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Top 50 Clean Energy Angel Investors in United States in October 2023

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

Top 50 Clean Energy Angel Investors in United States in October 2023

Investor Clean Energy United States investments
Nat Friedman 2
Josh Manchester 2
Alex Kahn 2
Jeremy Yap 2
Luke Kupersmith 2
Kevin Weatherman 2
Jeff Bezos 2
Mark Cuban 2
Warren Buffett 2
Jon Oringer 2
Edward Kim 2
Eugene Goldberg 2
Elon Musk 2
Murat Abdrakhmanov 2
Murat Abdrakhmanov 2
Kerim Baran 1
Kim Kardashian 1
Vinod Khosla 1
Tyson Trautmann 1
Chris Sang 1
Ariel Poler 1
John Lefebvre 1
James Sowers 1
Bill Gates 1
Rayyan Islam 1
Cyan Banister 1
Ivanka Trump 1
Craig Winkler 1
Andrew Coors 1
Ashton Kutcher 1
Will Herman 1
Ramez Naam 1
Eminem (Marshall Mathers) 1
Curtis Jackson 1
Matthew Palevsky 1
Khloé Kardashian 1
Bill Gates 1
Tyler Willis 1
Dwayne Douglas Johnson 1
Walter Winshall 1
Mark Goines 1
Arnold Schwarzenegger 1
Angelina Jolie 1
Alexander Katalov 1
Jim Bochnowski 1
Brett Jackson 1
Will Smith 1
John Carleton 1
Jordan Levy 1
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Nat Friedman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 23 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Spain

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.
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Josh Manchester
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Josh loves studying companies or trends which have touch points with governance or with large industries or parts of society that are off the Silicon Valley radar. He previously founded Champion Hill Labs, which performed consulting services for venture firms and hedge funds, and through which he invested in SpaceX, Flexport, and RigettiComputing. Before that he cut his teeth in the venture industry during six years on the team at TrueBridge Capital Partners, committing about $1 billion to venture capital firms globally as an LP, and leading the team’s investments in several mid-stage companies. He began his career in finance at USAA Real Estate Company. Before becoming an investor, Josh spent about six years as an officer in the US Marine Corps, in infantry and combat engineering roles, and has led three different platoons ranging from 10-60 Marines. In his last role he led a reinforced rifle platoon and was responsible for the security and civil development of a city of 10,000 people along the Euphrates River. He graduated from Duke University. When not chasing his young kids he enjoys Alan Furst novels and any time spent in the great outdoors.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Machine Learning, Satellite Communication
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Bifrost AI — Build AI in a day instead of a year, at a fraction of the price, with the Bifrost synthetic data engine.
  • Skiff — Everything on Skiff is end-to-end encrypted. Your most sensitive data is private, decentralized, and truly owned by you.
  • Swarm Aero — Building the largest UAV swarm on the planet.
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Alex Kahn
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States

Trusted advisor to successful tech entrepreneurs and family offices.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Health Care, Sponsorship
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • United States, India

Portfolio highlights

  • SnapMD — SnapMD, Inc. owns and operates a cloud-based patient-to-provider telemedicine platform that connects parents and their children with pediatric physicians in the United States. Its platform also enables healthcare providers to connect with patients needing time-sensitive consultations and follow-up medical visits; and facilitatesphysician-to-physician consultations. The company serves customers through smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktop computers, and other Internet enabled devices. SnapMD, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Glendale, California.
  • Stimwave Technologies — Stimwave Technologies, Inc., a medical device company, engages in the development, manufacture, commercialization, and marketing of wireless microsize injectable medical devices for neurology markets. The company was formerly known as Neural Micro Incorporated. Stimwave Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Scottsdale,Arizona.
  • Aqueduct Critical Care — Aqueduct Critical Care addresses the critical care problem of managing inter-cranial pressure. Its working prototypes demonstrate the ability to allow the patient to move, and minimize attention from nursing staff. Aqueduct Critical Care was founded in 2013 and is based in Bothell, Washington.
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Jeremy Yap
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests in the Europe, North America, and Israel.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany

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.
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Luke Kupersmith
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States

Luke Kupersmith - President & CEO @ Lojistic

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Investment focus

  • CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Angel
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.
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Kevin Weatherman
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Kevin Weatherman - VP Partnerships & Cloud Enterprise BD @ Moloco

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • BloomCredit — Use Bloom to engage and understand your customers through credit data. Help your customers qualify for your loans, credit cards, and credit products. Create relationships with your customers through personalized financial advice and support.
  • BrandCommerce — BrandCommerce is a middle layer of APIs integrated with offline and online retailers, fulfillment providers and logistics partners.BrandCommerce seamlessly connects between your retail partners, logistics providers, last-mile vendors, content and data management platforms allowing you to offer a single, seamless eCommerce experience fulfilledwithout deploying complex logistics technology.BrandCommerce enables brands to use their retail stores for 1-hour fulfillment giving you Amazon-like capabilities. Connect all of your brands digital activities to instant purchase.
  • Field Complete — Free software for any field service company looking to improve operations and become more profitable! Get access to free home services management software.
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Jeff Bezos
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is the Founder of Bezos Academy. He Previously worked at Cashican People LLC as an Investor. Jeff Bezos attended Princeton University.

