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Top 50 Social Impact Angel Investors in United States in May 2026

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

Top 50 Social Impact Angel Investors in United States in May 2026

Investor Social Impact United States investments
Eddie Lou 3
David E. Weekly 3
Joseph N. Sanberg 2
Matthew Dowd 2
Musaab Hakami 2
Ashley Mayer 2
Brian Requarth 2
Kishore Ganji 2
Daniel Gutenberg 2
Chris Adelsbach 2
Luigi Bajetti 2
Varsha Rao 2
Marc Tarpenning 2
Wynant Vanderpoel 1
Alex Ross 1
Jody McCrary 1
Francoise Brougher 1
Ursula Burns 1
Binny Bansal 1
David Hartmann 1
Mark Haynes 1
Ernie Beffel 1
Alex Evans 1
John Chory 1
Sunil Sani 1
Maja Kristin 1
John Paul DeJoria 1
Pharrell Williams 1
Zvi Band 1
Tobias Lütke 1
Zachary Smith 1
Jay Love 1
Sam Altman 1
Jonathan Seaton 1
Dan Rosensweig 1
Marla Blow 1
Larry Bock 1
Sandy Khaund 1
Steven Rattner 1
Matt McKibbin 1
David Apple 1
Ashoke Bose 1
Anna Garcia 1
Ramesh Chandra Majithia 1
Nav Sooch 1
Tao Huang 1
Luis J. Salazar 1
Dawn Dobras 1
Alain Nicod 1
Peter Livingston 1

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Eddie Lou
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Eddie Lou is the Board Director and Investor of HiLink. He holds an MBA and a B.S. in Engineering from Washington University.

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Investment focus

  • Marketplace, Email, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Sonero — Notes, analytics, coaching. Better meetings with AI. Good meetings are made of strong hosts and focused attendees. Sonero helps with both.
  • Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
  • ReloShare — ReloShare is the world's first corporate housing & hotel live-booking and live-sourcing marketplace for the US market.
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David E. Weekly
Angel · Redwood City, California, United States

David E. Weekly is the Founder and CEO of Medcorder and he was the Founding Director of Hacker Dojo. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Robotics, Drones, Aerospace
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
  • Sugarlogix — A precise reflection of human milk to provide the best nutrition for babies
  • Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
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Joseph N. Sanberg
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States

Joe Sanberg is a public and private-sector entrepreneur and investor harnessing the power of innovation to improve the quality of life for all. He is Co-Founder of Aspiration, an online financial company built for everyone. Aspiration serves people at the heart of their financial lives – their banking account – in a trust-based model that empowerspeople to choose whatever fee they think is fair (even zero) and enables them to bank, invest, and spend in accordance with their values. Joe is regarded as one of the nation's leaders in the fight to end poverty. Joe has been the leading advocate for California's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for low-income families. Joe not only lobbied California to pass the credit, but in 2015 when the state didn’t allocate enough money for outreach, Joe created CalEITC4Me. This community organizing program has connected working California families with $4 billion of state and federal Earned Income Tax Credits. A native of Southern California, Sanberg attended Servite High School in Anaheim where he has created an International Leadership Program that supports students learning Mandarin and visiting China. Sanberg graduated from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Gaming, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Aspiration — Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice.
  • Bright Funds — All-in-one CSR platform for companies of all sizes: employee giving, volunteering, and grants management. Bring purpose and impact to your workplace.
  • Three Day Rule
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Matthew Dowd
Angel · Austin, Texas, United States

During the past thirty years, Matthew Dowd has helped shape strategies and campaigns for CEOs, corporations, foundations, governments, candidates, and presidents. He most recently founded Paradox Capital, a social impact venture fund focused on for-profit social good companies. His experience in business and politics will help bridge the paradoxbetween capitalism and social consciousness. Over the last 25 years, Dowd has been an active entrepreneur in Austin, Texas founding three companies which have been highly successful including Vianovo and Public Strategies, all of which he sold his interests in to pursue other endeavors. Dowd has worked both sides of the aisle, but now considers himself a diehard Independent. Dowd’s political work includes serving as the chief strategist on two winning re-election efforts – for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006 and for President George W. Bush in 2004. His innovative approach on the 2004 campaign led the bi-partisan American Association of Political Consultants to name him Strategist of the Year.In the 1980s and 1990s, he advised a wide variety of political clients including helping former Democrat Texas Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock win election and re-election. He has also worked as a member of Democrat U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen's staff, and has worked on the staffs of two Democratic Congressmen.Dowd currently serves as a special correspondent and analyst for ABC News where he appears on This Week, Good Morning America, and Nightline, and writes a regular column for various publications. Dowd covers not only politics but cultural, economic, and spiritual trends as well. He has served on the boards of various non-profit entities including Seton Family of Hospitals, a Catholic nonprofit health system in Texas. He was adviser to Bono at the One Campaign, and to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has taught seminars at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs.He is co-author of the New York Times bestseller Applebee’s America: How Successful Political, Business and Religious Leaders Connect with the New American Community.

