# Top 50 Android Angel Investors in United States in May 2026

## Raymond Tonsing
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director.
Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

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.

## Don Dodge
- Type: Angel
- Location: Naples, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Apps

Don Dodge

## Geoff Entress
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group. Prior to PSL, Geoff was the most active angel investor in the region and has invested in over 200 private Pacific Northwest companies during the last two decades.Geoff represents PSL on the Board ofDirectors for JetClosing. He is also a current investor in over eighty private companies in the region and is a board member of Hiya, Meritage Soups, Bonanza, Foodee and LiquidPlanner.Geoff is also a long-time member of the Executive and Screening committees of the Alliance of Angels, the largest angel investor organization in the Pacific Northwest, as well as serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington, the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame and the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, he has also held positions at Perkins Coie, Jones Day, UrbanEarth.com, Salomon Brothers, The Prudential Home Mortgage Company, Mellon Bank, Priority Investment Management and Duquesne Capital Management. Geoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.

## Jarl Mohn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Jarl Mohn is the President and Chief Executive Officer at NPR, one of the country's most iconic news and cultural content organizations. In this capacity, Jarl oversees NPR's strategy to continue NPR's mission to create a more informed public by working in partnership with Member stations across the country. Today NPR contentreaches: 32 million people who visit npr.org every month, 26 million people who listen to NPR programming every week, and listeners who download NPR podcasts 72 million times each month. Jarl's deep media experience has spanned all media platforms as well as rapid changes in audience trends. Jarl spent almost 20 years in radio, many as a disc jockey at stations including WNBC in New York. In addition to his on-air work in radio, Jarl served as a programmer, general manager, and owner of a group of radio stations. Jarl created E! Entertainment Television and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer for almost a decade. Jarl is the former Executive Vice President and General Manager of MTV and VH1 where he architected the strategy of long-form programming at the heart of the network today and diversified the networks' audiences by developing innovative programming around alternative music formats. Jarl was also founding President and Chief Executive Officer at Liberty Digital, a public company that invested in cable networks, the Internet and online businesses. Prior to joining NPR in July of 2014, Jarl served the as a Member of the Board of Trustees at Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) for more than a decade, including two years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Jarl also spent over 12 years on the board of The Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, including six years as its Chairman of the Board of Directors. Jarl has also been a Corporate Director and Advisor to a number of media companies, making direct early stage angel and seed investments in digital media/technology ventures. Since 2008 he has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Scripps Networks Interactive. Jarl and his wife Pamela created The Mohn Family Foundation in 2000. Jarl attended Temple University, where he studied Mathematics and Philosophy.

## Dharmesh Shah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.

## Reid Hoffman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet

Reid Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock and a Co-founder and Board Member at Inflection.AI. He was a Chairman and CEO at Linkedin. Reid attended the University of Oxford and Stanford University.

## Naval Ravikant
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Blockchain

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.

## Dave Morin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, Software

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.

## Kevin Mahaffey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.

## Paul Graham
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software

Paul Graham

## Ashton Kutcher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps

Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigiesand entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.”Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others.Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV's hit series, “Punk'd,” and The CW's reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.

## Christian Hernandez
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Energy, Apps

Christian is a technologist and experienced venture capitalist. He is a founding Partner of 2150, a venture capital fund seeking to make our urban environment more efficient and sustainable through technology.

## Scott Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

## Maneesh Arora
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps

Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.

## David Assia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Internet

David Assia is a Chairman at iAngels. David Assia, a member of their Board of Directors since October 2006, is a co-founder of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., and served there in various positions, including as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, from 1983 until 2007. Mr. Assia is currently the CEO of Nadyr Investments,a privately held investment company. Mr. Assia was managing director of Mashov Computers Ltd. between 1980 and 1986 and has served as the Chairman of its Board of Directors since 1989. Mr. Assia also serves as a director of the First International Bank, eToro Group Ltd., Biocatch Ltd., MobeeArt, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Yeda Research & Development Company and The Israel Association of Electronics and Software. Mr. Assia holds a B.A. degree in economics and statistics and an M.B.A. degree, both from Tel Aviv University.

## Jonathan Kraft
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Advertising, Internet

Upon graduation from Williams College in 1986, Jonathan started his career at Bain & Co. After earning his MBA at Harvard Business School, he joined The Kraft Group in 1990. Since that time, he has worked to help drive the growth and diversification of the Group. In his role as President, he is actively involved in the day to day operations ofthe Group's companies.Jonathan serves on the board of directors for several organizations including the Children's Hospital Trust and Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc. He is also currently serving as a member of the Overseers' Committee to Visit Harvard Business School and on the Board of Trustees for Williams College, the Belmont Hill School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Additionally, Jonathan coaches Little League baseball and youth soccer in the Boston area.

