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Top 50 Travel Angel Investors in United States in December 2024

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

Top 50 Travel Angel Investors in United States in December 2024

Investor Travel United States investments
Jason Calacanis 12
Erik Blachford 11
Spencer Rascoff 7
Jack Dorsey 5
Eric Schmidt 5
Hugh Crean 5
Thomas Lehrman 5
Daniel Curran 4
Scott Banister 4
Shervin Pishevar 4
Thomas McInerney 4
Christopher Shonk 4
Barney Harford 4
Naval Ravikant 3
Aman Bhutani 3
Fabrice Grinda 3
Luc Levesque 3
Rick Marini 3
Rudy Gadre 3
Dave Morin 3
Devon T Rogers 3
Wei Guo 3
Alexis Ohanian 3
Rick Marini 3
Walter Winshall 3
Kevin Hartz 3
Keith Rabois 3
David Bonderman 3
Gil Penchina 3
Neil Giugno 3
Michael Dornbrook 2
Baris Gultekin 2
Larry Marcus 2
Thomas Mangas 2
Thomas Glocer 2
Paul Buchheit 2
Terry Jones 2
Jesse Comly 2
Jason Roper 2
Eric Chen 2
Ruchi Sanghvi 2
David Hauser 2
Warren Katz 2
Rich Barton 2
Lorenzo Thione 2
David Tisch 2
Andrew Mitchell 2
Richard Galanti 2
David Zaslav 2
Bryan Rosenblatt 2
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Jason Calacanis Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.
Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
  • Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
  • Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
Erik Blachford Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Currently a Venture Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures, Erik has previously served as CEO of Expedia, Inc. and IAC/InterActiveCorp's travel division, IAC Travel (including online travel businesses Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Classic Custom Vacations and Interval International), CEO at Butterfield & Robinson and CEO atTerrapass, Inc.His prior positions at Expedia Inc. included SVP of Marketing & Planning and various roles in product management. Erik is an active private company investor, serving on boards including Glassdoor, Zillow, Siteminder, Liftopia and Terrapass, and participates in non-profit boards including EcoAmerica, The Cutting Ball Theatre and the US National Council of the World Wildlife Fund.Erik holds a bachelor's degree in English and certificate in theatre from Princeton University and a master's in business administration from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
  • Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
  • Madrona Venture Labs — Founders like you. Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio based in Seattle. We partner with founders from day one to build meaningful companies from scratch.
Spencer Rascoff Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Spencer Rascoff is the Co-Founder and the Chairman of Board at Pacaso.
Investment focus
  • Real Estate, Software, Travel
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Sweden, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • HostGPO — A members-only buying group for vacation rental hosts, owners, and managers.
  • Ohana — New York City Largest Sublet and Sublease Community. NYC short term rentals, furnished apartments, monthly rentals, and rooms for rent.
  • Madrona Venture Labs — Founders like you. Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio based in Seattle. We partner with founders from day one to build meaningful companies from scratch.
Jack Dorsey Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder and CEO of Block, Inc. He previously worked at Elliott Investment Management as a CEO.
Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Mobile
  • Series A, Seed, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Azteco — For every bit of life
  • Ocean — Ocean empowers miners to reclaim control of the intelligent portions of mining and is designed to be non-custodial, transparent, and permissionless.
  • SimpleX Chat — SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.
Eric Schmidt Angel · Mountain View, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Eric Schmidt is the founding partner of the Schmidt Family Foundation. He previously worked at Alphabet Inc. as an Executive Chairman and Technical Advisor. Eric Schmidt attended Princeton University.
Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Rogo — Rogo is the secure generative AI (GenAI) platform built for elite financial institutions. Save time, unlock insights and automate workflows in days.
  • Asari AI — Co-invent the future.
  • Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
Hugh Crean Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Hugh Crean is the current Chief Executive Officer of Operix. He previously worked at JPK Capital as an Operating Partner. Hugh Crean attended Boston College.
Investment focus
  • Travel, Mobile, Hospitality
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
  • Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
  • Plot — Plot pairs IoT sensors and cloud-based software to deliver facility, city, airport, and roadway monitoring. We are currently installed at Los Angeles International and Sacramento International Airports to monitor their TSA wait times and provide automated alerts to staff on changing environments.Once our sensors are installed, we are able toprovide airport staff with custom reporting, as well as, provide travelers with predicted wait times. We are the only solution on the market that actively tries to reach travelers before they leave for the airport.Before renaming to Plot, the company was named Park Evergreen and focused on parking solutions. Park Evergreen was accepted into Batch 19 of 500 Startups. Plot was founded in 2016 by Jenn Starr, Jason Cass, Christopher Addington, Ben Cantey, and Ben Smith and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Thomas Lehrman Angel · New York, New York, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
  • G2 — Compare the best business software and services based on user ratings and social data. Reviews for CRM, ERP, HR, CAD, PDM and Marketing software.
