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Top 50 Video Games Angel Investors in United States

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

Top 50 Video Games Angel Investors in United States

Investor Video Games United States investments
Mark Pincus 5
Siqi Chen 4
Kevin Lin 4
Eden Chen 3
Clark Landry 3
Mike Verdu 3
Strauss Zelnick 3
Wei Guo 3
Nate Mitchell 3
Sergei Kovalenko 3
Paul Heydon 3
Colin Carrier 3
Cyan Banister 3
Russell Stokes 2
Denis Mitrofanov 2
Scott Belsky 2
Jason Calacanis 2
Sundance DiGiovanni 2
Gregory Milken 2
Michael Dornbrook 2
David B. Kirk 2
Atlas Benjelloun 2
Balaji Srinivasan 2
Trevor Wright 2
Steve Chen 2
David Bettner 2
Denzel Ward 2
Alexi Benhamron 2
Mike Fischer 2
April Underwood 2
Justin Kan 2
Kevin Chou 2
Justin Waldron 2
Leah Culver 2
Emmett Shear 2
Terrence Rohan 2
Kevin Hartz 2
Daren Cotter 2
Abe Burns 2
Greg Castle 2
John Lilly 2
Chad Easterling 2
Marat Kichikov 2
Bradley Beal 2
Edward Lando 2
Scott Banister 2
George Miller 2
Alex Swieca 2
John O'Connell 2
David Birnbaum 2
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Mark Pincus Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Loop — Control your freight spend with Loop. A tech-first audit and pay platform loved by Shippers, Carriers and 3PLs.
  • Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
  • Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
Siqi Chen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Siqi Chen is the Co-Founder of Runway and a Member Board Of Directors at Sandbox VR. Siqi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
  • Vocode — Vocode is an open-source library for building voice-based LLM applications.
  • Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
Kevin Lin Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
  • Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
  • Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Eden Chen Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Founder & CEO of Pragma, Fishermen Labs
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wand App — Wand is a co-creative, AI-driven tool that allows artists the manual control and customization they need to realize their ideas.
  • Barnyard Games — Barnyard Games is a gaming production studio that creates strategic games and simulations.
  • Brain Jar Games — Brain Jar Games is a new worldwide studio comprised of AAA professionals dedicated to creating bold and bright games that players want to share.
Clark Landry Angel · Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Mexico, Bulgaria
Portfolio highlights
  • Esper — Esper is the first cloud-based platform to help governments proactively manage public policy with better data and transparency.
  • Acquicent — Acquicent enables the issuance and trading of blockchain tokens linked to digital and real-world collectibles.
  • AlphaFlow — AlphaFlow is a tech-driven investment company providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors. They work with the residential real estate lenders around the country and underwrite their loans across 50+ factors. AlphaFlow invests in the best deals, splitting our clients’ portfolios across 75-100 loansinto15+ states to create AlphaFlow Optimized Portfolios. They took the best practices of investment management, like diversification, rebalancing, and institutional-quality data analytics, and automated them so that investors could receive these benefits without the high fees and high minimums of traditional real estate investing. It is ultimately a simpler, more intelligent way to invest in real estate.AlphaFlow was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Mike Verdu Angel · Cardiff By The Sea, California, United States
Mike Verdu is the VP of Games at Netflix.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Software, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Azarus — Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways. The core of the Azarus network is a 'smart-challenge' system that creates a new dynamic between and among Streamers and Gamers. As part of the pilot program, Azarus will allow a select number of Rainbow 6 Streamers, viaa proprietary Twitch extension, to award tokens to Viewers who correctly answer real time questions about their streams. Get creative, define your own rules and start challenging your friends on games you love.
  • Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
  • Rogue Games — Rogue Games is here to make your craziest, wildest, and even unhinged gaming dreams a reality. We publish your games irreverently.
