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Top 50 Social Angel Investors in United States in September 2025

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 in September 2025

Investor Social United States investments
Cyan Banister 4
Ronald Conway 4
Tim Kendall 3
Wei Guo 3
Pascal Levy-Garboua 3
Tom Williams 2
Auren Hoffman 2
Gary Griffiths 2
Jenny Lefcourt 2
Baron Davis 2
Nisha Dua 2
Chris Hameetman 2
Matt Cheng 2
Marc Randolph 2
Marc Andreessen 2
Balaji Srinivasan 2
Andy Dunn 2
Russell Hirsch 2
Bruce Dunlevie 2
Princeton Taylor 2
Amanda Bradford 2
Dharmesh Shah 2
Ryan Allis 2
Trevor Wright 2
Tom Vorisek 2
Dave Morgan 2
Christian Dörffer 2
Russell Hirsch 2
Andrew Chen 2
Andreas Klinger 2
Nish Bhat 2
Scott Cook 2
Kathleen Hale 2
Princeton Taylor 2
Scott Belsky 2
Larry Braitman 2
Steve Bennett 1
Brad Feld 1
Bryan Rosenblatt 1
Mark Pincus 1
Roman Abramovich 1
Julian Weisser 1
Michael Carter 1
Daniel Curran 1
Sebastian Gil 1
Joseph R. Saviano 1
Gina Bianchini 1
Ted Rheingold 1
Sheryl Sandberg 1
Ben Narasin 1
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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
  • Vigil Labs — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.
  • Barndoor AI — Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce.
  • TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
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, Advertising
  • 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.
  • World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
  • Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
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 — We leverage brain biology to develop personalized medicines, helping patients get better faster.
  • Checkmate — Never miss a deal.
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.
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, FinTech, Marketplace
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, Morocco, Portugal
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.
  • Litehaus — AI Agent for Construction making construction faster, cheaper and smarter. From text to build.
  • Base64 — Base64 Document Intelligence Platform automates document processing with Agentic AI and over 2,800 prebuilt models.
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 — Enterprise-grade integrations that sync business-critical tools. Secure, low-cost, two-way sync that anyone can set up and manage.
  • Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
  • North One — 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.
Auren Hoffman Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
CEO, NQB8, Chm, SafeGraph. GP, Flex Capital. Fmr CEO of LiveRamp. Follow @auren
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
  • CalypsoAI — 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.
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, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Biba — Amazon Chime lets users meet and chat online, and the Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add audio and video collaboration to their applications.
  • 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 — A complete cloud marketing suite to unify all prospect and customer data in a single view, make AI-fueled predictions, and launch omnichannel marketing campaigns.
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 — Idiomatic believes that if you can listen to your customers at scale, you will make better business decisions. Its voice-of-customer platform helps companies do just that, by using AI to identify and track all issues and trends that customers bring up in customer support inquiries, NPS survey responses, and app reviews. Idiomatic quantifies thosegranular issues so that their clients have clear, data-driven criteria for prioritizing resources in order to improve their products or services. Beloved companies like Pinterest, Slack, Instacart, and Disney rely on Idiomatic.
  • 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.
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, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Sweden, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • 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!
  • The Gathering Spot — The Gathering Spot is an invitation only, private membership club redefining the traditional club model & experience.
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.
Chris Hameetman Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Chris Hameetman - Chairman Emeritus @ Tech Coast Angels
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Events, Mobile
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • GonnaBe — GonnaBe: Plans, made simple.The social planning space is crowded, noisy, and confusing – as are the apps themselves.Simplicity and elegance are key. GonnaBe's UX and patent-pending technologies change the game:The ease of Instagram.The utility of Twitter.The allure of Path.GonnaBe is a platform – not a planning tool.Seamless integration, frictionless sharing, and device agnostic. GonnaBe is the simplest way to share information, period.
  • TradeYa — TradeYa helps people get whatever they need and want without having to buy it. Our web-based barter platform leverages the social graph and patent pending trade process to connect people who want to trade goods and services. Existing web 1.0 barter platforms are bad digital swap meets requiring users to sift through countless listing to trade.
Matt Cheng Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Matt Cheng is the founder and managing partner of Cherubic Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco Bay Area, Beijing and Taipei. Matt Cheng was the earliest investor of Tian Ge Interactive Holdings(1980.HK), China's largest live social video platform and currently also serving as the Chief Strategy Officer. Mattwas selected as a "Top 20 under 40" early stage investor in China by Cyzone Media in 2013 & 2014. Matt was also a top-ranked ITF world junior tennis player.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Blockchain
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series C
  • United States, Taiwan, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • ONEHOPE — ONEHOPE is a Napa Winery Built on Hope and Rooted in Purpose
  • Beaubble — beauty + bubble = beaubble [byoo-buhl] playground for beauty enthusiasts
  • Tonic Music — From your home, to the world. Sign up now to take lessons from the best musicians in the world.