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Investment focus

  • Non Profit, Software, Communities
  • Grant, Series B, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

  • g100 — Swiss owned tech investment company
  • JumpStory — Get quick access to millions of authentic stock photos, videos & vectors. Smart AI-tools to remove image backgrounds, change format etc.
  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
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Mark Cuban
Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

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.
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Warren Buffett
Angel · Omaha, Nebraska, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Warren Buffet is a businessman and investor. He was born Warren Edward Buffett on August 30,1930, in Omaha, Nebraska. Buffett's father Howard worked as stockbroker and served as U.S. Congressman. His mother, Leila Stahl Buffett, was a homemaker. Buffett was the second of three children and the only boy.Buffett demonstrated a knack forfinancial and business matters early on in his childhood. Friends and acquaintances have said the young boy was a mathematical prodigy, and was able to add large columns of numbers in his head-a talent he still occasionally shows off to friends and business associates.Warren often visited his father's stockbrokerage shop as a child, and chalked in the stock prices on the blackboard in the office. At 11 years old he made his first investment; he bought three shares of Cities Service Preferred at $38 per share. The stock quickly dropped to only $27, but Buffett held on tenaciously until they reached $40. He sold his shares at a small profit, but regretted the decision when Cities Service shot up to nearly $200 a share. He later cited this experience as an early lesson in patience in investing.By the age of 13, Buffett was running his own businesses as a paperboy and selling his own horseracing tip sheet. That same year, he filed his first tax return, claiming his bike as a $35 tax deduction.In 1942, Buffett's father was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and his family moved to Fredricksburg, Virginia, to be closer to the congressman's new post. Buffett attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., where he continued plotting new ways to make money. During his high school tenure, he and a friend purchased a used pinball machine for $25. They installed it in a Washington, D.C. barbershop and, within a few months, the profits of the machine allowed Buffett and his friend to buy other machines. Buffett owned three machines in three different locations before he sold the business to a War Veteran for $1,200.Buffett enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania at the age of 16 to study business. He stayed two years, moved to the University of Nebraska to finish up his degree, and emerged from college at age 20 with nearly $10,000 from his childhood businesses.Buffett attended Columbia University for his advanced degree and in 1956, shortly after graduation, he formed the firm Buffett Partnership in his hometown of Omaha. His investment successes, particularly in buying undervalued companies whose stocks shortly began to rise, made him extremely rich and gained him the sobriquet, "Oracle of Omaha." Other notable career succeses include helping rescue Salomon Brothers from corporate raiders (1987) and taking charge of the New York City house (1992) in the wake of an insider trading scandal.In June 2006, Buffett made an announcement that he would be giving his entire fortune away to charity, committing 85 percent of it to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This donation became the largest act of charitable giving in United States history.The majority of Buffett's considerable fortune was amassed through Berkshire Hathaway, a company for which he is the largest shareholder and CEO. Ranked as Forbes' wealthiest man in 2008, his net worth is estimated at more than $62 billion.Source:

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Equity
  • United States, Taiwan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • COOK — COOK is a manufacturer and retailer of frozen ready meals.
  • Cashican People LLC — Cashica is a quantitative cryptocurrency investment firm that aims at web3 and metaverse innovations across the world. Cashican also named Cashican People LLC was founded in 2017 and is headquarted in New York.
  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
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Jon Oringer
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, France, United Kingdom

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.
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Edward Kim
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States

Edward Kim

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Investment focus

  • CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Angel
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.
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Eugene Goldberg
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Eugene Goldberg

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Investment focus

  • CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Angel
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.
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Elon Musk
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Elon Musk is the Co-Founder, Product Architect, and CEO of Tesla. Elon Musk attended the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, SMS, Transportation
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Cmax System — Cmax System designs, manufacture, and distributes an innovative system of emergency shelters to improve the living conditions and enhance the dignity of the millions of refugees.It is designed with many unique characteristics: foldable, mobile, affordable, reusable, and more. It is the lightweight, All-in-One solution fully equipped with survivalnecessities, and assembles tool-free in just 11 minutes. The rigid and raised floor design prevents collapse and makes Cmax an innovative replacement to the primitive tent.
  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
  • Quarterly Global — Quarterly Global is an established leader of targeted marketing and advertising solutions. We enable companies and individuals to excel in their respective industries.Our portfolio of products and solutions offer clients competitive intelligence, advertising, training, consulting, marketing, lead generation and readership. Our solutions liketargeted advertising, marketing, training and consulting are based on Quarterly Global’s track record of helping companies grow through organic brand discovery strategies.Our marketing and advertising portfolio include the brands like Network Story, Keywords Today, Trade and Money, Bouncegate, Socialyk, Sparterr, Wheels and Bikes, Gears and Tools, Better Ad Spend, Better Adverts, Peprfeed, Curation Land, Community Cult, Politixer, Funcxnal, Be Bollywood, Insane Hollywood, The Cricket Hub, Read to Code, Voucher Bird and 100 others.Quarterly Global delivers proprietary content, digital products, insights, training, branding, targeted advertising and marketing excellence through these brands.Quarterly Global’s products provide customers with competitive advertising and marketing intelligence. Exclusive reports, insights and case studies by Quarterly Global help clients outgrow their competition. These insights and reports are actionable and independently verified from various trusted sources.Our products help the marketing and advertising needs of various industries through engagement with over 75 million targeted readers across all our brands. We help companies Discover. Connect. Convert.
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Murat Abdrakhmanov
Angel · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Information Technology, Advertising
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Kazakhstan, Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeely — Zeely is a website development platform designed to assist businesses in marketing their web pages. The company's platform allows businesses to create and promote websites without using codes or UI/UX designs, and these codes can be linked with Google Ads or other social media platforms to increase reach, allowing businesses to create awebpage based on AI and expand their audience network.
  • Kwaaka — Kwaaka is a subscription-based service that integrates Food Delivery services like Glovo, Wolt, Bolt Food, Deliveroo direct into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, streamlining order taking processes and menu management through a single interface and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually repunchorders into their existing system.
  • Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.
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Murat Abdrakhmanov
Angel · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Information Technology, Advertising
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Kazakhstan, Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeely — Zeely is a website development platform designed to assist businesses in marketing their web pages. The company's platform allows businesses to create and promote websites without using codes or UI/UX designs, and these codes can be linked with Google Ads or other social media platforms to increase reach, allowing businesses to create awebpage based on AI and expand their audience network.
  • Kwaaka — Kwaaka is a subscription-based service that integrates Food Delivery services like Glovo, Wolt, Bolt Food, Deliveroo direct into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, streamlining order taking processes and menu management through a single interface and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually repunchorders into their existing system.
  • Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.
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Kerim Baran
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Kerim Baran is the Founder of SolarAcademy. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Email, Solar, Energy
  • Seed
  • Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • WiseStamp — WiseStamp lets professionals make a beautiful email signature and lets businesses create and manage email signatures for their entire organization
  • CivicSolar — With industry-leading service and equipment, Greentech Renewables helps solar contractors install top quality solar PV systems, gain competitive advantage and grow their business.
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Kim Kardashian
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Kim Kardashian is the current Chief Taste Consultant of Beyond Meat. She previously worked at Glu Mobile as a Member of the Board of Directors.

