# Top 50 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in May 2026

## Ron Suber
- Type: Angel
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Part entrepreneur, executive, sales, marketing, branding, mentor and coach. Medium IQ, High EQ, High AQ (Adversity Quotient).Enjoys traveling, teaching, yoga, hanging out with friends and family. Shares observations and lessons from experience on Wall Street, fin-tech and online lending in presentations at conferences globally, at emergingcompanies, at universities and on white boards. History of creating and executing successful strategies, raising debt and equity for fin-tech ventures, collaborating and having fun on winning teams. Enjoys engaging with entrepreneurs to help with their marketing, product development, sales process, hiring, focus and execution of key metrics. President Emeritus and Senior Advisor to Prosper, Executive Vice Chairman and member of the board of directors of Credible. Advisory board member to Docusign, Juvo, Unison, Money360 and eOriginal.Married 26 years, two grown children and living in San Francisco.

## Ed Wray
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Mr. Edward Wray, Ed is a Co-Founder of Betfair Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Wray co-founded The Sporting Exchange Limited (Alternate Name: Betfair Limited) in May 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Betfair, he spent eight years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Vice President in the debt capital markets and derivatives area. He servesas the Chairman at Betfair. He has been Non-executive Chairman of The Sporting Exchange Limited since 2006. He served as the Chairman of Betfair Limited since 2006. He served as Non-Executive Chairman of Betfair Group PLC from March 17, 2008 to March 6, 2012. He has been a Director at Sporting Exchange since August 1998. Mr. Wray has been a Director of Betfair Group PLC since August 20, 1999. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Funding Circle Ltd. He served as a Director at Betfair since 1999.

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

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

## Blaine Vess
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. Attended at Y Combinator.

## Nihal Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS

Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.

## Samih Toukan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social Media, Mobile, Financial Services

In the year 2000 Samih founded and became the CEO of Maktoob.com the world’s first Arabic email and largest Arab Online community. In 2005 Samih cofounded Souq.com, the Arab Worlds largest ecommerce site. In 2009 Maktoob was acquired by Yahoo! and in 2017 Souq.com was acquired by Amazon in the largest technology acquisition deals in the history ofthe region.Samih is currently the Chairman of Jabbar Internet Group (Jabbar.com). Jabbar today is one of the leading investors in Internet and technology companies in the region.

## Ankur Nagpal
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Education

Ankur Nagpal Founder of Fedora and Co-Founder of Vibe VC. He attended University of California, Berkeley in 2006.

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

## Tikhon Bernstam
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Financial Services

Tikhon Bernstam is an American entrepreneur who cofounded the companies Scribd and Parse.

## Shashank V Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Crowdfunding, Finance, SaaS

Shashank V Singh is a Principal/Director Product Management at Axon. He Attended Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University during 2000-2004.

## Max Levchin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile

Max Levchin is an investor and advisor to emerging technology companies. He was previously the chairman and chief executive officer of HVF, a startup lab focused on extracting insights from recordable information.Levchin co-founded Confinity Inc. in December 1998, and served as the Chief Technology Officer and a director. He also foundedNetMeridian Software, a developer of early Internet applications Levchin also serves as chairman of the boards of directors of Yelp Inc. and Kaggle Inc., and as a director of Evernote Corporation.

## Rajan Anandan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

## Steve Schoettler
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: EdTech, FinTech, Finance

Steve Schoettler is the Founder and CEO of Junyo and an angel investor. At Junyo, Steve combines a passion for education with two decades of experience in early-stage tech companies that have the power to transform industries. Previously, he was co-founder, employee #1 and VP Platform Services at Zynga, one of the fastest growing companiesever, where he led the development of payment processing, virtual currency purchases, and fraud detection. Prior to Zynga, Steve led teams at GO, General Magic, and Kontiki to develop innovative technologies in mobile, security, and distributed computing. He is a board member of both Full Circle Fund and Indiegogo, and he is actively involved in social entrepreneurship. Steve earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley.

## Sharad Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Artificial Intelligence

Sharad Sharma is the Co-Founder of the iSPIRT Foundation. He attended Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

## Vaibhav Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Crowdfunding, SaaS

Reimagining the way you order food today! Feel free to connect with me here on LinkedIn, drop me a line at vai@voix.ai and check https://www.Voix.ai

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

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

## Dan Cunningham
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tempe, Arizona, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Crowdfunding, Apps, Brand Marketing

Seed Investor - Managing Partner at Menagerie Investments & HoldingsStrategic Advisor - Chief Strategist at 396West, the strategic advisory arm of Menagerie Investments & Holdings. 369West serves startups and emerging growth companies by providing high level strategies and execution for marketing, business development, operating plans,crisis management, and pivots. Film/TV Producer - President of Production at Busted Buggy Entertainment. BBE is a dynamic, independent film and television production company. Their NY TIMES Critic's Pick, THE GIRL IN THE BOOK, can be seen on Netflix, and their recent micro-budget success, RESCUE DOGS, can be seen on Showtime. Small Business Advisor - Founder of Worth Becoming Consulting. Worth Becoming provides hands-on advisory and execution services for small, local businesses. Leveraging the vast experience in the start-up world to help small businesses get the edge in their community by thinking high level strategy at a global level, while executing at a local level.

