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Top 50 Social Angel Investors in United States

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

Top 50 Social Angel Investors in United States

Investor Social United States investments
Ronald Conway 4
Cyan Banister 4
Pascal Levy-Garboua 3
Wei Guo 3
Tim Kendall 3
Nisha Dua 2
Tom Vorisek 2
Princeton Taylor 2
Andreas Klinger 2
Tom Williams 2
Scott Cook 2
Amanda Bradford 2
Gary Griffiths 2
Ryan Allis 2
Russell Hirsch 2
Dave Morgan 2
Jenny Lefcourt 2
Bruce Dunlevie 2
Auren Hoffman 2
Marc Andreessen 2
Andy Dunn 2
Larry Braitman 2
Princeton Taylor 2
Kathleen Hale 2
Baron Davis 2
Scott Belsky 2
Dharmesh Shah 2
Christian Dörffer 2
Russell Hirsch 2
Trevor Wright 2
Nish Bhat 2
Andrew Chen 2
Marc Randolph 2
Bryan Rosenblatt 1
Jason Rosenthal 1
Ramesh Haridas 1
Zach Weinberg 1
Sashi Reddi 1
Bobby Aitkenhead 1
Jackson Moses 1
Nate Mitchell 1
Ted Rheingold 1
Brad Bao 1
Avishai Abrahami 1
Chris Burch 1
Saran Chari 1
Wayne Chang 1
Vivek Garipalli 1
Chris Kitze 1
Kevin Lin 1
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Ronald Conway Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Social Media, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
  • Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.
  • Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
Cyan Banister Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Social Media
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
  • Orson — The brainchild of documentarians and unscripted TV pioneers, Orson has developed the first automated video storytelling platform that helps people open up and share their stories, experiences, and aspirations.
  • Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.
Pascal Levy-Garboua Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Pascal Levy-Garboua is an angel investor, founder, and operator. He is currently VP. Business Development at Checkr, where he joined as their first executive and Employee #9.Previously, he was CEO/Cofounder at SixDoors, Cofounder at VirtuOz (acquired by Nuance Communications) and VP Product at IQ Engines (Acquired by Yahoo). He started hiscareer at eBay in France.Pascal invested in 85+ Companies including Checkr, Wag, Womply, Origin, RealtyShares, and Caviar (Acquired by Square).
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Morocco
Portfolio highlights
  • Wave Sports + Entertainment — Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next generation of digital super fans.
  • Fairmint — Fairmint helps founders tokenize their equity, allowing their community to invest time or money in exchange for ownership.
  • Base64.ai — Extract OCR text, data, handwriting, photos, and signatures from all types of documents, including IDs, driver licenses, passports, visas, receipts, invoices, forms, and thousands of other document types worldwide.
Wei Guo Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
  • Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
  • Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Tim Kendall Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Tim Kendall is the Co-Founder of Moment.He attend to the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2004.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Pendulum — Improve glucose control, metabolic health, gut function, and support a healthy weight. The only brand with live Akkermansia. Pendulum Metabolic Daily | Optimizes metabolism Pendulum Akkermansia | For gut health Pendulum Glucose Control | For A1C management Pendulum Butyricum | For occasional gut discomfort
  • Alto Neuroscience — Alto Neuroscience is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that integrates the biology of the patient into drug development to improve the lives of people with mental health conditions. Through its AI-enabled biomarker platform, Alto Neuroscience combines rich sources of information on patients’ brain activity and behavior to rapidly develophighly-effective medicines for targeted populations. Alto Neuroscience aims to replace today's trial-and-error clinical approach by aligning the right Alto drug with the right patient, redefining psychiatry at a time when the world needs it most.
  • Checkmate — Never miss a deal.
Nisha Dua Angel · New York, New York, United States
Nisha Dua is Co-founder & Managing Partner at BBG Ventures, which she co-founded with Susan Lyne in 2014. BBGV is an NYC-based, early-stage fund leading investments in companies built by underestimated founders that are transforming our collective and lived experiences. BBGV invests across Sustainable and Transparent Commerce, Underestimated& Emerging Consumers, Health & Wellbeing, The Evolving Workforce, and Next Gen Communities. At BBGV Nisha has invested in over 70 start-ups including The Wing, Zola, Pymetrics, KiwiCo, Spring Health, Future Family and Winky Lux. Most recently, BBGV launched Fund III and led investments in Planet FWD, RadSwan, Thousand Fell, Oova, and Starface.Nisha has spent the last decade working in media, tech, strategy and law. She was the General Manager of AOL’s millennial site, Cambio, which she re-launched as a site “for girls, #BUILTBYGIRLS” in partnership with Girls Who Code. She then founded BUILT BY GIRLS, a software platform which connects girls and non-binary talent with professionals to prepare the next generation of leaders to step into careers powered by technology. Nisha was previously Chief of Staff for the AOL Brand Group, working on strategy, operations and special projects. She cut her teeth as a management consultant for Bain & Company and an M&A lawyer at Australian law firm Blake Dawson. Nisha acts as an advisor to numerous start-ups outside her role as an investor.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Wellness, Medical
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Diem — 8,346 Followers, 1,333 Following, 1,194 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diem (@askdiem)
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.
Tom Vorisek Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Founder Esalen Ventures, LLC which has made more than 75 private/angel investments from pre-seed to mezzanine stages and is an LP in 8 PE Funds. Tom is also an International Fine Art Dealer with a focus on paintings of 20th century American, European and Asian artists.Prior to his current roles, Tom was an experienced executive with over 20years in cross-disciplined leadership roles in Advertising-General, Digital and Mobile, Ad Tech, Emerging Media, Technology and Early Stage Venture. Co-Founder FCB Sports Marketing, FCB/SF, IDG, Flycast (IPO), McGrath Rentcorp (IPO) and Ad Infuse (acq by Velti).
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Wave Sports + Entertainment — Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next generation of digital super fans.
  • Quiver — Quiver is a retail tech company that delivers e-commerce orders. Quiver was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in London.
  • Hammock — Hammock gives landlords full control over their property finances. We provide real-time monitoring of all payments, made and received, bookkeeping and property tax statements, all in one place.
Princeton Taylor Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Princeton Taylor attended the University of Stanford.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Social
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Method Financial — Method makes it easy for developers to embed debt repayment on their apps.
  • Trustworthy. — Trustworthy offers state of the art operating system for families that need help organizing family documents. Find out how we can help make your life easier.