Strauss Zelnick Angel · New York, New York, United States
Strauss Zelnick, a partner in ZelnickMedia since 2001, became Chairman of Take-Two in March 2007 and Chief Executive Officer in January 2011. Mr. Zelnick is currently Chairman of ITN Networks and serves on the boards of directors of Naylor LLC, Alloy, Inc. and Starwood Property Trust, Inc. In August 2013, Mr. Zelnick was elected Vice Chairman ofthe Entertainment Software Association, the interactive entertainment industry’s trade association. In 2014, Mr. Zelnick was elected Chairman of the Entertainment Software Association, the interactive entertainment industry’s trade association. Prior to forming ZelnickMedia, Mr. Zelnick was President and Chief Executive Officer of BMG Entertainment, a $4.7 billion music and entertainment company. Mr. Zelnick's appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of BMG Entertainment followed his tenure as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company's North American business unit from 1994 through 1998. Before joining BMG Entertainment, Mr. Zelnick was President and Chief Executive Officer of Crystal Dynamics, a leading producer and distributor of interactive game software. Prior to that, he spent four years as President and Chief Operating Officer of 20th Century Fox, where he managed all aspects of the worldwide motion picture and distribution business. Previously, he spent three years at Vestron Inc. as a senior executive, and rose to become President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Zelnick also served as Vice President, International Television for Columbia Pictures. Mr. Zelnick holds an MBA and a JD from Harvard University and a BA from Wesleyan University. He is an associate member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, has served on the Board of Directors of the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America and is a Trustee Emeritus of Wesleyan University.
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Investment focus
  • Enterprise Software, FinTech, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Prove — Prove is the modern way for businesses to enable their customers to prove their identities with just a phone. Prove offers phone-centric solutions that enable its customers to acquire new consumers and engage with their existing consumers by removing friction while bolstering security, and enhancing consumer privacy and consumer choice.Prove's solutions are used by more than 1,000 businesses across diversified industries, including banks, financial services, healthcare, insurance, and e-commerce.Prove has two main solutions + MFA:• Prove Pre-fill™ for Onboarding & Digital Acquisition, which helps companies increase signups and mitigate account opening fraud by authenticating consumer identities, and auto-filling verified data in any channel.• Fonebook™ for Digital Servicing, which helps companies:- Access a single identity authentication platform that reduces complexity and total cost of ownership to create a holistic view of your customer across their entire channels - Manage, add, and update customer phone numbers to ensure you always have the right number for your customerMulti-factor Authentication:- Standard SMS & Voice OTPs - Instant Link™ (authenticate through SMS link without needing OTP) - Mobile Auth™ (authentication via cellular networks; passive method for passwordless login) - Voice Biometrics – Match against a consumer’s voice for authentication - Push Authentication – App-based method to prove Possession, can also pull in behavioral biometrics, device (PKI), and environmental (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, network) signals - Secure transactions across multiple digital servicing use cases, including login, high-risk transactions, call center, and passwordless login
  • Players' Lounge — Play For Something. Make money playing video games on Players' Lounge. Madden, NBA 2K, Fortnite, Call of Duty, FIFA, & more!
  • Ready — Compete in mobile games to WIN cash!
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.
Nate Mitchell Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Nate Mitchell is Co-Founder and vice president of product at Oculus, the company that’s bringing immersive virtual reality technology to the world. Nate currently heads up Oculus product development, including the highly anticipated Oculus Rift headset. Before Oculus, Nate worked on the product teams at Gaikai, the cloud-gaming company acquiredby Sony Computer Entertainment in 2012, and at Scaleform, developers of the leading user interface solution for the video game industry, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Virtual Reality, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Windup Minds — Windup Minds is a game studio focused on creating VR and MR virtual pet experiences. The company runs a gaming studio that aims to bring virtual pet games to market.
  • Barnyard Games — Barnyard Games is a gaming production studio that creates strategic games and simulations.
  • Brain Jar Games — Brain Jar Games is a new worldwide studio comprised of AAA professionals dedicated to creating bold and bright games that players want to share.
Sergei Kovalenko Angel · New York, New York, United States
Sergei Kovalenko is the Co-Founder at Braavo Capital.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Balancy — Balancy is a workspace for game designers and monetization managers that provides a set of tools for fine-tuning game balance and monetization through LiveOps - special offers, game events, segmentation, A/B Tests, etc. This allows game developers to create more experiences, better customize games for players, and increase retention andmonetization.
  • Donut Lab — Donut Punks is a MOBA game that offers a unique blend of fun, action, and strategy. It is designed for players who want to team up and take on the challenge of fighting against hordes of zombies in a thrilling online environment.