## Daniel Schryer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Dan Schryer was formerly CEO of DCI Data Centers, a Blackstone backed technology real estate company. Together with Guru Gowrappan, formerly CEO of Verizon Media, he co-founded Bali Venture Partners, LLC to invest in seed and growth stage debt and equity opportunities.

## Stanley Fink
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, B2B

Lord Stanley Fink is a non-executive director and investor in British Pearl. He is a senior, well-known and accomplished financial services professional, with a long and diverse track record in, among others, the managed futures, brokerage and hedge fund industries.He was born in 1957 and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity Hall,Cambridge graduating with a degree in Law. He then qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982 and worked at Mars and Citibank NA before joining Man Group plc in 1987, stepping down as Deputy Chairman of the Group in July 2008 after an illustrious career spanning 21 years including a successful period as Group CEO.Currently he is Chairman of ISAM Europe LLP, a hedge fund with offices in London, Florida and Cayman. He also is a non-executive director of Marex Spectron and Chairman of Zenith Hygiene Group plc.Lord Fink is a committed philanthropist whose focus is health, education and the environment. His roles include being a Trustee of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), a Trustee of the Mayor’s Fund for London and Co-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He was Chairman of the highly successful campaign by the Evelina London Hospital's Appeal to raise £10 million to assist in equipping the new hospital in 2005. He is also Chair Emeritus of the Board of Governors of Burlington Danes Academy which he sponsored through ARK. He was raised to the Peerage in 2011.

## Payam Zamani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning

Payam Past is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO at One Planet Group.

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

David Braben Chairman at Frontier Developments.

## Scott Belsky
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.

## Jeffrey Tarrant
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Crowdfunding, Cryptocurrency, Venture Capital

Jeffrey Tarrant

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

## Paul Graham
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software

Paul Graham

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

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

## Dave Shaver
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: PaaS, Software, E-Commerce

Dave Shaver Founded Corepoint Health LLC in 1997 and also serves as its Chief Technology Officer.

## Amir Banifatemi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Newport Beach, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Crowdfunding, Financial Services, Medical

Amir Banifatemi is the Responsible AI Expert at GPAI. He is also Taskforce member for the Open Quantum Initiative at GESDA
Amir BanifatemiAmir is an entrepreneur, investor, and innovation strategist. He is the General Manager of Innovation and Growth with the XPRIZE foundation. He is a co-founder of the AI Commons, and co-founder and curator ofthe AI for Good Global Summit with the ITU and UN Agencies. He has managed two venture capital funds and continues to support and advise companies and initiatives with a focus on the transformation of humanity and society. Mr. Banifatemi is a guest lecturer and an adjunct MBA professor at UC Berkeley, Chapman University, Claremont McKenna College, UC Irvine, and HEC Paris.
He holds Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology of Compiègne, a Doctorate in System Design and Cognitive Sciences from the University Paris Descartes, as well as an MBA from HEC Paris.

## Nicolas Douay
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Fashion

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor & VP @ Entrepreneur First Paris

## Bill Ullman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking

Bill Ullman

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

## Alok Mittal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce

Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, India's leading full-stack platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses. Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi. Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners' venture investmentbusiness. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business in India.Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.

## Erik Peterson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS

Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.

## Ajay Chandwani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Communities, Crowdfunding

Ajay Chandwani is Director on the board of Percept Limited since 2009. Ajay was CEO, Percept H advertising from 2005 TO 2009 looking after the agency that is a joint venture between Percept and Hakuhodo of Japan. He was earlier with Lowe Lintas as Director on the Management Committee , handling Unilever Personal Products and New BusinessDevelopment. He was instrumental in building Unilever brands Fair & Lovely, Pepsodent, Close Up and Pears apart from being Unilever international coordinator on Personal Products. Ajay founded SSC&B Lintas and was it’s President for 10 years. SSC&B Lintas at it’s peak became a 100 Cr agency with clients like Unilever Kwality Walls, Marico, Tata Motors, Mercedes Benz, Smirnoff, Green Label whisky, Tata Motors Hero Group, Hyundai, Vardhaman among others. SSC&B Lintas won over 100 International awards-Golds at the New York Festival, Montreux Festival, London Festival and many other prestigious awards. SSC& B Lintas was the first Indian agency ever to win a Cannes Gold in 1996. Ajay has been an Executive Member of the Ad Club Management Committee since 8 years and is currently Joint Secretary . Ajay has been on the awards jury of the New York festivals and the Montreux Advertising festival. He was the Chairman of the Abby Awards judging committee for 7 years upto 2010. After chairing the Creative Abby Award judging at Goafest for 3 years, Ajay is now a member of the Goafest Abby Award Governing Counci since last year. Ajay was Co–Chairman of DMAi Convention held in Mumbai in August 2012. Ajay is also on the Governing Board of DMAI and was Chairman of Echo Awards India in 2012. In the last 3 years Ajay has advised Percept Ltd on Corporate Strategy, New Business,Image building and new investment. He has also been also working independently as a Strategic Brand Consultant. Ajay is Member, Advisory Board of Miami Ad School, Mumbai. Ajay has keen interest in serious Photography (Wildlife & Travel), Collecting Art, Antiques and is an Audio & Music enthusiast with interest in Rock and Jazz.