  • Grow Credit — Grow Credit helps consumers with no credit or thin credit files establish or build credit for free using their existing subscription accounts, including Netflix, Disney Plus, Spotify, and many more. Grow is also the first platform to allow consumers to build credit with their cell phone bills. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in SantaMonica, California.
Andreas Klinger Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Hello, my name is Andreas Klinger.I am leading the eng team @ On Deck (beondeck.com). Previously I led things related to eng, product & remote @ producthunt.com, angel.co and coinlist.co. If you want to reach me please use twitter @andreasklinger
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Blocktorch — Blocktorch web3 observability platform provides real-time tracing, logging and monitoring for developers building decentralized applications and smart contracts. Try it for free.
  • Rivet — Rivet is a corporate & personal tax prep firm, designed to make tax season less taxing. Because everybody deserves a tax prep firm that they love.
  • PierSight Space — PierSight is building a constellation of SAR satellites to provide persistent monitoring for the maritime industry.
Tom Williams Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Tom Williams
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Unito — Discover 2-way integrations to empower your digital organization to sync securely in under 12 minutes with a no-code solution.
  • Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
  • NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
Scott Cook Angel · Mountain View, California, United States
Scott Cook is the Founder & Chairman of the Executive Committee at Intuit Inc. He co-founded Intuit Inc. in 1983 and now serves as the Chairman of the Executive Committee.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Software, Social Media
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zumper — Zumper is the largest private rental platform in North America—supporting over 75 million people every year find their next place. We believe finding your new apartment is more than just a move. It’s something bigger. A step forward. A new beginning. A fresh start. Whether you’re moving across the country or across the street, you deserve to lovewhere you land.But today’s rental experience is broken. It’s outdated, exhausting, and slow. We spend hours of our lives searching just to settle for places that don’t feel like home. Zumper is on a mission to change the way you rent, forever. To make it easier, faster, and more human—where renting an apartment is as easy as booking a hotel. By making this vision a reality, we’re creating opportunity for everyone to live better from one fresh start to the next.To date we’ve raised over $150 million from Kleiner Perkins, Goodwater Capital, Headline, Dawn Capital, and the Blackstone Group. We’re proud to have been named a 2021 Best Startup Employer by Forbes and a 2021 Best Place to Work/Company with the Best Benefits by BuiltIn SF.
  • Fernish — Fernish is a furniture rental startup company that offers provides furniture as a subscription model to consumers living a mobile lifestyle.The company seeks to redefine the way the market sees furniture rental by positioning itself as a lifestyle brand. It offers a rent to own program that allows subscribers to apply their previous paymentstowards the cost of the piece or pieces they want to buy at the end of their subscription. Users are allowed to subscribe to an entire room or specific pieces and can even swap out things they don’t like or simply want to change up at any point.Founders Michael Barlow and Lucas Dickey launched the company in Los Angeles, California in 2017.
  • Brain Technologies — Brain™ invented the world’s first AI that learnt to utilize other AI and software for general purposes. The company has recently raised more than $50M from its venture partners. Brain's investors include Laurene Powell Jobs, Goodwater Capital, and Scott Cook.
Amanda Bradford Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Amanda Bradford is the founder of The League, an exclusive dating app that matches smart, busy, and ambitious people together. The goal was to create power couples by matching up highly motivated single professionals. She raised $2.1 million in seed funding in January 2015. Amanda studied at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, and worked for SequoiaCapital, Salesforce, and Google before launching The League.After graduating from Carnegie Mellon with a degree in Information Systems, Amanda joined Salesforce as a Sales Engineer. In 2010 she joined Google, where she worked as a product specialist on the DoubleClick team and then moved into New Business Development where she led partnership efforts around the commercialization of Google's BIg Data Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings. Amanda graduated with an MBA frp, Stanford Graduate School of Business and is interested in enterprise saas companies, big-data applications, and e-commerce.In 2014 she founded The League, a new dating app.
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Investment focus
  • LGBT, Dating, Social
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
Gary Griffiths Angel · Los Altos, California, United States
A 35-year veteran of the high-tech industry, Griffiths has led some of the web’s most innovative companies. Prior to co-founding Wisdom LLP, Griffiths was president and CEO of Trapit, Inc., the world's largest Wi-Fi network. iPass was acquired by Pareteum (NASDAQ: TEUM) in February 2019.Previously, Griffiths was president of products andoperations at WebEx, acquired for $3B by Cisco Systems, Inc. Griffiths was also co-founder and CEO of Everdream Corporation, a SaaS company, from 1999 to 2005, as well as CEO at HEAT.net from 1996 until its acquisition by Sega, Inc. in 1999.Griffiths has extensive experience overseeing financial and accounting matters as well as strategic initiatives at small technology companies. Over his long career in high tech, he has founded and/or invested in several successful businesses. Investments include Rackable Systems (which acquired SGI, and then was acquired by HP in 2017), CubeTree (acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand), Biba (acquired by Amazon), Janrain (acquired by Akamai), and DataFox (acquired by Oracle). In addition, Griffiths was a pre-seed investor in Zoom Communications (NASDAQ: ZM), which had its IPO in April 2019.Griffiths holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the US Naval Academy, as well as a Masters of Science in business administration from the George Washington University School of Business..
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Software
  • Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Biba — Business Conferencing and Messaging Biba is a free, mobile-first business app that helps people get in touch instantly. We solve basic communication problems that plague people every day. Biba is elegant: it's frictionless, seamless and works across companies and devices.
  • TappIn — TappIn, Inc., a subsidiary of GlobalSCAPE, is the leading innovator and award-winning provider of digital content access and sharing for mobile users. TappIn connects people to content and content to people. The TappIn cloud service makes available documents and rich media to mobile devices (including Apple iPhone® and iPad®, Google® AndroidTM andWindows® Phone 7) or web-browsers regardless of where files are stored - without having to upload and sync files or pay for additional online storage.Located in Seattle, WA, TappIn was founded in 2009 by a team of veterans with deep expertise in building sophisticated security and connectivity products that are simple and don't interfere with how people use their computers. These years of experience and know-how are fully incorporated into the TappIn solutions. TappIn is the recipient of numerous industry awards and accolades, including: the Golden Bridge Award for Best Mobile/Wireless Innovation, OnMobile One to Watch, 2011 Red Herring North America 100 finalist, Network Products Guide 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards finalist and a Global Top Mobile 500 App by The Sunday Times. For more information or to try the free Lite Edition, visit http://www.TappIn.com. Follow TappIn on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TAPPN and Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Tapp_In.