  • iChoose.Best — iChoose.Best is tech startup building new, category-defining, AI-sales channel, the next generation of hyper-personalization. Empowered by an emotion-driven recommendation engine with social proof, it is a safe shopping space, where the consumer discovers the best-matching products in just one tap. It allows brands to increase sales by 40%, buildlong-lasting relationships and get access to unique consumer behavior insights. The complexity of choice turned into simplicity with a sprinkle of gaming.
Paul Heydon Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
30 years as a founder, operator, investor, and advisor. Previously Paul was a Co-Founder and General Partner at LVP. Paul has invested in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity (NYSE:U), Matchmade, Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), AppOnboard, FRVR,Starform, Gameclub, Coherence, Lucid Sight, Doppio Games, Capture, Flick, EvenPrime, Tellie & Litho and others. Previously, he was an investment banker at Avista Partners, Commerzbank Securities & ING Barings. He has both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Tellie — Create a free website/link-in-bio to market your art, release new music, increase your followers, sell merchandise, and share your portfolio/resume/EPK. Token Gate all.
  • Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
  • Glean AI — Glean AI is the only Accounts Payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence and powers Finance teams to drive material savings.
Colin Carrier Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Currently building new things @Oooh and @PinataFarms. Angel Investor. Venture Partner and Startup Advisor. Most recently at @Twitch I was leading a portfolio of incubation projects and corporate development.I like building companies and solving problems creatively. I've spent the better part of my career at three different live videostartups - two of which have been acquired for more than $1.2 billion combined. I've helped raise more than $100 million in fundraising from institutional and private investors. Back in the day, I learned how to PPT and XLS as a strategy consultant focused on media, entertainment and technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • MetaMap — Metamaps are customisable trust workflows that empower service providers to reach more customers.
  • Alt — Alt is increasing the transparency and liquidity of alternative assets
  • Empirical — Culinary & scientific innovations applied in flavor to spirits and cans. From premium spirits to ready to drink cans, Empirical has an exciting selection. Order today!
Cyan Banister Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Social Media
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
  • Orson — The brainchild of documentarians and unscripted TV pioneers, Orson has developed the first automated video storytelling platform that helps people open up and share their stories, experiences, and aspirations.
  • Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.
Russell Stokes Angel
Russell Stokes
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Video Streaming
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • PLLAY Labs — PLLAY Labs is an AI-driven video game mobile wagering app creating the most exciting competitive gaming entertainment. The company was founded in 2018 with offices in Philadelphia, PA and Los Angeles, CA..
Denis Mitrofanov Angel
Lives in Manhattan, New York From Moscow, Russia
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Investment focus
  • Toys, Gaming, Education
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • WOWCube® System (CubiOs Inc.) — The first-in-class innovative gaming platform where virtual gameplay is controlled by physically tilting, twisting, and shaking the device
Scott Belsky Angel · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ShopMy — ShopMy is the affiliate marketing and collaboration tool used by the top content creators and brands in the world.
  • Anon — A powerful developer toolkit to seamlessly request, access, and manage user identity.
  • Particle.News — Understand more, faster.
Jason Calacanis Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 14 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.
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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.
Sundance DiGiovanni Angel · New York, New York, United States
Sundance DiGiovanni is a seasoned executive, recognized thought leader in video game culture, and veteran creative director with more than 18 years of experience in the media, technology and video game industries. He co-founded MLG in 2002 with Mike Sepso, with the goal of creating a company that would reflect both his lifelong passion for gamingand his deeply competitive nature. Sundance currently serves as the CEO of MLG, focuseing on the long-term growth of competitive video gaming and the various distribution channels that are helping to bring this burgeoning sport to an ever-growing community. Prior to co-founding MLG, Sundance was Worldwide Creative director at Gotham Broadband, a broadband media pioneer. He is a veteran creative executive and has worked closely with a wide variety of brands, including AOL Time Warner, DirecTV, Sony, Pfizer, Nortel Networks, and Sprint.
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Investment focus
  • Video, Events, Gaming
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Lightstream — Live streaming software for your business, podcast, talk show & console gaming. Create more impactful live streams with no downloads needed.
  • Mana Interactive — The debit card for gamers. Points back on gaming purchases, entertainment subscriptions and everything else. Join the waitlist!
  • Major League Hacking (MLH) — The official collegiate hackathon league.