## Khurram Hilal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Communities, Real Estate

Khurram Hilal,CEO of global Islamic banking at a leading international Bank.

## Naval Ravikant
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Blockchain

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

## John Bacon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Crowdfunding, Venture Capital, Funding Platform

John Bacon

## Benjamin Ling
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Ben Ling is a founder and partner at Bling Capital. Previously he was an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personalinvestments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion, Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse.Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics.At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping.At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web.Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).

## Utkarsh Singh
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Communities, Crowdfunding

Utkarsh Singh is Head- Business Development for Rajasthan Royals IPL team.

## Geoff Ralston
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Education, Social Media

Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.

## Simon Schwerin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Crowdfunding

Simon Schwerin joined XAIN as a Business Development Manager, after he wrote his Master Thesis about Blockchains and Privacy, specifically concerning the GDPR. He will focus his work on Medixain to build a solution in the Healthcare and Blockchain sector.He has received an M.Sc. in Business Intelligence and Process Management, after studyingInternational Business in his undergrads. Previously he worked for the Blockchain Start-up BigchainDB on the business strategy and project management side. Formerly, he gathered working experience in the financial, healthcare and IT-consulting sector.Simon focuses on developing valid business models for blockchain use cases, while keeping privacy by design and regulations in mind. He led the working groups on identity and standardization within the public German blockchain lobby group „Bundesblock“ (Bundesverband Blockchain).

## Mishaal Alireza
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Retail, FinTech

Mishaal Alireza - Board Member @ DokkanAfkar

## Kevin Moore
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates. 

## Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Art

Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile

## Andrey Chernetsov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Finance, Crowdfunding, Financial Services

Andrey Chernetsov

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Daud Vicary Abdullah
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Communities, Real Estate

Daud Vicary Abdullah

## Jennifer Hyman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Professional Services, SaaS, Mobile Apps

Jennifer Hyman is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rent the Runway, a fashion company with a technology soul that is disrupting the way women get dressed. In her role, she sets the strategic priorities of the business and leads the company in growing all areas of the business, including marketing, technology, product, and analytics.She co-founded Rent the Runway in 2009 with Jennifer Fleiss, and has since raised $126 million in venture capital, growing the business to over 6 million members, 950 employees and 400 designer brands.Jennifer has been honored with numerous recognitions including: Forbes' "Women Entrepreneurs to Watch", TriBeCa Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Awards”, Fortune Magazine’s “Trailblazers, 11 People Changing Business in 2013,” “Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs,” and “40 Under 40”; Inc. Magazine’s “30 Under 30”; and Fast Company’s “Most Influential Women in Technology.” She has been a featured speaker at Fortune Brainstorm Tech, the Forbes Women’s Summit, Tech Crunch Disrupt, and Marie Claire’s Power Trip, and has appeared as a guest on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, and CNN Money, among many others.In 2015, Jennifer launched the Rent the Runway Foundation with Jennifer Fleiss to inspire and ignite the next generation of female entrepreneurs. The foundation’s first initiative, in partnership with UBS, is Project Entrepreneur, a venture competition and educational program designed to provide women entrepreneurs nationwide with the tools to build high-growth, high-impact businesses.Prior to Rent the Runway, Jennifer was the Director of Business Development at IMG where she focused on the creation of new media businesses for IMG's Fashion Division. She also ran an online advertising sales team at WeddingChannel.com and was an in-house entrepreneur at Starwood Hotels, creating Starwood’s first wedding business which was recognized on the Oprah Winfrey Show for its innovation. She received her BA from Harvard University and MBA from Harvard Business School. Jennifer is a Bloomberg Fellow, a TechStars mentor, and a member of both the Entrepreneurship Board at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Women in Business Board at Harvard University. She is an investor in and advisor to several high-growth startups throughout the U.S.

## Numerous Confidential Sources
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Nutrition

Numerous Confidential Sources

## Shiladitya Bora
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Communities, Crowdfunding

Shiladitya Bora is the CEO of Drishyam Films, a global motion picture studio headquartered in Mumbai, India, that has produced critically acclaimed films such as Masaan (Fly Away Solo), a double winner at Cannes 2015, Dhanak (Rainbow), a double winner at Berlinale 2015 and Umrika, the audience award winner at Sundance 2015. At the helm of DrishyamFilms, Shiladitya is working on high quality indie cinema which travels far and wide across the world yet also engages with audiences within the country.A director, producer and distributor, Shiladitya is known for establishing PVR's Director's Rare, India's leading indie release banner. He also independently distributed Court, winner of multiple international awards and India's official submission for the 88th Annual Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

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