  • DataFox — Oracle Marketing is an integrated set of digital marketing and marketing automation cloud solutions that help B2B and B2C marketers deliver individual, personalized experiences.
Ryan Allis Angel · Boulder, Colorado, United States
Ryan Allis is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He is currently a Managing Partner at HeartRithm (www.heartrithm.com), a crypto quant fund,and the Chairman Hive (www.hive.org).Ryan was previously the co-founder and CEO of iContact from 2003 until 2012. iContact grew to 300 employees, 70,000 customers, and $50M in annual sales before its Feb2012 sale to Vocus (NASDAQ:VOCS) for $170M.Ryan is also an angel investor and has invested in 34 firms including SpaceX, Robinhood, LendingClub, Change.org, and Off-Grid Electric.Ryan served as a National Co-Chairperson for Tech for Obama during the 2012 Presidential Election along with Reid Hoffman and Marc Benioff and was a inaugural member of the United Nations Global Entrepreneur Council. Ryan is the author of The Startup Guide: Building a Better World Through Entrepreneurship at www.startupguide.com and the book Zero to One Million (McGraw-Hill, 2008).Ryan attended the University of North Carolina and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Social Media, Collaboration, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Crux — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
  • Bento — We believe that you should not have to choose between eating healthy and conveniently. Bento delivers delicious Asian food in minutes in San Francisco. Using our app, customers start building their Bento by choosing a main dish. We have three options, that rotate daily. Next customers choose four side dishes. We have six to eight side options, thatalso rotate daily.The menu focuses on Asian-inspired food with dishes like Korean short ribs, Japanese eggplant, dragon roll, seaweed salad, okonomiyaki, and gyoza.After placing an order, customers track their server’s location and progress. They’ll meet our server curbside, grab their Bento, and it’s time to eat!Our patent pending packaging enables this system allowing for delivery in an average of 15 minutes.Since launch we have seen double-digit W/W growth.
  • Butter.ai — The rush of bots may be exciting to contemplate — there is a lot of promise in the idea of combining artificial intelligence, natural conversation and super fast computing to make our lives easier.
Russell Hirsch Angel · Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
Russell is a Managing Director of Prospect Venture Partners. Russell co-founded Prospect Venture Partners II and III, as dedicated life science funds with over $1 billion in capital under management. Prior to establishing Prospect Venture Partners II and III, Russell was a member of the Health Care Technology Group at Mayfield. He joined Mayfieldin 1992, served as a Venture Partner from 1993 to 1994 and as a General Partner from 1995-2000. Russell played a key role in Mayfield's investment activities in the biotechnology and medical device sectors. As an Associate, he participated actively in the incubation of Millennium Pharmaceuticals and as a General Partner he was responsible for the incubation of Intuitive Surgical Devices both of which are now publicly traded. (NASDAQ: MLNM), (NASDAQ:ISRG).Prior to Mayfield, Russell was at the University of California San Francisco from 1984-1992 where he was engaged in biomedical research. His work, published in a variety of respected journals, focused on important aspects of hepatitis B viral replication. His descriptions of the reverse transcription and packaging functions of polymerase gene products merited publication in Nature.Russell serves or has served on the Board of Directors of Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG), Hansen Medical (NASDAQ: HNSN), Opus Medical (NASDAQ: ARTC), Orquest (NASDAQ: JNJ), AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Visiogen, Baxano, Dfine, Allux Medical, SentreHEART, Portola Pharmaceuticals and several other privately-held companies. Russell serves as the Vice Chairman of the BOD of Interplast and on the Genetics Advisory Council of the Harvard Medical School-Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Glooko — Glooko's digital health and connected care solutions improve health outcomes for people with diabetes and related chronic conditions.
  • Sholder — Get access to inner wisdom, power, and peace in a confidential session with a skilled sholder.
  • Enwoven — Build a single source of truth for your brand stories, design knowledge, & product innovations with Enwoven.
Dave Morgan Angel · New York, New York, United States
Morgan is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia, a New York based marketing technology company that uses data, science and software to drive business outcomes for advertisers through traditional TV marketing. He previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOLin 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Advertising, Mobile
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ombu — Ombu uses invisible digital watermarks to connect mobile devices and facilitate the sharing of digital information when you are face-to-face. With Ombu, it is very easy to exchange contacts, social networks, websites, images, files, and practically anything else digital all at once and in the moment.
  • Namely — Namely is an all-in-one platform that manages all HR data in one place, with personalized service to help companies get better and faster. The company's early service offering included HR information system, social newsfeed, payroll, and performance management tools.Namely give companies the software and support they need to evolve theircompany cultures It has evolved along with company needs. They handle administration and compliance across HR, payroll, time, and benefits, so HR teams can focus on developing their people and providing a great employee experience.Name was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, USA.
  • GateGuru — GateGuru is a mobile application that provides a seamless platform to travelers to revolutionize how they experience their "day-of" travel. Web-based businesses have largely democratized the planning and booking experiences around travel, but the actual "day-of" travel is a very large, untapped market - GateGuru is leading thischarge. GateGuru currently works on iOS and Android devices. The Company which is led by former venture capitalist Dan Gellert, closed their initial round of financing in May 2011. Investors in the round included Chamath Palihapitiya, Allen Morgan, Brad Harrison (BH Ventures), Tom Glocer, Matt Daimler (SeatGuru Founder), Thomas Lehrman and several other prominent angel investors.
Jenny Lefcourt Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle. Jenny earned her B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1998 she left Stanford to found Wedding Channel.com (sold: XOXO). In 2003 she co-founded Bella Pictures (sold: CPI). In 2014 Jenny joined Freestyle,and was promoted to GP in 2015. Some of Jenny’s notable investments include BetterUp, Crexi, Daily.co, Embark, Ridwell, Narvar and WELL Health. She is also a founding member and board member of All Raise. Jenny is an angel investor in Discord, MainStreetHub and Minted.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Idiomatic — Turn your customer feedback data into instant voice of customer within minutes. Any help desk, any survey, any feedback, any scale. Try it for free today.
  • Inspectiv — Identify complex security vulnerabilities and sensitive data exposures to reduce risk of security incidents and provide assurance to your customers.
  • Change — CHANGE is a platform that powers the giving economy. Brands add a button to checkout, and we do the rest. With CHANGE, brands eliminate the time and resources spent on connecting, vetting, and integrating with nonprofits. The platform streamlines corporate giving, provides real-time analytics, and actively engages the most coveted demographic withshareable content.
