai—the first AI agent for financial literacy - and Prophit.ai , the first opensource AI agent for portfolio optimizations of ALL asset classes. The fintech platform uses autonomous AI to deliver personalized financial guidance and construct tax-optimized portfolioscombining traditional accounts (IRAs, 401(k)s, HSAs) with private market investments in venture capital, fine art, and real estate for Millennials and Gen Z investors
  • Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible
  • Arcadia Medicine — Arcadia Medicine is a biotechnology company that creates psychedelic medicine to treat mental health issues.
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Jack Altman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Jack Altman is the founder and CEO of Lattice.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Rogo — Rogo is the secure generative AI (GenAI) platform built for elite financial institutions. Save time, unlock insights and automate workflows in days.
  • Didero — The AI agent for procurement
  • Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
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Paul Buchheit
Angel · Mountain View, California, United States

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

  • SiPhox Health — Painless, 5-minute biomarker testing at home. Clear insights, trend tracking, and a personalized plan built around your results.
  • Character.ai — Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
  • Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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Aaron Levie
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and cofounder Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy, incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads the companyin its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He has served on the Board of Directors since April 2005.Aaron attended the University of Southern California from 2003 to 2005 before leaving to found Box.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

  • Antimetal — Making cloud savings automated, effortless, and risk-free. Start saving in 2 minutes, no code or engineering required.
  • Console — Console helps IT teams get to Inbox Zero. Auto-resolve over 50% of your support requests directly in Slack and Teams, using AI Agents that understand how your company does work.
  • Superblocks — Superblocks is the fast, easy and secure way for developers to build custom internal tools fast. Connect your databases & APIs. Drag and drop UI components. Extend with Python or Javascript. Deploy in 1-click. Secure and Monitor using your favorite tools
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Hans Robertson
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Hans Robertson serves startups as an investor and advisor. He is the former chief operating officer and the vice president of products at Meraki. Previously, he served EMC as the group product manager.Prior to EMC, Robertson was an accounts manager at VMware. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a Master of Engineering degree fromMassachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Security
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

  • Verkada — Modern, cloud-managed security cameras, access control, and smart building solutions in a single, fully integrated security system. Free 30-day trial. Easy setup.
  • Tractian — Prevent machine failures and protect production with AI-powered condition monitoring and performance tracking built for safety, uptime, and reliability.
  • Pilot — Meet your dedicated finance team. Pilot handles your bookkeeping, taxes, forecasting and more. See why thousands of businesses trust Pilot.
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Eric Wu
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Eric Wu is the President of Opendoor. He previously worked at Trulia.com as a Head of Geo/Social Products. Eric Wu attended the University of Arizona.

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Investment focus

  • Real Estate, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • Lava — Lava is a Bitcoin lending platform.
  • Crosby — Crosby is a company with programmers from Ramp, Vanta, Meta, and Google joining attorneys.
  • Kindred — Kindred provides a home swapping network.
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Paul Graham
Angel · Mountain View, California, United States

Paul Graham is the Founder of Y Combinator.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Egypt, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Mentra — Mentra is a wearable technology company that develops smart glasses based on augmented reality and AI interface technologies.
  • Luminal — Luminal provides a machine learning compiler and serverless cloud platform that automates PyTorch model optimization and deployment.
  • Human Behavior — Human Behavior is a software development company that provides vision models to monitor and analyze product usage.
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Jacob Gibson
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Jacob Gibson is the Co-Founder and Partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures. He is a former co-founder and COO at NerdWallet. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Kenya, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

  • MoneyHash — Emerging and Global markets first all-in-one flexible payment orchestration and revenue operations platform that covers all of your payment needs. We help you build, optimize, and scale your payment infrastructure at any stage of growth.
  • Orbit Fab — Orbit Fab is creating the future of on-orbit satellite refueling. We maximize your operational assets by enabling mission flexibility and freedom of action in space.
  • BloomCredit — Use Bloom to engage and understand your customers through credit data. Help your customers qualify for your loans, credit cards, and credit products. Create relationships with your customers through personalized financial advice and support.
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Michael Lynton
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States

