# Top 50 Sporting Goods Angel Investors in June 2026 ## Lloyd Danzig - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Gaming, Sports, Mobile Apps Lloyd Danzig is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sharp Alpha Advisors. ## Maria Thomas - Type: Angel - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Retail Maria Thomas is a consumer Internet pioneer and entrepreneurial business builder. She is also a well-respected member of the Board of Directors of both a publicly traded and a private equity backed company. She's currently (2017) an expert advisor and hands-on contributor to Remote Year.In 2016, Maria was Interim CEO at Glamsquad:http://blog.glamsquad.com/post/145956909567/corepower-yoga-amy-shecter-glamsquad-ceo. Maria is the former CEO of Etsy, a position she took in July of 2008 after Founding CEO Maria Prior to ## Peter Troensegaard Jensen - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Drones, Retail, Sports Peter Troensegaard Jensen ## Tony Parker - Type: Angel - Location: Boerne, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Sporting Goods, Sports, Finance Tony Parker is a French-American former professional basketball player. ## Daren Cotter - Type: Angel - Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor. ## Giovanni Gardelli - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media. ## Michael Carrick - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care Michael Carrick is an English professional football coach. ## Dave Morin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel. ## Mark Livings - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Education, Communities Founder of a diverse group of businesses including globally-distributed consumer brands (Lyre's Spirits Co) as well as growth-award winning companies specialising in the supply of marketing services and products to the FMCG\ CPG industry. These businesses include an integrated creative agency, a digital printing and personalisation platform,a branded merchandise and speciality packaging supplier as well as a specialty promotional logistics and fulfilment provider.Mark has worked closely with over 50 major FMCG organisations in the grocery, pharma, liquor and health and beauty space and has grown a portfolio of businesses servicing their go to market requirements over the last seven years.Passionate about technology, Mark has invested across all business units ensuring a competitive edge is maintained with best in class platforms to delivery quality creative, product production and fulfilment services to some of the world's most recognisable businesses and brands. ## Mark Pincus - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, FinTech, Software Mark Pincus is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Playful.AI. Mark previously worked at Tribe.net as a CEO and Co-Founder. Mark Pincus attended Harvard Business School. ## John Elstrott - Type: Angel - Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Sports, Consumer John Elstrott is the Mentor, The LePage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation In-Residence Program Mentor at Tulane University School of Medicine. He attended the University of Colorado Boulder. ## David Blitzer - Type: Angel - Location: Scotch Plains, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Sports, Fantasy Sports, Sporting Goods David Blitzer joined HBSE Ventures as Founder. ## Christopher J. Dean - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Service Industry, Retail Christopher J. Dean joined Summit Partners in 2001. Prior to Summit, he worked for Morgan Stanley, J.H. Whitney & Co. and Sun Microsystems. Based in Summit’s Boston office, Chris is active in the firm’s investment activities in North America, Europe and Asia.During his 12 years with Summit Partners, Chris has served as a director ofmany companies. He is currently a director of Aurora Diagnostics, Champion Windows, Commercial Defeasance, Focus Financial Partners and Salient Partners. His prior directorships include optionsXpress Holdings (NASDAQ: OXPS, later acquired by Charles Schwab), PSC Info Group (acquired by Roark Capital Group) and Senior Home Care (acquired by Oaktree Capital Management).Chris holds a BA in history, summa cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Harvard Business School. ## Blake Griffin - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Sports, Consumer Goods Blake Griffin, the six-time All-Star, former Rookie of the Year and Slam Dunk Champion, is regarded as one of the most influential players in recent history. Second only to his basketball talent is his innate knack for comedic timing, which has been showcased in numerous national ad campaigns, top-tier media, and through his annual charity comedyshow, Comedy.by blake. Behind the camera, Blake serves as the Cofounder of Mortal Media, his Hollywood production company, which works on projects in the film, TV, and digital spaces. A true triple-threat, adding to athlete and actor, Blake and his brother Taylor also run the Team Griffin Foundation, their non-profit organization that provides young men and women with opportunities to learn the essential lessons of life, competition, and hard work by inspiring them to nurture their passions in athletics, academics and the arts. ## Alex Hoye - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Internet Alex Hoye is the Co-founder and CEO of Full Stack Supply Co. He previously worked at Runway East as a Co-founder. Alex Hoye attended Stanford University. ## Matthew Ocko - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile Matthew Ocko has nearly three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive and venture capitalist, with over 20 patents granted or pending in areas as diverse as hardware systems and social games. He still reads C++ code but admits to occasional struggles with Erlang. Matthew is a co-founder & co-managing partner ofData Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. During his venture capital tenure, he has