Gregory Milken Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
Gregory Milken is Managing Director at March Capital Partners, where he focuses on investments in digital media, gaming and esports. Gregory has led March Capital’s investments in broadcasting solution Genvid Technologies, game mastery platform Dojo Madness, and game developers nWay and Wavedash. Gregory has over 15 years of entrepreneuriall and operational experience. He was the co-founder and COO of AltEgo, a cloud-based technology and gaming company. Prior to his work in technology, he worked in strategy and operations for Knowledge Universe Education, new business development at Warner Bros. in Hong Kong and London, and at Twentieth Century Fox.Gregory received his M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a M.A. in international policy studies from Stanford University. He also received a B.A. in international relations and Asian studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
  • Video Games, eSports, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
  • MovieLaLa — MovieLaLa is a social network for movie fans: discovering upcoming movies through friends and favorite stars. For marketers, MovieLaLa is a marketing platform to help movie marketers increase the buzz, awareness and engagement of upcoming movies to ensure strong first week sales.Marc Benioff's investment brings the startup to $750,000 infunding across its seed funding and angel rounds, and its other invetors include Machininma co-founder and CEO Allen DeBevoise, past HBO president of digital initiatives and Warner Bros Online co-founder Jim Moloshok, founding Flixster investor Larry Braitman and more investors from the entertainment industry. If the company succeeds, it could stengthen ties between Hollywood and Silicon Valley after an era of digital piracy tore them apart.
  • Knock Knock — WEB3.0 is not just the next generation of the Internet. It is an evolution that combines decentralization, cryptocurrencies, and smart contracts, bringing them into the world of game development.
  • Gunslinger Studios — Gunslinger Studios is a game studio bent on bringing the thrill of multiplayer gaming to mobile players in a minute or less-- something that fits a schedule but scratches the itch for competing and moving forward in a game world. The studio is creating quick, one-hand-controlled experiences for a ge
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.
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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.
David B. Kirk Angel · Waimea, Hawaii, United States
David Kirk is the President Of The Board Of Directors at Parker School Hawaii and was a Fellow at NVIDIA. He attended Caltech,
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Music, Neuroscience
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Ozarka — Ozarka B.V., based in Amsterdam, is a full service company offering solutions to any type of food vendor who wishes to transition from linear, single use packaging to circular, reusable packaging. We offer three integrated channels, ARK Reusables proprietary packaging, Packaging as a Service that collects, washing, and redistributes packaging, anda customer facing online ordering platform for delivery or takeaway packaging in reusable containers.
  • Ryu Games — Launch games from your own white labeled game store.
  • BioTrillion — We so often think of Healthcare as an industry, that we tend to forget about Healthcare as a purpose. Globally and annually, trillions of dollars are ineffectively spent on healthcare and trillions of life data points are ineffectively connected to insights about our health. There is a better way.BioTrillion is a little startup with boldambitions to more efficatiously and scalably advance Healthcare – via Digital Biomarkers.Every human generates massive amounts of life data that will unlock novel health insights & applications. BioTrillion is developing a mobile health technology platform called BioEngine4D™ – for digitally detecting dangeous drugs, digitally detecting developing diseases, and data driven drug development – by measuring data from life, analyzing it through computational advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence, and applying it back for life.BioTrillion, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and is reimagining Life Sciences through the fundamental principles of many sciences.Our mission is to enable consumer smart devices to empower ordinary consumers with extraordinary health insights. Advances in technology have amplified our individual capabilities in many ways, and healthcare should be no exception.Website: www.biotrillion.com Contact: contact@biotrillion.com Jobs: https://www.biotrillion.com/opportunities Application: https://biotrillion.typeform.com/to/wSvoKI
Atlas Benjelloun Angel · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Atlas Benjelloun has been working as a Group Chairman, Atlas Finance at Atlas Holding for 13 years. Atlas Holding is part of the Holding Companies & Conglomerates industry, and located in San Francisco, United States.Atlas Benjelloun invest and support curious, mission-minded people who are committed to solving the Internet’s toughestchallenges.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series C
  • United States, Morocco, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
  • Silo — Silo is a platform that automates the perishable supply chain. More time, more opportunity, less waste.
  • Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.