Michael Lynton is CEO of Sony Entertainment, where he oversees Sony's global entertainment businesses, including Sony Music Entertainment, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Lynton is also Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), managing the studio's overall global operations, which includemotion picture, television and digital content production and distribution, home entertainment acquisition and distribution, operation of studio facilities, and the development of new entertainment products, services and technologies.At Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lynton has focused on digital transformation, worldwide growth, content diversity and financial discipline, leading the studio through an era of innovation and success, putting Sony Pictures on the cutting edge of an industry experiencing rapid technological and global change.Sony Pictures' Motion Picture Group has enjoyed a remarkable run in the past several years, releasing such hits as Best Picture Oscar® nominees American Hustle, Captain Phillips, and The Social Network, as well as blockbuster franchises like The Amazing Spider-Man, Grown-Ups, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and The Smurfs.Between movies and TV, SPE received 26 nominations for the 2014 Golden Globes® and won seven awards, more than any other studio.Sony Pictures Television (SPT) is one of the television industry's leading content providers. It produces and distributes programming in every genre, around the world and for a multitude of platforms. In addition to one of the industry's largest libraries of award-winning feature films, television shows and formats, SPT boasts a current program slate that includes top-rated daytime dramas and game shows, landmark off-network series, original animated series and critically acclaimed primetime dramas, comedies and telefilms. In addition to its U.S. production business, SPT has 19 wholly-owned or joint venture production companies in 13 countries.SPT's worldwide media networks include 150 channel feeds available in 178 countries, reaching more than 1.3 billion cumulative households worldwide. Popular channel brands include AXN, Animax, and SET (Sony Entertainment Television), as well as the studio's ad-supported VOD service, Crackle.Sony Pictures Home Entertainment distributes Sony Pictures produced and third-party acquired theatrical and non-theatrical product on Blu-ray Disc, DVD and other digital media globally. Among the more than 3,500 titles in SPHE's catalog are the Spider-Man and Men In Black franchises, the Seinfeld TV series, and film classics on such as Lawrence of Arabia, Taxi Driver and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.Sony Pictures is also home to Imageworks, the only major studio Academy Award®-winning in-house visual effects unit.Under Lynton, Sony Pictures has been an industry leader in the migration to digital entertainment, from production and distribution to the introduction of new formats. The studio championed the industry's UltraViolet digital entertainment format, helped re-introduce 3D to the entertainment industry and is deeply engaged in the rapidly expanding 4K marketplace.Prior to joining Sony Pictures, Lynton worked for Time Warner and served as CEO of AOL Europe, President of AOL International and President of Time Warner International.From 1996 to 2000, Lynton served as Chairman and CEO of Pearson plc's Penguin Group, where he oversaw the acquisition of Putnam, Inc. and extended the Penguin brand to music and the Internet.Lynton joined The Walt Disney Company in 1987 and started Disney Publishing, serving as its President. From 1992 to1996, he served as President of Disney's Hollywood Pictures.Lynton holds a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature from Harvard College and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.Lynton is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of the American Film Institute, the Smithsonian Board of Regents, the Harvard Board of Overseers, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Trust, USC School of Cinematic Arts and the RAND Corporation.In addition, he sits on the board of directors of Snapchat and Ares Management, L.P.Lynton resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Elizabeth Jamie Alter Lynton, and their three daughters, Eloise Lynton, Maisie Lynton and Lucinda Lynton.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Media and Entertainment, Apps
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
  • OROS — NASA inspired thin and super warm outdoor winter jackets and apparel. Great for skiing, snowboarding, trekking, alpine climbing and more.
  • Impact — Impact: the entertainment industry network. The most network-driven industry in the world finally has its own network.
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Diego Piacentini
Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States