Marc Randolph Angel · Santa Cruz, California, United States
Marc Randolph founded Netflix in 1997, serving as the online movie service's founding CEO, as the executive producer of it's web site, and as a member of it's board of directors until 2004. Since leaving Netflix he has been an active investor, executive mentor and consultant for numerous early stage tech companies.Prior tofounding Netflix, Marc was a co-founder of numerous other tech start-ups, including IntegrityQA, Visioneer, Microwarehouse, and MacUser Magazine.He currently sits on the boards of Rafter, ReadyForce, Getable, Looker and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); as well as on numerous advisory boards.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Apps, Software
  • 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 — Paga a tu red de clientes en una wallet marca blanca y habilita servicios financieros integrados al momento.
  • Overlap — Overlap uses AI to help you extract the best moments from video content.
Marc Andreessen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
  • Phi — Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities
  • Quillette — What is Quillette? Quillette is an Australian based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. We are politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values. Quillette hosts the Quillette and Quillette Cetera podcasts, and every year we throw Quillette Socials for our
Balaji Srinivasan Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
  • Paradigm — The AI-powered way to do spreadsheet work. Set up, edit, populate, and analyze sheets with assistant. Enrich empty cells with data from trusted sources.
  • Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.
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, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • OffDeal — OffDeal is building an AI-native investment bank for buying and selling small businesses. We use custom AI agents and big data to screen thousands of SMBs each day, matching buyers with the perfect acquisition target in days instead of months. Unlike legacy M&A advisors, we can search for targets for hundreds of buyers concurrently, 24/7.
  • 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!
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, Medical, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Glooko — Glooko is the universal diabetes platform that provides insights to improve outcomes for people with diabetes (PWDs) and their care teams. Glooko connects to the world’s most popular diabetes devices, major fitness and activity trackers and supplies personalized, timely patient information such as glucose level, food, insulin, medications, bloodpressure, diet and weight data. Trusted by the world’s leaders in diabetes care, we are in over 7,000 clinical locations and used by over 1.5 million PWDs in 23 countries across 15 languages. Learn more by visiting www.glooko.com.
  • 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.
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.
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 - The Family Operating System® — 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.
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, Series A
  • 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.
  • Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.
Dharmesh Shah Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 6 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, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
  • Owner — Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more.
  • Twenty — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.
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 — Crux is a messaging app for college students. It lets you share, discover and organize what's happening right now on campus. It has a smart, channel-based group chat that makes it faster and easier to run an entire group in one place. It also offers a location-based feed of everything that’s happening on campus. We're based in Venice,CA and launched in January 2015. Our investors include Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH fund, Ryan Allis, Big Colors, and Patrick Gannon of Lending Club. We're also featured on the App Store.Download the app here: http://dl.crux.la/m/XFtbNympZl
  • Bento — The refreshingly delightful email marketing platform. Send product, marketing, and transactional emails with Bento.
  • 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.
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 virtual world filled with cute, formidable creatures known as Axies. Axies can be battled, collected, and even used to mine tokens through gameplay.
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 is the first landlord software recognised by HMRC for Making tax Digital. We provide real-time monitoring of rental income and expenses, bookkeeping and property tax statements, compatible with MTD for IT, all in one place.
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.
  • HIMERA — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.
  • 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.
Christian Dörffer Angel · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Christian Dörffer is the Founder and General Partner of Defiance Capital. He previously worked at Midnight Runners as a Co-Founder and Owner. Christian Dörffer attended Copenhagen Business School.
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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
  • Health Care, Medical, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Glooko — Glooko is the universal diabetes platform that provides insights to improve outcomes for people with diabetes (PWDs) and their care teams. Glooko connects to the world’s most popular diabetes devices, major fitness and activity trackers and supplies personalized, timely patient information such as glucose level, food, insulin, medications, bloodpressure, diet and weight data. Trusted by the world’s leaders in diabetes care, we are in over 7,000 clinical locations and used by over 1.5 million PWDs in 23 countries across 15 languages. Learn more by visiting www.glooko.com.
  • 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.
Andrew Chen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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, SaaS
  • 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.
  • Promise — Promise is a film, series, and innovative format studio powered by the world’s best Gen AI artists and storytellers.