Balaji Srinivasan Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 35 investments in the past 12 months
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • ZeroMark — ZeroMark is a defense product company building technology to ensure safety and precision when using kinetic and non lethal weapons.
  • Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
  • Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker provides water for farms, watersheds, and ecosystems, fortifying growth and stewarding the natural world.
Trevor Wright Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
I am entrepreneur and operator. In the past, I co-Founded and sold Vitrue to Oracle for $300 M. I also co-Founded and sold Black Bag Advertising to WPP for $14 M. I was also on the founding team At Flycast Network which had an IPO and was later acquired for $2.2 B. I am currently an angel investor with company exists totaling over $1 B so far.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • ByteBrew — Trusted by over 2500 Game Developers! ByteBrew is the world's most powerful all-in-one game analytics platform that houses all your mobile game's analytics, retention, monetization tracking, player progression, remote configs, a/b testing, custom event tracking and attribution measurement in one lightweight SDK - all 100% free.
  • HYPOTHETIC — Hypothetic builds technology and tools to benefit 3D creators. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • Axie Infinity — Axie Infinity is a game about collecting and raising fantasy creatures called Axie, on the Ethereum platform. Besides collecting and raising, you can make a team of Axies to battle in the arena. You can also buy, sell, and trade Axies with others on the marketplace.
Steve Chen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • AppFlowy — AppFlowy is an AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data
  • Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
  • Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
David Bettner Angel · Austin, Texas, United States
David Bettner - Board Member @ Playful Studios
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Software, Education
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • GameCake — We make games you play together in person, wherever you are. Download Emoji Charades on your favorite device and spend quality time with family & friends any time you want! You can play on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Chromecast, macOS, and Comcast Xfinity X1.
  • Bigscreen — Founded by Darshan Shankar in 2014, Bigscreen is a venture-backed startup creating an immersive virtual reality platform that aims to revolutionize the way people work, play, hangout, and collaborate.Use cases of Bigscreen include both entertainment and productivity. Users love using Bigscreen as a "VR movie theater" to watch movies andTV shows. It's also used to play videogames, browse the web, and hangout with friends. It's can also be used for productivity as a tool for remote teams to collaborate together in virtual offices.Since the beta launch in March 2016, Bigscreen has become one of the most popular and highest rated VR apps on the Oculus Store and has an incredible 93% positive rating on Steam. Power users spend 20-30 hours per week in Bigscreen, making it one of the most widely used "killer apps" in the industry.Bigscreen is now the most popular non-gaming VR application in the world.Bigscreen is a fully distributed remote company with employees based around the world in the US & UK.
  • Giga Energy — Giga Energy designs, manufactures, and operates energy infrastructure for flare mitigation, electrical distribution, bitcoin mining, and power generation. Purchase transformers, switchboards, PDUs, bitcoin mining containers, radiators, generators, enclosures, and more.
Denzel Ward Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States
Denzel Ward is the Business Development Representative S2 at AT&T. Denzel attended Syracuse University.
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Investment focus
  • eSports, Video Games, News
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • eFuse — Whether you're a gamer looking to compete, a brand looking to enter the gaming community, or streamer looking to engage your fans, eFuse is the place for you. Through our proprietary suite of products we have something for everyone to change their life through gaming.
  • Play One Up — Pioneering on demand esports tournaments
Alexi Benhamron Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Alexi Benhamron is the President and COO at Vysical.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AEXLAB — AEXLAB is a virtual reality technology studio creating meaningful technologies for gaming, training, simulation and more.
  • Bridgesplit — A multipurpose template for technology and software companies. In dark mode with vibrant gradients and shapes.
Mike Fischer Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Mike Fischer is the Professor, Interactive Media at the University of Southern California. He attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.
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Investment focus
  • Virtual Reality, Software, eSports
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wave — Wave focuses on interactive virtual experiences with a mission to help artists make money at the intersection of gaming and entertainment. Wave’s technology enables musicians to create lifelike avatars of themselves that can “perform” their music on a virtual stage. Most of these virtual shows take place either on the company’s YouTube channel, butWave’s apps let users tune in on gaming consoles, phones or even the Oculus Rift VR headset. While watching a Wave, viewers can log in to comment in a chat function and give live feedback to the avatar performers.