Diego Piacentini has served as Senior Vice President, International Consumer Business, since February 2012. From January 2007 until February 2012, Diego Piacentini served as Senior Vice President, International Retail, from November 2001 until December 2006, he served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Retail and Marketing and, from February 2000until November 2001, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, International. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Piacentini was Vice President and General Manager of Apple Computer Europe, where he headed operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Piacentini joined Apple Computer in 1987. He held several financial management positions both in Apple Italy and at a European level through 1993. Piacentini served as Sales Director for Apple Italy in 1994 and was promoted to the post of General Manager for Apple Italy in May 1995.Piacentini holds a degree in economics from Bocconi University of Milan. An Italian national, he has traveled and worked across Europe, Asia and North America.n Senior Vice President of International Consumer at Amazon.com Inc. since February 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Human Resources, SaaS, Hardware
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, Italy, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

  • Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
  • IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
  • Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
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Ilya Sukhar
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Ilya Sukhar is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Investor of Matrix. Ilya previously worked at Y Combinator as a Partner. Ilya Sukhar attended the Cornell University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Sentry — Self-hosted and cloud-based application monitoring that helps software teams see clearer, solve quicker, & learn continuously.
  • Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.
  • Reflect — Reflect is the data visualization platform for developers. Our building blocks make it easy to add data visualization to any web or mobile application in minutes. We handle all of the hard parts so developers can focus on creating a great user experience for their customers.
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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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Daniel Gross
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Daniel Gross is the Co-Founder of Pioneer. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a Head of AI.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • MatX — We make the best chips physically possible for the large model needs of frontier labs.
  • Pincites — Pincites AI speeds up contract reviews in Microsoft Word with AI-generated suggestions and centralized playbook management. To ensure reviews follow your precedent and preferences, Pincites will build contracting playbooks based on your templates and precedent negotiations.
  • Antimetal — Making cloud savings automated, effortless, and risk-free. Start saving in 2 minutes, no code or engineering required.
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Michael Seibel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • CTGT — CTGT builds efficient, trustworthy AI, preventing errors and maximizing ROI with secure, reliable enterprise-grade solutions.
  • Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
  • Emerge Career — All-in-one workforce development training programs
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Lauren DeLuca
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Lauren DeLuca is a Founder and Managing Partner of Motivate Venture Capital, a Chicago-based Pre-Seed and Seed investor.He co-founded a family of niche FinTech firms and was an active Angel investor. In 2012, he co-founded Sailfish Systems, a managed services and market data provider for trading firms, banks, and hedge funds. Sailfish merged withVictory Networks in 2013 to serve clients across the US and Europe. The combined business was ultimately sold to QuantHouse, a Paris-based trading technology provider, in 2017.He co-founded Oxford Intelligence Partners at the beginning of 2015, a boutique stock market-analytics firm. Clients included many Fortune 500 companies before a successful exit to Q4 Inc., a Toronto-based strategic acquirer serving 1000+ clients. His personal Angel portfolio spans a multitude of B2B/B2C verticals and contains over thirty early- and growth-stage businesses, including Chime, HomeChef, TradingView, Appcast, Popular Pays, DeskPass and PostProcess Technologies. He received my MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame where he graduated Cum Laude in 2001.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Carpe — Carpe is PhD formulated, dermatologist tested, and designed for effective, everyday sweat control.
  • Hallow — Pray every day this Lent with Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pratt, Jonathan Roumie, and millions of others around the world on Hallow, the #1 prayer app.
  • Gatsby — Gatsby makes options trading social, commission free, and contract-fee free.
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Jessica Livingston
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States