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Investment focus

  • Social Impact, Banking, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Verb — Verb accelerates Paycor Paths, a new product for creating customized learning and development journeys for frontline leaders and their teams.
  • Aspiration — Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice.
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Musaab Hakami
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

  • Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
  • Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs in Saudi Arabia and the UAE with retail and institutional investors worldwide. Investors earn up to 15% per annum
  • Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community
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Ashley Mayer
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Ashley Mayer is the Operating Council at Mixing Board . Ashley Mayer attended Georgetown University.

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Investment focus

  • Wellness, Health Care, Natural Resources
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
  • Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
  • Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.
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Brian Requarth
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

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Investment focus

  • Real Estate, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Brazil, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
  • Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
  • VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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Kishore Ganji
Angel · Marlboro, New Jersey, United States

Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

  • Lal10 — Lal10 enables creative manufacturing MSMEs to easily digitize, manage and sell their inventories for cross-border wholesale. Lal10 is Shopify + Alibaba for Indian MSMEs. Small manufacturers use Lal10’s Karigar application to digitize physical inventories which are available for RFQs on our global wholesale platform. We are creating a maker’srevolution by digitizing micro and small manufacturers to take their creative products to global markets. India has over 1.2mn such MSMEs involved in the manufacturing of apparel, home furnishings, decor products. We have digitized 30k SKUs to date and are the largest vertical platform for MSMEs for cross-border wholesale in India. Post pandemic layers of middlemen/ export houses and traditional channels of sales like exhibitions have been disrupted. We have created an efficient alternative with innovative technology-led solutions catering to these large and untapped supplies. We are seeing strong organic adoption of technology for quick market access by local manufacturers and pandemic has only accelerated its requirement. We believe that the future of retail is local. We are targeting small & medium-sized buyers in the US, UK, and Middle east using efficient data analytics and aggressive marketing. We provide them the benefits of a big-box retailer, i.e. affordable sourcing, contemporary design curation & assortment of products. These buyers are resellers on Amazon, Etsy, or Mom & Pop shops, Private labels, and have traditionally been only dependent tradeshows.
  • Teleport — Planning a trip? Say goodbye to visa hassles with Teleport! We've made applying for visas online super easy. Explore our site now to get started now!
  • Monitra Healthcare — Monitra Healthcare is a Hyderabad based med-tech company developing solutions that capture cardiac events anytime anywhere. Our products detect cardiac arrhythmias and cardiovascular disease at real-time for pre-emptive treatments. Cardiac monitoring is widely used to identify heart disease, to monitor cardiac activity before and after surgery andother cardiac procedures, and to assess the effects of therapeutic drugs on cardiac activity. The Company’s vision is to dramatically reduce the effects of heart disease by making monitoring and pre-emptive cardiac care a seamless part of everyday life.
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Daniel Gutenberg
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Daniel joined VI Partners in July 2003 as a Venture Partner focusing on IT. He started his career as Chairman and CEO of Gutenberg Communication Systems AG, a company he founded in 1991. Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in 2000, he became Country Manager of Telindus for Switzerland, Austria andHungary during the next two years, and he was also a member of the Executive Board. Since 2002 he has been taking consulting and advisory board assignments for various companies.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • NOAT — Discover NOAT: Swedish-made, premium nicotine pouches. Tobacco-free, long-lasting, and designed for a smoother experience.
  • Flowit — Reach frontline employees, develop potential and reduce churn by 50%. With FLOWIT, you get a modern, holistic HR solution for people development in your company. Simple, digital and inclusive.
  • Influur — Access the global creator community instantly and collaborate at scale with our end-to-end solutions.
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in the past 12 months

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

  • Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
  • Kavida.ai — Kavida helps procurement managers ensure on time deliveries and improve supplier collaboration.
  • Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
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Luigi Bajetti
Angel · Silicon Valley, California, United States

Luigi Bajetti is the managing partner and founder of Lombardstreet Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California.Luigi is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the tech and internet industries, with a wealth of knowledge and expertise in building and scaling startups.As a full-time investor since2013, he has been leveraging his experience and insights to identify and support the next generation of Silicon Valley founders. With a passion for backing game-changing technologies and a talent for spotting emerging trends, Luigi has a proven track record of success in identifying groundbreaking startups. He has invested almost always at the earliest possible stage of seed in 20+ US startups valued at over $30 billion combined, including 8 that have since become unicorns.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Italy, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

  • Cardenxe Sotol — Artisanal Small Batch 100% Sotol Spirit Cardenxe Sotol is a terroir-inspired premium craft spirit, distilled from the heart of the Dasylirion plant, in North of Mexico - where it holds a Denomination of Origin. Every label (Desierto and Sierra) honors a different environment in which the plants used to distill grew.
  • Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
  • Rebellyous Foods — Rebellyous Foods makes crispy, juicy, 100% plant-based nuggets. Your guests will love the taste. Your team will love the simplicity. Get Rebellyous with us!
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Varsha Rao
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Varsha Rao is an Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners, former Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, CEO of Nurx and COO at Clover Health. She was the Co-Founder of Eve.com. Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.She is an active angel investors withsuccessful investments in AI-Infra, Healthcare, Vertical AI, Consumer Tech and more.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