  • Diveplane — Diveplane Corporation is a groundbreaking technology startup dedicated to keeping the humanity in AI. Their first project is an Understandable AI decision system. They believe in Responsible AI, meaning machines ought to preserve, amplify, and empower the best intentions of humanity both in how they function technically, and how they are applied tosolve problems – unlike uninterpretable black box systems that make life-altering decisions in an instant, but can’t explain why.Their proprietary and patented AI platform is faster than current off-the-shelf solutions and can train on significantly less data, while also addressing the technical shortcomings and societal concerns that have kept many from trusting and adopting AI.
  • Network Next — We enable game developers to create a better internet connection for their players - one that provides reduced latency, packet loss, and jitter in multiplayer online games.
April Underwood Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
April Underwood is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Adverb Ventures. She previously worked at Nearby as a Founder and CEO.April Underwood attended the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, Event Management
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Equals — Equals is the only spreadsheet with built-in connections to any database, versioning, and collaboration.
  • Panobi — Supercharge your growth with Panobi, the product observability platform designed specifically for growth teams. Gain valuable real-time insights, improve visibility and enhance your decision-making process. Discover how Panobi can help drive your business forward today.
  • Humaans — The fastest way to onboard and manage your staff. Mobile first, perfect for remote and distributed teams, and takes 1 minute to get up and running.
Justin Kan Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He previously worked at Justin. tv as a Founder. Justin Kan attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Nigeria, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
  • Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Kevin Chou Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Kevin Chou is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SuperLayer. He previously worked at Kabam as a Co-Founder and CEO. Kevin Chou attended UC Berkeley, Haas Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Japan, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Key — Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance
  • Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale
  • Community Gaming — CommunityGaming.io combines social gaming, match automation, and blockchain payment technology to make it easy to organize and compete in esports tournaments. Their solution uses automated software and blockchain payment tech to produce fair, transparent, automated results without the complexity normally associated with blockchain solutions. Ourevent platform is a network of thousands of gamers, dozens of venues, and brands who we've proudly brought together across over 200 live and online esports competitions.
Justin Waldron Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan, Chile
Portfolio highlights
  • Tippsy — Largest selection of sake delivered to you. Tippsy makes finding good sake easy and fun! Free shipping 6+ bottles. Sake club subscription offers special perks such as member-exclusive discounts, virtual sake tasting as well as a beginner's guide.
  • Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
  • Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.
Leah Culver Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Leah Culver is the Senior Software Engineer at Twitter. She attended the University of Minnesota.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Winery, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Elpha — Elpha is where women succeed at work together. Become a member to access daily conversations with experts, insider job opportunities, and a lot of women talking candidly about work and life. Plus membership is free!
  • Maker Wine — Craft canned wine, delivered to you. Maker works with the best small producers to bring you award-winning, zero sugar, minimal intervention wines in cans.
  • Gowalla — Gowalla is a worldwide augmented reality social game that inspires you to go all the places, and do all the things. Join the waitlist today and be among the first to have access when we launch.
Emmett Shear Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Emmett Shear was the Founder and CEO of Twitch (www.twitch.tv), the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. Mr. Shear was also a Co-Founder of Justin.tv and a part-time Partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator, where he advises fledgling startups on product and strategy. Mr. Shear graduated from Yale University in 2005 and in2012 was included in Forbes Magazine on their 30 under 30 list. Twitch launched in 2011, and in 2014 The Wall Street Journal cited the brand as having the 4th largest peak internet traffic in the U.S.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Pilot AI — Pilot AI operates as a tool that automatically turns call recording into structured information.
  • Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
  • Monumental Labs — Monumental Labs is building a robot stone-sculpting factory to unleash a renaissance. Our robot artisans complete commissions in days that previously took months, with all the precision of traditional sculpting, at a fraction of the cost.