## Cam Drummond
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Internet, Dating, Social Media

Cam Drummond - Principal @ Mastodon Capital Management

## Ram Shriram
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology

Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000. From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company. Prior tothat, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation. Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Madras, India.

## Rick Marini
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Rick Marini is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Catapult Capital.

## Jed Carlson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Durham, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: iOS, Apps, Mobile

Jed is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on technology and marketing. He is the CEO of Adwerx, a company committed to providing digital marketing tools that are affordable, effective and accessible to everyone. Previous ventures include SmartPrint, a division of AmeriDisc Inc, and ReverbNation, the music-marketing platform with 3.5 million users.Jed is obsessed with taking on the digital challenges that face small businesses, and building scalable, simple and affordable products to solve them. He is also a trusted advisor and investor in the startup community. He has an MBA from Duke University and lives in Durham with his wife and three children.Before earning his MBA from Duke University, Jed was a successful entrepreneur in Minneapolis with a focus on technology and marketing. His past ventures include The Carlson Print Group, a commercial printing and packaging company, and SmartPrint, a division of AmericDisc Inc. Jed continues to be obsessed with taking on the digital challenges that face small businesses, and building scalable, simple and affordable products to solve them. He is also an active angel investor, mentor and advisor to over ten tech startups.Jed Carlson is also a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences on technology and digital marketing. Jed’s commitment to leveling the playing field for small businesses is equal only to his devotion to guiding other entrepreneurs to success.

## Russell Siegelman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Minnesota City, Minnesota, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Enterprise Software, Software, Mobile

Russell Siegelman is a Lecturer at the Stanford University.

## Mitchell Kapor
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Education

Mitchell David Kapor was the founder of Lotus Development Corporation (/organization/lotus-development-corporation) and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. He is known as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist,and philanthropist.Kapor has been the Chair of the In 1990 Kapor's new company On Technology introduced their new product On Location, an application designed for the Macintosh that contained an indexing system that permit quick retrieval and display of text on the Mac's hard disk. "We think we're being cagey by bringing it out on the Mac first," Kapor said. "It's a richer medium than MS-DOS, and if we have a hot product in the Mac market, it will be easier to get into the PC market."In 2001, Kapor founded the Open Source Applications Foundation, where he is now working on Chandler, a modern personal information manager built using open source tools and methods.In 2006, Kapor founded his latest startup, 

## Jyri Engestrom
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Health Care

Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University

## Ariel Poler
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet

Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

## Reuven Agassi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: iOS, Mobile, Android

Chairman at EZSource

## Yuri Milner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Altos Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Yuri Milner is the Founder of the Breakthrough Prize. He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Moscow State University.

## David Blitzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Sports, Media and Entertainment, Mobile Apps

David S. Blitzer is a Senior Managing Director & Head of the Tactical Opportunities group. David Blitzer is based in New York, having established Blackstone’s corporate private equity investment efforts in Europe.
Since joining Blackstone in 1991, David Blitzer has been involved in the execution of Blackstone’s investments in Spirit Group,SULO, Allied Waste, Aspen Insurance Holdings, Houghton Mifflin, Universal Orlando, Centerplate, Cadillac Fairview, Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation, Southern Cross, NHP, Orangina, and United Biscuits.
David Blitzer graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. David Blitzer serves as a Director of United Biscuits and Jack Wolfskin.

## Yanki Margalit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: B2B, iOS, Apps

Yanki Margalit is an Israeli entrepreneur, investor, and speaker best known for starting the Internet security company Aladdin Knowledge Systems, which was sold in 2009. He is a partner in the seed investment fund Innodo Ventures and a chairman of several technology startup companies, including SpaceIL. SpaceIL is a non-profit space technologyorganization that plans to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon by 2015 and is currently competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.Yanki is also engaged with several non-profit organizations, including Idealist.org, Latet, College4all.org, Meet.mit.edu, Adama.org.il, and SpaceIL.com He has appeared as a professional speaker on technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and human evolution, while studying and working in his more recent interests of biotechnology, clean energy, and space exploration.Described as the Israeli Singularity prophet, Yanki took a key role in introducing Singularity University in Israel. He lectures on such topics as Israel as a startup nation, the future of silicon and carbon, the maker movement, entrepreneurship and innovation, and SpaceIL’s goal to land a spaceship on the moon.