  • MatX — We make the best chips physically possible for the large model needs of frontier labs.
  • knownwell — Whether you need primary care or are focused on obesity medicine, we are here to serve you with warmth and expertise. No shame. No blame. Just care.
  • Affiniti — Overcome cash flow challenges with our tailored financial solutions for small businesses. Discover industry-specific tools that drive success.
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Marc Tarpenning
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Marc Tarpenning is a member of the advisory board at Clearpath Robotics , a manufacturer of unmanned vehicles for industrial research and development applications. He also provides services as an advisor to many other companies. Previously, he was a mentor at Greenstart.Marc is a Venture Partner at Spero Ventures. He was previously anentrepreneur in residence at Mayfield Fund before he joined Greenstart. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as the vice president for engineering at Tesla Motors. He also held executive positions at Packet Design, NuvoMedia, and Gemstar-TV Guide.Tarpenning holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Renewable Energy, CleanTech, Drones
  • Series A, Seed, Series D
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
  • Alta Motors — Alta Motors designs and manufactures the most advanced electric vehicle technology on the planet. With our first product, The Redshift, we are creating a motorcycle that is faster and easier than anything else out there. An electric motor means smooth power delivery, instant throttle response and flat, endless torque.
  • Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
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Wynant Vanderpoel
Angel

Wynant Vanderpoel

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Investment focus

  • ISP, Charity, Online Portals
  • Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Pinkdingo — Pinkdingo make you feel awesome about being awesome.
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Alex Ross
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Alex Ross is Founder @ Ross Capital, LLC.

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Database, Recruiting
  • Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • RiseKit — RiseKit enables local workforce systems to provide the support and resources under-resourced communities need to navigate their pathway to gainful employment easily.
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Jody McCrary
Angel

Jody McCrary

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Internet, Non Profit
  • Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Swoovy — Swoovy takes the pain out of finding volunteering opportunities, and connecting with others through shared interests to volunteer. Corporate service make easy to increase employee engagement, and track community impact.
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Francoise Brougher
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Francoise Brougher is the Board Member of the Compensation Committee and Nomination Committee at Sodexo.

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Investment focus

  • Energy, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Hourly — Hourly connects workers' comp insurance, payroll & time tracking in real-time. Avoid surprises, and pay only for the coverage you need! Plus get all the HR support you need. Included!
  • Optivolt — Solar that works in the shade
  • Humanitas Technologies — Humanitas is reimagining the supply chain of social care for the AI era. We're building AI-powered tools to empower Nonprofit professionals. Try the Humanitas AI Assistant for free to see how you can save time so you can increase your impacts.
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Ursula Burns
Angel · Norwalk, Connecticut, United States

Ursula Burns is the Chairwoman of Teneo Holdings. She is also the former Chairman of the Board at VEON, and director of Uber, American Express, ExxonMobil, and Nestlé. Burns was previously the Chairman of the Board of the Xerox Corporation from 2010 to 2017 and Chief Executive Officer from 2009 to 2016.She joined Xerox as an intern in 1980 andduring her career she held leadership posts spanning corporate services, manufacturing and product development. She was named president in 2007. During her tenure as chief executive officer, she helped the company transform from a global leader in document technology to the world’s most diversified business services company serving enterprises and governments of all sizes. Shortly after being named CEO in 2009, she spearheaded the largest acquisition in Xerox history, the $6.4 billion purchase of Affiliated Computer Services.In 2016, Burns led Xerox through a successful separation into two independent, publicly traded companies – Xerox Corporation, which is comprised of the company’s Document Technology and Document Outsourcing businesses, and Conduent Incorporated, a business process services company. The separation of the two businesses enhanced their competitive positions and created significant value creation opportunities.Burns, who regularly appears on Fortune’s and Forbes’ lists of the world’s most powerful women, is now a Senior Advisor to global CEO advisory firm Teneo. She is a board director of Uber, American Express, ExxonMobil, and Nestlé, and the chairman of VEON. She will join the board of Diageo in April 2018. U.S. President Barack Obama appointed her to help lead the White House national program on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) from 2009-2016, and she served as chair of the President’s Export Council from 2015-2016 after service as vice chair 2010-2015.She also provides leadership counsel to several other community and non-profit organizations, including the Ford Foundation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation, Cornell Tech Board of Overseers, the New York City Ballet, and the Mayo Clinic. Burns is a member of the National Academy of Engineers and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Burns holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Events
  • Series A, Pre-Seed
  • India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • CleanCo — Why Clean? A more positive approach to non-alcoholic drinks. It makes it easier to order at the bar and more sense for people who drink less, or not at all as part of a cleaner lifestyle.
  • Goodera — Engage employees for social impact with Goodera. We curate, plan, and manage engaging volunteering programs for 10M+ employees.
  • Rapport — The smart solution for building superhuman teams. Rapport distills decades of research on high performing teams down to a few smart, simple steps that integrate seamlessly into your workflow.
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Binny Bansal
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Curefoods — Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market.
  • BorderPlus — BorderPlus supports nurses in building careers abroad, including Germany, through structured pathways, preparation, and long-term professional support.
  • Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
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David Hartmann
Angel · Boca Raton, Florida, United States

David Hartmann is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at SilverLogic.

