# Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026

## Will Martin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Will Brooks
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## John Taysom
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

John Taysom started the Reuters Venture Capital Fund in Palo Alto in 1995 making 82 investments in internet and web infrastructure and services including Verisign, UltraDNS, Digimarc, ZeroKnowledge and Intertrust. He was a member of the Board of Digimarc pre and post its Nasdaq IPO, a Board member at Intertrust and a Board member at TIBCO throughits Nasdaq IPO. To date, seventeen of his investments have achieved an IPO.John acquired the Fund in an MBO in 2002. Now London-based with a seed portfolio of thirty US and UK start-ups; one has achieved an IPO and several have been acquired by Experian, Linkedin, Tesco, BMC and others.In 2011 and 2012 John took a Fellowship at Harvard to work on privacy issues and holds EU and US patents on a method of improving privacy online. For 2015 John is a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and a Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, at UCL. He is a member of the Board of the Web Science Trust; chairs Performance Horizon, a fast growing UK startup; is a Governor at Hurstpierpoint College; and runs a small farm in Devon.

## Jaan Tallinn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-founder of Future of Life Institute.

## Jonathan Milner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Having worked in the life sciences industry for over ten years as an academic researcher, Jonathan identified the market opportunity for supplying high quality antibodies to support protein interaction studies and, in 1998, founded Abcam with David Cleevely and Professor Tony Kouzarides. Jonathan is a Non-Executive Director of Horizon DiscoveryGroup plc, The Evolution Education Trust, GeoSpock Ltd and Sydicate Room Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of Axol Bioscience Ltd, PhoreMost Ltd, Repositive Limited, Definigen Limited and Cambridge Allergy Ltd. Jonathan holds an executive director position at Meltwind Limited, being a designated member of Meltwind Advisory LLP. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups. He has provided considerable investment and support to over 30 companies and has assisted three AIM IPOs.

## Alex Zubillaga
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Music

Alex Zubillaga is the founder of 14W, a New York-based, venture capital firm focused on consumer Mobile, Web, E-commerce, CPG, and Media.Previously, Alex was Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group (WMG). Prior to WMG, Alex founded Net Uno, a leading Venezuelan cable television and broadbandoperator where he served as CEO and Chairman.

## Stefan Glänzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media

Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.

## Harry Briggs
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce

Harry is a partner at OMERS Ventures, previously at Balderton Capital & BGF Ventures- and the youngest investor in the inaugural Forbes "Midas List Europe", thanks to investments such as The Hut Group, GoCardless, Touch Surgery and Revolut. Prior to Balderton, Harry co-founded Firefly Tonics, a healthy energy drink brand that sells inover 30 countries, sold to Private Equity in 2012. Harry started his career at McKinsey & Co., the strategy consultancy, in London and New York.

## David Gammon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Big Data, SaaS, Legal

David Gammon 17 years investment banking experience. He founded Rockspring in 2002 and is a Cambridge Angel.

## Darrin Disley
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Big Data

Darrin Disley is the CEO, Director & Investor at Mogrify. He attended University of Cambridge.

## Alice Bentinck
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Big Data, Consumer

Alice Bentinck is co-founder of Entrepreneur First, the early stage investor that builds deep tech companies from scratch. EF invests in individuals with computer science and engineering backgrounds and has built more than 100 companies. Their portfolio includes exits such as Magic Pony Technology to Twitter for a reported $150m and Represent toCustom Inc for close to $100m. Alice set up Code First: Girls, a not-for-profit that helps young women explore careers in technology, including teaching them to code for free. She is also on the Imperial College Computer Science Industrial Liaison Board and was made an MBE in 2016.

## Wendy Tan White
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Wendy Tan White is the Chief Executive Officer of Intrinsic. She Previously worked at X, the moonshot factory as the Vice President, Moonshots at Alphabet, X.Wendy Tan White attended Imperial College London.

## Dave Bailey
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Events

Dave Bailey is CEO of The Founder Coach, an organisation that supports venture-backed founders around the world. Dave runs several programs for startup and scale-up CEOs, and works one-on-one with a limited number of CEOs as executive coach and mentor. Dave is editor-in-chief of The Founder Coach blog, and hosts The Founder Coach Podcast, mentorsat Techstars in London, and angel invests in areas of his domain knowledge.Previously, Dave co-founded three VC-backed businesses including Delivery Hero, Ezlearn and Spotnight. Dave studied Mathematical Sciences at Oxford University, before going on to Stanford Graduate School of Business and Singularity University.