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

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Investment focus

  • Education, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Mexico

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!
  • Tesseral — Okapi facilitates the storing, updating, and retrieval of customer data for businesses using CRM (customer relationship management) software.
  • Hype and Vice — Hype and Vice combines on-trend fashion with University brands to create officially licensed college apparel women! Cool college apparel to wear for tailgates and gamedays or to lounge around your dorm.
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Tikhon Bernstam
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Tikhon Bernstam is an American entrepreneur who cofounded the companies Scribd and Parse.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Computer, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • Aviator — Avoid broken builds, long code-reviews, cumbersome merge processes and flaky tests. Put your mundane, frustrating workflows on autopilot.
  • LemonEdge — LemonEdge is the first and only low-code development platform for the complex accounting demands of the private equity industry. LemonEdge enables businesses to develop or customise solutions 10x faster than traditional approaches.
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Emmett Shear
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Emmett Shear was the Founder and CEO of Twitch (www.twitch.tv), the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. Mr. Shear was also a Co-Founder of Justin.tv and a part-time Partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator, where he advises fledgling startups on product and strategy. Mr. Shear graduated from Yale University in 2005 and in2012 was included in Forbes Magazine on their 30 under 30 list. Twitch launched in 2011, and in 2014 The Wall Street Journal cited the brand as having the 4th largest peak internet traffic in the U.S.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Lemon Slice — Lemonslice provides translation and localization services for businesses to adapt content across multiple languages and markets.
  • Monumental Labs — Monumental Labs is building a robot stone-sculpting factory to unleash a renaissance. Our robot artisans complete commissions in days that previously took months, with all the precision of traditional sculpting, at a fraction of the cost.
  • Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
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Drew Houston
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Drew Houston is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company’s growth from a simple idea to a service used by over 600 million people around the world. Drew received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006. After graduating, he turnedhis frustration with carrying USB drives and emailing files to himself into a demo for what became Dropbox. Today, Dropbox is one of the world's leading business collaboration platforms, with 15 million paying subscribers and nearly 3000 employees across 12 global offices.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
  • Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
  • Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful new way to animate characters for videos, games, 3D, movies, ads or social media.
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David Windley
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

David Windley is the President at Caldwell. He attended San Francisco State University, Lam Family College of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Recruiting, Human Resources, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Topia — Discover our professional services designed to elevate your business with expert solutions tailored to your needs. Contact us today for trusted support.
  • Comeet — Comeet is an applicant tracking system that makes it easier to source, recruit and hire talent in today's job market.
  • Atipica — Kingcobratoto merupakan situs togel online legal dengan link login cobratoto bo togel resmi terpercaya yang menyediakan pasaran togel online terbesar di asia mencapai 65 pasaran resmi dan permainan togel mode 4d.
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James Beshara
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

James Beshara is the founder of Magic Mind.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Sourcetable — Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
  • ShredSpots APP — Social Map App Of Hidden Street Sports Art
  • Assembly HOA — Assembly HOA is a modern HOA management firm in California. We combine state-of-the-art software with the industry's best managers to deliver exceptional service to homeowners. Our proprietary software automates administrative tasks, promotes transparent communication, and offers convenient online access to important information. Experience the efficiency and convenience of our innovative approach to HOA management.
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Rudy Gadre
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States

Rudy Gadre is Partner at Founder's Co-op. Rudy Gadre is an active angel Investor and is also an Advisor to startups. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President and General Counsel of Facebook, where Rudy Gadre was responsible for all legal matters since January 2006. In 1999, he joined Amazon and served as its Vice President and Associate GeneralCounsel for Business Development, intellectual property, and new technologies. He was the Principal Legal Negotiator for Amazon's most significant strategic alliances and joint ventures, where Rudy Gadre oversaw the development and licensing of patents and other intellectual property, and was responsible for all legal aspects of Amazon's new technology initiatives. From September 1994 to February 1999, Rudy Gadre worked at Perkins Coie LLP, as an Associate in the technology business group. At Perkins, he represented clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies in a diverse array of matters, including joint ventures, development, protection and licensing of intellectual property, and mergers and acquisitions. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President of Business Operations at Evri, Inc, from September 2008 to July 2010. He serves as a Member of Strategic Advisory Board at Syntonic Limited. He served as a Director of Jobaline.com Inc. He served as an Independent Director of The W Fund. He is a passionate supporter of the Seattle technology ecosystem. He was recognized by Washington Law and Politics magazine as a "Super Lawyer" in 2003 and 2004. Rudy Gadre holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College and graduated from the University of Washington School of Law.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Wrench — Wrench offers a convenient way to get great auto repair near me, diagnostic service and oil changes. Our mobile mechanics will come to you!
  • Gamesight — The marketing platform for video game publishers to build community, engage influencers, and measure their digital marketing performance.
  • Heyou Media Holdings — This domain used to be connected to a Wix website. Learn how to reconnect it, or create your own website.
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Shannon Sweeney Offen
Angel · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Shannon Sweeney Offen - Investment Banker @ SunTrust Robinson Humphrey