  • Journeyfront — Journeyfront helps you get hiring right. Hiring accuracy solves costly problems including low job performance and turnover before you even hire.
Daniel Curran Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
  • GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Scott Banister Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
  • Stell — Stell is a platform that digitizes the relationship between aerospace companies and their suppliers with a living specification workflow
  • Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Shervin Pishevar Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.
Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
  • Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
  • NUE Life Health — NUE Life aims to improve mental wellness by enhancing brain function, performance, and longevity through evidence based and scientifically proven mental health treatments and products.
Thomas McInerney Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
Tom McInerney is a notable angel investor. He was a seed investor in Segment, Notion, GetAround, Tala, MemSQL, Mode Analytics, OpenTrons, Arcadia Power, and more.
Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Ware — Ware deploys autonomous, self-flying drones—combined with machine learning—inside warehouses to automate their inventory tracking. Designed to solve some of the $1.9 trillion warehousing industry’s most pressing issues, Ware’s product helps their customers operate more efficiently. A partner of Skydio and funded by Bloomberg Beta, Ware works withthe world’s largest 3PL’s and global brands to improve their accuracy, workflows, and save money.
  • Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
  • Replenysh — Replenysh is a set of tools for communities and companies to build circularity in days, not years.
Christopher Shonk Angel · Austin, Texas, United States
Christopher Shonk is the Managing Director of ATX Venture Partners. Christopher Shonk holds 10 board and advisor roles including Investor & Advisor at RoverPass, Investor & Director at Slingshot Aerospace, and Advisor at SourceDay. He attended ACTON MBA and Campbell University.
Investment focus
  • Travel, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • b.well Connected Health — b.well Connected Health delivers a scalable, FHIR-based platform that unifies all healthcare data, solutions, and services, enabling personalized care and effective population health management.
  • Localeur — Founded in Austin, Texas, in early 2013, Localeur is a global community of locals spanning 180+ cities and destinations around the world who share recommendations on their favorite places to eat, drink, and play to help travelers experience locally in their cities. Unlike review sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor, Localeur has an exclusive communityof local insiders who share authentic recommendations on places in the cities they live in, not the ones they visit. The company has partnered with brands like JetBlue Airways, Lyft, Nike, and Match.com to create campaigns that use their vision to help their ideas come to life.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
  • Kiss & Tell — Kiss & Tell is a private social network with integrated group booking that gets everyone there without the headache. Rethink weddings, celebrations and retreats for the better! When you're ready to gather, plan & go again, reschedule with us!
Barney Harford Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Barney currently serves on the boards of directors of United Airlines and RealSelf. At United Airlines he serves on the Finance, Audit and Public Responsibility committees. Barney has an extensive track record operating and governing large and rapidly growing technology-enabled companies. He has particular experience in the fields of loyalty andsegmentation, experiment-driven optimization, lean process improvement, cybersecurity, and transportation safety.Barney served as Chief Operating Officer of Uber from January 2018 to July 2019. As COO he was responsible for the company’s global ridesharing business, leading operations, strategy, marketing, customer support, safety and insurance in over 60 countries, and for the company's food-delivery business Uber Eats. Barney launched consumer and driver loyalty programs, increased focus on high-value segments, extended the platform to embrace lower cost transport modes in emerging markets, and significantly reduced trip defect rates. He led a 15,000 person organization during a critical phase in the company’s history, and played a significant role in the company’s May 2019 IPO, which raised $8B.Prior to Uber, Barney served as CEO and a director of Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW) from January 2009 to November 2015, leading a turnaround that culminated in the company’s sale to Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE) for $1.6B. While at Orbitz Worldwide he launched the groundbreaking Orbitz Rewards loyalty program and built the Orbitz Partner Network into a leading provider of private label travel solutions to airlines, hotels, travel agencies and banks.Prior to Orbitz Worldwide, Barney served in a variety of roles at Expedia from 1999 to 2006, including as President of Expedia Asia Pacific from 2004 to 2006, where he led Expedia’s market entry into China, Australia and Japan.Barney has previously served on the boards of directors of Crystal Orange Hotel Group (formerly Mandarin Hotel Holdings), eLong, GlobalEnglish, LiquidPlanner and Lola Travel.Barney is a Board Leadership Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Barney received an MBA from INSEAD and an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University (Clare College).
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
  • Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
  • TROOP (formerly TroopTravel) — Plan your next in-person meeting in minutes! Our meeting planning platform helps to save time, cut costs and reduce CO2. Check it out!
Naval Ravikant Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.
Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Tako — Tako is an AI search engine that embed intelligence.
  • Synex Medical — Synex Medical develops non-invasive blood testing technology. This portable device will allow users to monitor metabolite concentrations without having to penetrate skin. They use a miniaturized magnetic resonance system to detect blood metabolites. The system only consists of magnets and radio waves, meaning there are no negative health effects.
  • Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.
Aman Bhutani Angel · Bellevue, Washington, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Aman Bhutani is the Chief Executive Officer at GoDaddy, Aman Bhutani attended Lancaster University.
