Top 50 Artificial Intelligence Angel Investors (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Elad Gil
Angel
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30 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$75M |
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Nat Friedman
Angel
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26 | United States, United Kingdom, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.1M–$31M |
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Scott Belsky
Angel
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23 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, SaaS | $1.2M–$31M |
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel
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22 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $360k–$18M |
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel
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22 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $120k–$5.4M |
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Kevin Mahaffey
Angel
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22 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $550k–$25M |
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Wei Guo
Angel
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20 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $150k–$33M |
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Edward Lando
Angel
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19 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$4.5M |
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Mark Cuban
Angel
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19 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence | $600k–$23M |
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Jason Calacanis
Angel
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17 | United States, Australia, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$13M |
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Jaan Tallinn
Angel
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16 | United States, Estonia, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $386k–$10M |
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Anthony Goldbloom
Angel
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16 | United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | $2.2M–$12M |
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Auren Hoffman
Angel
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15 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Analytics, Internet | $160k–$26M |
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Gokul Rajaram
Angel
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15 | United States, India, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $2.1M–$70M |
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Will Brooks
Angel
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15 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $614k–$3.1M |
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Scott Banister
Angel
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15 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Mobile | $500k–$7.8M |
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Lachy Groom
Angel
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15 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $2M–$45M |
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Will Martin
Angel
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15 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $614k–$3.1M |
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Jeremy Yap
Angel
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15 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $800k–$4.5M |
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
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14 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$5M |
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Dylan Field
Angel
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14 | United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $2.1M–$55M |
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Vishal Rao
Angel
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14 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $22k–$4M |
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Greg Brockman
Angel
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14 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $2.3M–$4.3M |
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Taavet Hinrikus
Angel
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14 | United Kingdom, United States, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $910k–$50M |
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Naval Ravikant
Angel
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14 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Blockchain | $800k–$25M |
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Daniel Gross
Angel
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13 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning | $3.9M–$20M |
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Georges Harik
Angel
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13 | United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile | $250k–$15M |
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Paul Buchheit
Angel
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13 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $100k–$8.5M |
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William Tunstall-Pedoe
Angel
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13 | United Kingdom, Canada, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software | $1M–$3M |
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Jack Altman
Angel
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13 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $600k–$55M |
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Sam Altman
Angel
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13 | United States, Ghana, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $1.2M–$100M |
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Arash Ferdowsi
Angel
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12 | United States, India, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $665k–$20M |
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Rajan Anandan
Angel
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12 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $30k–$5.2M |
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Jackson Moses
Angel
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12 | United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Government | $350k–$28M |
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Xavier Niel
Angel
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12 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $643k–$19M |
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Kevin Moore
Angel
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12 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $120k–$3M |
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Guillermo Rauch
Angel
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12 | United States, Germany, Argentina | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools | $580k–$21M |
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Lee Linden
Angel
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11 | United States, Canada, France | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Health Care, Logistics | $1.2M–$11M |
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Wayne Chang
Angel
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11 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Internet | $500k–$20M |
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Nitesh Banta
Angel
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11 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $500k–$24M |
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Tom Williams
Angel
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11 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Financial Services | $1.3M–$67M |
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Ronald Conway
Angel
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11 | United States, Canada, Denmark | Series A, Seed, Angel | Software, Social Media, Internet | $50k–$10M |
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Eric Schmidt
Angel
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11 | United States, Canada, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $90k–$33M |
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Jon Oringer
Angel
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11 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $80k–$9.3M |
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Max Levchin
Angel
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11 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile | $1.3M–$116M |
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Christian Dahlen
Angel
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11 | United States, Germany, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics | $235k–$3.2M |
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Tim Draper
Angel
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11 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Mobile | $350k–$32M |
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Jeff Seibert
Angel
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11 | United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $2.2M–$20M |
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Ram Shriram
Angel
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11 | United States, India, Canada | Series A, Seed | Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology | |
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Farzad (Zod) Nazem
Angel
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10 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Analytics, Machine Learning | $650k–$31M |
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Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $10M–$30M; Series B $20M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Resend — Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
- Neon — Postgres made for developers. Easy to Use, Scalable, Cost efficient solution for your next project.
Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer.Nat is passionate about building products that delight customers, with love and attention to detail. Nat has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Nat was a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME foundation. At Novell,Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.Nat is an avid traveler who visited 20 countries in 2010, an active angel investor, and a private pilot.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6M; Series A $8M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
- Echo Labs — Echo Labs is developing the first artificial intelligence capable of human-level transcribing.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 168
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.7M; Series A $5M–$15M; Series B $16M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
- LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.