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Investment focus

  • Recruiting, Staffing Agency
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Inkwell — Inkwell is leading the flexible work revolution. As the premier job matching service for highly accomplished candidates and companies of all sizes, we drive more flexibility diversity, and meaning in the workplace. We focus on making business-critical roles flexible and filling them with top-notch talent.
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David King
Angel · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

David King is a Founder of Highlighter. He attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for Computer Engineering.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, France

Portfolio highlights

  • TruStory — TruStory is a social network that enables productive debate. To make progress on any issue, we need to learn from different perspectives, find common ground, and have the humility to change our minds. Our mission is to make the Internet more open-minded by incentivizing people to hear all sides of a debate.
  • Lava — Lava is a Bitcoin lending platform.
  • 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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Ben Walton
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ben Walton - Co-founder @ Styck

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Investment focus

  • Employment, Recruiting, Crowdsourcing
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Visage — Visage automates candidate discovery and engagement while enabling teams to increase productivity by building predictable candidate pipelines, increasing hiring efficiency, and simplifying team-based work management. With AI and human-powered sourcing capabilities, Visage is able to identify the most relevant skills and experience and deliver largebatches of high quality candidates who can be moved through the pipeline with automated engagement tools that fully integrate with top ATS systems.
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Kevin Hale
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Kevin Hale was a partner at Y Combinator. He worked with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the earliest Y Combinator funded startups. The online form builder was later acquired by SurveyMonkey. He attended

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Stilt — The number one place for financial resources and immigration guidance for students and immigrants in the U.S.
  • Postscript — Engage with customers wherever they are. Postscript helps you build strong customer relationships across the entire buying experience. Start your free trial today.
  • Taali Foods — Taali is a 'better for you' food company. We have a simple vision, we want our products to be a delicious and guilt-free snack that is loaded with the good stuff.Our anchor brand Taali Taali is a guilt-free snack made from popped water lily seeds. Our products are made of Non-GMO, whole, and natural ingredients that you can pronounceand spell to create a difference you can taste. We have on average 20% fewer calories and 67% less fat per serving (28g) than the leading popcorn brand. Roasted never tasted this good.
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Axel Sven Springer
Angel

Axel Sven Springer

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Investment focus

  • Payments, Freelance, Recruiting
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • WorkGenius — The most efficient technology for working with freelancers: Get access to our pre-vetted talent network. Hire faster and with confidence.
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Kevin Mahaffey
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Metaplane — Metaplane is a data observability platform that helps data teams know when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix it.
  • Chameleon — Chameleon offers software application with the features including microsurveys, launchers, tooltips, integrations, status, styling, analytics, templates, goals, testing, checklists, feedback loop, dashboard reporting, no coding, targeting surveys, data access, trigger surveys, track performance, and more.
  • Saleor Commerce — A headless, GraphQL-first e-commerce platform delivering ultra-fast, dynamic, personalized shopping experiences. Find out why developers love it.
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Laszlo Bock
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Laszlo Bock is the CEO and Co-Founder of Humu, a company that nudges people towards better work habits—unlocking the potential of individuals, teams, and organizations. His New York Times bestselling book, WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead, has been published in more than 25 languages and garnered numerous“book of the year” honors. From 2006 to 2016, Laszlo was Senior Vice President of People Operations and a member of Google’s management team, growing the company from 6,000 to 72,000 employees. During his tenure, Google was recognized over 150 times as an exceptional employer, including being named the #1 Best Company to Work for in the United States seven times.Laszlo is credited with creating the field of “People Analytics”, the application of academic-quality rigor and Google-paced innovation to people management. He also led the development of what is now known as Google for Jobs.In 2010 he was named “Human Resources Executive of the Year” and in 2015 the “HR Professional of the Decade.” He (briefly) was ranked #1 in the world in the video game Assassin’s Creed.Laszlo earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Pomona College, graduating in three years, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Vincent — Vincent is the most powerful search engine for investment opportunities. Explore over 1,000 live investments in real estate, VC, debt, art, collectibl...
  • BrightHire — An Interview Intelligence platform that builds hiring plans, generates interview notes and highlights, delivers talent insights & more.
  • NinjaTech AI — Real Time Problem Solving & Learning. Our agents take a step-by-step hierarchical approach to learning, decomposing complex problems into digestible tasks, and ...
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Tony Xu
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Tony Xu is the CEO and co-founder of DoorDash. Tony attended University of California Berkeley and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Alta — Your personal AI stylist that truly gets you
  • Roam — Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.
  • Finch Legal — Finch Legal is a software development company that supports personal injury law firms. The company aims to provide practical and effective legal solutions, as suggested by its commitment to serving clients better and more efficiently.
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Ross Mason
Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland