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Internet, Software
  • Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • RaiseLink — RaiseLink is revolutionizing the $6 trillion innovation industry with the first-ever ecosystem-wide, integrated operations management platform for accelerators, incubators, and event organizers, featuring personalized, predictive, and proactive data analytics to save time, reduce risk, streamline decision-making, and renew the focus on startupsuccess while alleviating stakeholder frustrations, including initial pitch deck screening and early preview access to startup pitch/demo day event attendees.SaaS, AI, MLP, NLP, Freemium, Big Data, Enterprise Software, Education,
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Mark Haynes
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Mark Haynes

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Investment focus

  • News, Podcast, Advocacy
  • Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Locunity — AI-powered meeting briefings, agenda alerts, and policy tracking for every city council, public commission, and school board in your area. Free for residents, powerful tools for teams.
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Ernie Beffel
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Ernie Beffel

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Investment focus

  • News, Podcast, Advocacy
  • Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Locunity — AI-powered meeting briefings, agenda alerts, and policy tracking for every city council, public commission, and school board in your area. Free for residents, powerful tools for teams.
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Alex Evans
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Alex Evans

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Investment focus

  • News, Podcast, Advocacy
  • Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Locunity — AI-powered meeting briefings, agenda alerts, and policy tracking for every city council, public commission, and school board in your area. Free for residents, powerful tools for teams.
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John Chory
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

John Chory

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Internet, Software
  • Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • DrizzleX — DrizzleX is a pioneering smart water metering solution that enables significant water conservation in residential buildings that lack individual apartment meters.
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Sunil Sani
Angel · Long Island City, New York, United States

Sunil Sani

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Investment focus

  • ISP, Charity, Online Portals
  • Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Pinkdingo — Pinkdingo make you feel awesome about being awesome.
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Maja Kristin
Angel

Maja Kristin Philanthropist.

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Investment focus

  • Non Profit, Environmental Engineering
  • Funding Round
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Sustainable Ocean Alliance — SOA develops leaders, cultivates ideas, and accelerates solutions to the biggest problems facing our ocean through the Leadership and Accelerator programs
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John Paul DeJoria
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States

John Paul DeJoria is the CEO of John Paul Mitchell Systems. He attended John Marshall High School.

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, CRM, ISP
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • BeautyNow — Honest, Everyday Beauty
  • Space Auto — Space Auto is the unified Website, Digital Retail and AI Agent enhanced CRM for modern dealerships.
  • Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.
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Pharrell Williams
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Pharrell Williams is the Chief Brand Officer of Doodles NFT. He previously worked at UJAM as a Partner.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Small and Medium Businesses, Point of Sale
  • Grant, Series C, Seed
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Fonbnk — We are the leading global marketplace enabling you to convert your airtime into digital money. And for a limited time, we will even pay you to try us out.
  • 1Password — A password manager, digital vault, form filler and secure digital wallet. 1Password remembers all your passwords for you to help keep account information safe.
  • Squire — Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers nationwide. Squire provides barbers and shop owners with the ability to operate their businesses with cashless and contactless pay transactions, thereby streamlining service interaction and helping them earn and retain loyal clients as a result.
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Zvi Band
Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Zvi is the Co-Founder of Talk Social.

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Investment focus

  • Software, EdTech, Enterprise
  • Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Let's Dive — Dive is where employee engagement meets fun. Forge bonds, hang out and play games with your teammates - all in one place!
  • Instashowing — Instashowing is a startup with an online real estate tool designed to help agents easily schedule home showings.
  • Meaningful Gigs — Impactful Design for Creative, Marketing, and Product Teams
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Tobias Lütke
Angel · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Tobi Lütke founded Shopify in 2004. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008. Tobi worked on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as Active Merchant.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Humaans — The fastest way to onboard and manage your staff. Mobile first, perfect for remote and distributed teams, and takes 1 minute to get up and running.
  • Mason — Mason was an AI-powered SQL editor for teams.
  • Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
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Zachary Smith
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Zac is a passionate business builder with a focus on infrastructure services, including cloud platforms, hosting services, automation software and financial transaction clearing. Prior to Packet, Zachary was an early employee and key member of the management team at Voxel, a NY-based cloud hosting company with a focus on infrastructure automationthat sold to Internap (NASDAQ: INAP) in 2011 for 35MM. Zac is a closet musician, having attended Juilliard as a double bass major and promptly switching to software-driven infrastructure after graduation. He lives is NYC with his wife and two young boys.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Non Profit, Innovation Management
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Pursuit — Pursuit is not a short-term coding bootcamp. Our intensive Fellowship program in NYC builds meaningful software developer careers in the tech industry. Learn how to code with no upfront costs at Pursuit, transform your career, and launch future you.
  • MergeStat — MergeStat enables open-source, operational analytics for software engineering teams.
  • Pace — Proactively accelerate revenue from self-service users without spreadsheets, dashboards, or favors from engineering.
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Jay Love
Angel