- Infringements — Monitor your patents and get instant alerts on potential infringements.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $360k–$3.8M; Series A $2.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
- Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
- Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 195
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.4M; Series A $3M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
- Kavida.ai — Kavida helps procurement managers ensure on time deliveries and improve supplier collaboration.
- Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $550k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $2.2M–$2.2M; Series A $2.5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
- HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
- RecruitBot — RecruitBot Is A Platform That Helps You Find Top Talent Through Machine Learning, AI & Cloud Tools. Contact RecruitBot, The Top Online, AI Recruiting Agency
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 138
- Round size: Seed $150k–$4.3M; Angel $375k–$1.7M; Series A $3.8M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
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.
Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 221
- Round size: Seed $321k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
- NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Broadcast.com. Mrk attended the Indiana University Bloomington.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $1.7M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
- Regent — We build all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles to service coastal routes with technology available today.
- Bequest Finance — Succession and protection for digital assets. Trusts, Wills, Payable on Death, LLCs, tax efficient structuring for Crypto, Documents, Email data, and more.
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 333
- Round size: Seed $722k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M; Series A $2.7M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
- CyberFilm — Bring your story to life!
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Estonia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $386k–$2.5M; Series A $3.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
- Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
- TENYX — Tenyx is developing the next generation of voice-based intelligent systems based on proprietary neuroscience-inspired AI technology
Anthony Goldbloom is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kaggle.com. He is also the Founder Partner at Founder Collective. Forbes has twice named Anthony one of the 30 under 30 in technology, the MIT Technology Review has named him as one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 and the University of Melbourne has given Anthony an Alumni ofDistinction Award.
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$7M; Series A $8M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Predibase — The fastest and easiest way to fine tune and serve any open-source ML model or LLM on state-of-the-art-infrastructure hosted within your private cloud.
- TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
- Galileo — The ML Developer Platform for Evaluation, Experimentation, and Observability with Unstructured Data
Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Angel $160k–$1M; Series A $900k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
- Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
- Calypso AI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 146
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$9M; Series A $8M–$25M; Series B $4M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
- Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.
- Kinetic Automation — Effortless modern vehicle maintenance. Service electric and autonomous vehicles at scale with effortless speed and precision using our all-in-one, in-the-box digital vehicle maintenance solution.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $614k–$2.8M; Series A $2.1M–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $650k–$2.8M; Angel $500k–$1M; Series A $1M–$7.8M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TipTop — Buying stuff is easy, selling it is hard. But maybe there is a world where you don't have to sell things any longer? Curious?
- Together — 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.
i did some stuff at stripe. chairman of Compound.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 149
- Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $8M–$32M; Series B $11M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Speak — People spend $90 billion a year on human english teachers that are expensive and ineffective. Speak offers a mobile app where you can have english conversations with your phone about real world scenarios like interviewing for a job or asking for directions. It uses speech recognition to identify english words through thick accents and teach peopleto speak more clearly. Meanwhile, it’s building a massive database of accented-english speech, which can be used to improve its system and other speech recognition systems. Speak’s team formerly built accent detection systems and sold Flashcards+ to Chegg. Though AI translation might reduce the need for people to know other languages, speaking English remains a valuable skill people are willing to pay for.
- Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
- Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $614k–$2.8M; Series A $2.1M–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests in the Europe, North America, and Israel.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $800k–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paebbl — The modular technology from Paebbl may be included in any carbon capture system and is industrially scalable. As a result, Paebbl provides a raw material stream that is carbon-negative, radically altering the economics of preventing carbon from entering our environment.
- Snaplet — Snaplet gives developers production-accurate data and preview databases they can code against, so they can focus on shipping. Ditch the seed script forever!
- Metatheory — Metatheory Inc. is an interactive technology and entertainment company building Web3 games, interactive content, social experiences, and other community-driven adventures. Metatheory’s mission is to inspire imagination by connecting people worldwide through immersive worlds built on cross-generational IP.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
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Browse database — It's Free!Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$6.3M; Series A $7M–$29M; Series B $29M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Resend — Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $220k–$4M; Pre-Seed $22k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Berri AI — A website made with Typedream.
- Anarchy — Anarchy builds a cloud platform for AI pioneers to build LLM tools augmented with external interactivity.
- Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?
Greg Brockman is the Co-founder and Chairman of OpenAI. He was formerly the CTO of Stripe, a leading Silicon Valley startup.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uplimit (formerly CoRise) — Uplimit accelerates your professional growth through live, small group courses created and taught by top experts.
- Sandbar — Simplify and accelerate your AML compliance with Sandbar. We adapt with you to minimize risk and reduce your workload. Learn more and start a conversation today.
- Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $910k–$7.5M; Series A $5M–$31M; Series B $50M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
Daniel Gross is the Co-Founder of Pioneer. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a Head of AI.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $3.9M–$7M; Series A $10M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.
- ElevenLabs — Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice.
- Weights & Biases — Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning
Georges Harik was Director of Googlettes, a start-up incubator that operated inside Google, and a Distinguished Engineer at Google. As Director of Googlettes, his team was responsible for the product management and strategy efforts surrounding many starting Google initiatives including Gmail, Google Talk, Google Video, Picasa, Orkut, Google Groupsand Google Mobile.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $600k–$1.3M; Angel $250k–$800k; Series A $800k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nimble Robotics — Nimble builds AI-powered robots that pick and pack anything to enable the fastest, most affordable, and most sustainable on-demand order fulfillment.
- TENYX — Tenyx is developing the next generation of voice-based intelligent systems based on proprietary neuroscience-inspired AI technology
- Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Angel $100k–$1M; Series A $650k–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Character.ai — character.ai is bringing to life the science-fiction dream of open-ended conversations and collaborations with computers.
- Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Ai Build — Additive Manufacturing Software
- Checkstep — CheckStep provides a AI-powered Trust & Safety and UGC management software to online platform worldwide. It enables company to manage the full policy management life-cycle.
- Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence
Jack Altman is the founder and CEO of Lattice.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $600k–$7.2M; Series A $9M–$30M; Series B $27M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reflex — Pynecone is an open-source, full-stack Python framework that makes it simple to build and deploy web apps in minutes. Pynecone combines the flexibility, performance, and customizability of traditional web development with the ease of use and accessibility of low-code frameworks.
- Verifiable — A modern data engine to power healthcare credentialing, licensing, enrollment and provider network management. Built for the new demands of today's healthcare.
- iVerify — IVerify is a mobile threat hunting company that provides mobile security solutions for individuals who want to know they can trust their devices with their most sensitive information without sacrificing privacy.
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Browse database — It's Free!Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Sam was previously the Chairman of Y Combinator, a leading silicon valley startup accelerator.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Ghana, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $4M–$36M; Series B $23M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
- teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
- Vital Bio — Reinventing diagnostics for proactive & accessible care. Diagnostics designed for better outcomes. Eliminating gaps between care and treatment.
Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $665k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $2.4M–$3.6M; Series A $13M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Clinikally — Video consult top skin & hair doctors online with the expertise of over 30,000 patients. Shop with us & get the finest skin & hair care products now!
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Elicit — Elicit is an artificial intelligence research assistant that uses language models to help users automate research workflows. This research assistant finds relevant papers without a perfect keyword match, summarizes takeaways from the papers, and extracts key information from the papers.
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $120k–$2.2M; Angel $30k–$353k; Series A $4M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
- Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
- PlusPin Healthcare — Let us provide you with high-quality care!
A proven serial entrepreneur and early defense tech investor, Jackson Moses currently serves as the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures, an early stage venture firm that invests in exceptional founders building unrivaled aerospace, defense, and national security startups. He also manages Silent Capital, a private syndicate that providesits members exclusive access to leading defense and frontier tech deals. As a serial founder, Jackson’s companies - MainStreet (FinTech) and Spectrum Labs (enterprise AI) - have raised over $120M, employ hundreds of people, and generate $30M+ in ARR.Prior to founding Silent Ventures, Jackson founded and served as VP of Partnerships at MainStreet - the first company to make R&D tax credits accessible to startups and SMBs via industry-leading workflows, integrations, and back-office technologies. As a founding executive, he was responsible for defining GTM strategies, scaling revenue, building a world-class sales organization, and managing business development initiatives. To date, MainStreet has helped 2,000+ startups claim over $150M in savings, collectively extending their runway by centuries.Prior to founding MainStreet, Jackson founded and served as Chairman & CEO of Spectrum Labs - a frontier tech company that develops cutting-edge AI to make digital communities more profitable for Fortune 500 owners, marketers, and their users. Its customers span gaming, dating, and social media, and include Tencent (TCEHY), Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), Grindr (NYSE: GRND), Yik Yak, Wildlife Studios, and The Meet Group, among others.Prior to founding Spectrum Labs, Jackson worked in sales (Lynda.com), customer operations, and executive recruiting at LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to this, he worked as a Market Research Analyst at Cisco where he evaluated industry trends, new investment opportunities, and emerging threats to Cisco’s core business lines.Jackson actively advises startups, venture firms, and family offices on private sector aerospace and defense tech trends, investment opportunities, and capital allocation strategies. He serves as a Venture Partner to several large firms and has sourced deals for 8VC, Airbus Ventures, Tribe Capital, Susa Ventures, Lavrock Ventures, Afore Capital, and defense primes.Jackson holds two B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied Economics, with a concentration in monetary policy, and Political Science, with a concentration in game theory.Personal: www.jacksonmoses.com | Work: www.silentvc.com | Syndicate: www.silentcapital.vc
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- Industry: Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Government
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $7.2M–$28M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2.2M; Series A $4M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Galvanick — Secure industrial operations. Galvanick's industrial-first Extended Detection & Response (XDR) platform secures industrial systems and networks against cyber attacks.