  • The Rounds — Zero-waste deliveries and refills of sustainable staples. Philadelphia | DC | Miami | Atlanta
Andreas Klinger Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 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, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Atlas.co — Your all-in-one map builder
  • Isembard — Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business.
  • sensmore — Equip your machinery with autonomy built for the harshest conditions. Enhance safety, reduce costs, and increase efficiency with our advanced radar technology.
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
  • Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • General Proximity — General Proximity is a pioneering future-oriented proximity medicine that envisions the future of medicine.
Scott Cook Angel · Mountain View, California, United States
Scott Cook is the Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee at Intuit Inc.
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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.
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.
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 - The Family Operating System® — 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.
Scott Belsky Angel · New York, New York, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Extend — The document processing platform built for the next generation.
  • Doctronic — Doctronic is the first D2C AI doctor working with human doctors in all 50 states in the US (and moving into other countries quickly). Get immediate AI diagnosis and then ask a human doctor to verify / act on that diagnosis if needed.
  • Hero Assistant — Hero is a comprehensive daily assistant app designed to help users manage and run their life all in one place. It features integrated tools for grocery lists (with direct ordering via Instacart), to-dos, calendar events, habit tracking, weather updates, AI-powered search, notes, and notifications that alert even when the phone is on silent.
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 — Building the future of home designs by weaving art and interactive 3D technology to enable the joy of designing homes
  • 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.
Steve Bennett Angel
Steve Bennett was named Symantec’s chief executive officer in July 2012. Prior to that, Bennett joined Symantec’s board of directors in February 2010, and was chairman from 2011 to 2013. Bennett previously led Intuit serving as president and chief executive officer from 2000 to 2007. At Intuit, Bennett combined the company’s historicinnovative and customer-driven expertise with strategic and operational rigor. Intuit revenue grew to $2.7 billion in fiscal 2007 from less than $1 billion in fiscal 2000. Under Bennett’s leadership Intuit grew its existing businesses while simultaneously expanding into new markets, such as online banking and healthcare.Bennett joined Intuit after a 23-year career at General Electric, where he managed complex and diverse organizations from consumer appliances to financial services. During his career at GE, he held a variety of key management roles in numerous areas of the business, including GE Capital e-Business, GE Capital Vendor Financial Services, GE Electrical Distribution and Control, GE Appliances, GE Medical Systems and GE Supply.He currently serves on boards at American Airlines and parent company AMR Corporation. Bennett graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor’s degree in finance and real estate.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Social, Sports
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ujama — Ujama is a messaging platform where communities connect, collaborate, and conduct commerce. Ujama helps people help one another. We promote more joy and fewer logistics through the power of community, friendship and teamwork. Our name comes from the Swahili word ujamaa which means extended family.
  • OpenSponsorship — Join 19000+ brands connecting to 11000+ athletes, teams and events globally, on OpenSponsorship to drive marketing and sales using sports; proven to deliver 7x ROI.
Brad Feld Angel · Boulder, Colorado, United States
Brad Feld is a partner and co-founder of Foundry. He has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over 35 years, since founding his first company, Feld Technologies, in college. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars and, with his wife Amy Batchelor, runs the Anchor Point Foundation. Brad has written several books on entrepreneurship andventure capital and started blogging in 2004 before VC Twitter existed. Brad holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brad is also an art collector and long-distance runner who enjoys wandering around alone in the mountains for hours at a time.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Trustify — Trustify connects individuals and businesses with licensed private investigators and experienced intelligence analysts on-demand.
  • Vengo — Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers whilegenerating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
  • Planetarians — Why: When the alternative meat consumption grows from the current 2% to a projected 23%, where will the industry get proteins? Isolation, fermentation, cultured… all of them require it’s own ingredients for proteins. They might be not so readily available in the food system on the Earth…What: PLANETARIANS developed a new platform to makealternative meats from animal feed (Sunflower, Corn DDGS, Pulses). Skipping protein isolation it uses just 0.5:1 water (no chemicals). Product prototypes have umami taste, improved protein quality and lower costs than meats made from isolates and concentrates.How: Solid-state fermentation converts carbs in the ingredients into extra protein in addition to inherent one and improves PDCAAS. Wet extrusion works as a kill step and creates a meat-like texture.
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 — A creator-led media company that breaks down sports at the expense of no one (except ourselves). Click to read Jomboy Media, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
  • Underdog Fantasy — Fantasy sports for real money
Mark Pincus Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
  • Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into revenue.
  • Schemata — Schemata is a three-dimensional content creation company intended to help the Department of Defense and enterprises.