## David Beyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software

David is a Partner of Amplify Partners and co-founder of Chartio.com.Before joining Amplify Partners, David spent time as both a venture-backed entrepreneur and an early-stage investor. He began his career in technology as the co-founder and CEO of Chartio.com, a pioneering provider of cloud-based data visualization and analytics. He wassubsequently part of the founding team at Patients Know Best, one of the world’s leading cloud-based personal health record companies. David has been a prolific investor and advisor to entrepreneurs. He has personally invested in more than 50 early-stage companies, including Zymergen, Skycatch, Caribou Biosciences, Rigetti Computing, Casetext, Ginkgo Bioworks, Function of Beauty, Cruise Automation, and Bugcrowd. In addition, he currently serves on the advisory council of Bayes Impact, a nonprofit organization that deploys data science to solve important social challenges.He attended Brown University.

## Richard Wolpert
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Gaming, Software

Richard Wolpert Founder and Executive Chairman at HelloTech, a pioneer in the fields of technology, consumer digital media and entertainment for more than 25 years, Richard Wolpert has extensive experience as an executive, entrepreneur and as an investor. He is also a Venture Partner at Acrew Capital and an Executive Chairman of Scener.Throughouthis career he has been responsible for many “firsts” including: Conceiving of and teaching CS 193C, the first Macintosh programming class at Stanford University; overseeing and managing the process for the creation of TouchBase, the first multi-user address book for the Macintosh; initiating Disney’s Daily Blast, the first kids Internet subscription service; developing and publishing BitBopTuner, the first Tivo-like product for Internet Radio; helping the launch of MusicNet, the first legitimate music subscription service for the Internet; and debuting Starz! On Demand, the first legitimate online movie subscription service. Wolpert successfully negotiated groundbreaking deals with several major media companies whose content became the basis for many of these products.As an investor, Wolpert is the co-founder and managing director of Amplify.LA; manages personal investment fund Chance Technologies; functions as an advisor to Accel Partners; served as a partner at the Yucaipa Companies; and worked as the managing director of the Mail Room Fund. He has invested in more than 30 companies, a large percentage of which have had successful exits or continue on as successful companies, including: AdECN, AMG, AndroMedia, AudioMill, Data Sage, GameFly, GameSpy, Kongregate, Mob.ly, Scour.net, People Support, Smilebox, Sometrics, Three Rings, Scopely, Playdek and Universal.Wolpert graduated from UCLA in 1985 with a bachelor of science degree in math and computer science. He is a founding board member of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America’s summer camps for children and sits on the Cedars Sinai Hospital board of governors.

## Garry Tan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Garry Tan is the incoming President and CEO of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Posterous.com as a Co-Founder. Garry Tan attended Stanford University.

## Jay Jamison
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Cloud Infrastructure, Software

Jay Jamison is the current President of Product & Technology of LogicGate. He previously worked at Quick Base as a Chief Product Officer. Jay Jamison attended The Wharton School.

## Mark Pincus
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, FinTech

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.

## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.

## Andrew Wright
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Apps, CRM

Andrew Wright is the Managing Director of Wright Ventures. He attended the University of Southern California.

## Justin Kan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He attended Yale University.

## Tim Draper
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Mobile

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

## Pejman Nozad
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Enterprise Software

Pejman Nozad is the Founding Managing Partner at Pear Ventures. Pejman has over 17 years of experience investing in early stage high tech start-ups. Pejman has invested in over 100 startups and has seeded several multi-billion dollar companies such as Dropbox, Lending Club, Gusto, Addepar, Danger. Pejman was named by Forbes in 2012 as "one ofthe most successful angel investors."Pejman co-founded Pear Ventures with Mar Hershenson, with the mission of helping exceptional entrepreneurs build category-defining companies. The firm embodies Pejman’s values of ambition and conviction, and hold integrity, humility, and trust as central tenets how it operates. Through Pear, Pejman has invested in companies such as DoorDash, Guardant Health, Gusto, Branch Metrics, and One Concern.

## Simon Newstead
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Organic Food

Simon Newstead is CO-Founder and CEO of Frenzoo, creator of mobile 3D lifestyle games with it’s Me Girl™ series.