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Investment focus

  • Farming, Medical, Delivery
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Zipdrug — Zipdrug provides patients access to low-cost pharmacies who deliver prescriptions right to their homes. Its platform allocates medicare advantage patients to pharmacies that will drive adherence for the lowest cost. It was founded in 2015 and is based in New York City.
  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
  • 5D Holdings LLC — Investment Firm
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Vinod Khosla
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States

Vinod Khosla is the Partner of Khosla Ventures. Vinod Khosla attended Carnegie Mellon University.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Watsi — Watsi is a crowdsourcing platform that enables individual donors to directly fund medical care for patients in developing countries who can’t afford to do so. The funds the non-profit collects are transferred entirely to the patients through PayPal as the organization’s own costs are covered separately. With automatic monthly donations, donorsreceive a monthly email introducing them to the patient they supported along with an update after they receive care. Watsi was founded in 2011 and is based in Mountain View, California.
  • Quaise — Quaise is an energy company unlocking geothermal energy for the world population through millimeter wave drilling technology.
  • Loop Health — Loop Health is bringing ease and choice to patients seeking major medical treatments. We've brought together family physicians, top specialists, and leading hospitals in Pune – to provide options, transparency, and ease to patients and their families. Loop Coordinators help patients match with a doctor, compare treatment costs, get secondopinions, and complete admission formalities – removing the stress and making lives easier for the patient and their families.
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Tyson Trautmann
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States

Tyson Trautmann is the Vice President of Engineering at Fauna. He attended University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Solar, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Convertible Note
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • SMASHsolar — SMASHsolar breaks down barriers to solar for homeowners and contractors. The biggest barriers to solar adoption are cost and complexity. We have developed a simple, snap-together solar module that installs 2x faster than conventional solar, significantly reducing labor skill, labor cost and increasing crew throughput, which result in lowerinstallation costs. Since the SMASH system is easy to expand, homeowners can buy a what they need today and upgrade when they want more power.
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Chris Sang
Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Venture Advisor, Global Investor

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

  • REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
  • Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
  • Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
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Ariel Poler
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

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

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  • Software, Social Media, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

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  • Reloadly — Reloadly is the #1 mobile top-up platform when it comes to developer-friendly technology. With our API and a few lines of code, you can easily integrate mobile top-up features into your website or mobile app.
  • Openlytics — Openlytics is a visual analytics platform. It allows Data Workers to create pipelines for data transformation and analysis, in a visual way. Our mission is to empower everyone in the organization to solve data problems, without waiting for developers.Openlytics is an early-stage company, looking to build a founding team that can shape thedirection of the product. We’re seed-funded, remote-first, and hiring.If you're interested in learning more, email us at hello@openlytics.io.
  • humm — humm harnesses cutting-edge neuroscience into products that allow people to learn faster and perform better.humm is working to bring the incredible results of neuroscience research out of the lab and into non-invasive wearables that improve the quality of life for everyday people. Our first product is a clinically validated patch that you wearfor 15 minutes to get up to 90 minutes of improved working memory, by gently stimulating the signals in the part of the brain that controls your executive thinking. humm improves your ability to learn and be at your best, allowing people to reconnect with the joy of learning and challenge themselves to continue growing at any stage of life, whether it's for work or personal enjoyment!
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John Lefebvre
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

John Lefebvre is a mentor at Creative Destruction Lab.

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Investment focus

  • Solar, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Convertible Note
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • SMASHsolar — SMASHsolar breaks down barriers to solar for homeowners and contractors. The biggest barriers to solar adoption are cost and complexity. We have developed a simple, snap-together solar module that installs 2x faster than conventional solar, significantly reducing labor skill, labor cost and increasing crew throughput, which result in lowerinstallation costs. Since the SMASH system is easy to expand, homeowners can buy a what they need today and upgrade when they want more power.
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James Sowers
Angel · Pensacola, Florida, United States