invested in and/or helped grow a variety of companies including XenSource (CTRX), Zynga (ZNGA), Impermium, Verisign (VRSN), Facebook (FB), Virtuata (CSCO), Akimbi Systems (VMW), Cotendo (AKAM), Tango.me, MetaWeb (GOOG), FlashSoft (SNDK), DataMirror (IBM), UltraDNS (NSR), Kenshoo, Metamarkets, Fortinet (FTNT), SupportSoft (SPRT), Alantro (TXN), CouchBase, Spool (FB), BranchOut, On-Ramp Wireless, and many others. ## David J. Adelman - Type: Angel - Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Sports, E-Commerce As the CEO of Campus Apartments, David Adelman leverages more than three decades of experience in real estate investing and development to oversee a portfolio of student housing properties at 80 schools in 23 states. He was mentored from an early age by the founder of Campus Apartments and has played a major role in the company’s growth sincetaking over as CEO. Specifically, David Adelman fostered a relationship with sovereign wealth fund GIC Real Estate of Singapore to invest in the company in 2006. Mr. Adelman is also the founder of Darco Capital and co-founder and vice chair of FS Investments. Through Darco, he has invested in dozens of venture capital and private equity businesses, including digital healthcare company Virta, tequila brand Lobos 1707, Fleetzero electric ships, Prolific Machines cultured meat, Crystal Palace football club, and athletic apparel maker Fanatics. FS Investments is a prominent manager of alternative investment funds with more than $38 billion in assets under management. A basketball fan, David Adelman leveraged his success in real estate and business investing in October 2022 to purchase a $250 million equity stake in Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment, the firm that owns the Philadelphia 76ers NBA franchise. Mr. Adelman is also the chairman of 76 Devcorp, through which he is leading efforts to build a new sports and entertainment venue for the team and revitalize the Fashion District mall at Tenth and Market Streets in Center City. David Adelman is a former Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the real estate category for Greater Philadelphia. He currently belongs to the Young Presidents' Organization and Real Estate Roundtable and serves on the University City District Board of Directors and Penn Medicine Board of Trustees. In addition, he is a past chairman of the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation. He holds a bachelor of arts in political science from Ohio State University. Away from work, he enjoys spending his free time with his wife and daughters. ## Gary Vaynerchuk - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College. ## Frank Bober - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Hardware, Mobile Apps, Sporting Goods Frank Bober founded Stylesight in 2003 in response to the growing industry demand for a faster and more effective Web-based approach to the process of product inspiration and development.Stylesight is the continuation of a career that spans every aspect of the fashion industry including design, manufacturing, trend forecasting, productdevelopment and merchandising.Frank’s career began in the 1960s as a menswear designer with an eponymous collection. He later held senior executive positions at Arthur Richards and Polo Ralph Lauren before founding CMT Enterprises in 1979. At CMT, he pioneered the private label concept by both designing and producing private label men’s and women’s apparel for many of America’s top retailers. He sold CMT Enterprises in 2000 after 21 successful years. ## Roger Ehrenberg - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Advertising, Software Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data. ## Sahil Jain - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Gaming, Apps, AgTech Sahil is an alumnus of B.M.E College of Engineering, with a strong foundation in Engineering. He further went to IIM Kozhikode to study MBA in finance, strategy, and marketing. He has enjoyed a fruitful career of over 13 years in information technology and data analytics space. Focusing especially on building innovative and scalable techproducts, Sahil is spearheading the product development and growth retention strategies at Dineout. Sahil, along with the other 3 Co-founders, has successfully led Dineout to India’s largest dining out and restaurant tech platform which seats over 3.5 million diners every month and has 45,000 restaurants on its platform. Before Co-founding Dineout, Sahil served as a senior marketing analyst for NexTag and was settled in Chicago. He has also worked with globally recognized data analytics firm Mu Sigma as a senior business analyst and managed a team responsible for revenue management. ## Drew Brees - Type: Angel - Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Drew Brees is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the NFL, an entrepreneur, and an investor. ## Todd Forest - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Real Estate, Apps, Marketplace Todd Forest - Managing Director @ NAB Ventures ## Andrew Paradise - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Sports, Outdoors, Sporting Goods Andrew Paradise founded Skillz Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Skillz, Mr. Paradise was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AisleBuyer LLC, the first mobile self-checkout company that was acquired by Intuit and is now Intuit GoPayment. Prior to AisleBuyer, he served as Chief Executive Officer of DoublePicture LLC, a web 2.0 digital media and advertising company. Before his career as a technology entrepreneur, Andrew worked in private equity and venture capital investing for Fort Washington Capital Partners and The Watermill Group. ## Greg Zeeman - Type: Angel - Location: Lake Forest, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods Greg Zeeman is the CEO at Oasis Financial. ## Nat Turner - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical Nat Turner is based out of New York, New York, and is the CEO