# Top 15 Biotech Angel Investors in Mexico in October 2023

## Elizabeth Iorns
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Diagnostics

Elizabeth Jane Iorns is a New Zealand scientist, entrepreneur and researcher, and the founder and CEO of Science Exchange. Scientific Advisor at Rarebase. She is also the Co-founder and Chairman of Perception Biosystems. She has a PhD degree in Cancer Biology from The Institute of Cancer Research.

## Jessica Livingston
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Medical Device, Education, Health Care

Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator. She is also the organizer of Startup School, the big annual startup conference, and the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with successful startup founders.Y Combinator was the first of the new startup “incubators” that fund a bunch of startups at once. Since 2005 YChas funded over 560 companies, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit.

## Dan Knox
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Health Care, Crowdfunding

Dan Knox is one of the founders of Science Exchange, an online marketplace for science experiments. Prior to founding Science Exchange, Dan was Head of Operations at DailyMe, a pioneer in the field of dynamic personalization and predictive content and commerce presentation. Before joining DailyMe, Dan was Head of Economic Analysis within in theStrategy team at a leading commercial television network in the U.K., and a Senior Economist in the Media & Communications group of a global expert services consulting firm.Dan was part of the inaugural Executive MBA class at MIT Sloan School of Management. He also has a Master's degree and a Bachelor's degree in Economics, a Law degree and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.

## Sohail Prasad
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

Sohail is the Founder & CEO of Destiny (D/XYZ).Sohail is also Founder & former Co-CEO of Forge, the stock market for private companies. He has an extensive background in product management, engineering, and business. As an eighteen-year-old, he was among the youngest founders to go through Y Combinator. Over the years, Sohail hasadvised and invested in over 100 startups, including notable startups such as Zenefits and Rappi. He continues to invest actively through S2 Capital, and serves as its Founding Partner. Prior to founding Equidate, Sohail managed mobile product at Zynga. He previously joined mobile advertising firm Chartboost as its second engineering hire, and has held roles at Google and the MIT Media Lab. Sohail was awarded TCU's Texas Youth Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2010, and was later named a Thiel Fellow by the Thiel Foundation. He previously attended Carnegie Mellon University where he studied Electrical & Computer Engineering.

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.

## Robert Stavis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Rob Stavis is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

## Mark Gormley
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity, Secondary Market
- Focus: Service Industry, Insurance, AgTech

Mark K. Gormley is a Partner at Lee Equity Partners. Prior to joining Lee Equity in 2006, Mr. Gormley was a Partner at Capital Z Financial Services Partners (“CZFS”), a leading financial services private equity firm, where he played a leading role in the operations and investment activities of the $1.85 billion fund. Mr. Gormley co-founded CZFS in1998 and shared responsibility for the oversight of all of the firm's investment and monitoring activities. Prior to founding CZFS, Mr. Gormley served as a Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (“DLJ”), specializing in the insurance and asset management industries. While at DLJ, Mr. Gormley worked on corporate finance and merger and acquisition assignments, as well as on principal related activities on behalf of DLJ Merchant Banking. Prior to joining DLJ in 1989, he was a founding member of the Insurance Group at Merrill Lynch in 1985. Mr. Gormley serves or has served as a director of numerous public and private companies, including The Edelman Financial Group, Skopos Financial Group, Captive Resources, Carlile Bancshares, PDR Network, MidCap Financial, Universal American, Permanent General, NewStar Financial, British Marine Holdings, Catlin Group, Bank Handlowy, Ceska Sporitelna, NACOLAH among others. Mr. Gormley received a B.S.B.A. cum laude in Finance and Economics from the University of Denver and an M.B.A. from New York University.

## Bob Goodman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Robert Goodman is a general partner at Goodman served as a director at he joined Bessemer Venture Partners. He has also worked at Goodman holds a bachelor’s degree in arts from 

## Jeff Horing
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Jeff Horing has been a co-founder and managing director at Insight Venture Partners since 1995. Under his leadership Insight has become a premier venture capital and private equity firm focused on growth investments in software and internet businesses, currently investing from a $2.56 billion fund. Jeff's areas of focus include mobile,online gaming, data, infrastructure and internet software. Jeff is a former member of the board of directors of Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird Co.), CTSpace (acquired by Sword Group), Beechwood Data Systems (acquired by Cap Gemini), Greenfield Online (IPO, later acquired by Microsoft), Hitwise (acquired by Experian Group Ltd), IAG Research (acquired by The Nielsen Company), ProMira Software (acquired by Manugistics), Shutterstock (IPO), SLP Infoware (acquired by Gemplus), Solarwinds Inc. (IPO NYSE: SWI), and Xchange (IPO acquired by Amdocs).Jeff is an investor or currently serves on the board of directors of AirWatch (mobile device management), Anaqua (IP asset management), GFI Software (cloud-based services), Jagex Ltd (online gaming), Nexon (online gaming), Datacore Software (storage virtualization), New Relic (application performance management), Teamviewer (remote desktop collaboration), WIX (free DIY flash-based websites), Whitney University System (distance learning technology), and Zumba (global fitness and lifestyle brand).Prior to founding Insight, Jeff was a key member of the technology investing team at Warburg Pincus. Earlier in his career he worked at Goldman Sachs in the Capital Markets group.Jeff holds an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He has dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering and Wharton School, where he graduated with high honors and was Phi Beta Kappa. Jeff is a regular speaker at Wharton as part of the Distinguished Guest speaker series.

## Jason Burke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Internet

Jason Burke is the Co-founder, Managing Director, and Investor of TBD Angels and the VP of Strategy and Business Development of Xandr. Prior to that, he was the Chief Strategy Officer for clypd, a Boston-based startup building an advertising technology platform exclusively for the TV industry and designed to empower media companies with actionablesales tools. In his role, Burke focuses on a forward-looking platform and business strategy, corporate development, partnerships, and management of clypd's strategic commercial deals.As one of the first employees at clypd, Burke spent over 3 years as VP, Product leading the product & operations teams in bringing innovative products to the $180B television advertising market. Prior to clypd, Burke spent six years building ad technology products for online video at ScanScout and Tremor Video where he had responsibility for product management, technical strategy and operations efforts.Jason is a leader with the unique experience of working with executive customer teams and internal product development/engineering groups to drive business while also solving software and implementation challenges with internal and external technical teams. He is also a frequent contributor to industry publications and participant on advertising technology and media conference presentations and panels. Jason holds several software patents focused on inventions in advertising technology and media.Jason is also an investor in early-stage companies across several verticals. He feels privileged to invest in and collaborate with talented founding teams seeking to change the world with innovative products & businesses.Jason is based in Boston and has degrees in Computer Science and Engineering Psychology from Tufts University.

## Ashton Kutcher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps

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

## Matt Cutts
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Health Care, Software

Matt Cutts joined Google as a Software Engineer in January 2000. Before Google, he was working on his Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has an M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and B.S. degrees in both mathematics and computer science from the University of Kentucky.Matt wrote SafeSearch, which isGoogle's family filter. In addition to his experience at Google, Matt held a top-secret clearance while working for the Department of Defense, and he's also worked at a game engine company. He claims that Google is the most fun by far.Matt talks about webmaster-related issues on his 

## Thomas James
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics

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## Eric Urhane
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Eric Urhane

## Geoffrey KALISH
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1

Mr. Kalish is a Partner at Aquiline Capital Partners.
Previously, Mr. Kalish was also the Founder and Managing Director at Venturion Capital. He has served on the boards of numerous financial services companies in Europe and the US.
He holds a history degree from Columbia and a masters degree in public policy from Harvard.

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