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

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Secondary Market
  • United States, Switzerland, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • BitPay — BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardwaresecurity integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia.
  • Aave — Aave is an Open Source Protocol to create Non-Custodial Liquidity Markets to earn interest on supplying and borrowing assets with a variable or stable interest rate. The protocol is designed for easy integration into your products and services.
  • Yield Guild Games — Explore the best crypto games, meet people who love the same games you do. Play for free, go on adventures, and win rewards with your crew!
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Bill Gates
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Bill Gates is the founder, technology advisor, and board member of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. He served as chairman of the board until Feb. 4, 2014.On June 27, 2008, Gates transitioned out of a day-to-day role in the company tospend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He shares his thoughts about the foundation and other topics on Gates Notes, a website launched in January 2010. Gates continues to serve on Microsoft’s Board of Directors and as an advisor on key development projects. He is also the Founder of Breakthrough Energy.Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13.In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer – the MITS Altair.In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates’ foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.Under Gates’ leadership, Microsoft’s mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective, and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, reflected in its industry-leading investment in research and development each year.In 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim and was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Amazon.com. Gates’ previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, was at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks.Gates has donated the proceeds of both books to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in education and skills development.In addition to his love of computers and software, Gates founded Corbis, which is developing one of the world’s largest resources of visual information – a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography from public and private collections around the globe. He is also a member of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which invests in companies engaged in diverse business activities.Philanthropy is very important to Gates. He and his wife, Melinda, started a foundation in 2000 to help reduce inequities in the United States and around the world. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning, with the hope that in the 21st century, advances in these critical areas will be available for all people. To learn more about the foundation, visit www.gatesfoundation.orgGates was married on Jan. 1, 1994, to Melinda French Gates. They have three children. Gates is an avid reader and enjoys playing golf, tennis, and bridge.

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Investment focus

  • Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Series C, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Mainspring Energy — Local power generation for the net-zero carbon grid.
  • Heineken — Welcome to the global website for Heineken International. Find information about our company, history, brands, strategy and careers here.
  • Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
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Rayyan Islam
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States

Rayyan Islam is the Co-Founder and General Partner at 8090 Industries. As serial entrepreneur, investor and advisor focused on industrial technology and the low-carbon economy, the companies Rayyan's invested in, sourced and advised have grown to over $8B in market value and have gone to raise further financing from the likes of SequoiaCapital, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Venrock, Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Rayyan previously spent time helping source technology investments for multiple family offices globally, particularly focused towards industrialists based in the Texas and American midwest region and began his VC career at leading East Coast seed stage venture firm, Romulus Capital, where he sourced the firm’s most valued investment, EquipmentShare.A product manager by trade, he worked stints at Spotify, was on the founding team of a subscription airline and began his career supporting M&A transactions for industrial clients at Deloitte as well as economic developments efforts for Deloitte Consulting’s Emerging Markets Practice. Rayyan is a Forbes 30U30 Fellow, served as a United Nations Youth Delegate and is a recipient of the Outstanding Youth Delegate Award.Influenced by his family upbringing in Bangladesh, he personally witnessed energy security issues and the ramifications of climate change at a young age and its impact on communities around the world. Determined to make a serious dent on the issue, Rayyan supports a cadre of climate solutions, drafted policy recommendations to President Joe Biden’s climate transition team and is the editor of Decarbon Weekly, a decarbonization focused newsletter which counts leading climate scientists, members of state and local governments, climate tech founders and ESG focused investors and foundations amongst its subscription base. Rayyan co-founded the industrial decarbonization fund at 8090 Partners, in partnership with prominent industrial and energy families from around the world to invest, support and accelerate breakthrough technology companies decarbonizing every industrial sector driven by radical economic advantages.Rayyan and his work has been featured on Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Huffington Post and Forbes.

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Investment focus

  • Renewable Energy, Biotechnology, Energy
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
  • Cache — Biomolecules are the next bits of the 21st century. So we're developing the first wet operating system for storing, accessing, and computing biomolecules at scale to make them widely accessible and useful. We're enabling the storage and access to the whole data universe—digital and biological—forever so that we don't have to deleteor dispose of anything ever again.
  • Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.
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Cyan Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Social Media
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • 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?
  • Orson — Meaningful connection is a universal human need. It's our stories that create empathy and bind us together.
  • Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.
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Ivanka Trump
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Ivanka Trump

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Investment focus

  • Education, Farming, CleanTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

  • Twigtale — Twigtale is the first company to provide parents with personalized, high-quality, accessible expert advice for every major transition a child undergoes, such as welcoming a new baby, moving, even experiencing death or cancer. The personalized stories are scripted by child development experts, then personalized by parents. The books are engaging forkids and a powerful playbooks for parents. Customers are parents, groups, partners & sponsors.
  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
  • University of The Community/ Indigenous Cultural Arts Museum — UNIVERSITY FOR SELF LEARNING
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Craig Winkler
Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Craig Winkler Co-founded Australian small business accounting software provider MYOB in 1991. Craig built MYOB to be a popular business tool and brand which, in 2004, merged with Solution 6 to become Australia’s largest IT company. Craig joined Xero's board and became a substantial shareholder in 2009. He now spends the bulk of his timeworking in the philanthropic sector.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Software, Apps
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Chaser — Automate invoice reminders, get paid faster and maintain great customer relationships. Our users get paid 16+ days sooner and save 15+ hours a week on A/R.
  • Myprosperity — An all-in-one client portal with innovative digital tools to increase practice efficiencies, scale client engagement and grow revenue.
  • Ignition — Engage clients, get paid and run your business on autopilot with Ignition. Create online proposals & automate client payments, all from one place. Learn more.
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Andrew Coors
Angel · Greater Denver Area, Colorado, United States

Mr. Coors is the founder and CEO of Steelhead Composites LLC. Previously, he was Principal at 9th Street Capital, a venture capital and private equity fund.Mr. Coors spent 6 years as Corporate Economist and Investment Strategist at Qualcomm Incorporated, a Fortune 500 company. Prior to joining Qualcomm, for 5 years he served as the Director ofResearch at Laffer Associates, a money management and institutional economic research and consulting firm. He serves on various corporate Boards and has received numerous awards in industry including being named one of Treasury and Risk magazine‘s ’40 under 40’ Upwardly Mobile Finance Execs in 2007.Mr. Coors is a CFA Charterholder. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of California, San Diego and a Bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University.