Bruce Dunlevie Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Bruce Dunlevie is the General Partner at Benchmark. Additionally, Bruce Dunlevie has had 5 past jobs including Systems Designer & Programmer at Accenture.Bruce previously served as a member of the board of directors of Rambus Inc., a technology licensing company, from March 1990 to June 2011, and as a member of the board of directors of Palm,Inc., a provider of mobile products, from October 2003 to October 2007. Bruce holds a B.A. in History and English from Rice University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
  • Series A, Series C, Series D
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Euclid — Euclid connects the physical world by understanding how people relate to spaces and how spaces relate to each other. Using Wi-Fi signals in a privacy-safe way, Euclid’s proprietary technology delivers insights that inform more efficient, convenient and relevant experiences.Backed by leading venture capital firms Benchmark Capital and NEA, as wellas Cox Enterprises and Groupe Arnault, Euclid was founded by Will Smith and is led by CEO Brent Franson.
  • Mon Ami — Scale community based support for seniors using Mon Ami's intuitive software solutions, designed specifically for use by senior agencies and nonprofits.
  • Wealthfront — Diversify your investing with an automated portfolio that can help maximize your returns and minimize your taxes. Control your risk, investments, and allocations by customizing your portfolio with the things you care about most.
Auren Hoffman Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
  • Calypso AI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
  • Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.
Marc Andreessen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Social Media
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
  • Quillette — What is Quillette? Quillette is an Australian based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. We are politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values. Quillette hosts the Quillette and Quillette Cetera podcasts, and every year we throw Quillette Socials for our
  • Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.
Andy Dunn Angel · New York, New York, United States
Andy Dunn is co-founder and CEO of Bonobos, an apparel brand renowned for exceptional fit, high energy and great customer experience. Launched in 2007, Bonobos is now the largest apparel brand in the United States ever launched over the web. Previously, Dunn worked as a private equity analyst at Wind Point Partners and as a consultant at Bain& Company. He is a founding board member of education social enterprise Blue Engine and the founder of Red Swan Ventures, an angel investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sanarai — Sanarai is a mental health online platform for the Latinx community. Online platform that connects the Latinx community to mental health professionals in Latin America to provide culturally sensitive Spanish-language emotional support at accessible prices
  • Ours — Modern-day virtual couples therapy and premarital counseling trusted by thousands. Get started with world-class couples therapists today!
  • Kabata — Full workout comprehension. Data-driven coaching. Gamified progression. Welcome to the next generation in connected fitness.
Larry Braitman Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Larry Braitman - Angel Investor; Advisor @ Braitman & Company
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Spacejoy — Design a home you'll love with Spacejoy's online interior design services. Work 1:1 with top interior designers and transform any space in just 7 days! Get started today.
  • RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
  • LIT Videobooks — LIT is a new platform that allows you to view bestselling business books in a new video book format.
Princeton Taylor Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Princeton Taylor attended the University of Stanford.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Method Financial — Method makes it easy for developers to embed debt repayment on their apps.
  • Trustworthy. — Trustworthy offers state of the art operating system for families that need help organizing family documents. Find out how we can help make your life easier.
  • Grow Credit — Grow Credit helps consumers with no credit or thin credit files establish or build credit for free using their existing subscription accounts, including Netflix, Disney Plus, Spotify, and many more. Grow is also the first platform to allow consumers to build credit with their cell phone bills. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in SantaMonica, California.
Kathleen Hale Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Kathleen is an entrepreneur, venture capital fund manager and early-stage investor focused on helping to find, incubate, and grow ideas for solving our greatest challenges. As the COO and founding team member of Builders + Backers, Kathleen is working in communities across the country to restore personal agency, increase capacity forentrepreneurial thinking, identify promising solutions and ultimately scale and fund the ones that work.As a partner in Builders + Backers Capital, Kathleen invests in early-stage startups and helps other accredited investors do so as well through investment syndicates.Kathleen also is the Director of Operations the 1776 Ventures, a venture capital fund with some of the world's most promising startups, including Twiga Foods, Guild Education, HopSkipDrive, and Swiftly.Previously Kathleen has founded and grown multiple consumer products companies, including one of the earliest treadmill and standing desks companies in the US. She helped to take these companies from idea to manufacturing, e-commerce and retail success, and licenses with international brands.Prior to launching her first e-commerce business, Kathleen was an accomplished attorney and founding partner of a law firm. She served clients of all sizes and helping to secure tens of millions of dollars in judgments for them.Kathleen is an experienced public speaker who has been featured at conferences around the U.S. and abroad. Her articles and interviews have appeared in FastCompany, Tech.Co, PBS, Forbes.com and Livestrong.com.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Social, Automotive
  • Seed, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Autonomy — The radically new way to get your next car. Month-to-month car subscriptions at affordable all-in prices.
  • Statt — Technology firm
  • Pacaso — Pacaso offers luxury vacation homes for co-ownership. It's the modern way to buy and own a vacation home.
Baron Davis Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Baron Davis is the Founder at Baron Davis Enterprise.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Mobile, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Sweden, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Polywork — Launch an AI-powered personal website to showcase your work, grow your personal brand, or start your side hustle.
  • KiddieKredit — Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app designed to educate children on the credit system by completing chores.
  • COMMUNITYx — COMMUNITYx connects likeminded changemakers with another, as well as around calls-to-action. You can create events and petitions all from within the App! Whether you care about Environmental Justice, Black Lives Matter, Universal Healthcare, Poverty, and more, COMMUNITYx is the place for you!
Scott Belsky Angel · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ShopMy — ShopMy is the affiliate marketing and collaboration tool used by the top content creators and brands in the world.
  • Anon — A powerful developer toolkit to seamlessly request, access, and manage user identity.
  • Particle.News — Understand more, faster.
Dharmesh Shah Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Defog — Natural language data queries, hosted on your own servers.
  • Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
  • FORMLESS — SHARE Technology by FORMLESS
Christian Dörffer Angel · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Christian Dörffer is the founder and managing partner of Defiance Capital. He previously set up and ran Sweet Capital for seven years and has made over 70 investments into early stage software companies in Europe, the US and Latin America.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Software, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Medley — Medley is a membership for curious, growth-minded people who want a structured, social, and accessible way to invest in themselves.
  • Mental — Mental app offers action-oriented Coaching and Programs that help you become your most energized, disciplined, and motivated self.
  • Fiction Foods — A technology-first, architectural approach to food to deliver purpose-driven nutritional solutions that advance both human and environmental health.