## David Braben
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Crowdfunding, Trading Platform

David Braben Chairman at Frontier Developments.

## Deborah Quazzo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

Deborah Quazzo is a Managing Partner at GSV Ventures and a Co-founder at ASU+GSV Summit. She was a Founder and Managing Partner at GSV Advisors. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Business School.

## William Christopher Currie
- Type: Angel
- Location: Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Mobile

Bill is the founder of the William Currie Group, which specializes in investments in the retail, e-
commerce and tech sectors. Previously Bill was a top-ranked, multi award-winning retail analyst for Barclays (BZW), Hoare Govett and Charterhouse Securities, where he was Joint Managing Director. Current directorships include Eagle Eye Group PLC,Metapack Ltd, and LTS Group. Key past investments have included ASOS, QXL, The Hut Group, Zooplus, Caffé Nero and Anatwine

## Sir Terry Leahy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Sir Terry Leahy joined Cheshunt, England-based Tesco in 1979 and held marketing positions at the retailer before becoming commercial director of fresh foods in 1986 and a member of the board in 1990. Leahy was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco plc in March 1997.Leahy received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New YearHonours. He was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader (2005 and 2006) by Management Today, recognized by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC as European Business Leader of the Year (2005), and named European Businessman of the Year by Fortune (2004). A Guardian Unlimited Politics panel found him to be the most influential non-elected person in Britain in 2007.Leahy is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business, a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine, and was voted Business Person of the Year by the Sunday Times.Sir Terry Leahy retired from Tesco in March 2011.

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Bob Willet
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, B2B

Bob Willet

## Iain McDonald
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Big Data, E-Commerce, SaaS

Iain McDonald - Founder @ Belerion Capital

## Gareth Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS

Gareth Williams co-founded Skyscanner Limited in 2001 and has been its CEO through to 2018. Chairman to Jan 2020. We spent $6m of primary capital raised through to $1.8bn sale to Trip.com. Now ‘funemployed’ and learning.

## Matt Clifford
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

Matt co-founded EF after being a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Prior to EF Matt spent his time studying at MIT fuelled by an obsession with R, Python and unusual datasets. EF is the best place for Europe’s top technical individuals to meet and build world-changing startups in London.They select purely on the basis of technical talent, so youcan apply before you have a team or an idea. The intensive 6-month programme is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 200 days of your startup’s life.They have created over 40 startups now worth over $300 million. The startups are funded by some prestigious investors including Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Octopus Investments and Y Combinator.

## Bonamy Grimes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Big Data, Internet

Co-Founder at Skyscanner

## Alex Andreu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1

## William Bush
- Type: Angel
- Location: Illinois City, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence

William R. Bush is Vice Chairman And General Counsel at Bdt Capital Partners Llc and has been affiliated with Bdt Capital Partners Llc since April-2009. Bdt Capital Partners Llc is an investment advisor that manages 11.4 BN dollars in regulatory AUM and has 50 employees, of which 35 perform investment advisory functions. The managers'slatest filing has disclosed 292MM in positions, which represents 3% of the manager's regulatory AUM.

## Liad Agmon
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Big Data, Analytics

Liad Agmon joined Dynamic Yield Liad as CEO in 2012.Agmon is a serial entrepreneur with rich experience as a startup founder and as a Fortune 500 executive. He founded information security vendor Onigma (acquired by McAfee) and social search company Delver (acquired by Sears Holdings). Following Delver’s acquisition, Liad served as a VP of NewServices at Sears Holdings and on the board of its Home Electronics and Outlets business units. Liad served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Bessemer Venture Partners and taught at the Entrepreneurship MBA program in Tel-Aviv University and at the Zell Program of IDC Herzliya. He holds a BA Cum Laude from Tel-Aviv University in Computer Sciences and Film Studies.