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Investment focus

  • Aerospace, CleanTech, Automotive
  • Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Steelhead Composites — Steelhead Composites manufactures lightweight, high-strength cylinders and modular systems for hydrogen and other compressed gasses storage and transport
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Ashton Kutcher
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • QD-SOL — QD-SOL uses nanoparticles to produce green hydrogen in half the time.
  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
  • The Fabricant — A digital fashion house leading the fashion industry towards a new sector of digital-only clothing.
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Will Herman
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Will Herman is an active angel investor, corporate director, author, and startup mentor. He was previously a serial entrepreneur, having started five companies, taking two of them public. Will is an adviser at the hardware incubator, Bolt, and a mentor at TechStars. He lives and works mostly in the Boston area.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • VueBox — VueBox places interactive content in rideshare vehicles
  • Pristēm — The laundry & dry cleaning services industry has seen no hardware innovation in a long time resulting in 24 hr+ turnarounds, insanely expensive prices, and a complete lack of reliability. Pristēm has built a magical new clothing care experience that's 150x faster, 10x cheaper, and hassle free. Our smart hardware and consumable cleansyour outfit exactly when you need it, not 24 hours later.Our nationwide network of smart hardware products can be accessed through your mobile phone and a monthly subscription. Pristēm provides the best customer experience that's a faster, greener, and more enjoyable alternative to the laundry and dry cleaning services available today.
  • Looking Glass Factory — Introducing Looking Glass Portrait, your first personal holographic display. Designed for people, real and imagined. Available for pre-order today.
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Ramez Naam
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Ramez Naam is Chief Futurist and Partner at Prime Movers Lab.

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Investment focus

  • Renewable Energy, Energy, Automotive
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Xeal — Xeal provides the world's most advanced electric vehicle (EV) charging stations designed for progressive multi-family apartments and businesses. Lead the change with self-managed sustainable amenities.
  • WeaveGrid — WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills.
  • Distributed Energy — Distributed Energy is a renewable energy platform that matches Investors and Energy Customers. We offer a good IRR and stable returns for our investors.
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Eminem (Marshall Mathers)
Angel · Detroit, Michigan, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Eminem was born Marshall Bruce Mathers III in St. Joseph, Missouri, to Deborah R. (Nelson) and Marshall Bruce Mathers, Jr., who were in a band together, Daddy Warbucks. He is of English, as well as some German, Scottish, and Swiss-German, ancestry. Marshall spent his early childhood being shoved back and forth from Kansas City and Detroit. Hesettled on the Eastside of Detroit when he was 12. Switching schools every two to three months made it difficult to make friends, graduate and to stay out of trouble. Marshall attended Lincoln High School in Warren, Michigan, 1986-1989.Being a rap fan for most of his life, Marshall began rapping at the early age of 4. Rhyming words together, battling schoolmates in the lunchroom brought joy to what was otherwise a painful existence. At the age of 14, he began to get very serious about his rapping but it wasn't until he was 17 that he actually made a name for himself, becoming M&M, which he would later respell as "Eminem". Being rejected by most fellow rappers because of his race, Marshall grew an anger that flows through his music to this day. After failing the 9th grade for three times in a row, he quit school, but has remarked that he does not consider himself stupid and does not advise that people should follow his example. He says that it just wasn't for him. Forcing himself on radio shows, freestyle battles, Marshall threw himself head first into the rap game, where he was swallowed up most of the time. His very first album was titled "Infinite" and, while the album sold less than a thousand copies, it was the gearing up stages for the rapper who became a millionaire. It was then that his daughter, Hailie Jade Scott, was born on December 25th of 1995 with long time girlfriend Kim Scott.Having nothing to lose at all, flat broke and not knowing where he would be living the next week, Marshall set out to rant about life in general, the set quickly caught the ear of hip-hop's difficult-to-please underground. What came out of this was the Slim Shady EP, the early work for the later Dr. Dre revised Slim Shady LP. Down to nearly his last dime, he went into the 1997 Rap Olympics in Los Angeles, basically hoping to win the $1,500 cash prize which he badly needed. After battling for an hour and throwing back every race diss thrown at him, Marshall made it to second place losing in a slip up. Furious that he had lost, Marshall didn't even notice that he had been spotted. In the crowd were a few producers from Interscope, and they were handed a copy of the "Infinite" tape by way of a demo.Dr. Dre got to hear it and eventually tracked him down. The two instantly hit it off, recording four songs in their first six hours of working - three which made it to his first LP. After the album was finished, Dr. Dre asked Marshall to come work with him on his new album. He helped produce several tracks and was on the best songs of the album. Now officially making it, Marshall and Dre set to make his second LP. The album became the Marshall Mathers LP and won 3 Grammies and was the first rap album ever to be nominated "Album of the Year", selling more than 8 million records in the United States alone. He also stunned critics when he shot down all homophobic remarks by performing "Stan" with Elton John. Eminem made a movie, 8 Mile (2002). Though 2001 was a rough year for the rapper, being charged with weapon offenses, divorcing his wife, and almost going to prison, Marshall has explained his life in one word: "Claimer".