Jay B. Love is a Co-Founder and current Chief Relationship Officer at Bloomerang.He has served this sector for 33 years and is considered the most well-known senior statesman whose advice is sought constantly.Prior to Bloomerang, he was the CEO and Co-Founder of eTapestry for 11 years, which at the time was the leading SaaS technology companyserving the charity sector. Jay and his team grew the company to more than 10,000 nonprofit clients, charting a decade of record growth.Prior to starting eTapestry, Jay served 14 years as President and CEO of Master Software Corporation. MSC provided a widely used family of database products for the non-profit sector called Fund-Master.He is a graduate of Butler University with a B.S. in Business Administration. Over the years, he has given more than 2,500 speeches around the world for the charity sector and is often the voice of new technology for fundraisers.He is past Chairman of the AFP Ethics Committee. He was the Founding Chairman of NPower Indiana, Founding Member of TechPoint Foundation and Founding Member of the AFP Business Member Council. He is still an active board member of Conner Prairie Interactive History Park, The Butler University Innovation Fund, The United Methodist Foundation of Indiana, TechPoint Foundation for Youth, and The Fundraising Effectiveness Project.He and his wife Christie served as Co-Chairs for the Indianapolis YMCA 2011 Capital Campaign and are the proud parents of three children as well as five grandchildren.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Marketing
  • Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Chezuba — Chezuba enables companies to build employee volunteering and employee giving programs through it's high-quality software and an NGO partner network spread in 76 countries
  • Emerged — Increase your sales pipeline with automated prospecting & nurturing. Our sales automation platform increases healthcare sales effectiveness for scalable, cost-effective growth.
  • Givebutter — Givebutter is the #1 free fundraising platform for nonprofits. Get access to over 160+ Free features and raise more for your cause.
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Sam Altman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months

Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Sam was previously the Chairman of Y Combinator, a leading silicon valley startup accelerator.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Ghana, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
  • teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
  • Vital Bio — Reinventing diagnostics for proactive & accessible care. Diagnostics designed for better outcomes. Eliminating gaps between care and treatment.
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Jonathan Seaton
Angel · Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Jonathan Seaton is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Twinkl.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Education, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Bippit — Bippit is a financial support system for employees, which provides them with a 1-1 financial coach, powerful tools, and practical resources.Research has shown that 3/4 staff members have financial concerns that directly affect them at work, but only 1/10 have been able to speak to an expert about them. This has a huge impact onbusinesses, as 15% of payroll cost can be lost from reduced productivity, presenteeism, and an increase in staff turnover, due to the financial worries of their workforce.Bippit makes professional financial support completely free for employees, whenever and wherever they need it, and is backed by early stage investors in Monzo, Freetrade, and Calm.
  • Wally Health — Unlimited dental cleanings and whitening for $199/year
  • Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen offers the best locations, satellite kitchens, and digital tools for restaurants that want to scale their delivery network.
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Dan Rosensweig
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Dan Rosensweig has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since February 2010 and as the Chairman of our board of directors since March 2010. From March 2009 to February 2010, Rosensweig served as President and Chief Executive Officer of RedOctane, a business unit of Activision Publishing and developer, publisher and distributor ofGuitar Hero. From August 2007 to March 2009, Rosensweig was an Operating Principal at the Quadrangle Group, a private investment firm. From April 2002 to April 2007, Rosensweig served as Chief Operating Officer of Yahoo!, an Internet content and service provider. Prior to serving at Yahoo!, Rosensweig served as the President of CNET Networks and prior to that as Chief Executive Officer and President of ZDNet, until it was acquired by CNET Networks. Rosensweig also currently serves on the board of directors of Adobe Systems as well as Birchbox.Rosensweig holds a B.A. in political science from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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Investment focus

  • Recruiting, Internet, EdTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

  • Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
  • Galena — Plataforma de desenvolvimento profissional que empodera colaboradores, maximiza o potencial das equipes e ajuda a reter os melhores talentos.
  • Mustard — Elevate your game with real time analytics and instruction from the world's best coaches and athletes.
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Marla Blow
Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Marla is Chief Executive Officer of FS Card and a member of the company’s board of directors. Prior to FS Card Marla served as Assistant Director of Card and Payment Markets at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Marla previously spent seven years in a variety of functions at Capital One. Marla graduated from Stanford University GraduateSchool of Business with an MBA, and also earned a BS degree in Economics from University of Pennsylvania, Wharton.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Enterprise, Marketplace
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Canary — Canary's third-party grant management platform helps companies deliver hardship grants to employees in need. Invest in employee financial wellness today.
  • Meaningful Gigs — Impactful Design for Creative, Marketing, and Product Teams
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Larry Bock
Angel · San Diego, California, United States