and Chairman of Collectors. Nat previously worked at OneOncology as a board member. Nat Turner attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. ## Thomas Rebaud - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Social Media Thomas Rebaud is 28 years old when he founds Meero in 2016, driven by the desire to make the Internet more beautiful. The story begins in 2007 when he joins EMLyon Business School. Still a student, he becomes president of the Junior branch of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, a cooperation present in 15 countries whose aim is to developentrepreneurship as a vector of growth and employment in the world. Through this, Thomas develops a solid knowledge of good business practices. In 2013, with a second Masters under his belt, he sets up his first Internet-free loan comparison company, which works well but doesn’t take off. So he takes up an opportunity with Diji, a new kind of IT consultancy and engineering company. And that’s it. His progress at Diji leads him to discover the professional photography market, which is just waiting to be disrupted. Thomas gets it and seizes the opportunity by creating Meero! ## Paul Heywood - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Shoes Paul Heywood is Chief Operating Officer at IPInfo, Chairman at Memory.AI, Board Member at UNRVLD and Partner at York.IE. He is the former Chief Revenue Officer of Puppet, VP Worldwide Sales at Oracle, VP Worldwide Sales at Dyn and Chairman of DevOpsGroup. He attended University of Wales, Cardiff. ## Kevin Kaplan - Type: Angel - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Consumer Goods, Hardware, Sports Kevin Kaplan is an enterprise onboarding specialist at Qualia. Attended School of Visual Arts. ## Ankit Mehrotra - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B - Focus: SaaS, Gaming, Food Processing Ankit Mehrotra is the CEO & one of the four Co-founders of Dineout, India’s largest dining out and restaurant tech solutions platform in B2C and B2B front offering the most comprehensive suite of F&B tech products. An engineer by a degree and a technology lover at heart, Ankit started Dineout with his friends in 2012 to change thelandscape of the dining industry in India. Before turning into a passionate entrepreneur, Ankit lived in London for 10 years and worked for 7 years with BNP Paribas in London in various divisions including Investment Banking & Wealth Management, managing a portfolio of UHNWI while also studying for the CFA charter, which he got in 2011. He has enjoyed a fruitful career of over 10 years in the internet product space, including e-commerce marketplaces, online payments, operations and trade logistics.Ankit’s work has led him to be a winner of the 2016 Education UK Alumni Awards, Entrepreneur of the Year award 2016, and Young Entrepreneur of the year award in the year 2012. ## Georg Kofler - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet Georg Kofler is an angel investor. ## Hans Tung - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services Hans Tung is based out of Menlo Park, California, and is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital and also Board Member of Wispr Flow. Hans previously worked at Poshmark as a Board Member. Hans Tung attended the Stanford University. ## Thomas Lehrman - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Education, FinTech Thomas D. Lehrman is the Board Director at Gerson Lehrman Group.He is a Co - Founder and former Co - Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. Thomas Lehrman most recently served as Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the President's WMDCommission. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Financial Analyst at Tiger Management. He is also a Co - Founder & Board Member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program. Thomas Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and Yale Law School. ## Scott Dorsey - Type: Angel - Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software Scott Dorsey is a Managing Partner and Co-founder at High Alpha and was a Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman at Salesforce. He attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and the Indiana University - Kelley School of Business. ## Hakeem Seriki - Type: Angel - Location: Houston, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Beauty, Media and Entertainment Hakeem Seriki is the Founder and CEO at Convoz. ## Jesse Bardo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Marketplace Jesse Bardo is the Director at Silicon Valley Bank. ## Jason Fiedler - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care Jason brings to early-stage investing a combination of experience as a startup founder, VC-backed operator, growth-stage institutional investor, and angel investor. In early 2013, Jason joined Uber in San Francisco where he launched and managed three of Uber's first 100 market launches. Prior to Uber, Jason spent two years at Insight VenturePartners as an investment analyst focused on growth-stage internet and software. Jason began his career in startups as a college Senior, co-founding Splash.FM, a social music discovery platform. Jason graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics and received the Frederick H. Gloeckner award in Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School. Jason was awarded Forbes 30 under 30 for Venture Capital in 2018. ## Andrew Coppin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Retail, Logistics, 3D Printing Andrew Coppin - Advisor @ DisruptSports.com ## Joe Zawadzki - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Analytics, SaaS, Software Joe Zawadzki is the General Partner at AperiamVentures. He attended Harvard University. ## Robert Nelsen - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics Robert Nelsen is a co-founder and a Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners. He joined ARCH at its founding and played a significant role in the early