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Investment focus

  • Digital Media, Art, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Genius — Genius is an online media platform that brings music intelligence to the masses. Powered by its community, in-house creative team, and the artists themselves, Genius serves music knowledge to over 100 million people each month on Genius.com and everywhere music fans connect across the internet. Founded in 2009, Genius began as a platform forannotating rap lyrics. Over the years, it has expanded its mission to include more than hip-hop, and more than just lyrics. Every song has a story that needs to be told, and the biggest names in music—including Frank Ocean, Lorde, and Lin-Manuel Miranda—come to Genius to give the world insight into their art.
  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
  • MakersPlace — MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators. The company enables creators to protect and sell authentic and unique editions of digital creations. The company connects creators with fans and collectors worldwide through a marketplace and network of partners. Creators are ableto sign and set a limited supply on the work while delivering proof of authenticity, ownership. and scarcity on the blockchain.With MakersPlace, creators are able to better capture the full underlying value of the digital work.MakersPlace was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
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Curtis Jackson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Curtis Jackson is professionally known as "50 cent" is the Founder and CEO of SMS Audio. He began as music chart dominance for the rap music phenomenon, has quickly transformed into success in corporate America. 50 Cent is a multi-tiered business mogul to be reckoned with. Recognized as one of the most talented and prolific music artistsof his time, 50 Cent has managed to leverage his star power into record-breaking brand extensions encompassing a broad spectrum of businesses including music ownership, artist management, film production, footwear and apparel, fragrance, video games, publishing, headphones and health drinks, and supplements. With annual sales quickly approaching $300 million from a variety of business interests along with numerous business endeavors on the horizon, 50 Cent has cemented his position in the industry as both a business and entertainment powerhouse.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Retail, Farming
  • Pre-Seed, Series C, Funding Round
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Casper — Casper is a sleep startup that launches a comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers, eliminating commission ­driven, inflated prices. Casper's mattresses are developed in-house by a team of product engineers with experience from IDEO. The company developed a line of core sleep products, including the Casper pillow, sheets, foundation,bed frame, duvet, and a dog mattress. The startup was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, United States.
  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
  • Genies — Genies is a mobile app company that allows users to clone themselves. Through their Avatar Agency, consumer product, and SDK, Genies has set the foundation for swift, widespread adaptation of avatars in society, business, and culture. With over a million clothing and facial options provided, users can create their Genie to represent themselfhowever they’d like.Genies was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Venice, California, United States.
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Matthew Palevsky
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Matthew Palevsky is the President & Resident Director at Upaya Zen Center.

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Investment focus

  • Solar, Energy, Wind Energy
  • Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • CleanChoice Energy — Sign up for CleanChoice Energy in just a few minutes. It's 100% clean, renewable energy from wind and solar farms - with no new fees, and no new equipment.
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Khloé Kardashian
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Khloé Kardashian

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Investment focus

  • Water, Farming, Wellness
  • Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

  • Dose & Co — Dose & Co develops innovative formulas for people who care about health and wellness.
  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
  • ZenWTR — Zen Beverage offers Zenwtr, a vapor distilled alkaline water bottled in recyclable ocean-bound plastic.ZenWTR is on a mission to help reduce the amount of plastic polluting the world’s coastal environments. Each ZenWTR bottle is made from up to five plastic bottles rescued from coastal environments.It was launched in 2019 and is headquarteredin Irvine, California.
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Bill Gates
Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Bill Gates is the founder, technology advisor, and board member of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. He served as chairman of the board until Feb. 4, 2014.On June 27, 2008, Gates transitioned out of a day-to-day role in the company tospend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He shares his thoughts about the foundation and other topics on Gates Notes, a website launched in January 2010. Gates continues to serve on Microsoft’s Board of Directors and as an advisor on key development projects. He is also the Founder of Breakthrough Energy.Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13.In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer – the MITS Altair.In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates’ foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.Under Gates’ leadership, Microsoft’s mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective, and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, reflected in its industry-leading investment in research and development each year.In 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim and was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Amazon.com. Gates’ previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, was at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks.Gates has donated the proceeds of both books to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in education and skills development.In addition to his love of computers and software, Gates founded Corbis, which is developing one of the world’s largest resources of visual information – a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography from public and private collections around the globe. He is also a member of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which invests in companies engaged in diverse business activities.Philanthropy is very important to Gates. He and his wife, Melinda, started a foundation in 2000 to help reduce inequities in the United States and around the world. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning, with the hope that in the 21st century, advances in these critical areas will be available for all people. To learn more about the foundation, visit www.gatesfoundation.orgGates was married on Jan. 1, 1994, to Melinda French Gates. They have three children. Gates is an avid reader and enjoys playing golf, tennis, and bridge.

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Investment focus

  • Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Series C, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Mainspring Energy — Local power generation for the net-zero carbon grid.
  • Heineken — Welcome to the global website for Heineken International. Find information about our company, history, brands, strategy and careers here.
  • Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
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Tyler Willis
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Tyler is the President and Co-Founder of Unsupervised, which helps Fortune 500 companies become more data-driven by allowing them to analyze infinitely complex data and autonomously discover the biggest opportunities that their analysts and teams should be focused on.Tyler is also an angel investor, with investments in companies like LambdaSchool, Patreon, Lyft (IPO), Loungebuddy (acquired by Amex), and This is L. (acquired by P&G). Prior to Unsupervised, Tyler worked at AngelList, Hired.com, Unified, and Involver.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Mobile, Hardware
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
  • Firstparty — Firstparty is a B2B software startup that builds marketing automation tools for data-driven growth teams. Firstparty was founded in 2021.
  • Lambda School — Lambda School is a combination of a school and an investment fund. Lambda School's mission is to find untapped or underutilized talent, and train that talent for the most in-demand jobs in the world. Lambda School is pioneering a new model of higher education in which the school invests in the students, instead of the other way around.
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Dwayne Douglas Johnson
Angel · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is the new Investor of Salt and Straw and the Co-Founder of ZOA Energy. He is also known by his ring name, The Rock, is an American-Canadian actor, producer, and retired professional wrestler.Mr. Johnson was a professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation for eight years prior to pursuing an acting career. Mr.Johnson also attended the University of Miami.