Investment focus
  • Marketplace, Travel, Legal
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
  • Otto — Once we get to know each other, I proactively plan, book, and ensure you have the perfect trip.
  • BookOutdoors — Search BookOutdoors to easily find and book campsites, RV parks, cabins and glamping with no fees, and unlock amazing rewards and benefits with every trip.
Fabrice Grinda Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
  • OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
  • PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
Luc Levesque Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
Luc Levesque is the VP of Growth at Shopify.
Investment focus
  • Travel, Software, Alumni
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • @hotel — Tripscout is the center of the world for passionate travelers. We bring you the best articles and videos to satisfy your wanderlust and help you plan amazing trips.
  • Hivemapper — Explore the Hivemapper Network's global coverage.
  • ResortPass — Enjoy the pool, spa, and amenities at a luxury hotel for the day starting at only $25. Take a daycation and book a day pass or cabana at hotels and resorts near you!
Rick Marini Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Rick Marini is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Catapult Capital.
Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Pray.com — Pray.com is the #1 app in the world for daily prayer and Biblical audio content. Share inspiration, sleep better and be inspired. Make prayer a priority with Pray.
  • Stronghold — Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks.
  • Grove Collaborative — Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative is transforming consumer products into a positive force for human and environmental good. Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first products across household cleaning, personal care, laundry, clean beauty, and pet, serving millions of households across the U.S. The Grove Co.brand helped create the zero-waste home care category and continues to be the market leader. Every item Grove offers, from both brands they craft — like their flagship brand Grove Co., plastic-free personal care line Peach, and clean skincare brand Superbloom — and from exceptional third-party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for clean ingredients, efficacy, sustainability, cruelty-free formulas, and ethical supply chain practices. Grove, a public benefit corporation, is on a mission to move Beyond Plastic. Grove is the first plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, visit grove.co/beyondplastic.
Rudy Gadre Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States
Rudy Gadre is Partner at Founder's Co-op. Rudy Gadre is an active angel Investor and is also an Advisor to startups. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President and General Counsel of Facebook, where Rudy Gadre was responsible for all legal matters since January 2006. In 1999, he joined Amazon and served as its Vice President and Associate GeneralCounsel for Business Development, intellectual property, and new technologies. He was the Principal Legal Negotiator for Amazon's most significant strategic alliances and joint ventures, where Rudy Gadre oversaw the development and licensing of patents and other intellectual property, and was responsible for all legal aspects of Amazon's new technology initiatives. From September 1994 to February 1999, Rudy Gadre worked at Perkins Coie LLP, as an Associate in the technology business group. At Perkins, he represented clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies in a diverse array of matters, including joint ventures, development, protection and licensing of intellectual property, and mergers and acquisitions. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President of Business Operations at Evri, Inc, from September 2008 to July 2010. He serves as a Member of Strategic Advisory Board at Syntonic Limited. He served as a Director of Jobaline.com Inc. He served as an Independent Director of The W Fund. He is a passionate supporter of the Seattle technology ecosystem. He was recognized by Washington Law and Politics magazine as a "Super Lawyer" in 2003 and 2004. Rudy Gadre holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College and graduated from the University of Washington School of Law.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • neu — Get on-demand enhanced cleaning for your Airbnb. Use neu to auto-schedule cleans after every checkout, get access to vetted service professionals, and peace-of-mind
  • Wrench — Wrench offers a convenient way to get great auto repair near me, diagnostic service and oil changes. Our mobile mechanics will come to you!
  • Heyou Media Holdings — This domain used to be connected to a Wix website. Learn how to reconnect it, or create your own website.
Dave Morin Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, France, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
  • Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
  • Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS
Devon T Rogers Angel · Austin, Texas, United States
Rogers is a well proven investor and entrepreneur with 7+ years experience in backing many ranges of startups in different markets, such as Flight Car, Silver Car, Blue Apron, Asana & many more. Rogers, once a Venture Partner, Fund Manager, and LP, now actively invests in certain projects as an angel and so much more.
Investment focus
  • Mobile, Software, Messaging
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series C
  • United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Hike — Hike team is building the Rush Gaming Universe.
  • Asana — Work anytime, anywhere with Asana. Keep remote and distributed teams, and your entire organization, focused on their goals, projects, and tasks with Asana.
  • Eyegroove — Eyegroove is the social network for the music video and a technological platform that, for the first time, effortlessly brings together all the elements of great video: music, editing, and effects. It offers a mobile iOS application that allows users to choose a piece of streaming music, record video, and add interactive effects.
Wei Guo Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
  • Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
  • Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Alexis Ohanian Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.
Investment focus
  • Software, Blockchain, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
  • TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
  • Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.
Rick Marini Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Rick Marini is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Catapult Capital.
Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Pray.com — Pray.com is the #1 app in the world for daily prayer and Biblical audio content. Share inspiration, sleep better and be inspired. Make prayer a priority with Pray.