Larry Bock is the founder and organizer of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, and a former founder of the San Diego Science Festival. Mr. Bock is a Special Limited Partner to Lux Capital, a $100M nanotechnology-focused venture capital fund. He is a member of the Board of Directors of FEI Corporation (NASDAQ: FEIC), the leading supplier oftools for nanotechnology research. He is a General Partner of CW Ventures, a $100M life sciences venture capital fund.Mr. Bock was the founder and former executive chairman and initial CEO of Nanosys and the founder and initial CEO of Neurocrine Biosciences (NASDAQ: NBIX), Pharmacopeia (NASDAQ: PCOP), GenPharm International, which was acquired by Medarex for $100 million; Caliper Technologies (NASDAQ: CALP); Illumina Technologies (NASDAQ: ILMN), among numerous other firms.He was also a seed or early-stage investor in variety of firms, including Acceleron Pharma, Aurora Biosciences, Biosym Technologies, ekoVenture. Gen-Probe, Gensia Pharmaceuticals, Genocea Biosciences, IDEC Pharmaceuticals Magen Biosciences, Oclassen Pharmaceuticals Plexikon Pharmaceuticals, Poland Partners, Sequana Therapeutics, Sapphire Energy, Siluria, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Software Transformation, and Viagene.Mr. Bock started his career as a researcher in the early days at Genentech, the field of infectious diseases, where he was on the team that received the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for demonstrating the world’s first recombinant DNA vaccine. He was a Venture Capital Associate with Fairfield Ventures (now Oxford Bioventures).Larry and his wife, Diane, established the Larry and Diane Bock Chair in Nanotechnology at the University of California, Berkeley. They also founded Community Cousins, a non-profit foundation focused on breaking down racial barriers, that was selected by former Vice President Al Gore as one of 10 outstanding grass root efforts nationally. Larry is organizing the San Diego Science Festival with BioBridge of UCSD. He works extensively with the Sudanese and Burmese refugee’s networks in San Diego and is a tutor in math and sciences for Sudanese refugee children in St. Lukes Sudanese Refugee Network and a Mentor for Burmese refugee families through Jewish Family Services. Larry received his B.A. in Biochemistry (summa cum laude) from Bowdoin College and his M.B.A. from the Anderson School at UCLA.

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Investment focus

  • Software, TV, Social Impact
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Aira — Aira is live, on-demand visual interpreting, a productivity tool that connects you to actual humans who describe your visual surroundings using your smartphone.
  • ZOZI — ZOZI designs and develops a web-based bookings, payments, and customer management software for tour, activity, and event businesses. It offers introductory flight lessons, vineyard tours and wine tasting by horseback, diving for abalone, ice climbing frozen waterfalls, celebrity and athlete experiences, and various accessible adventures. Thecompany also provides weekend getaways and vacation packages for customers.ZOZI was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.
  • Nanosys — Nanosys is an nanotechnology company developing, manufacturing and selling products based on high-performance, inorganic nanostructures.
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Sandy Khaund
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Unique mix of business, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills coupled with deep technical expertise in complex software systems & social computing. Diverse background including engineering management, strategy consulting, product marketing, business development, and startup experience across enterprise software, internet technologies, andmobile devices.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Sports, eSports
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • GiftAMeal — Each time a user takes a photo at a participating restaurant on the GiftAMeal app, a meal is provided to someone in need through a local food bank!
  • Mission Control — Mission Control is a platform for gathering and growing community using recreational esports, similar to a local adult softball league or college intramurals, but with video games.
  • Tutored by Teachers — Online Tutoring. Powered by Teachers. High Dosage Tutoring Programs.
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Steven Rattner
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Steve Rattner is the Chairman and CEO of Willett Advisors LLC, which manages the personal and philanthropic assets of Michael Bloomberg. He is also a Contributing Writer for the New York Times and makes frequent appearances on MSNBC's Morning Joe as the show's Economic Analyst. In 2009, Mr. Rattner was notably appointed by the Obamaadministration to act as lead adviser to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, and in this role led the effort to restructure the automobile industry. Rattner gave a detailed account of his experience in this role in his book, Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry.Before February 2009, Mr. Rattner was a Managing Principal of Quadrangle Group LLC focused on the firm's $2.9 billion media and communications private equity business. Prior to the formation of Quadrangle Group in 2000, Mr. Rattner was Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC. Mr. Rattner founded Lazard's Media and Communications Group and was involved in many of the largest and most important transactions in these industries. Mr. Rattner, who joined Lazard in 1989 as a General Partner, was previously a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he also founded the Communications Group. Mr. Rattner is active in many philanthropic organizations. He is Chairman of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (Channels 13 and 21, New York's public television stations) and the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, a Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brookings Institution and the New America Foundation and a Fellow of Brown University. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. Mr. Rattner holds a B.A. with honors in economics from Brown University and was awarded the Harvey Baker Fellowship. He is married to Maureen White, a former official in the State Department, and they have four children.