- Nurdle AI — Get your AI into production Faster, Cheaper & Easier with Nurdle's privacy-safe lookalike data. Trusted by leading brands in gaming and social media.
- Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
Xavier Niel currently works as the Co-Founder & CEO for NJJ Capital. Xavier Niel is the Iliad Group's majority shareholder and founder. He has been involved in the data communications, Internet and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 1993, before dedicating himself full-time to developing the Group, he founded Worldnet,the first Internet service provider in France, which was sold to Kaptech (LDCom Group) in December 2000. He has been responsible for the Group's major strategic developments, from the launch of the ANNU service and the development of Internet access services based on France Télécom’s repayment scheme as a financial model to the launch of the Freebox project.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $643k–$11M; Series A $3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
- Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
- Poolside — Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform intended to offer cutting-edge foundation concepts and infrastructure.
Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Redbird — Redbird is an operating system that empowers data driven teams to easily create custom applications that automate advanced analytics work in minutes, without writing code.
- SilkChart — SilkChart helps growth teams improve campaigns based on what users are doing in product - without relying on expensive data scientists. We do this through a no code analytics tool that combines marketing and product usage data to identify which channels, audiences, and content maximize revenue growth.
- Augmend — AI-augmented knowledge transfer across developers through a platform that captures and shares expertise.
Before starting ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He's the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.JS, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Argentina
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $2M–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $580k–$3.6M; Series A $10M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
- LastMile AI — Prototype and productionize generative AI apps. Built for engineers, not just ML practitioners
- ProjectDiscovery — Quickly resolve vulnerabilities at scale. ProjectDiscovery Cloud Platform uses automation, integration, and continuous scanning to defend the modern tech stack.
Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.5M; Series A $3.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
- Airhouse — Airhouse is the first all-in-one logistics platform for modern direct-to-consumer ecommerce companies. Launch a complex fulfillment operation in seconds.
- Jupiter — Explore our full line of vegan hair products for dandruff & dry scalp. Take our dermatologist-designed quiz to get your personalized regimen today.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5.6M; Series A $5.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
- Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
- CryptoTaxCalculator — Online Crypto Tax Calculator with support for over 400 integrations. $49 for all financial years. Money Back Guarantee.
Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $800k–$20M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.5M; Series A $6.5M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yumari — Wholesale Buying from Latin America Made Easy
- Beam — Take control of your finances, all in one place. Say goodbye to paperwork, spreadsheets, and hours of manual data entry.
- K2 Space — By breaking the historic correlation between mass and cost, the K2 Space satellite bus offers the capabilities of large satellites at the price point of small satellites. A multi-orbit spacecraft for use across commercial, scientific and defense missions.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Series A $5.1M–$12M; Series B $10M–$67M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unito — Connect the tools you're already using with deep 2-way integrations and optimize workflows for Asana, Jira, Trello, Google Sheets and more.
- Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
- NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.
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- Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.5M; Angel $50k–$1M; Series A $1.2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kumo.AI — Query the future. Deliver predictive analytics across your enterprise in days, regardless of ML experience. Powered by cutting edge deep learning techniques.
- Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.
- Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
Eric Schmidt is the founding partner of the Schmidt Family Foundation. He previously worked at Alphabet Inc. as an Executive Chairman and Technical Advisor. Eric Schmidt attended Princeton University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $90k–$20M; Series A $5M–$33M; Series B $5.4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Keeta — Keeta is the global payments platform that safely teleports your money
- Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
- Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $326k–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $80k–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
- Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
- NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Max Levchin is an investor and advisor to emerging technology companies. He was previously the chairman and chief executive officer of HVF, a startup lab focused on extracting insights from recordable information.Levchin co-founded Confinity Inc. in December 1998, and served as the Chief Technology Officer and a director. He also foundedNetMeridian Software, a developer of early Internet applications Levchin also serves as chairman of the boards of directors of Yelp Inc. and Kaggle Inc., and as a director of Evernote Corporation.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $3.4M–$25M; Series B $9M–$116M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- withco — You deserve to own your business' real estate. We make it happen. Apply in 5 min to see if our lease-to-own partnership is right for you.