sourcing, financing and development of more than 100 companies, including nineteen which have reached valuations exceeding $1 billion. His seed and early-stage investments include Illumina (ILMN);Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY); Juno Therapeutics (JUNO); Unity Biotechnology (UBX); Sienna Biopharmaceuticals (SNNA); Vir Biotechnology, Agios Pharmaceuticals (AGIO); Sage Therapeutics (SAGE); GRAIL, Ikaria; Kythera Biopharmaceuticals (KYTH), Receptos (RCPT); Aviron (AVIR); Denali Therapeutics (DNLI); Rubius Therapeutics, KSQ Therapeutics, Beam Therapeutics, NetBot; Bluebird Bio (BLUE); R2 Technology; XenoPort (XNPT); Caliper Life Sciences (CALP); Trubion Pharmaceuticals (TRBN); Adolor (ADLR); deCODE Genetics; Array BioPharma (ARRY); Editas (EDIT), IDUN Pharmaceuticals; Classmates.com; Hua Medicine; Fate Therapeutics (FATE); WuxiNextCODE; and Everyday Learning Corporation.Mr. Nelsen is a director of Vir Bio, GRAIL, Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Beam Therapeutics, Unity Biotechnology, Denali Therapeutics, Arivale, Syros Pharmaceuticals, and serves as Chairman of Hua Medicine, among others. He previously served as a Trustee of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, the Institute for Systems Biology, and was a director of the National Venture Capital Association. Mr. Nelsen holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.S. from the University of Puget Sound with majors in Economics and Biology. ## Sean Park - Type: Angel - Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS Sean Park combines a powerful mix of entrepreneurial, investment and corporate experience and is widely recognized as a leading independent thinker on the future of financial services, informed by his many years as a senior executive in capital markets and investment banking.Founder of Anthemis Group SA, author of The Park Paradigm, andserving as non-executive director on the board of a number of high growth companies, Sean has a proven track record of successfully investing in and advising innovative and disruptive startups.A founding investor in innovative companies such as Betfair, The Climate Corporation (WeatherBill), Markit and an early investor in Zoopla, before founding Anthemis Group, Sean was part of the Global Markets Management Committee at Dresdner Kleinwort where he ran a number of businesses including their groundbreaking Digital Markets initiative. He was instrumental in driving the introduction and adoption of electronic book building in the European fixed income markets in early 2000s and authored the seminal “AmazonBay” video exploring the future of finance in 2005.Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Sean has a BSc in Materials Science from Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is now based in Geneva and refuses to give up on his dream of one day skiing in the Olympics. ## Chris Paul - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Sports, Wellness Christopher Emmanuel Paul is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. ## Sandy Cass - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services CFO / COO at Artsy Managing Partner at Red Swan ## Chung Ng - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Real Estate, Internet Solving Human Problems for over 25 years as ex-CXO @Publicis Groupe | Exited $50M ARR Agency | Web 2&3 Investor & Advisor ## Trae Young - Type: Angel - Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Sports, Events, Gaming Rayford Trae Young is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. ## Seth Curry - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: News, Sports, Fitness Seth Curry is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association. ## Rickie Fowler - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Sports, Fitness, Wellness Rick Yutaka Fowler is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He was the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world for 36 weeks in 2007 and 2008. ## Patrick Mahomes - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series E - Focus: Sports, Fitness, Wellness Patrick Lavon Mahomes II is an American football quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He is the son of former Major League Baseball pitcher Pat Mahomes. ## Kelly Slater - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care Robert Kelly Slater is an American professional surfer, best known for his unprecedented 11 world surfing championships ## JJ Watt - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Fitness, Sports, FinTech JJ WATT Dream Big Work Hard. Those four simple words have helped to transform Pewaukee native JJ Watt from small-town Wisconsin boy to being selected #11 Overall Pick in the 2011 NFL Draft by the Houston Texans. Watt won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year three times in his first five seasons. The journey from backyard football to the big stageof the NFL was not always smooth or easy and filled with adversity, but with unbelievable support from his friends and family, JJ turned his childhood dreams into reality. Since joining the Texans, Watt has been selected to the Pro-Bowl Team three times and won the AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year award twice in his first four seasons. He is the first player in NFL history to record two 20+ sack seasons in a career. He also occasionally shifts to defensive tackle and has also taken snaps as a tight end. He was voted #1 on the 2014 – 2015 NFL Top 100 list, which is voted on by fellow NFL players. Watt is the president and founder of the Justin J. Watt Foundation, which provides after school opportunities for children in various communities encouraging them to get involved in athletics in a safe environment. In the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Harvey, Watt organized a crowdfunding campaign to help Houston recover. His campaign raised more than $37 million through over 209,000 donations, nearly doubling his initial $20 million goal.