Roman Abramovich Angel · Novaya, Rostov, Russian Federation
Roman Abramovich is a Russian businessman, investor and politician. He is the main owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC and owner of Chelsea Football Club, an English Premier League football team.According to Forbes, Abramovich's net worth in 2015, was US$ 9.1 billion (2015). This makes him the 12th richest person inRussia and the 137th richest person in the world.
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Investment focus
  • Email, Construction, Advanced Materials
  • Series C, Seed, Series A
  • Russian Federation, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Yandex — Yandex is a multinational technology company that provides internet-related services and operates a search engine platform in Russia. It is one of the largest internet companies in Europe, operating Russia’s most popular search engine and its most visited website.According to LiveInternet, for the three months ended September 30, 2015, theygenerated 57.1% of all search traffic in Russia. They also operate in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Turkey.
  • GdeMaterial — GdeMaterial - DIY marketplace operates a DIY marketplace which provides quick delivery of any materials. DIY marketplace that helps to customer find the closest shop with best prices and order delivery.
  • TARIS Biomedical — TARIS Biomedical a specialty pharmaceutical company with deep domain expertise in therapeutics and drug-delivery, is focused on local minimally-invasive drug-device convergence products. The TARIS core technology and development efforts are being applied to disease areas with high unmet medical need in which current therapies or systemic treatmentshave failed.
Julian Weisser Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Julian Weisser is a Co-Founder and Head of Recruiting at On Deck.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Social, Travel
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ValueBase — This page discusses the history of ValueBase, what brought us together and why we decided that accurate appraisal was important. It also explains why we focus on mass appraisal and statistical techniques like regression.
  • Induced AI — Induced is an AI-native browser RPA platform that lets users combine browsing and web tools, along with smart reasoning and memory, to automate enterprise workflows of all kinds.
  • The Network — A people search engine.
Michael Carter Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Michael Maxwell Carter is CEO at Weeby.co.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Music, Dating
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
  • Callback — Callback is building a next-generation loyalty platform for independent stores
  • Dandy — Exclusively in LA, invite only.
Daniel Curran Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
  • GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Sebastian Gil Angel · Stanford, California, United States
Sebastian Gil
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Social, Internet
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Squad — Here is the new reinvented squadapp back from the past. This is the application for socializing. Download it now!
Joseph R. Saviano Angel · New York, New York, United States
Managing Director of DOT Capital.Partner at Baker Capital since 1998. Angel investor since 2010.Joseph R. Saviano joined Baker Capital in 1997 and serves as its Chief Financial Officer. He has twenty years of financial and investment management experience, including seventeen years in private equity. Prior to joining Baker Capital, Mr.Saviano served as a Vice President at Harvest Partners, Inc. and, from 1992 to 1996, served as controller for the private equity funds of Apollo Advisors, L.P. Mr. Saviano earned a BS in Finance from Lehigh University and an MBA from Fordham University.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, News, Search Engine
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • PeekYou — PeekYou's best free people search engine allows you to find and contact anyone online. Find social links, photos, work history, alumni info, family and more.
  • Roboinvest — Roboinvest is the new way to invest. Roboinvest is a social investing platform that allows you to follow and copy other traders in real-time.
  • MoneyPlanned — MoneyPlanned makes financial goals easy. Plan your goals, compare loans and invest in Mutual Funds to finance them.
Gina Bianchini Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
Gina Bianchini is the CEO and Founder of Mighty Networks. Took up MBA in Business Administration and Management, General at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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Investment focus
  • Communities, Internet, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
  • Squad — Here is the new reinvented squadapp back from the past. This is the application for socializing. Download it now!
  • Commsor — Commsor is the world's only full-stack company, providing Community-Led companies with the software, resources, and education to unlock the full power of community.
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.
Sheryl Sandberg Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer at Facebook.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Video
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ema — Ema is developing next-generation AI technologies to help every employee in the workplace be their most creative and productive. Ema is a seamless, accurate, and secure Enterprise Generative AI system that simplifies complex tasks using enterprise tools.
  • Globality — Globality revolutionizes the way your company sources and buys services by utilizing artificial intelligence to unlock cost savings, efficiency gains, and drive remote collaboration from anywhere.
  • National Women's Soccer League — Home of the National Women's Soccer League, get all the info you need right here: Advanced stats, game replays, player info, game schedules and much more.
Ben Narasin Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Ben Narasin is the Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital. He attended International Christian University, Babson College, and Harvard University.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • SoleSavy — SoleSavy memberships provides you the tools and resources you need to successfully purchase the product you want for retail.
  • Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 250,000 trade shows and conferences.
  • ProductWind — ProductWind is the only retail influencer marketing platform that helps enterprise brands drive social content, SEO and reviews to ramp online retail sales faster.
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