- Pomelo — At Pomelo we build state-of-the-art fintech infrastructure. Our technology enables you to launch and scale your financial services business.
- CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $235k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
- Alphadoc — Interactive documentation that converts. Explain APIs and SDKs in a single environment. Keep your docs in sync, reuse content, powerful AI, and more
- comstruct — comstruct is working on a platform that will allow construction companies to digitize and automate material purchasing. All delivery bills, invoices, and purchase orders, as well as processes such as invoice verification, can be exchanged digitally with suppliers. All data pertaining to the purchasing process is made available for documentation,evaluation, and process optimization.
Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 216
- Round size: Seed $350k–$3.7M; Series A $2.3M–$20M; Series B $3M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EtherMail — EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.
- Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
- SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
As Senior Director of Product at Twitter, Jeff has led the company's consumer, developer, and publisher facing products, including Twitter for iOS, Android, and the Web, Fabric, Crashlytics, Answers, Digits, Twitter Kit, TweetDeck, Twitter's Publisher Platform, and Gnip.Previously, Seibert was Twitter’s Director of Developer Platformwhere he led Fabric, the company’s suite of mobile developer tools, as well as its enterprise Data Platform and Content Syndication efforts.Seibert was the co-founder and CEO of Crashlytics, an award-winning crash analysis service for iOS and Android apps. Crashlytics was acquired by Twitter in 2013 and has become an essential piece of the mobile developer toolchain - today powering over a million apps across well over two billion devices worldwide.Seibert co-founded Increo in 2007 and served as its COO and lead architect until its acquisition by Box in 2009. He subsequently oversaw the integration of Increo’s document preview and annotation technologies into Box’s cloud content platform.Seibert gained experience at Apple in both marketing and engineering capacities and led Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar series as Co-Coordinator. He was selected as a Mayfield Fellow in 2007 and received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.Seibert is a frequent presenter on both entrepreneurship and technical topics and has lectured at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, as well as keynoted Twitter Flight, AppsWorld, AnDevCon, EclipseCon, and others. Find him on Twitter at @JeffSeibert.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$5.6M; Series A $5.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.
- Ghost Message — Ghost your messages
- Patented.ai — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- NocoDB — Free & Open Source Airtable alternative. Turns any SQL database into a smart spreadsheet. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL server, MariaDB & SQLite.
- Arta Finance — Arta Finance is a network of innovators, researchers, finance specialists, and business executives who help people get the most of their finances. Arta offers access to financial opportunities that help people to plan and enjoy their financial future but with less complexity and lower fees. It was founded by Caesar Sengupta.
- Moonhub — Hire Top Talent On Demand With Expert Recruiters and AI
Farzad (Zod) Nazem has been a prolific angel investor and advisor to tech startup companies since his retirement from Yahoo! in 2007. He has invested in more than 60 early stage companies, and sits on the boards of Hand Foundation, and The Nueva School. His area of investment is about two thirds Big Data and Cloud platforms, and one third Healthand Medical. He was the Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo from 1996 to mid 2007. He helped acquire and integrate over 50 companies and managed over six thousand engineers representing half of the company's employees. Between 1985 and 1996, Mr. Nazem held various software development and management positions at Oracle Corporation culminating in his role as Vice President of Media and Web Server Division. His tenure at Oracle also included membership in the company's Product Division Management Committee, which set overall strategy for Oracle products. Previously, Mr. Nazem was recruited from California Polytechnic State University by Rolm Corporation to be a software engineer in the VLCBX division. At age 19, he earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science with highest honors.
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- Industry: Health Care, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $650k–$11M; Series A $4.2M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Emailage — Emailage is a developer of fraud prevention and identity verification technology used to make transactions easier and secure. The company provides multi-faceted predictive solutions with email at the core through key partnerships, proprietary data, and advanced machine-learning technology. It proprietary algorithms in order to provide real-timealerts of risky transactions and delivers a risk score and enable companies to realize significant savings from identifying and stopping fraudulent transactions and improve customer experience.
- Ceevra, Inc. — Ceevra is an advanced 3D visualization technology for surgeons. Using AI and other innovative computing techniques, Ceevra generates brilliant 3D digital models from standard CT scans and MRIs. Surgeons use the Ceevra 3D models to help educate and counsel patients, to decide on the best surgical approach, and to gain important insights whileoperating.
- TigerGraph — TigerGraph is the fastest and only scalable graph database for the enterprise. Unleash the power and speed of our graph analytics platform today.
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