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Investment focus

  • Banking, FinTech, Social Impact
  • Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Aspiration — Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice.
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Matt McKibbin
Angel · Austin, Texas, United States

Matt is the Founder of DecentraNet. Matt has been a blockchain evangelist since 2013 when he coordinated the DC Blockchain Meetup and was heavily involved in the BitAngels investment group. Matt is the former Co-Founder and Chief Decentralization Officer at d10e, the world’s leading conference on decentralized technologies, philosophies and socialorganization and Co-Founder of Amma Healing, a CBD and wellness brand. He serves as an advisor to Dispatch Labs, ImpactPPA, Humaniq, Securrency, and Loci and has been involved in several early-stage blockchain startups, including Ubiquity and Trive.news. Matt is a prolific and sought-after speaker as an expert on decentralization at leading conferences worldwide. He has been featured in dozens of media publications, including Bloomberg, Nasdaq, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, and more. Matt received his Bachelor’s of Arts in Physics from West Virginia University.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Blockchain, Bitcoin
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Portal — Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • DecentraNet — DecentraNet is an investment firm that provides expert advice to entrepreneurs in the marketing and financial sectors.
  • Securrency — Securrency is a market-leading innovator in the development of institutional-grade, compliance-aware tokenization, account management, and decentralized finance technology based on blockchain.
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David Apple
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

David Apple is the Chief Revenue Officer at Zingtree. David Apple attended Imperial College London for MBA.

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Investment focus

  • Soccer, Sports, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • France, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

  • Mentra — Mentra tackles systemic inequality by economically empowering underserved communities. We’re erasing the stigma around Disability Hiring with our recruiting platform that matches neurodiverse talent with inclusive employers.Our mission is to bring neurodiversity to the workplace - providing employers with thought diversity & job seekers witheconomic opportunity
  • Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
  • ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
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Ashoke Bose
Angel · New York, New York, United States

He is the Founder of Sustainable Energy and Agriculture Technology (SEAT, LLC) and AGR Health. He attended Cornell University, McGill University, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

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Investment focus

  • AgTech, CleanTech, Smart Home
  • Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • AGR Health LLC
  • M.L. Bose Memorial Health Foundation, Inc.
  • Sustainable Energy & Agriculture Technology — Sustainable Energy & Agriculture Technology, LLC is a Consumer Agriculture Infrastructure (CAI) company. SEAT was founded by Ashoke Bose, a former IBM Senior Manager, in 2014. Driven by his passion for renewables and agriculture, he applied for an USDA grant award that was successfully achieved last October 2014. Currently, SEAT LLC isbuilding Micro Greenhouses Infrastructure for Residential market in USA. Through the Near Zero Carbon Technology (NZC), SEAT plans to grow produce that will have almost no carbon footprint, this way, acquiring the best of both worlds: taking care for the environment while growing high quality foods.This is the way they plan to redefine the ""consumer fresh"" market: high quality produce + environmentally friendly technology + affordable prices. In addition to this formula, one of SEAT's project plans is to distribute vegetables directly from business to consumer, that way reducing warehouse, transportation and marketing costs, which is also traduced in lower prices and reduction of carbon footprint. In 2022, SEAT launched www,vegibook.com - world's first platform for sharing home grown veggies and fruits.
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Anna Garcia
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Anna Garcia is the General Partner at Runway Venture Partners.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fonbnk — We are the leading global marketplace enabling you to convert your airtime into digital money. And for a limited time, we will even pay you to try us out.
  • Primary — Welcome to Primary. No labels, no slogans. Just soft, simpler clothes that kids and babies will love. Shop gender neutral, sustainable basics for the whole family.
  • Everyday Life — Everyday Life Insurance offers flexible & affordable life insurance plans for everyone. Use our online life insurance calculator to get instant approval.
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Ramesh Chandra Majithia
Angel · Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Ramesh Chandra Majithia