Ross Mason is based out of Geneva, Geneve and is the Founding Partner of DIG Ventures . Ross previously worked at MuleSoft as a Founder. Ross Mason attended the University of the West of England. Ross Mason has been awarded as a Top 25 CTO.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Soveren — Soveren helps engineering and security teams protect personal data by detecting privacy risks and analyzing real-time data flows within your infrastructure.
  • Evercoin — Evercoin is a mobile application that provides a cryptocurrency exchange service. The application allows users to exchange cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, and Bitcoin Cash. Users can also trade from the safety and control of their own wallet. Evercoin was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
  • Garnet Labs — Protect modern dev/ops environments with behavioral monitoring, threat detection and enforcement. Detect and block unknown threats in real-time before they impact users.
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Joe Montana
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Joe Montana is the Founder and Managing Partner at Liquid 2 Ventures. He attended the University of Notre Dame.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Medallion — Provider credentialing and enrollment reimagined. Accelerate time-to-revenue, stay compliant, and scale provider operations, without adding headcount, through automated credentialing and enrollment.
  • Tako — Tako is a deep research platform that turns data into insightful analysis, chats and reports.
  • Veza — Veza is the identity security company that enables organizations to understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data.
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Joe Greenstein
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Joe Greenstein is the Co-Founder and Assistant Zookeeper at Innerspace. He attended the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Topknot — Topknot is the online personal development platform for women. With a unique blend of independent exercises and peer group feedback, Topknot supports women on their journey to building the life they want. By teaching skills rooted in coaching and mindfulness, Topknot's intentional interaction model empowers women to address what’s top of mindtoday, while also equipping them for tomorrow’s challenges–providing the space for processing, perspective, and accountability that leads to meaningful change.
  • Gently — Find secondhand clothing, effortlessly. Wearloom sends you the best new listings from sites like Poshmark, Depop, eBay, ThredUp, and Vestiaire Collective.
  • Reveri — Hypnotize yourself to relieve pain and stress, improve your sleep, and build better habits.
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John Jahr
Angel

John Jahr

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Investment focus

  • Payments, Freelance, Recruiting
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • WorkGenius — The most efficient technology for working with freelancers: Get access to our pre-vetted talent network. Hire faster and with confidence.
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Ryan Holmes
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
  • Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
  • Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
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Tom Friel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Tom Friel is a Member of the Advisory Board at DocuSign.

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Investment focus

  • Recruiting, Sales, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • TextRecruit — Engage candidates and employees at scale with AI-powered text recruiting through SMS and other popular apps.
  • Candidate Labs — Candidate Labs is a modern talent agency, pairing seasoned recruiters with technology and data to make the hiring of sales and marketing professionals seamless and intelligent.
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Brian Spaly
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Brian Spaly is the General Partner of Brand Foundry Ventures and Executive Chairman of Tecovas. He is a former CEO at TrunkClub. He attended Princeton University and Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Cann — Cann is a THC-infused beverage that comes in three award-winning flavors - Blood Orange Cardamom, Lemon Lavender, and Grapefruit Rosemary. Shop today and get 15% OFF your first order!
  • Cake — 18K Followers, 6,705 Following, 859 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Cake (@hellocake)
  • Crown Affair — Redefine your relationship with your hair through our products, guidance, and community.
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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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Russell Fradin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Russell Fradin is the Vice Chairman of Carbon Health. From October 2005 to April 2010, Russell co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Adify Corporation, an on-line advertising company sold to Cox Enterprises. Prior to that time, Russell was comScore’s Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, Senior Vice President ofBusiness Development at Wine.com and Vice President of Business Development at Flycast Communications. Russell currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at comScore, TubeMogul and CoachArt and has previously served on the boards of Udemy, Outside.in and several others. Russell holds a B.S. degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Recruiting
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoop — Thrive in a hybrid work environment with Scoop's solutions for Workplace Safety, Workplace Utilization, Team Coordination, Desk Management, and Commute.
  • BeyondHQ — BeyondHQ is a real-time, user-driven platform that helps companies run unlimited talent and real estate analyses while saving time and money.
  • LIT Videobooks — LIT is a new platform that allows you to view bestselling business books in a new video book format.
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David Wieland
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States