Russell Hirsch Angel · Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
Russell is a Managing Director of Prospect Venture Partners. Russell co-founded Prospect Venture Partners II and III, as dedicated life science funds with over $1 billion in capital under management. Prior to establishing Prospect Venture Partners II and III, Russell was a member of the Health Care Technology Group at Mayfield. He joined Mayfieldin 1992, served as a Venture Partner from 1993 to 1994 and as a General Partner from 1995-2000. Russell played a key role in Mayfield's investment activities in the biotechnology and medical device sectors. As an Associate, he participated actively in the incubation of Millennium Pharmaceuticals and as a General Partner he was responsible for the incubation of Intuitive Surgical Devices both of which are now publicly traded. (NASDAQ: MLNM), (NASDAQ:ISRG).Prior to Mayfield, Russell was at the University of California San Francisco from 1984-1992 where he was engaged in biomedical research. His work, published in a variety of respected journals, focused on important aspects of hepatitis B viral replication. His descriptions of the reverse transcription and packaging functions of polymerase gene products merited publication in Nature.Russell serves or has served on the Board of Directors of Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG), Hansen Medical (NASDAQ: HNSN), Opus Medical (NASDAQ: ARTC), Orquest (NASDAQ: JNJ), AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Visiogen, Baxano, Dfine, Allux Medical, SentreHEART, Portola Pharmaceuticals and several other privately-held companies. Russell serves as the Vice Chairman of the BOD of Interplast and on the Genetics Advisory Council of the Harvard Medical School-Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Glooko — Glooko's digital health and connected care solutions improve health outcomes for people with diabetes and related chronic conditions.
  • Sholder — Get access to inner wisdom, power, and peace in a confidential session with a skilled sholder.
  • Enwoven — Build a single source of truth for your brand stories, design knowledge, & product innovations with Enwoven.
Trevor Wright Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
I am entrepreneur and operator. In the past, I co-Founded and sold Vitrue to Oracle for $300 M. I also co-Founded and sold Black Bag Advertising to WPP for $14 M. I was also on the founding team At Flycast Network which had an IPO and was later acquired for $2.2 B. I am currently an angel investor with company exists totaling over $1 B so far.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • ByteBrew — Trusted by over 2500 Game Developers! ByteBrew is the world's most powerful all-in-one game analytics platform that houses all your mobile game's analytics, retention, monetization tracking, player progression, remote configs, a/b testing, custom event tracking and attribution measurement in one lightweight SDK - all 100% free.
  • HYPOTHETIC — Hypothetic builds technology and tools to benefit 3D creators. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • Axie Infinity — Axie Infinity is a game about collecting and raising fantasy creatures called Axie, on the Ethereum platform. Besides collecting and raising, you can make a team of Axies to battle in the arena. You can also buy, sell, and trade Axies with others on the marketplace.
Nish Bhat Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Nish Bhat invests in biotech companies. He was a co-founder of Color before that.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Known Medicine — Known Medicine is looking to take the experimentation of how tumors respond to cancer drugs out of the patient’s body and into the lab. The startup breaks down tumor samples into micro tumors, which they treat separately inside specialized micro-environments with different methods and see what works best.
  • Ambience Healthcare — Experience what it feels like to never have to type or dictate another note again.
  • Tonic Music — From your home, to the world. Sign up now to take lessons from the best musicians in the world.
Andrew Chen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Andrew Chen is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, focusing on consumer technology. Previously, he led the the Rider Growth teams at Uber.For the past decade, he’s written about mobile, metrics, and growth at http://andrewchen.co. He is an advisor/investor for tech startups including AngelList, Barkbox, Boba Guys, Dropbox,Front, Gusto, Kiva, Product Hunt, Tinder, Workato and others.Previously, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based firm with $2B under management.He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Gaming, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Ramen VR — Zenith is an expansive open world VR MMORPG inspired by JRPGS and Anime, like Sword Art Online (SAO) . The massively multiplayer online game features real-time action adventure gameplay and also takes cues from MMOs like WoW, Final Fantasy, and BDO. Zenith is coming to Oculus Quest, Quest 2, Sony's PS VR and Steam.
  • The Rounds — Zero-waste deliveries and refills of sustainable staples. Philadelphia | DC | Miami | Atlanta
  • Captain Experiences — Choose from the largest selection of fishing charters in the U.S., book online, and head out with verified guides in your destination of choice.
Marc Randolph Angel · Santa Cruz, California, United States
Marc Randolph is a Board Member of several companies. He has founded Netflix in 1997, serving as the online movie service's founding CEO, as the executive producer of it's web site, and as a member of it's board of directors until 2004. Since leaving Netflix he has been an active investor, executive mentor and consultant fornumerous early-stage tech companies.Prior to founding Netflix, Marc was a co-founder of numerous other tech start-ups, including IntegrityQA, Visioneer, Microwarehouse, and MacUser Magazine.He currently sits on the boards of Rafter, ReadyForce, Getable, Looker and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); as well as on numerous advisory boards.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Internet, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
  • United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
  • Revolution RE — JoyHub is a tech integration layer for multifamily operators for workflow automation and data aggregation.
  • Wibond — Under the “buy now pay later” business model, Wibond is a 100% flexible digital payment method to pay in installments and without a card. It provides financial access to a large community offering payment options according to the possibilities and the profile of each user. - Companies increase their sales by approaching a new user community andoffering an innovative payment alternative. - Users access a universe of stores and businesses to be able to pay in installments without a card. The platform sets out an ambitious vision and seeks to promote trade in Latin America, a very complex region. Their next steps include landing in Chile and Mexico. Wibond was founded in Argentina in 2020 by Ezequiel Bucai and Alejandro Silvestre. In 2013 they created a platform where users accessed a network of more than 2,500 gyms and sports centers located in 30 cities in Argentina, Mexico and Chile. Then Classpass, the US Unicorn, acquired Clickypass.
  • Cheeze, Inc — A Photography focused NFT Media and Entertainment company
Bryan Rosenblatt Angel · New York, New York, United States
Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Retail
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
  • Jomboy Media — We cover the topics we love, including sports, movies, songs, and history. If we can talk about it with enthusiasm, we've got a show for it.