  • Stronghold — Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks.
  • Grove Collaborative — Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative is transforming consumer products into a positive force for human and environmental good. Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first products across household cleaning, personal care, laundry, clean beauty, and pet, serving millions of households across the U.S. The Grove Co.brand helped create the zero-waste home care category and continues to be the market leader. Every item Grove offers, from both brands they craft — like their flagship brand Grove Co., plastic-free personal care line Peach, and clean skincare brand Superbloom — and from exceptional third-party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for clean ingredients, efficacy, sustainability, cruelty-free formulas, and ethical supply chain practices. Grove, a public benefit corporation, is on a mission to move Beyond Plastic. Grove is the first plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, visit grove.co/beyondplastic.
Walter Winshall Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Walter A. Winshall serves as a Principal in Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC, an investment firm specializing in the commercialization of early-stage technology. Previously, he was a co-founder and Chairman of SilverPlatter International, NV, a company providing information services for libraries, which was acquired by the Dutchpublishing company Wolters Kluwer in 2001. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of AgaMatrix, Inc., HealthCare IT, Inc., and MOCA Systems, Inc. He graduated from MIT in electrical engineering and from the Harvard Law School. At AgaMatrix, Walt provides guidance in corporate development strategy.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Finance, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Avanlee Care — Bring your family closer with the all-in-one elderly care app.
  • Rheaply — Rheaply is making the world's resources more discoverable and transferrable in our global economy.
  • StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your
Kevin Hartz Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Ireland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
  • Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
  • Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.
Keith Rabois Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Keith Rabois is the Co-Founder of Datadoor.
Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
  • Pomelo — Send money cross border with zero transfer fees. Use and build credit with Pomelo.
  • Palm Tree Crew — Palm Tree Crew operates and invests in companies at the intersection of consumer, entertainment, and technology. Palm Tree Crew was co-founded by Kygo, alongside Myles Shear and Austin Criden.
David Bonderman Angel · Austin, Texas, United States
David Bonderman is a founding partner of TPG. TPG generally makes significant investments in operating companies through acquisitions and restructurings across a broad range of industries throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. TPG and its affiliates have more than $45 billion of capital under management. Portfolio companies controlledby TPG have combined revenues of over $85 billion, operate in more than 130 countries and employ approximately 400,000 people. Among the portfolio companies of TPG are: Burger King; PETCO; Debenhams; Shenzhen Development Bank; Avaya; Harrah’s Entertainment, Energy Future Holdings (TXU); Neiman Marcus; and Univision.Prior to forming TPG in 1992, Mr. Bonderman was Chief Operating Officer of the Robert M. Bass Group, Inc. (now doing business as Keystone Group, L.P.) in Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to joining RMBG in 1983, Mr. Bonderman was a partner in the law firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC, where he specialized in corporate, securities, bankruptcy, and antitrust litigation. From 1969 to 1970, Mr. Bonderman was a Fellow in Foreign and Comparative Law in conjunction with Harvard University, and from 1968 to 1969, he was Special Assistant to the US Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division. From 1967 to 1968, Mr. Bonderman was Assistant Professor at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans.Mr. Bonderman graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1966. He was a member of the Harvard Law Review and a Sheldon Fellow. He is a 1963 graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle. Mr. Bonderman serves on the Boards of the following public companies: Armstrong Worldwide Industries, Inc., CoStar Group, Inc., and Ryanair Holdings, plc, of which he is Chairman. He also serves on the Boards of The Wilderness Society, the Grand Canyon Trust, The University of Washington Foundation, and the American Himalayan Foundation.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • Parrot — Stenographic Transcription and Digital Reporting for Depositions and EUOs. Nationwide court reporting service combined with cutting-edge AI to deliver more accurate transcripts and make attorneys more effective and cost-efficient.
  • Parrot — The all-in-one platform for remote depositions. Reliable and remarkably easy.
  • Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos
Gil Penchina Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Gil Penchina is retired
Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, France, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Fairy — Fairy offers 30 minute daily “hotel like” cleanings and is a great service for busy professionals and families -- their mission is to deliver happiness to every home in the world. Their team has started and sold venture-backed startups and have helped scale companies like Instacart, NextDoor, Box, and LinkedIn through their IPOs.
  • Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
  • Origin Protocol — Origin Protocol is bringing NFTs and DeFi to the masses
Neil Giugno Angel · New York, New York, United States
Neil Giugno
Investment focus
  • Retail, Travel, FinTech
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Keyo — Keyo lets you customize palm vein authentication to your business. Discover the most secure, contactless, privacy-first biometric. Request a demo today.
  • GenoPalate — GenoPalate uses your DNA to create a customized genomic nutritional plan for your unique genetic make-up. Discover the healthiest foods for you.
  • OneH — OneH connects innovators with investors in a brand new way, making investing in the private market simpler than ever.