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Investment focus

  • Sports, Farming, CleanTech
  • Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
  • Salt and Straw — Salt & Straw is a gathering place for neighbors and family. But how did we evolve to making unbelievably tasty concoctions that you won't find anywhere else?
  • XFL Football League — The official source for XFL news, schedules, rosters, tickets, team gear and more. For the love of football.
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Walter Winshall
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Walter A. Winshall serves as a Principal in Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC, an investment firm specializing in the commercialization of early-stage technology. Previously, he was a co-founder and Chairman of SilverPlatter International, NV, a company providing information services for libraries, which was acquired by the Dutchpublishing company Wolters Kluwer in 2001. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of AgaMatrix, Inc., HealthCare IT, Inc., and MOCA Systems, Inc. He graduated from MIT in electrical engineering and from the Harvard Law School. At AgaMatrix, Walt provides guidance in corporate development strategy.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Finance, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Avanlee Care — Bring your family closer with the all-in-one elderly care app.
  • Rheaply — Rheaply is making the world's resources more discoverable and transferrable in our global economy.
  • StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your
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Mark Goines
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Based in Menlo Park, Mark is a Partner focused on the areas of financial technology, mobile, consumer and small business Internet services. He has an extensive track record of working with high growth companies as an entrepreneur, executive and angel investor. Exits from his angel investments include Mint, Baby Center, PayCycle and Nolo.com.Prior to joining Morgenthaler, Mark was a successful angel investor. His investments included two Morgenthaler portfolio companies, Pageonce and Practice Fusion. He currently represents Morgenthaler on the Practice Fusion board.Previously, Mark helped build and ran Intuit’s Consumer Tax business (TurboTax). He also served as Senior Vice President of Intuit’s International Division, managing businesses on every continent, creating new products, acquiring companies and building partnerships. He then served as General Manager of Intuit’s Consumer Division and helped generate over $200 million in annual revenues, serving 15 million customers across a broad range of software and e-commerce services by 2000.Prior to Intuit, Mark held executive positions at Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab, where he developed and marketed early-stage banking, software and electronic services that formed the foundation of today’s online trading industry.Mark became an active investor and entrepreneur in 2000. He was an investor and board member at Mint, a consumer online financial management company that was sold to Intuit in 2009. He was also an investor and board member in Nolo.com, a self-help law service that was sold to Internet Brands in 2011. Goines co-founded and became chief marketing officer at PassMark Security, which was sold to RSA in 2006. He also invested in WePay (payments), BillFloat (lending) and Cozi (family organization).Mark holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley. He served as president of the Los Altos Educational Foundation and has been elected as a trustee of the Los Altos School Board.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Japan, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

  • Autumn — Autumn modernizes the way Americans manage loss with the world’s first deathcare marketplace. With free guides and tools, and over 500,000 providers for hire, Autumn is on a mission to transform the American deathcare landscape for the better.
  • Credit Mountain — Provide your users with a full-suite of tools designed to help improve credit scores. Offer your members a PATH TO YES!
  • Trustworthy. — Trustworthy offers state of the art operating system for families that need help organizing family documents. Find out how we can help make your life easier.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American actor, filmmaker, businessman, investor, author.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Collaboration, Digital Entertainment
  • Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Scopely — Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first games company, home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “Scrabble® GO,” “WWE Champions” and “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others. Scopely creates, publishes and live-operates immersive games that empower adirected-by-consumer™ experience. Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the mobile games industry. Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years. Scopely has global operations across 17 markets (Asia-Pacific - Bangalore, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo; EMEA - Barcelona, Dublin, Helsinki, Kyiv, London, Seville, Tel Aviv; North America - Boston, Boulder, Culver City, Mountain View, San Francisco), with additional game studio partners across four continents. For more information, visit www.scopely.com.
  • Dropshyp — Shop the latest and greatest products online at best possible prices with your one stop shop for everything. Save money and start shopping with Online Shop.
  • Advanced Microgrid Solutions — Advanced Microgrid Solutions installs advanced energy storage systems in buildings to lower energy costs for consumers and provide clean. AMS's Hybrid-Electric BuildingsTM Project deploys large networks of battery systems in targeted buildings where electric utilities need grid support. The company can seamlessly shift an entire fleet ofbuildings from grid power to battery power providing real-time support to the electric grid. Building owners get paid for being part of the solution to today's energy challenge.Advanced Microgrid Solutions artificial intelligence-powered software maximizes the value of renewables, batteries, and entire asset portfolios so they can deploy and use more clean energy with higher ROI. It uses deep learning algorithms to enable optimized trading of complex energy assets in wholesale energy markets. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Angelina Jolie
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Angelina Jolie-Voight is an American actress, activist, and filmmaker and she is the Founder of Maddox Jolie-Pitt. She was a Speaker at Council on Foreign Relations.

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Investment focus

  • Farming, CleanTech, GreenTech
  • Pre-Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
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Alexander Katalov
Angel

Alexander Katalov - President @ ElcomSoft Co. Ltd

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Software, Aerospace
  • Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Turing.com — Turing is the leading Talent Cloud for companies to hire the most deeply vetted remote developers & teams. Learn more about hiring software engineers or finding a remote job.
  • HyPoint — Next Generations Fuel Cell Systems
  • Checkme — Checkme is a health management service company, that cooperates with clinics and laboratories that have passed Checkme quality control.
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Jim Bochnowski
Angel

Jim Bochnowski

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Investment focus

  • Solar, Energy, Clean Energy
  • Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Terrajoule — Terrajoule is a solar + storage solution that revolutionizes the cleantech industry.
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Brett Jackson
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Brett Jackson is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at V1.VC.