David Wieland is the co-founder and managing partner of Motivate Ventures, a venture capital firm in Chicago. David is a serial technology entrepreneur with three exits (RIVS, Powersurge Technologies and InnFlux). He is the co-founder, former chairman, and investment committee member of VitalizeVC (fka IrishAngels.). BA Philosophy, Government NotreDame. MBA Northwestern / Kellogg.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, Education
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

  • Hallow — Hallow is a prayer app that offers guided meditation sessions to help us grow in our faith & spiritual lives and find peace in God.
  • Schoola — Schoola is an American online retail company that sells second hand women's and children's clothing. Schoola solicit the clothing via donation and in return donate a portion of each sales proceeds to the school of the donor's choice. Schoola is a self-service fundraising platform that schools, principals, PTAs and PTOs can use toraise significant funds for schools and other non-profits. To date Schoola has partnered and raised funds for over 10,000 schools throughout the US. Headquartered in San Francisco, Schoola was founded by former school administrator Stacey Boyd and is backed by several prominent angel and institutional investors.
  • Unsplash — Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.
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Howard Tullman
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Howard Tullman has over 45 years of start-up, management, IPO and turn-around experience and an extensive operations background in web development, online services, large-scale information assembly and delivery systems, database design and implementation and the development, creation and production of all types and formats of multimedia, computergames and audio/video digital content. He has designed and developed GUI and natural user interfaces, interactive and immersive games and instruction systems and other electronic entertainments, training products and services, as well as other information-based products and services in a variety of fields including automotive, insurance, CRM, employment, real estate, consumer goods and social media.

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Investment focus

  • Education, SaaS, EdTech
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • UPshow — UPshow's digital signage software helps businesses achieve key goals through captivating in-venue promotions displayed on our screens.
  • Rise Gardens — With 4 different indoor garden options, you can grow your own produce year round with Rise Gardens. Shop now!
  • Packback — Packback is an inquiry-driven online discussion pedagogy and platform which improves student motivation and critical thinking through discussion.
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Joseph Mansueto
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Joe Mansueto founded Morningstar in 1984. He has served as chairman since the company’s inception and as chief executive officer from 1984 to 1996 and again from 2000 to present.Under Mansueto’s leadership, Morningstar has been named twice to Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list, in 2011 and 2012. The Chicago Tribunerecognized Morningstar as one of the top 100 workplaces in the Chicago area in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and Crain’s Chicago Business listed Morningstar in its Fast Fifty feature in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2011. Morningstar won the 2010 AIGA Chicago Chapter Corporate Design Leadership Award, which recognizes forward-thinking organizations that have advanced design by promoting it as a meaningful business policy.Mansueto was the recipient of the PLANSPONSOR Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. In 2010, Mansueto received the Tiburon CEO Summit award, MutualFundWire.com named him ninth on its list of the 100 Most Influential People of the year, and Chicago magazine listed Mansueto among its top 40 Chicago pioneers over the past four decades. In 2007, SmartMoney magazine recognized Mansueto in the “SmartMoney Power 30,” its annual list of the 30 most powerful forces in business and finance. He received the Distinguished Entrepreneurial Alumnus Award from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2000