Michael Dornbrook Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Michael Dornbrook Member of the Board of Directors at Modulate.ai. He attended University of Chicago during 1981-1983.
Investment focus
  • Mobile, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
  • Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
  • UptimeHealth — UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a fast-growing software startup that simplifies medical device service events, purchases, and compliance practices through automation and predictive analytics.
Baris Gultekin Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
Baris Gultekin
Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Travel, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • CoinTracker — CoinTracker is a portfolio & tax manager for cryptocurrency. It automatically syncs transactions into one unified dashboard and helps users file their crypto taxes with the click of a button.
  • WaveOne — Building AI-native video.   WaveOne is leveraging the latest advancements in machine learning and deep learning to reinvent the way video is compressed, transported, stored, and analyzed.
  • Arta Finance — Arta is a digital wealth platform offering unifying your investments, financial planning, tax and estate planning in one. Access elite private investment fund managers, along with intelligent investment tools for public markets.
Larry Marcus Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Actively making new investments in consumer and culture with Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm co-founded with JAY-Z and Jay Brown. Managing Director at Walden Venture CapitalInvestments include: Savage X Fenty, Pela, Hungry, Wheels, Hipcamp, Partake Foods, Pandora (founding investor - IPO, exit to Sirius XM) , SoundHound, Aarki, goTenna, HatchBaby, TouchBistro (exit), Robust Wealth (acquired by Principal Financial Group), Terayon (acquired by Motorola). Angel investments: include Netflix (IPO), BandPage (acquired by Google), Maestro, Jukely, LyricFind. Prior to Walden, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown. Led IPOs of Terayon, CBS MarketWatch, Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing), Maxis (acquired by Electronic Arts), Edmark (acquired by IBM) and among other equity and debt financings (Broderbund, Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Education: Larry received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. See the music he loves at www.pandora.com/people/larry. He was named to the Billboard Power 100 in music and the Twitter 140 to follow.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, E-Commerce, Music
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Pela — World's First 100% Compostable, Eco-Friendly iPhone and Android phone cases working towards plastic free oceans!
  • Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.
  • Fetch Delivery — With Fetch, you can get free gift cards simply for shopping, snapping all your receipts and playing games on your phone! Try our rewards app today.
Thomas Mangas Angel · Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
Tom Mangas is a strategic and finance grounded leader with an exceptional record turning around and driving global growth in underperforming business models in CFO, CEO and Board Director roles at Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Armstrong World Industries. He has achieved success through his deep experience with numerous growth focusedtransactions (spins, mergers and acquisitions), Wall Street interactions, domestic and emerging market investments, functional reorganizations, effective cost reduction initiatives, and focus on building mutually productive relationships with customers and business partners. In his latest effort, he has launched a new company, Dado Inc., to dramatically improve the residential real estate experience for consumers. The Dado community is dedicated to honesty, ethics and professionalism that the best realtors always bring to their customers. We want to make it easier and faster for home buyers and sellers to connect with them directly.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Hotel, Hospitality
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Mint House — Tech-enabled apartments designed with purpose. Full kitchens. 24/7 digital concierge. Top-tier amenities. Book your Mint House now.
  • Luxury Travel Hackers — LTH shoots and re-purposes travel content with influencers and makes vacations bookable via social media.
Thomas Glocer Angel · New York, New York, United States
Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.
Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Superlegal — Superlegal, the world's #1 contract automation platform, is the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to negotiate and close deals.
  • Cradle — Design better proteins
  • Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Paul Buchheit Angel · Mountain View, California, United States
Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.
Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Character.ai — Meet AIs that feel alive. Chat with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Experience the power of super-intelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you.
  • Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Terry Jones Angel · Incline Village, Nevada, United States
Terry is a Special Venture Partner who focuses on identifying new investment opportunities for GC in the areas of travel and leisure, transportation, and e-commerce. He also works with the firm's existing portfolio companies on strategic partnerships and business development.Before joining GC, Terry founded Travelocity.com, a pioneeringonline travel site. He led Travelocity.com as President and CEO from its inception until May 2002. In March 2000, Terry took the Company (TSG) public. Prior to his stint at Travelocity.com, Terry was CTO of Sabre, Inc. In his 24 years at Sabre, he served at the executive level in various roles, including president of decision technologies, vice president of applications development, and vice president of product development.Terry helps travel-related companies improve their digital marketing efforts and makes frequent appearances as a keynote speaker and on major television news stations to comment on trends in e-commerce and travel. He serves on the Board of Directors of Entrust, Inc. and Overture Services, Inc.Terry is a graduate of Denison University, earning a B.A. in history.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Internet, Blockchain
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Pinktada — Buy a trip using Pinktada marketplace and enjoy travel flawlessly.
Jesse Comly Angel
Jesse Comly
Investment focus
  • Travel, Apps, Hotel
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Overnight — Betting is easy but that makes people forget the simple things they need to know and always remember when you bet.