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Investment focus

  • Innovation Management, Non Profit, Mobile
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Pursuit — Pursuit is not a short-term coding bootcamp. Our intensive Fellowship program in NYC builds meaningful software developer careers in the tech industry. Learn how to code with no upfront costs at Pursuit, transform your career, and launch future you.
  • Pursuit — Pursuit is not a short-term coding bootcamp. Our intensive Fellowship program in NYC builds meaningful software developer careers in the tech industry. Learn how to code with no upfront costs at Pursuit, transform your career, and launch future you.
  • Payswiff — Payswiff is a leading merchant platform that empowers businesses to accept multiple modes of payments, get in-depth customer insights, and grow business using working capital solutions through business loans without collaterals.
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Nav Sooch
Angel · Austin, Texas, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Nav co-founded Silicon Laboratories in August 1996 and led the firm’s IPO in March 2000. Nav has served as Chairman of the Board since the founding of Silicon Laboratories and was CEO through the end of 2003. Prior to Silicon Laboratories, Nav held various positions at Crystal Semiconductor and Cirrus Logic, including Vice President of Engineering.Nav started his career at AT&T Bell Labs as a member of the technical staff. He currently serves as CEO of Ketra, enabling the next generation of intelligent lighting solutions. Nav holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Dearborn and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Nav founded the Sooch Foundation that helps economically disadvantaged people in Austin through increased educational opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Computer, Hardware
  • Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Trashbots — Trashbots develops low-cost science and engineering kits with an artistic twist and structured curriculum that enables students to develop problem-solving skills and enhance creativity by building robots that utilize everyday materials in tandem with unique software.
  • Pani Systems — Pani Source is a water personalization appliance that will upgrade your drinking water with multi-use/naturally-formulated enhancement pods.
  • Cormint Data Systems — Cormint Data Systems can simplify your data center operations and management by providing a comprehensive consolidated management.
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Tao Huang
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Tao Huang was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Morningstar, Inc., a leading independent provider of investment research around the world, until his retirement in December 2010.Tao Huang spent almost 20 years with Morningstar, taking on increasing levels of responsibility from his start as an entry level technical programmer. He was theDirector of Technology in 1992 and was named as the Chief Technology Officer in 1996; he started Morningstar’s International Operation in 1998, held the position of President of International Division until 2000; he was promoted as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer in October 2000 and served in this position until his retirement. Tao Huang led Morningstar initiatives enabling significant growth, both organically and through acquisition, and oversaw continuous improvements in the operations of the firm’s core businesses. Tao Huang has been Director of Principal Variable Contracts Funds Inc. - Principal Capital Appreciation Account since March 2012. Tao Huang earned a bachelor’s degree from Hunan University, China. He received an MS degree from Marquette University and an MBA from the Booth School at the University of Chicago.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Health Care, EBooks
  • Seed, Series C, Series D
  • United States, China

Portfolio highlights

  • RedShelf — RedShelf is a distributor of digital learning materials. It provides technology to the learning community to accelerate the transition to digital. In collaboration with strategic partners, publishers, institutions, and campus bookstores, RedShelf offers easily accessible and cost-effective learning materials to students everywhere.
  • ReloShare — ReloShare is the world's first corporate housing & hotel live-booking and live-sourcing marketplace for the US market.
  • Backstop Solutions Group — Backstop Solutions Group provides CRM software suites for investment managers, portfolio managers, hedge funds, endowments, pensions, and more.
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Luis J. Salazar
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States

As a Global Fortune 500 executive, Luis Salazar has led the launch of more than 30 global products in the consumer and business spaces at Yahoo, Microsoft (co-founder of Office 365 with Jeff Raikes), GMI, Xerox, and ABB. As a serial tech entrepreneur since 2011, he co-founded 7 Software as a Service, Consumer, and IoT companies. In 2017 he focusedon Technology for Positive Social Impact, co-founding Giving Tech Labs. They launched 5 Tech Startups addressing Social Problems, went through 4 exits, and published or sparked 15 patents, research papers, government proclamations, and new legislation. Each company generated +$450K ARR during their incubation phase before an exit and generated returns of 0.8x to 12x while also delivering a positive social impact to over 400,000 individuals every month.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, Impact Investing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • VIDANYX — VidaNyx is the leading secure cloud-based and affordable eDiscovery and Digital Video Evidence Management for CACs and Prosecution Offices
  • X4Impact Inc — Giving Compass Insights develops data solutions for the philanthropic and social impact sectors.
  • Connect Sparks — Connect Sparks is a boutique advisory firm that delivers strategic guidance and operational support in a hands-on model.
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Dawn Dobras
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Dawn Dobras is a Strategic Advisor & Investor at Archive Resale. attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Video, Content
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Mentra — Mentra tackles systemic inequality by economically empowering underserved communities. We’re erasing the stigma around Disability Hiring with our recruiting platform that matches neurodiverse talent with inclusive employers.Our mission is to bring neurodiversity to the workplace - providing employers with thought diversity & job seekers witheconomic opportunity
  • Archive — We help brands launch their own secondhand resale marketplace.
  • The Cool Down — The Cool Down is America's mainstream climate brand, empowering people from all walks of life to help themselves while helping the planet.
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Alain Nicod
Angel · Saint-prex, Vaud, Switzerland

Alain Nicod is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of VI Partners. He previously worked at CeQur as a Board Member. Alain attended INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Manufacturing, Consumer
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • NOAT — Discover NOAT: Swedish-made, premium nicotine pouches. Tobacco-free, long-lasting, and designed for a smoother experience.
  • SilentSoft — SilentSoft is a pioneer, since year 2000, of the M2M (Machine To Machine) business. The company has developed since then a large range of technologies and processes for the operation of M2M networks. Silentsoft is the partner of industrial customers for the deployment and the daily operation of their M2M networks.
  • MESA Imaging — MESA Imaging is focusing on the development and production of 3D time-of-flight cameras.
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Peter Livingston
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Peter Livingston is the Founder and General Partner at Unpopular Ventures. Peter attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Peru, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • Landis — Landis helps people on their way to homeownership. We allow our clients to rent their dream home, then to purchase it once they are ready to get a mortgage.
  • HODL Media — HODL Media is the publisher of the popular HODL app, a real-time crypto & stock market tracker.
  • Butter — Butter is an all in one virtual collaboration platform that empowers you to run highly engaging and effective collaborative sessions!
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