## Sean Knapp
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: iOS, PaaS, Sales

Sean Knapp - Founder, CEO @ Ascend.io

## Thomas Glocer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.

## Denis Coleman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: iOS, Apps, Mobile

Denis earned his B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT and his Ph.D. in management (computer science minor) from Stanford. In 1979 he obtained his CPA and left an academic career that featured teaching positions in Canada, the University of Hawaii, and Stanford.In his first project, he wrote the software and ran a company that soldthe first spelling checker for microcomputers. Then in 1983, he co-founded a software company now known as Symantec Corporation, the fourth largest software company in the world in 2007. He spent five years at Symantec, serving as VP of R&D for development of the initial product, Q&A. This productivity software package won many product-of-the year awards and eventually had retails sales of over half a billion dollars.Since 1989, he has served variously as early board member, founder, software designer/developer in ten other startups, two of which had IPO's -- NEOF (online medical supply and equipment marketplace) and VSNR (hardware/software office imaging solutions, now merged with Nuance). Financial Engines (Internet based retirement investments) and Claria (Internet advertising) each achieved profitability and annual revenues in excess of $80 million. C Level Design (C language translated into ASIC hardware designs) and WealthCycle (Internet based investment advise) had successful product development but hasty exit sales to larger entities after the bubble burst of 2001.Since 2004, he has been interested in bioengineering, particularly in the area of drug discovery and has shifted new portfolio investments and startup energies to the life sciences.He has been a member of the Band of Angels since 1997, serving on deal screening committees and making about 12 private investments.

## Wayne Chang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Wayne Chang (born August 3, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding Crashlytics, which in little over a year was acquired by Twitter for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO), creating i2hub, a popular filesharing network, his seedinvestments that include companies like JetSmarter, Draftkings, and Gusto, and his lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers, who were famously depicted in The Social Network movie.

## James Sowers
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pensacola, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Secondary Market
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

James Sowers is a Korean-American businessman and philanthropist. He is a former singer/songwriter who was abandoned at birth who had his music career tragically ended by a reckless driver in a car accident. He is currently a Director @ the GreaterGoodSociety . James is An experienced ICO and blockchain advisor.He has angel invested in over 40startups and initial coin offerings. He is also a contributor to Known Blockchain publications and has been featured in other well known financial publications.James has already made a very positive impact on the project, his vision and professionalism along with his great personality traits complement the SafeCrypt.io team in a very positive way.

## Charles Huang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Music, Gaming, Mobile

Charles Huang is a Vice President and the Chief Finance and Financial Analysis Officer of Equity Healthcare, within Blackstone’s Private Equity Operations Group.Prior to joining Blackstone in 2012, Mr. Huang worked in venture capital, focusing on health technology investing and actively supporting healthcare portfolio companies of SparkCapital.Prior to Spark Capital, while completing a dual Master’s degree program in Business and Public Administration, he helped contribute to the growth of a number of VC/PE-backed healthcare companies in the areas of strategy, operations, and clinical informatics/reporting, including Generation Health and Accelecare Wound Centers.Before graduate school, Charles was a Manager in the Strategic Financial Planning Group at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and had also worked previously in the health consulting practice at Towers Perrin. Mr. Huang has co-authored several Harvard Business School cases and notes on healthcare innovation, payment, and policy. He's an advisor, investor, and collaborator with Blueprint Health, Startup Health, TEDMED and Luminary Labs - organizations that focus on health and wellness innovation and disruption. He's a board advisor and angel investor in health technology start-ups such as Artemis Health, Heal, and CredSimple. In addition to his M.B.A. and M.P.A. from Harvard, Mr. Huang holds a B.A. in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. He has often served as a judge, speaker, and curator at many health innovation conferences and challenges, such as Health 2.0, TEDMED, Health Evolution Partners Summit, Harvard Business School Healthcare Conference and the Verizon Powerful Answers Challenge.

## Jason Warner
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools

Jason Warner is the MD at Redpoint. Jason cares deeply about the future of technology, developer experience, and growing companies. He is a people-oriented product technologist, who is passionate about building both the technical and human systems needed for scale and growth. Prior to joining GitHub, Jason was Vice President of Engineering atHeroku, the world’s leading PaaS and one of the largest cloud computing providers in the world. Before Heroku, Jason worked to make Linux accessible to everyone by leading product engineering for Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Phone at Canonical. Jason is also an active speaker, writer, and advisor on cloud computing, technology and leadership. His activities include formally and informally advising startup and established executives, as well as active coaching and mentoring future product and technology leaders.Jason graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BS in Computer Science, and Rensselaer University with an MS in Computer Science. He lives with his family in Victoria, British Columbia, where he writes, sketches and enjoys the water as much as possible.

## Sean Rad
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Consumer Goods

Sean Rad is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. Rad served as Tinder's CEO and Chairman at various times from the company's inception until 2017. Rad also foundedCardify in 2012, Adly in 2009, and Orgoo in 2004.In 2020, Forbes included Rad on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. In May 2016, he was awarded an honoree diploma from the University of Southern California while delivering their undergraduate commencement.

## Paige Craig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Paige Craig Is The Partner at Outlander.He attend to the United States Military Academy at West PointUnited States Military Academy at West Point 1992.

## Sandy Khaund
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Sports, eSports

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

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