## Arnaud Massenet
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Brand Marketing, Artificial Intelligence

Arnaud Massenet

## Pietro De Nardis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: AgTech, Big Data, Software

In 1999 invested as business angel and co-founder in Buongiorno Spa: the first Italian start up in the digital marketing space to become public in Borsa Italiana; in Buongiorno he took a full time managerial role as Head of the Business Development and International Expansion.
From 2013 onwards he has been building – as business angel, anchorinvestor and board director - a portfolio of several digital tech companies like DoveConviene, BeMyEye, Supermercato24, Domino’s Pizza (all in the Consumer Goods sector) in addition to some others (The Fork, PetMe, Aerodron, Outfittery, MySecretCase) ranging from hi-tech to sharing economy and e-commerce.
He partners and co-invests with major Italian and European VCs, namely Highland Capital Europe, Nauta Capital, 360 Capital Partners, Innogest, P101, Principia and others.
He is active member of U-Start, a major European Investment Club, and acts as mentor&coach for B!Ventures and IMPACT, the leading european accelerator, backed by the Ntt Docomo and EU.
He sits in the advisory board of Blu 1877 (the Barilla Corporate Venture Capital arm) and of  ScaleIt http://scaleit.biz/ (the leading platform matching Italian best Start Ups with international venture capital investors)

## Shaheen Yusuf
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Big Data, Analytics

Shaheen Yusuf - Managing Director @ Deutsche Bank

## Rob Dobson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Business Intelligence, SaaS

Rob founded Actix (actix.com) in 1991 and as CEO (1991-2005) grew it to over $50m revenue by 2005. More than 90% of the world’s mobile phone customers have their networks optimized by Actix software and Rob has worked with many of the world’s leading mobile operators and infrastructure vendors. In 2005 he sold a majority stake in the company toPE firm Summit Partners at a $100+m valuation. He has invested in a further 30+ startups and has had five very successful exits (he's not counting failures as they come with the territory). Rob is chairman of Robotical (robotical.io) and DevicePilot.com. He's also the founding chairman of Singletrack.com and a supporter of the unique orchestra SouthbankSinfonia.co.uk. As an inveterate tinkerer in software and hardware, he's fascinated by IoT, 3D printing and the maker movement (as you can probably see from his personal website (robdobson.com). Rob is a Fellow of the IET and has a 1st class honours degree in Electronic Engineering.

## Torben Majgaard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: EdTech, Big Data, Tutoring

Torben, a Dane living in the Ukraine, is founder and CEO of www.ciklum.net, a company providing IT resources from Eastern Europe to smaller and medium size IT companies in Western Europe, currently employing close to 1000 people. Prior and parallel to founding Ciklum, Torben have been founder/co-founder of 6 other IT companies all exitedwithin the last 15 years.Torben is also the founder and majority shareholder of Touchlink Mobile, a Danish developer of application solutions for the mobile content market. Previously, he founded and served as CEO of Vic, a hardware distributor to Eastern Europe, and Den Bla Butik, a Danish retail network for hardware sales.

## Steve Pankhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Personal Health

Steve Pankhurst

## Adam Solehova
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, AgTech, Big Data

Started in 2011 as a real estate broker. Today a real-estate investor & owner of several companies, from construction to renewable energy

## Paul Heydon
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps

30 years as a founder, operator, investor, and advisor. Previously Paul was a Co-Founder and General Partner at LVP. Paul has invested in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity (NYSE:U), Matchmade, Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), AppOnboard, FRVR,Starform, Gameclub, Coherence, Lucid Sight, Doppio Games, Capture, Flick, EvenPrime, Tellie & Litho and others. Previously, he was an investment banker at Avista Partners, Commerzbank Securities & ING Barings. He has both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.

## Declan Kelly
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp.
Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.

## Collis Ta'eed
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Email, Big Data

Collis Ta'eed grew up in Papua New Guinea. He moved to Australia to attend university and later worked as a web designer, selling Flash stock on the side. His experience selling stock inspired him to co-found Envato with his wife, Cyan Ta'eed, and best friend, Jun Rung. Collis has served as Envato's CEO since the company'sfounding in 2006.

## Biz Stone
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Messaging, Mobile

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley.