  • Underdog Fantasy — Fantasy sports for real money
Jason Rosenthal Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States
Jason Rosenthal is CEO of Lytro which is transforming the camera into a powerful computational photography platform. Rosenthal joined Lytro from Silver Lake Partners where he was an Operating Executive.Previously, he was CEO of Ning which was acquired by Glam Media. At Ning, Rosenthal led the transition of the company from a free, ad supportedservice to a premium subscription model. Under Rosenthal's leadership, Ning grew from 17,000 paying subscribers to over 100,000 in less than 18 months.Before joining Ning, Rosenthal was Vice President of HP Software's Business Service Automation product line which encompasses the former Opsware product portfolio (acquired by HP for $1.6B) and leading solutions in the storage management, desktop management, and mobile device management space. Prior to Opsware's acquisition by HP, Rosenthal held multiple executive positions at the company including Senior Vice President and General Manager of Server Automation Products at Opsware, Inc.Earlier in his career, Rosenthal served as director of product management for the AOL's E-Commerce Platform Division which he joined through the company's acquisition of Netscape Communications.Rosenthal began his career working for Rebuild LA, the inner city economic development organization founded in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots by Peter Ueberroth.Rosenthal holds a B.A. in history from Pomona College where he also serves on the board of trustees and he received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.Specialties: Social Media, Cloud Technologies, Mobile Applications, Executive Management, Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Development, Engineering Management, Professional Services
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Social, Virtual Reality
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kite & Lightning — Kite & Lightning is a cinematic VR company that blends gaming, social and story to create emotionally transformative experiences. Founded by film industry veterans in 2013, the company is currently creating immersive computer-generated (CG) worlds that meld cinematic storytelling with interactive gaming. Known for its unprecedented technicaland creative innovations in VR storytelling, the Los Angeles-based startup has succeeded in many genres to critical acclaim such as the Cannes Lions festival and the Toronto International Film Festival POP exhibits. Recent projects include a 4D VR experience for NBC’s “The Voice” featuring Pharrell Williams, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, & Gwen Stefani; and Lionsgate’s first VR narrative, a hybrid live action and CG experience starring Kate Winslet, Mekhi Phifer and Miles Teller
Ramesh Haridas Angel · New York, New York, United States
Ramesh Haridas is an Angel Investor since June 2006. Ramesh has been an entrepreneur and an investor in early stage internet companies for the last 10 years. He has started and sold two internet companies. Ramesh was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Parakweet from March 2010 to February 2016. Parakweet is Ramesh's third startup.Ramesh has started and successfully sold two internet companies before - PrivacyBank.com, an online information bank; and Chintano -- an internet ad network that built proprietary contextual and behavioral targeting technology. Ramesh is also an active angel investor and was the first angel investor in 8tracks, nRelate (sold to IAC), and Esaya (sold to Linkedin); and an early investor in Mashery, AVG and Rapportive. In his free time, he enjoys playing squash and discovering good fiction. Ramesh holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Ryde — Ryders is a last-mile delivery business that puts people and planet first.
  • Sano Genetics — The future of precision medicine is here. Deep dive into your DNA & contribute to the latest research opportunities. Discover Sano Genetics.
  • Carv — Carv fits in any ski boot, analyzes your technique, and coaches you with live audio as you ski.
Zach Weinberg Angel · New York, New York, United States
Before co-founding Flatiron, Zach was Co-Founder, President and COO of Invite Media, an advertising technology company based in NYC. Invite Media built the industry's first enterprise advertising platform for buying and optimizing online media in real-time. Invite Media was acquired by Google in 2010. Prior to Invite Media, Zach co-foundedEatNow.com which was privately acquired. An active angel investor, Zach has invested in over 30 technology startups throughout the country, including Bell Biosystems, Breakthrough.com, Care at Hand, DocPhin, Doctor Evidence, Genomera, Meddik, Oscar, and Predilytics. Zach studied economics and entrepreneurship at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Israel, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • Scoop — Thrive in a hybrid work environment with Scoop's solutions for Workplace Safety, Workplace Utilization, Team Coordination, Desk Management, and Commute.
  • Iterative Scopes — Iterative Scopes provides gastroenterologists with machine learning-powered diagnostic tools that help them prevent colon cancer and improve patient outcomes
  • Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data as a part of your efficient, connected R&D.
Sashi Reddi Angel · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Sashi Reddi is a successful technology entrepreneur, business leader, and an active angel investor. Sashi runs a seed stage venture fund, SRI Capital, that is typically the first institutional investor in various technology and media start-ups. SRI currently has over 20 investments, spread evenly between India and the US. He is also a member of theinvestment team at Gabriel Investments.Previously, Sashi was the founder and CEO of AppLabs, the world’s largest independent software testing company with over 2,500 QA professionals in India, the US, and the UK. AppLabs was funded by Sequoia Capital India. CSC acquired AppLabs in September 2011. Series A investors in AppLabs received a 10X return on their investment in 6 years. Post the acquisition of AppLabs by CSC, Sashi served as the VP & GM, Big Data and Analytics at CSC, reporting directly to the CEO. A serial entrepreneur, Sashi has started three other companies prior to AppLabs. These were EZPower Systems (web content management pioneer acquired by DocuCorp, and eventually a part of Oracle), iCoop (group purchasing dotcom), and FXLabs (leading Indian game developer acquired by Foundation 9 Entertainment).Sashi received his BTech in Computer Science from the IIT Delhi, an MS in Computer Science from NYU, and later a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.Sashi serves on the advisory board of Wharton Entrepreneurship, board of Ben Franklin Technology Partners, as well as on the board of T-Hub, India’s largest incubator for start-ups. He is a charter member of TiE Philadelphia and TiE Hyderabad. He also runs a charitable organization, SRI Trust, that supports the educational and overall development needs of 600 children in 3 schools in India.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, News
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • India, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • VideoKen — VideoKen helps you engage better with learners by turning your videos into interactive and immersive learning experiences
  • Way2news — no.1 Hyper Local Short News App
  • Hello Curry — Hello Curry is a pioneer and leader in the QSR market in India. Conceived by Founders Raju Bhupati and Sandeep Penmatsa; as the world's first Internet First Asset Light Fast Indian Food chain, Hello Curry started operations early in 2014 with a seed capital of 6 crores; rising to the Top 5 startups in India in the first 6 months of operations.Hello Curry's innovative packaging makes an Indian meal a simple, easily manageable experience. Operating out of 4 cities with 29 outlets, Hello Curry has a vision of 10 outlets per city worldwide over the next 5 years. The key enabler to achieve this vision is a radical, game changer business model KICK [ Kitchen in Commercial Kitchen ] which allows for Hello Curry to set-up in any kitchen in India as a partner and offer its product line with a collaborative supply chain, Asset Light infrastructure and a lean delivery model. KICK spawns into a metric of multiple fully operational outlets in a matter of two weeks, affording tremendous productivity margins and lowering TCO.Hello Curry has recently been awarded the Best QSR Restaurant in South India; as also the best packaging award. In line with its expansion plans, Hello Curry has made strategic acquisitions - Paratha Post to improve its product line, Fire 42 a specialized technology provider to strengthen its operations, and has entered into a partnership with EatSome, a leading Pune based fast food chain. Hello Curry cognitively incorporates inorganic growth with major cities in India - leading ones being Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai and Kolkatta
Bobby Aitkenhead Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Bobby Aitkenhead: has over 9 years of experience across the financial sector, from Investment Banking to Fintech. He has held senior roles at Citi Bank and Fortis Bank, evaluating credit safeguarding liquidity, managing balance sheet positioning and directing FX and interest rate trading desks. Bobby Co-Founded and held the CEO position of BlueKitea cross-border payment platform for immigrants, which was acquired by Xoom Corporation and later by Paypal. He was also General Partner and Co-Founder of Advance Finance Venture Capital Firm (ATW Ventures), a VC with 2 active funds of more than $ 100 Million of Assets Under Management.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, iOS
  • Series C, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Bvddy — Bvddy is an app that connects people through sports. We are disrupting the sports industry by creating the world’s first smart sport-matching service. Utilizing popular social networks, the system gathers users’ basic information to match users based on exact geographical location, mutual friends, common interests and, most importantly, level ofplay in a specific sport(s).