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Biotechnology, News
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Tovala — No need to shop, prep, cook, or clean.
  • Grove Biopharma — Grove is pioneering Bionic Biologics, a breakthrough synthetic drug modality that can penetrate cells and reach protein-protein interactions that drive disease.
  • First Stop Health — First Stop Health Telemedicine, Virtual Primary Care and Virtual Mental Health gets members in touch with a doctor fast for high-quality care.
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Brendan Wallace
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States

Brendan Wallace is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall. Brendan Wallace attended Princeton University.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

  • dot.LA — dot.LA is a digital newsroom covering L.A.'s startup and tech community. dot.LA’s mission is to celebrate and empower the Los Angeles startup and tech community, fueling innovation around the world.
  • Allbirds — Allbirds is an apparel and fashion company that specializes in manufacturing eco-friendly wool shoes. It is dedicated to making the most sustainable footwear using premium natural materials, designed for the to and fro of everyday life.The company is driven by a mission to prove that comfort, good design, and sustainability don’t have to bemutually exclusive. Its commitment to making better shoes in a better way is fueled by a belief that the shoe industry needs to focus less on flash and more on thoughtfulness.Allbirds is based in San Francisco and founded in 2015.
  • Yellow — eNaming.com is excited to exclusively offer YELLOW.APP the domain name to the public for the first time. We believe the .APP top-level domain is a critically im
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Julia Hartz
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Julia Hartz hopes to inspire people to live more by building the world's largest marketplace of live experiences. Since founding Eventbrite in 2006 with Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage, the company has generated over $3 billion in gross ticket sales, with more than $200 million tickets processed to events and experiences around the globe.A key to this growth and success is the people of Eventbrite (fondly referred to as The Britelings), which has grown to nearly 400 employees in six offices around the world.Julia cultivates and advocates for Eventbrite's award-winning culture (voted Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area five years running). She has been honored as one of Inc.'s 35 under 35 in 2014 and Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2013.Julia is also a frequent speaker on live experiences, consumer trends and entrepreneurship, and has been recently featured in Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg and Inc. Magazine. Previous to Eventbrite, Julia was a TV development executive at MTV and FX Networks.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Microverse — Want to learn how to code? Pay $0 until you become a software developer and land a job. Learn programming from the best online coding school and connect with a global community.
  • Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
  • Voiceflow — Visually design, prototype and publish voice and chat apps across channels like Alexa, Google or any custom channel/modality. Get started today, with no code.
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Joel Peterson
Angel · Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Joel Peterson is the Founding Partner of Whitman Peterson.

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Investment focus

  • Recruiting, Software, Residential
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Landis — Landis helps people on their way to homeownership. We allow our clients to rent their dream home, then to purchase it once they are ready to get a mortgage.
  • Run The World — Run The World helps you host virtual conferences, talks and happy hours. Create engaging online events to teach, network and build community. Get started for free!
  • Workstream — Workstream is an automated hiring platform that helps companies employing hourly workers. The platform helped Jamba, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, Dunkin', Applebee's, Auntie Anne's, Cinnabon to increase their bottom line and cost savings.Workstream was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, UnitedStates.
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Josh James
Angel · Provo, Utah, United States

Joshua G. James is the Founder of Silicon Slopes Venture Fund. He previously worked at Adobe Systems as an SVP, GM, and Founder Omniture Business Unit. Joshua G. James attended Brigham Young University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Entrata — Entrata property management software connects all of your property data and processes, allowing you to create better experiences for everyone. Better property management software.
  • Via — SMS Marketing | Mobile Commerce | eCommerce Marketing
  • Divvy — Divvy software gives users complete control and real-time visibility into company spending while eliminating the hassle of expense reports.Divvy is a secure financial platform for businesses to manage payments and subscriptions, build strategic budgets, and eliminate expense reports. By integrating real-time tracking for every businesstransaction, Divvy provides organizations with instant insight into their spend. With Divvy, you can make informed cash flow decisions, curb losses before they happen, and never have to save a receipt again.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lehi, Utah.
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Tim Mayeur
Angel

Tim Mayeur

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Recruiting, Marketing
  • Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Walzay — Companies send offers to the best tech talent from around the world for full-time roles.
  • Kriya AI is now Kalendar AI — Kalendar AI books new revenue on autopilot
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