  • Roomstorm — Roomstorm (Formerly WalkSource) is a next generation Business-to-Business network for hoteliers looking to run operations more efficiently and generate more revenue. Roomstorm empowers revenue teams to have more sellout nights by taking in last minute guest relocations from other nearby hotels as well as airlines in need of housing guestsovernight. Roomstorm proudly services over 400 Bay Area hotels and continues to grow with the recent edition of our first airline partner, San Francisco based Virgin America. Our hotel partners confidently overbook their properties, exchange lower priced guests for higher priced ones, find good deals for a relocated guest end-to-end within 5 minutes. By eliminating the pain of dealing with a relocations, we make the market much more efficient.
Jason Roper Angel · Austin, Texas, United States
Jason Roper - Partner @ Next Sequence
Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Chambr — Chambr helps sales teams close more deals through game-based simulations
  • Mogul — At Mogul, our vision is to unlock the world’s greatest potential. We support diverse individuals and organizations to achieve their goals and cultivate meaningful success, through pioneering technology solutions and inclusive community. An innovator in the $200 billion global recruitment market, Mogul is a diversity recruitment platform and oneof the world's largest resources for diverse talent. We partner with the Fortune 1000 and the world's fastest-growing companies to attract and advance top diverse talent — from entry-level to executive and board-level worldwide — through our market-leading software and executive recruitment services. Our long-time clients include hundreds of top companies and Fortune 1000 organizations such as Anheuser-Busch, Bain & Co., The Hershey Company, The Honest Company, Nike, Shopify, Stanley Black & Decker, and United Healthcare. With the revenue we earn, Mogul invests in and provides free resources for the economic advancement of individuals in need globally, through international partners such as the United Nations. Mogul has been named one of the “100 Most Exciting Startups” by Business Insider, “Best Website for Finding Top Talent” by Inc. Magazine, “Top Website for Marketing Your Company” by Forbes, and “Top Online Learning Platform” by Entrepreneur. With market-leading HR software, fast-growing executive recruitment services, and a diverse, inclusive online community of executive and board-level talent, Mogul is innovatively paving the way for diverse professionals and the companies that need them.
  • Quick Cart Africa Inc. — Quick Cart localizes global grocery shopping with 20-minute delivery, allowing customers to shop anytime anywhere. We empower local retailors with consistent demand data, inventory management that results to reduced food wastage, most importantly we give them access to working capital.
Eric Chen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Eric Chen joined Silver Lake in 2008 and is a Managing Director. Prior to Silver Lake, Dr. Chen was a Senior Vice President and Executive Committee member of ASML, a global leader in semiconductor technology. Dr. Chen joined ASML following its acquisition of Brion Technologies in 2007, the company he co-founded in 2002 and served as the CEO sinceinception. He was formerly a Senior Vice President at J.P. Morgan, where he coordinated the global research effort in the electronics sector and conducted equity research for a number of technology segments. Earlier in his career, Dr. Chen conducted theoretical physics research at Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire ("CERN") and at the Advanced Product Research Development Laboratory and MOS-13 facility for Motorola. Dr. Chen is currently on the board of Allyes Online Media Holding and Hillstone Networks. Previously, he served on the boards of Nobao Renewable Energy Holdings Limited and Varian Semiconductor. Dr. Chen was born and raised in China and is bilingual in English and Chinese (Mandarin). He represented China in the International Physics Olympics in Germany, earning the Silver Medal. Dr. Chen studied Physics at Peking University and received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Travel, Hospitality
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Sold — Sold is the new service that sells so you don't have to. Download the iOS app and get started today
  • Guestmob — Guestmob is a next generation discount hotel booking platform.One of Guestmob's innovation is offering customers the ability to book clusters of hotels that are equivalent in location, quality, ratings, at prices significantly lower than the published rates of each of these hotels. These discounted prices are determined via a learningalgorithm that anticipate how much a hotel is likely to discount.Customers are guaranteed a room at one of the top hotels selected in the collection, and these rooms are secured via last minute mob auctions, where hotels sell in bulk the rooms they expect to stay empty.
  • Triptrotting — Triptrotting is a venture backed travel company that matches travelers and locals based on similar interests. It is an online community and its application “Wist” helps its users feel like locals anywhere they go, whether in an unknown neighborhood in their own city or far away land.This new application of Triptrotting uses a combination ofcontextual, personalized, and social data to create unique and most relevant recommendations for every user.Triptrotting is headquartered in San Francisco, C.A. with additional offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington D.C., Boston, and Chicago. It was founded in 2011.
Ruchi Sanghvi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Ruchi Sanghvi is the Founder of South Park Commons.
Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
  • KNOW Foods — KNOW Foods is a provider of nutritious grain-free/gluten-free, high protein, low carbohydrate food products.KNOW Foods helps health conscious consumers achieve their diet and fitness goals by producing a nutritionally superior, non-GMO, natural and great tasting alternative to traditional baked goods.KNOW Foods' mission is focused onspecifically formulated neofoods created in response to the rising global awareness of the dangers inherent in commercially processed "factory food“.