Terrence Rohan Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Terrence Rohan is an early-stage investor and the Managing Director of Otherwise, a Founder-Angel Fund that discretely empowers a network of today’s top founders to make multi-stage venture investments. In addition to running the firm’s operations, Terrence also invests from the Fund.Terrence has supported some of the top founders of the lastdecade, typically first investing at the earliest stages. He invested in the seed and growth rounds of Figma, where he also served as the company’s first Board Director, as well as in Notion (seed), Hugging Face (seed), Vanta (seed, growth), Robinhood (seed, growth), Patreon (venture, growth), Front (seed, growth), Pachama (seed), Justworks (seed, fmr Board Observer), Circle (seed), Browser Company (venture), to name a few. Terrence began his venture career in 2010 at Index Ventures, where he co-created and led the firm’s first Seed Fund. He later incubated an Angel Fund for Index, serving as General Partner and Co-Founder. In 2017 he launched Otherwise, a novel Founder-Angel Fund inspired by the one he created for Index.Before becoming an investor, Terrence held various roles in product marketing and development at Google and YouTube from 2005-2010. He holds an MS in Management from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, an MS in Philosophy from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • AiSDR — AiSDR sales automation acts as your inside sales rep. From outbound to inbound emails, AiSDR runs your outreach and drives leads to customers
  • Dexa AI — Explore the knowledge of trusted experts, that was previously locked in podcasts.
  • Class Companion — AI to help teachers give instant, personalized feedback written assignments. Engaged practice for students, time savings and insights for teachers. Use built-in assignments or add your own. Supported subjects include Social Studies, English, Science, and World Languages.
Kevin Hartz Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 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
  • Granica — Build better AI with your data. Safely. Efficiently. The Granica Training Data Platform empowers both generative and traditional AI teams to boost their model performance, control costs, and preserve privacy.
  • Polymarket — Bet on your beliefs
  • Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Daren Cotter Angel · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AnyCreek — AnyCreek is a platform that facilitates the booking of outdoor adventures such as fishing or hunting trips. It aims to connect adventure-seekers with guides and outfitters, providing a space for them to discover and book the best outdoor experiences. The platform is designed to be guide-friendly, empowering guides and outfitters to reach a wideraudience.
  • Coldcart — Coldcart is a technology platform which orchestrates, optimizes and scales frozen and refrigerated parcel logistics for leading D2C and B2B companies - unlocking unprecedented new efficiencies in perishable parcel logistics.
  • Refr Sports — Refr Sports is developing a platform solution to fix inefficiencies and shortages in the United States referee marketplace by bringing new generation technologies and employees to the industry. Sports referees currently rely on antiquated third-party referee schedulers to provide them with games to work. Similarly, sports organizations rely on thesame referee schedulers to provide referees that are qualified to officiate their games. This approach has not been updated in decades as the referee industry continues to use outdated technologies and employment methods. The result has been a severe drop in the supply of referees while at the same time demand has increased.Our application, Refr Sports, will modernize the current system, providing referees and sports coordinators an efficient and effective tool for completing their respective duties. Refr Sports makes this a reality by offering a mobile application that supports both referees and sports organizers as end users. Our app delivers complete freedom to the users by allowing the sports organizations to post their game schedules along with officiating needs and offered compensation for each game. Referees can then see the ‘work order’, accept it, and be paid immediately after the game. The Refr platform makes money by taking a small service and processing fee on the payments we facilitate through the app. This business model is very similar to what has been successful in the food (DoorDash), transportation (Uber) and personal care (care.com) industries.Our Refr Team, made up of business, technical and sporting experience, has set out on a mission to create the platform that will turn the referee industry into a gig economy marketplace. The world has seen this successfully materialize in many industries already and the referee industry can be next, by making it easy to post opportunities, claim opportunities, and get paid.
Abe Burns Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Abe Burns was a former Partner at A-Grade Investments.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Logistics, Apps
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • WeLoveNoCode — Build MVP, test hypotheses, achieve growth | WeLoveNoCode: fast no-code development for a low monthly fee | 185 no-code developers | 100+ no-tools tools: Bubble, Webflow, Tilda, WordPress
  • Kangaroo — Kangaroo brings you closer to your favorite celebrities and characters through interactive storytelling.
  • Boomerang — Boomerang is a technology-powered service that collects, stores, and returns lost valuables back to their owners.
Greg Castle Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Juan Gregorio Castillo Minyety (San Jose De Ocoa, 09 de junio 1986), mejor conocido por su nombre artístico Greg Castle, es un rapero y compositor Dominicano. Su estilo de música es generalmente como el trap latino afro Reggaeton y Denbow, pero también incorporó otros géneros como merengue, pop latín y House
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Investment focus
  • Software, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Ghana, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Simulon — Studio-quality VFX on a mobile. Sign up to the Simulon beta.
  • Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
  • Looking Glass Factory — Introducing Looking Glass Portrait, your first personal holographic display. Designed for people, real and imagined. Available for pre-order today.
John Lilly Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
John Lilly is a Venture Partner at Greylock and was a Director of Design at Trilogy. He attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Collaboration
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Moonsense — Moonsense is a cross-platform toolset used by developers, data scientists, and product managers. Its application take advantage of the physical world by functioning as an intelligent conduit for sensor data.
  • Momento — Instantly supercharge your databases to make them fast and indestructible.
  • Unblocked — Unblocked provides developers accurate answers to questions about their application by augmenting their source code with existing knowledge from GitHub, Slack, Confluence and more.
Chad Easterling Angel
Chad Easterling
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Video Streaming
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • PLLAY Labs — PLLAY Labs is an AI-driven video game mobile wagering app creating the most exciting competitive gaming entertainment. The company was founded in 2018 with offices in Philadelphia, PA and Los Angeles, CA..
Marat Kichikov Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor. He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund. He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group. In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders. Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law. In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing!
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
  • Intropia — Find Web3 jobs and other opportunities, capitalize your network, and hire the best talent.
  • Starly.io — Launchpad and marketplace for your gamified NFT collections
  • EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!
Bradley Beal Angel
Bradley Beal
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Video Streaming
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • PLLAY Labs — PLLAY Labs is an AI-driven video game mobile wagering app creating the most exciting competitive gaming entertainment. The company was founded in 2018 with offices in Philadelphia, PA and Los Angeles, CA..
Edward Lando Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
  • Fun — Fun offers to build a product ecosystem that leverages cross-chain decentralized wallets on the Odsy blockchain.
  • Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.
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
  • 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.
  • Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
George Miller Angel
George Miller
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Sports, eSports
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
Alex Swieca Angel · New York, New York, United States
Alex Swieca is the Principal of Talpion LP. Attended University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, EdTech, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • FanAI — FanAI is an AI-driven Audience Monetization platform focusing first on esports, and their sponsor ecosystems, increasing franchise and sponsorship revenues by making their audience data actionable.
  • Yellowdig — Yellowdig offers educators a gameful learning digital solution to improve student engagement by building learning communities.
  • GameCo — GameCo created Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM) a category of Video Game Gambling on casino floors. It is a pioneering company uniting the experience of playing video games with the excitement of gambling by creating Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM). GameCo’s VGM is the first platform to bring video games to the casino floor engaging a newmarket of casino customers. The first video game gambling platform approved by any regulator in the United States, GameCo’s patented VGM proprietary arcade-style cabinets allows a player’s skill to effect the payout and winnings while maintaining the same casino-based economics as slot machines.
John O'Connell Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
John O'Connell is the advisor, head of business development at Versus Systems .
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile, Video Games
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • GameCake — We make games you play together in person, wherever you are. Download Emoji Charades on your favorite device and spend quality time with family & friends any time you want! You can play on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Chromecast, macOS, and Comcast Xfinity X1.
David Birnbaum Angel · New York, New York, United States
David Birnbaum is President of Broadway Video Ventures, the company’s investment vehicle and digital media arm. Prior to BV, David was CEO and co-founder of TAKKLE, Inc., the largest social network for high school sports. Prior to TAKKLE, David was an investment professional at Apax Partners (formerly Patricof & Co. Ventures), and spentseveral years as an investment banker on Wall Street, helping to create the telecommunications group at Furman Selz, LLC. David received a B.A. from Columbia University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, where he was a Weiss Tech House Fellow. David currently serves on the advisory boards of Vook (a digital publishing venture) and Fleetly (a mobile health/wellness application) and is an independent board member for Goldman Sachs Investment Partners.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Lifestyle, Mobile Apps
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bellway — Bellway is a 100% natural fiber supplement for better digestion, so you can enjoy good gut feelings and smooth moves all day long.
  • Sanctuary — Sanctuary is a mystical products and services company that provides illuminating experiences to millennials. Sanctuary’s daily horoscopes, planetary transits, and real-time chart readings are written and performed by professional astrologers. Sanctuary’s offerings provide members with a full spectrum of cosmic insights.
  • Incredible Dream Studios — Incredible Dream Studios is a next-gen entertainment studio modernizing tabletop games for people who crave shared escape.
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