## Tom Vorisek
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Machine Learning

Founder Esalen Ventures, LLC which has made more than 75 private/angel investments from pre-seed to mezzanine stages and is an LP in 8 PE Funds. Tom is also an International Fine Art Dealer with a focus on paintings of 20th century American, European and Asian artists.Prior to his current roles, Tom was an experienced executive with over 20years in cross-disciplined leadership roles in Advertising-General, Digital and Mobile, Ad Tech, Emerging Media, Technology and Early Stage Venture. Co-Founder FCB Sports Marketing, FCB/SF, IDG, Flycast (IPO), McGrath Rentcorp (IPO) and Ad Infuse (acq by Velti).

## Michel Combes
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series D
- Focus: Apps, Coupons, Big Data

Michel Combes was the Chief Executive Officer of Assystem.

## Russell Buckley
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Product Design

Russell Buckley is a Founding Partner at Kindred Capital.

## Joachim Behrendt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Media

Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.

## Mike Ryan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Analytics

Mike Ryan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bullet Point Network. He has almost 30 years of investment, capital markets and management experience. Mike is an active private investor, entrepreneur and board member. Prior to founding Bullet Point Network, he served as head of public equity and absolute return at the Harvard endowment, partner and co-headof global equity products at Goldman Sachs and head of global securities at Credit Suisse. Since 2009, Mike has been the CIO of MDR Capital, his family office, and was the co-founder of JAI Capital Management, a concentrated fundamental long-short equity strategy. At Harvard, Mike was responsible for $18 billion in assets across a range of direct investments and external manager allocations. He also served as a member of Harvard’s investment committee and executive team. At Credit Suisse, Mike was responsible for research, sales, trading and proprietary investments in global fixed income and equities. He was a member of the management committee and the extended executive board. At Goldman Sachs, Mike held numerous leadership positions and worked in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. After becoming a partner in 1998, Mike ran Asian capital markets, global equity derivatives and global equity products. He was a member of the partnership committee as well as the Asian management committee. Mike has served as a director, committee chair or board chair on numerous corporate and non-profit boards. Mike currently serves on the board of 5x5 Telecom, Scholarship America, Management Leadership for Tomorrow and Staten Island ACHIEVE. He graduated summa cum laude from from Yale University with a B.A. in economics, and was an Academic All-American in basketball.

## Javier Rubio
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Big Data, Shipping

Javier Rubio

## David Castle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Cyber Security, Software, Content

David Castle

## Nick White
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Big Data

Dr. Nicholas E. White serves as Senior Vice President for Science by leading the space science operating sector within USRA and providing oversight of scientific activity across USRA institutes and programs. This sector spans work in astronomy and astrophysics, lunar and planetary science, biomedical and life sciences, Earth science, spacetechnology, and advanced scientific computing.White came to USRA after a distinguished career at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. of more than 20 years. White led the Sciences and Exploration Directorate, where he was a leader in space and Earth science and a trusted steward of the center's projects and research programs. Throughout the course of his career, White pioneered space-based research both as a scientist and a Senior Executive. White previously held the positions of director of Goddard's Astrophysics Science Division and Chief of the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics. White was the founding director of the highly successful High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center. Prior to joining NASA, White worked for the European Space Agency. His research is primarily in the area of X-ray astronomy, studying black holes and neutron stars. His pedigree includes more than 200 publications in refereed journals.Amongst the many recognitions of his leadership are the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award and the Goddard Space Flight Center Exceptional Achievement Award. White is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Leicester and a doctorate in Space Science from University College London.

## Ariel Yaar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, CRM

Ariel Yaar - VP Research and Development @ Readz

## Timothy Abbott
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Analytics, SaaS, Ride Sharing

Timothy Abbott - Founder & CEO @ Zulip

## David Lau-Kee
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games

DLK is a co-founder and General Partner of LVP. He has over 25 years experience in the games industry,Previously, he was the founder, President & CEO at Criterion Software Group, including RenderWare & Criterion Games. Before Criterion, DLK co-founded Canon Research Europe, and headed multi-million dollar R&D in computer graphics,image processing & UX. David holds degrees in Mathematical Statistics & Operations Research and a PhD inComputer Science.

## 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.

## Jason McGibbon
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: B2C, Big Data, Analytics

Jason McGibbon is a Non-Executive Director of Fable Data
and The Scottish National Investment Bank.

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