# Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in United States in June 2026 ## Ronald Conway - Relevant deals: 86 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment Founder & Co-Managing Partner @ SV Angel Founder @ Smart Tech Foundation CEO @ Personal Training Systems Founder @ FWD.us ## Alan Blaine - Relevant deals: 84 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, IT, Financial Co-founder @ Color ## David Tisch - Relevant deals: 79 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment Founder & Managing Partner @ BoxGroup HEAD OF STARTUP STUDIO @ Cornell Tech ## Wayne Chang - Relevant deals: 76 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, IT, Internet Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Digits ## Auren Hoffman - Relevant deals: 66 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Data and Analytics, Sales/Marketing CEO and Chief Historian @ SafeGraph ## Tim Draper - Relevant deals: 65 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Financial Founder and Managing Partner @ Draper Associates Adviser @ Bancor Founder @ SpeedUPAfrica Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ DDF Founder @ DFJ VinaCapital Co-Founder & MD @ DFJ DragonFund Founder/Partner @ VenturesLab Founder & Partner @ Gotham Ventures Co - Founder & MD @ Zone Ventures Co-Founder @ ePlanet Capital Founder @ Draper University Ventures Co-Founder @ Draper Dragon Founder @ Draper Fisher Jurvetson ## Gary Vaynerchuk - Relevant deals: 59 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment Chairman & CEO @ VaynerX Creator & Founder @ VeeFriends Co-Founder @ VCR Group Co-Founder @ VaynerSports Co-Founder @ GrapeStory Co Founder @ Resy, American Express Global Dining Network Founder @ Cinderella Wine Partner & Co-Founder @ Vayner/RSE CEO @ Vayner Media Co-Founder @ Empathy Wines ## Nat Turner - Relevant deals: 56 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Data and Analytics General Partner @ Operator Partners ## Dharmesh Shah - Relevant deals: 56 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Sales/Marketing Founder & CTO @ HubSpot Blogger @ OnStartups.com Angel Investor @ Backupify Founder @ Inbound Marketing Founder/CTO @ Twitter Grader Co-Founder, CTO @ HubSpot Ventures ## Marc Benioff - Relevant deals: 55 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, IT, Other Chair & Co-CEO @ Salesforce Owner @ Time Ventures Founder, Chair & CEO @ Salesforce Ventures Chair & Chief Executive Officer @ CloudCraze ## Bryan Rosenblatt - Relevant deals: 54 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Gaming, Hardware Partner @ Craft Ventures ## Reid Hoffman - Relevant deals: 53 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment Partner @ Greylock Chairman @ Research Bridge Partners Founder @ FWD.us Co-Founder @ Silicon Valley Comes to the UK ## Kevin Lin - Relevant deals: 53 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Gaming, Media and Entertainment Visiting Partner @ Y Combinator ## Bashar Hamood - Relevant deals: 53 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, IT, Mobile Venture Partner @ FasterCapital ## Hesham Zreik - Relevant deals: 52 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, IT, Internet CEO, Founder, developer and publisher of mobile apps, and Technical Manager @ ZGroup Mobile Investor, CoFounder @ Dooet ## Dave Morin - Relevant deals: 51 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Offline Ventures ## Mitchell Kapor - Relevant deals: 50 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile Founder & Partner @ Kapor Capital Co-Chair @ Kapor Center for Social Impact Director @ SMASH | Level Playing Field Institute Co-founder @ Lotus Founder @ Mitchell Kapor Foundation ## Jackson Moses - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 23 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Aerospace, National Security, Military Jackson Moses is the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures. He previously worked at ThinkOrbital as an Advisor. Jackson attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a focus on Monetary Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a focus on Game Theory. ## Lee Linden - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 18 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Health Care, Logistics Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013. ## Dylan Taylor - Type: Angel - Location: Denver, Colorado, United States - Relevant deals: 17 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication Dylan Taylor is based out of Denver, Colorado, and is the Chief Executive Office and Chairman at Voyager Technologies. Dylan Taylor attended University of Arizona. ## Wei Guo - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 16 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited. ## Scott Banister - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan. ## Sam Altman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator. Sam attended Stanford University. ## Paul Buchheit - Type: Angel - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University. ## Cyan Banister - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Social Media Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer. ## Mark Cuban - Type: Angel - Location: Dallas, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington. ## Justin Waldron - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program. ## Kevin Mahaffey - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor. ## Mark Pincus - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - 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. ## Shervin Pishevar - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop. ## Immad Akhund - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury. ## Kyle Vogt - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology Kyle Vogt is the CEO of The Bot Company. ## David O. Sacks - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet David O. Sacks is the Co-Founder and Partner of Craft Ventures. He previously worked at Zenefits as an Investor, COO, and Interim CEO. David Sacks attended the University of Chicago Law School and Stanford University. ## Kevin Moore - Type: Angel - Location: Dallas, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates. ## Jason Finger - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Jason Finger helped found Salvo Health as an early advisor and Board member. He previously was the founder and CEO of Seamless which he merged with GrubHub. He was Executive Chairman of LiveAuctioneers and is currently Executive Chair of Upper90, an alternative credit firm with over $1 billion in AUM. Jason Finger attended New York UniversitySchool of Law. ## Fabrice Grinda - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com. ## Güimar Vaca Sittic - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs. ## Lachy Groom - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing. ## Louis Beryl - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member. ## Joshua Schachter - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool. ## Clark Landry - Type: Angel - Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Clark Landry is the Managing Partner of Clover Leaf Ventures.Most recently, Clark was co-founder and COO at CESPPA, a cybersecurity company. Formerly, Clark was co-founder and COO at Maple Media (raised $30 million from private equity investors), co-founder and executive chairman at SHIFT (acquired by Brand Networks), co-founder and CEO at TopLevel Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines - publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM), co-founder and CMO at TagWorld (acquired by Viacom). Clark was a founding investor of Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel), Traffic Marketplace, an advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), Adconion Media Group, a provider of digital media advertising solutions (acquired by Amobee), Conversion Logic, an advertising attribution company, and CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace.Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Yale University. ## Shane Neman - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence Founder of EZ Texting and JoonBug. Serial entrepreneur and investor in Tech, Real Estate & Hospitality.cA forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. ## Rick Marini - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile Rick Marini is the Co-Founder, President and COO of Rails. He previously worked at Grindr as a Chief Operating Officer. Rick Marini attended Harvard Business School. ## Jon Oringer - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock. ## Joanne Wilson - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail Joanne Wilson is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gotham. Joanne Wilson attended Simmons College. ## Daren Cotter - Type: Angel - Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - 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. ## Qasar Younis - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Transportation Mr. Qasar Younis is the Founder of Talkbin. Mr. Younis serves as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Y Combinator. He is responsible to manage all Y Combinator events, operations, finance and legal functions, as well as advise startups. Previously, he served as a Part-Time Partner at the firm. ## bumpkins profile - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Robotics blah - teh software was teh busted and they didn't want to fix it or hire someone to fix it, odd folks, these. ## Baron Davis - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Mobile Apps Baron Davis is the Founder at Baron Davis Enterprise. ## Jett McCandless - Type: Angel - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Logistics, Transportation, Freight Service Jett McCandless is Founder and CEO of project44.