  • Osigu — Osigu provides an insurance management platform intended to be used for data processes and data transfers. The company's insurance management platform helps in all the transactions and data transfers that happen between insurance providers, insurance partners, and the customers eliminating all the over processed and haphazard paperwork foundin the back end systems, enabling clients with a reliable and efficient technology that helps them to serve their millions of customers easily without any hassle.The company was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Guatemala.
  • Taxfyle — Filing as an individual? A small business? Want taxes filed FOR you? Taxfyle solves all of your tax needs by connecting you w/ a US-based, licensed CPA pro.
Jackson Moses Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
A proven serial entrepreneur and early defense tech investor, Jackson Moses currently serves as the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures, an early stage venture firm that invests in exceptional founders building unrivaled aerospace, defense, and national security startups. He also manages Silent Capital, a private syndicate that providesits members exclusive access to leading defense and frontier tech deals. As a serial founder, Jackson’s companies - MainStreet (FinTech) and Spectrum Labs (enterprise AI) - have raised over $120M, employ hundreds of people, and generate $30M+ in ARR.Prior to founding Silent Ventures, Jackson founded and served as VP of Partnerships at MainStreet - the first company to make R&D tax credits accessible to startups and SMBs via industry-leading workflows, integrations, and back-office technologies. As a founding executive, he was responsible for defining GTM strategies, scaling revenue, building a world-class sales organization, and managing business development initiatives. To date, MainStreet has helped 2,000+ startups claim over $150M in savings, collectively extending their runway by centuries.Prior to founding MainStreet, Jackson founded and served as Chairman & CEO of Spectrum Labs - a frontier tech company that develops cutting-edge AI to make digital communities more profitable for Fortune 500 owners, marketers, and their users. Its customers span gaming, dating, and social media, and include Tencent (TCEHY), Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), Grindr (NYSE: GRND), Yik Yak, Wildlife Studios, and The Meet Group, among others.Prior to founding Spectrum Labs, Jackson worked in sales (Lynda.com), customer operations, and executive recruiting at LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to this, he worked as a Market Research Analyst at Cisco where he evaluated industry trends, new investment opportunities, and emerging threats to Cisco’s core business lines.Jackson actively advises startups, venture firms, and family offices on private sector aerospace and defense tech trends, investment opportunities, and capital allocation strategies. He serves as a Venture Partner to several large firms and has sourced deals for 8VC, Airbus Ventures, Tribe Capital, Susa Ventures, Lavrock Ventures, Afore Capital, and defense primes.Jackson holds two B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied Economics, with a concentration in monetary policy, and Political Science, with a concentration in game theory.Personal: www.jacksonmoses.com | Work: www.silentvc.com | Syndicate: www.silentcapital.vc
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Investment focus
  • Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Government
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Nurdle AI — Get your AI into production Faster, Cheaper & Easier with Nurdle's privacy-safe lookalike data. Trusted by leading brands in gaming and social media.
  • Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
  • Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
Nate Mitchell Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Nate Mitchell is Co-Founder and vice president of product at Oculus, the company that’s bringing immersive virtual reality technology to the world. Nate currently heads up Oculus product development, including the highly anticipated Oculus Rift headset. Before Oculus, Nate worked on the product teams at Gaikai, the cloud-gaming company acquiredby Sony Computer Entertainment in 2012, and at Scaleform, developers of the leading user interface solution for the video game industry, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Virtual Reality, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Windup Minds — Windup Minds is a game studio focused on creating VR and MR virtual pet experiences. The company runs a gaming studio that aims to bring virtual pet games to market.
  • Barnyard Games — Barnyard Games is a gaming production studio that creates strategic games and simulations.
  • Brain Jar Games — Brain Jar Games is a new worldwide studio comprised of AAA professionals dedicated to creating bold and bright games that players want to share.
Ted Rheingold Angel
Ted Rheingold was an experienced owner/operator that realigned his Internet, startup and business experience to grow cause-oriented for-profit businesses. He was Strategic Advisor for delivering services traditionally provided by non-profit. He recently wrote about his InVenture provides financial identity and credit scoring services to the previously unbanked in South Asia and Africa. It offers free SMS, Voice and Android money-management tools for small business owners and head of households and licenses it's credit scoring services and algorithms to finance institutions, NGOs, governments, and credit providers. Ted is perhaps best know for founding and serving as CEO of Dogster, Inc. makers of Ted sold Dogster & Catster to Ted's first business Previously Ted served as Engineering Production Leads at Voquette and Preview TravelHe has served as a Mentor with 500 Startups and i/o Ventures. And has Investor and Advised at Lumatic, Colingo, Visually, TastemakerX, Petsana, DogVacay, StoryPanda, Reclip.it, Colloquy, Ad Hoc Labs & Cir.caTed Rheingold died from kidney cancer on September 4, 2017.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Mobile, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Colingo — Colingo was founded in 2011 to break down barriers to personal, social, and economic opportunities by teaching people around the world to speak English.Colingo offers a live, online English school with teacher-led group conversation classes, personalized skills-training and private tutoring.Through its live video classes, Colingo provides apersonalized path to English fluency for global professionals who have a basic understanding of English, but lack the confidence and skills to speak in conversational settings. Offered 24 hours a day, Colingo's classes blend authentic conversation about contemporary topics with structured skills training and assessment of over 70 core grammar and pronunciation skills. An average class size of three to five provides an intimate, low-pressure environment where students can gain comfort and confidence while improving core skills and receive feedback.