  • SCUBA Analytics — Unlock the power of data collaboration in experience-driven industries. Gain intelligence, measurement, and activation of audience opportunities with SCUBA's privacy-enabled insights.
  • Alchemy — Whether you're a beginner, working on a side project, or one of the largest teams in the blockchain space, Alchemy makes Ethereum development easy with enhanced APIs, node infrastructure, and developer tooling. Get started for free!
David Hauser Angel · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
David Hauser is co-founder of Grasshopper. A passionate technologist, he is one of the youngest co-founders to have lead a company to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in U.S. He was also co-founder of Return Path, an e-mail performance management company, and founder of WebAds360, an ad-serving technology provider forsmall and mid-sized businesses. David has been featured on CNN, named one of Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40,” and has been featured in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal and many other publications.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • Whereby — Get started for free and integrate WebRTC video calls into your website or app using the Whereby API and SDK.
  • Founderpath — Where Bootstrapped SaaS Founders Get Funding
  • ClaimCompass — ClaimCompass is a legal services company that helps airline passengers receive their deserved compensation for delayed, canceled, or overbooked flights.
Warren Katz Angel · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Warren Katz is a Member of the Advisory Board at Ecovent. Warren Katz is a partner and is head of the Corporate/Commercial Law Group in the Montréal office of Stikeman Elliott. Mr. Katz specializes in complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies and investment funds, public offerings, privateplacements and going private transactions.Warren is a member of the Quebec and Ontario Bars and the Law Society of Upper Canada. Mr. Katz is also member of the office's Management Committee and Business Development Committee.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Network Security, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • DipJar — DipJar is changing the game of fundraising with a cashless donation jar and an integrated payments platform that enable joyful, engaging, and frictionless giving.
  • Codeanywhere — Save time by deploying a development environment in seconds. Collaborate, code, learn, build, and run your projects directly from your browser.
  • Dashbell — Dashbell provides independent lodgings with a SaaS platform that allows them to both manage their reservations and availability as well as distribute through their global partners.
Rich Barton Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States
Rich Barton is co-founder and the CEO of Zillow and served as the company's first chief executive officer from 2005 until September 2010.Before co-founding Zillow, Barton served as the president, chief executive officer, and board director at IPO in 1999, and remained as CEO until 2003. Barton co-founded
Investment focus
  • Internet, Mobile, Travel
  • Seed, Series A, Series D
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Nextdoor — Nextdoor is the neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of helpful information, goods, and services.
  • RealSelf — See real reviews and photos of plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures. Contact doctors near you. Shop medical-grade skin care. Discover modern beauty.
  • Sigma IQ — Sigma IQ can dramatically improve your matching reconciliations.Since Sigma IQ requires no implementation, we can demo our patent-pending solution using your actual data.
Lorenzo Thione Angel · Manhattan, New York, United States
Lorenzo Thione is the co-founder of Powerset, Inc., an innovative search startup founded in 2005, with the vision of bringing to consumers a more natural and effective type of Internet search than conventional keyword search. Funded by notable Silicon Valley VCs and angel investors, Powerset was acquired by Microsoft Corp. in 2008 to complement andinnovate on its own search technology and offering. Currently, he is a Principal Program Manager in charge of the Powerset division of Bing, Microsoft's innovative "Decision Engine". Lorenzo is an active angel investor, board member and advisor in several startup, including Dolores Labs, an exciting and energetic San Francisco startup building a scalable platform for human-based computing and crowdsourcing, Crowdflower, and several others at various stages, in the US and abroad, like Kidlandia, Etacts, 8Coupons, and iBrii. In addition to his Internet-tech endeavors, Lorenzo is a theater producer currently busy in bringing several new works to the Broadway stage, including the recently emerging Green Day musical, American Idiot of which he's Associate Producer. His current and most ambitious project is a brand new musical bound for the Broadway stage. Jay Kuo's original musical Allegiance, starring George Takei and Lea Salonga, follows the story of a Japanese American family during the years of the WWII Japanese American internment, and is currently aiming for a 2012 Broadway debut.Lorenzo is a founding board member of StartOut (www.startout.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering and developing entrepreneurship within the LGBT community, and during his service on the board of StartOut, the non-profit, founded in 2009, has grown to a membership of over 1000 individuals nationwide and three active chapters in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with plans for faster growth. He serves on the board of trustees of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and Reason To Party, a SF-based non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of underserved Bay Area residents by raising money for charity groups through events held in collaboration with local businesses. A native of Milan, Italy, Lorenzo moved to Austin, Texas at age 21, to complete his studies at the University of Texas at Austin, from which he holds a M.S. in Computer Engineering, and has co-authored several publications in Software Engineering and Computational Linguistics. He is a named inventor on 10 issued and over 20 pending patents in the US and world-wide.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Chai — CHAI is the leading AI platform, performing research in conversational generative artificial intelligence
  • Ordinary Seafood — We are a consumer facing food-tech company using the power of plant protein and biotechnology to deliver the next generation of sustainable seafood. Our mission is to bring balance back into our food system by offering delicious and healthy seafood alternatives.
  • Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
David Tisch Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City-based early stage investment fund. BoxGroup is an investor in over 200 seed-stage companies, including Vine, Blue Apron, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Handy and more. David is also the co-founder and Chairman of Spring, a mobile marketplace where customers shopdirectly within the app from a curated community of brands. Spring was named by Apple as one of the Best Apps of 2014.In 2014, David was named Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech, the University’s New York City-based graduate campus focused on digital technologies and the information economy. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence for Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Program.David is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and has served on numerous boards, including Mayor Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology, the Investor Board of Venture for America, and the Entrepreneurship board at NYU. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law, and currently lives in New York City
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Vengo — Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers whilegenerating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
  • Keychain — Keychain is a rapidly growing platform dedicated to connecting brands and retailers with the best manufacturing partners worldwide. At Keychain, we utilize AI to streamline the process of finding and vetting manufacturers, making the supply chain more transparent and efficient.
  • Even.com — Even offers an affordable on-demand pay product that allows employees to access their paychecks when they need it most—without confusing, hidden, or predatory fees. With a proven track record of reducing employee turnover and increasing retention and productivity, Even is the highest-rated on-demand pay app and has helped employees save more than$82 million to date.
Andrew Mitchell Angel · New York, New York, United States
Andrew Mitchell is the Founder of Brand Foundry Ventures. He is a former Co-Founder of Aspen Industries. He attended Lafayette College.
Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Harry's — Harry is a developer of an online platform used to sell shaving equipment and accessories for men. It designs and manufactures its own line of razors and replacement blades, as well as other shaving consumables, and offers its products a-la-carte via its online store or through a subscription model that enables consumers to meet their groomingessentials need online.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.
  • LiquidTalent — LiquidTalent is a web and mobile local talent marketplace for hiring vetted developers and designers through social connection. Our on-demand platform facilitates direct connection between talent and hirers via text messages and call requests. Our community events bring people together. We are creating the future of work platform for the nextgeneration economy.
  • RETAILIGENCE — Retailigence is a hyperlocal marketing platform that utilizes brick-and-mortar inventory data obtained directly from retailers to turn online consumers into offline buyers.
Richard Galanti Angel · Issaquah, Washington, United States
Richard Galanti
Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Travel, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Utrip — Utrip is a free travel planning technology that brings together the best in artificial intelligence and human experience, making it easy for travelers to quickly create their perfect trip. It is a destination discovery and travel planning platform that brings together the best in artificial intelligence and human experience to help travelersdiscover destinations and plan trips in uniquely personal and enjoyable ways. Utrip PRO helps increase engagement, loyalty and conversion rates by providing a white labeled offering of the Utrip platform to hospitality brands, cruise lines, points of interest, airlines, and Destination Marketing Organizations.
  • Livible — Livible makes storage, organization and moving out stuffs easy.The company is a provider of full service storage in Boston, Portland and Seattle. Easier, more convenient and you’ll save 15% compared to self-storage. the company makes it easy, convenient and affordable to store your household items. Livible picks up and deliver to your door,usually the next day. That includes evenings and weekends.
  • Jiffy.ai — Jiffy.ai is a software company that offers AI-powered intelligent and integrated platform for the modern-day digital enterprise. It helps businesses automate tasks through intelligent robots that can detect and adapt automated scenarios based on change. This allows organizations to utilize their staff more productively, without having to worryabout tasks that are critical yet add no value to the system. Right from processing unstructured data that is captured in different formats, to making cognitive decisions and using NLP and ML-based algorithms, JiffyRPA has helped customers achieve close to 90+% of automation. This is significant as most of the traditional RPA solutions are rule-based and only achieve lower automation levels for complex processes.
David Zaslav Angel · Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
David Zaslav is the President and CEO at Warner Bros. Discovery. David Zaslav attended Boston University.
Investment focus
  • Video, Travel, Aerospace
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BLADE — BLADE is a technology-powered, short-distance aviation company committed to reducing travel friction by enabling cost-effective air transportation alternatives. They leverage their technology to enable travelers to utilize and enjoy air travel. BLADE arranges on-demand charter and scheduled flights across a diverse accessible fleet of helicopters,jets, turboprops, and seaplanes.BLADE operates in New York City, Long Island and the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, and many other locations.
  • Group Nine Media — Group Nine Media is a family of digital media brands - Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker, and POPSUGAR.
Bryan Rosenblatt Angel · New York, New York, United States
Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Retail
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
  • Jomboy Media — We cover the topics we love, including sports, movies, songs, and history. If we can talk about it with enthusiasm, we've got a show for it.
  • Underdog Fantasy — Fantasy sports for real money
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