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Investment focus

  • Finance, Apps, Telecommunications
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Bolt — Bolt makes Ecommerce better with One-Click Checkout and CheckoutOS. See how Bolt checkout boosts your sales today.
  • madKast — Recently founded madKast makes it easy for people to share news and blog posts with others via a single click. Users just have to enter their e-mail address to get a madKast widget, which once installed, lets you share the story's URL with your contacts through e-mail, text messaging, instant messaging, or social bookmarking sites. madKastis free, and there is no registration or downloading required to get their widget. The company's founders were also involved in the creation of
  • Simple Energy — We started this company because we want to change the world and we knew the best way to do it was to get everyday people to act like they care. We motivate people to save energy. We create data-driven software that appeals to people interests and desires, informs them about their energy use and makes saving energy social, fun, and simple. We createlasting change in the way people use energy and are building a more sustainable future.
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Will Smith
Angel · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Will Smith is an actor, producer and musician, two-time Academy Award® nominee four-time Grammy nominee and winner Will Smith has enjoyed a diverse career encompassing films, television and multiplatinum records.Smith’s vast filmography includes transformative portrayals of true-life icons in “Ali,” “The Pursuit of Happyness” and “Concussion.” Hehas headlined an extraordinary list of films, including “Hitch,” “I am Legend,” “I, Robot,” “Independence Day,” “Men in Black I, II, and III” and “Suicide Squad".Currently, Smith can be seen in Walt Disney Pictures “Aladdin” in the iconic role of the Genie. The movie was directed by Guy Ritchie and has made over $1 billion worldwide since its release on May 24, 2019. Smith will next be seen staring in Ang Lee’s action/thriller, “Gemini Man” out this fall. Next year, he’ll grace the screen once again in the beloved franchise, Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life,” premiering around the world in January 2020, in which he will once again reprise his iconic role as Detective Mike Lowrey opposite Martin Lawrence. Smith will next go into production on Warner Brother’s “King Richard” where he will star in the titular role of Richard Williams, the father of renounced tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.Recently, Smith created the daring Facebook Watch series, “Will Smith’s Bucket List” where he challenges himself to a different item from his bucket list each week, including performing standup comedy with Dave Chappelle, skydiving in Dubai, swimming with sharks, and racing a Formula 1 car in Abu Dhabi. The show was a massive success for the platform. He began his career as a musician selling millions of records worldwide before crossing over into television with the beloved “Fresh Prince of Bel Air.” In 1998 he and partner James Lassiter founded production and management company Overbrook Entertainment, which has produced numerous top film and television projects.In addition to his artistic achievements, Smith is a successful business owner. Along with his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, he launched a new media venture, Westbrook Inc. This is a cross-platform holding company formed to execute the Smith Family’s global content and commerce business strategy. Westbrook Inc. will encompass subsidiary companies including the existing Overbrook Entertainment, Red Table Talk Enterprises and the recently formed Westbrook Studios, Westbrook Media, and Good Goods, the latter an elevated merchandise business. Additionally he and Jada founded the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation. WJSFF is a nonprofit, philanthropic organization committed to improving lives and investing in organizations and initiatives that empower traditionally overlooked communities.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
  • Invisible Universe — Invisible Universe is an internet-first animation studio that develops original character IP on social media and web3 platforms. Its mission is to create the next household name animated franchises faster and more economical than traditional models. We believe the next generation of animated franchises will be born on the internet.
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John Carleton
Angel · Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

JC has invested in startups for over two decades. JC helps several startups he has not invested in in the areas of capital raising, pitching, and business plan development. JC is a graduate of the University of Richmond with a degree in Leadership and Economics. While overseas he obtained an MBA with a concentration in Global Management andAccounting in 2007. JC holds a CPA license in Virginia as well as a CGFM and CGMA certificate. He lives in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Sports
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Reyets: Social Justice Network — Reyets is the fastest growing social justice network providing civil rights tools, that allow people to know their rights, document and report misconduct, access alternatives to calling the police and connect with community protection networks. We empower the new Civil Rights Movement.
  • Skycart — Skycart build delivery drones for shipping goods in 30min or less. Anywhere, anytime.
  • Field Complete — Free software for any field service company looking to improve operations and become more profitable! Get access to free home services management software.
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Jordan Levy
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Jordan Levy is a General Partner at SoftBank Capital NY and also Managing Partner of Seed Capital Partners, an early stage venture capital fund that he co-founded in 1999.Prior to co-founding Seed Capital Partners, he was co-founder of ClientLogic and was President, co-CEO and co-Chair of its predecessor companies SOFTBANK Services Group andUCA (now SITEL Worldwide). Previously, Jordan was SVP of Software Etc,now GameStop (NYSE:GME) and prior to that he was also co-founder of Software Distribution Services, now known as Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM).Jordan currently serves on the boards of several technology companies including SocialFlow, Spanfeller Media, Synaptic Digital, COKeM Int. and is Chairman of Synacor (NASDAQ: SYNC). He is a Board Observer of Betaworks and Boxee. Previously, Jordan served on the boards of ZipList (sold to Condé Nast in 2012), OMGPOP (sold to Zynga in 2012), Hyperpublic (sold to Groupon in 2012), and KickApps (sold to KIT digital in 2011). He also is the first non-Native American on the Board of Seneca Holdings Corporation.Jordan is Chair of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation, the State Agency responsible for the redevelopment of Buffalo’s vast historic waterfront. He is also on the Advisory Board for NYC Seed and a trustee of the University of Buffalo Foundation. He served for nine years as a trustee of the Albright Knox Art Gallery and is a past President of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Software, Advertising
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • HyPoint — Next Generations Fuel Cell Systems
  • Overtime — Overtime is the leading brand for the next generation of sports fans. As both a publisher and an influencer, we've built the inclusive world of sports we all wish was the norm by giving a platform to our community to be seen AND heard.
  • Social Native — All-in-one UGC platform & influencer solution to power branded content. Create, source, and optimize user-generated content and social content.
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Angel

blah - teh software was teh busted and they didn't want to fix it or hire someone to fix it, odd folks, these.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
  • Hoth Intelligence — Hoth Intelligence home page. Space age surgical technology brought down to earth.
  • Floating Point Group — Floating Point Group is a trading platform provider offering innovative, industry-leading trade execution and settlement
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