  • Digit — Get the all-in-one money app that budgets, saves, and invests for you. Try Digit free for 30 days.
  • Wantering — Wantering is a fashion discovery tool that allows you to discover and buy clothing from across a curated list of boutiques, flash sales sites, and major retailers all in one place.
Brad Bao Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Brad Bao is a Co-Founder and Chairman at Lime (formerly LimeBike), the global leader in micromobility. Prior to Lime, he cofounded Kinzon Capital, a cross-border fund that investing in early-stage technology companies in both US and China, focusing on mobile and internet-related investments. Prior to that, Brad established Tencent'sinternational footprint, led its internationalization over the course of 8 years, served as GM for Tencent America, and VP-BD for Tencent Games. Brad holds MBA degree from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
  • Shackle — Shackle is an app uses by hotels to provides and maintain hassel free hospitality services in a digital way to guests and travelers.
  • Titan — Aware Healthcare is the first network of therapists who use treatment based on science and data shared by patients to deliver truly personalized mental health care.
Avishai Abrahami Angel · New York, New York, United States
Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communicationtechnology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company's sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces' elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Social Media
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Israel, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Affogata — Affogata optimizes the digital customer journey by analyzing customer interactions and identifying customer needs in real-time.
  • Connecteam — Communicate, operate and train your non-desk employees with Connecteam's all-in-one employee app. Easy to use, customizable and affordable like no other!
  • The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.
Chris Burch Angel · New York, New York, United States
Christopher Burch is Founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital. Mr. Burch is an active investor in a variety of businesses spanning a wide range of industries and is the co-founder of the luxury fashion brand, Tory Burch. Mr. Burch has always been devoted to the power of branding, and currently applies his keen sense of marketing and sales tobusiness interests spanning apparel, financial services, hospitality, technology and consumer products.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Consumer Goods
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Israel, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • Cerebral — Cerebral experts can treat anxiety, depression, insomnia, and more. Learn about the care you can get today.
  • Iris Nova — Iris Nova powers the SMS payment technology (conversational commerce), customer service, email marketing, fulfillment, and delivery infrastructure for a portfolio of the world's best CPG brands.This strategy was first executed with functional beverage brand DIRTY LEMON, which popularized text-messaging based direct-to-consumer sales when itlaunched in 2015. The brand has since scaled to over 200,000 customers, leveraging the data to provide a personalized experience and on-demand deliveries to customers nationwide.Iris Nova was formally launched as an evolution of this success, following a minority investment from The Coca-Cola Company in 2018. The Iris Nova platform enables a seamless, end-to-end solution for beverage brands prioritizing the direct to home channel as a core component of their distribution strategy. This includes same-day deliveries in major markets as well average national shipping speeds faster than Amazon Prime. As the space continues to evolve with new entrants and innovation, we believe this is the future of CPG distribution.
  • Crush Capital — Groundbreaking series following founders on their capital-raising journey. For the first time, viewers can Click-to-Invest in featured companies.
Saran Chari Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Saran is CTO of Lumos Labs. Before Flixster, Saran was one of the early employees at the startup Edusoft, where he ran the engineering team. Edusoft provided assessment management software based on unique, low-cost scanning technology to public school districts. Edusoft was bought by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. Before Edusoft, Saran worked forScient, the former internet consulting firm.Before Scient, Saran earned a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Association, Event Management
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Juvo — Juvo was founded with an overarching vision: to establish financial identities for the billions of people worldwide who are creditworthy, yet financially excluded. In partnership with mobile network operators, Juvo’s proprietary Identity Scoring technology uses data science, machine learning and game mechanics to create an identity-basedrelationship with anonymous prepaid users, opening up access to otherwise unattainable mobile financial services. Juvo is a privately held company backed by global business leaders and luminaries in the world of tech, mobile and finance. Its executive team comprises accomplished industry leaders across the data science, consumer internet, financial services and mobile telecom fields.
  • Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.
  • Silk and Sonder — Self-care monthly planners and journal subscription service. We make planning, reflecting, and achieving easy and fun by bringing a new pen to paper experience every month.
Wayne Chang Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Wayne Chang (born August 3, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding Crashlytics, which in little over a year was acquired by Twitter for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO), creating i2hub, a popular filesharing network, his seedinvestments that include companies like JetSmarter, Draftkings, and Gusto, and his lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers, who were famously depicted in The Social Network movie.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
  • Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
  • CryptoTaxCalculator — Online Crypto Tax Calculator with support for over 400 integrations. $49 for all financial years. Money Back Guarantee.
Vivek Garipalli Angel · New York, New York, United States
Vivek Garipalli was the Co-Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Clover Health. He attended Emory University.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Thyme Care — Thyme Care is a dedicated team of nurses and care experts offering value-based cancer care to help you through all phases of the cancer experience.
  • Uplift — Rebuilding mental healthcare to work for everyone
  • NeuraLight — Transforming clinical development, diagnostics, and precision medicine in neurology with AI. We are building an AI-driven platform to accelerate and improve drug development and patient monitoring, as well as introduce precision care for patients with neurological disorders using oculometric data captured with a standard webcam or smartphone.
Chris Kitze Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Chris Kitze is the Community Member at FLASHcoin Community.He attended University of Colorado Boulder.
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Investment focus
  • Social, Travel, Finance
  • Seed, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Yaga, Inc. — Yaga, Inc. (www.yaga.com) provides an advanced, hosted ASP platform that addresses emerging revenue and payment infrastructure needs of online businesses. Yaga's sophisticated payment and accounting application supports micropayments, aggregated billing and stored value accounts while also managing royalty and affiliate accounting. In additionYaga provides advanced services such as digital rights management (DRM) and content access control to help manage, sell and merchandize digital content, goods and services.
  • Safe Cash — Safe Cash makes cash more secure, convenient, and profitable for banks, merchants, and consumers. Safe Cash provides the Safe Cash Platform, which is a cryptographically-secure digital platform for exchanging digital tokens. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Kevin Lin Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
  • Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
  • Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
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