Top 15 Facebook Angel Investors in United States in October 2023

Val Katayev is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and led four successful startups to hyper-growth centered around digital media in display, mobile, music, search and data. Two of these tech companies, ToneMedia (now Bandsintown Amplified) and ToneFuse resulted in being acquired by Lagardère Group. In addition to success in tech, Val is apioneer in the Marketplace Lending space as he later partnered with Prime Meridian Capital Management to help the firm grow it's AUM from $5M to $500M in 3 years.Operating and growing with capital efficiency is where Val excels. This management style generated over $100M through profits and exits, all before taking any venture capital.While at ToneMedia, Katayev grew it to a top 3 music property according to Comscore and developed ToneTargeting, a patent pending tech that evaluates consumer demo, buying habits and hobbies based on musical tastes. In 2009, Katayev founded ToneFuse, which he grew to become the world's largest ringtone marketing platform. Also in 2009, Katayev co-founded and laid the early foundation for MobileFuse, one of the leading mobile advertising companies that he still oversees. In 2001, Katayev founded Poise Media, an industry leader in performance and paid search marketing for 800+ clients including eBay, VistaPrint and Rhapsody, while still attending Baruch College.These days Val is an investor, board member and advisor in a number of companies. As always on the lookout for the next big project to dedicate himself to.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Audio
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

Mojiva — Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology.Mojiva, Inc. provides productsand solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.
Thismoment — Thismoment is a marketing technology company that enables the world’s biggest companies to connect with their target audiences in real time on any device. Through Thismoment Content Cloud, our digital storytelling platform, they enable effortless content curation, digital experience creation and sharing, content rights management and seamlessenterprise technology integrations. More than 150 top brands and agencies use Thismoment, including Coca-Cola, Intuit, Levi’s, Sephora, Fleishman Hillard and Digitas. Thismoment's vision is to give their customers endless opportunities to engage their customers with any content, anywhere. That’s no small feat, but after working with over 150 of the Fortune 500 brands since 2007, we think we’re in a unique position to make it happen.
Signal360 (formerly Sonic Notify) — Signal360 is the leading in-venue mobile notification platform for real-time user engagement. Signal360's platform uses cross-platform patented inaudible-sound mobile notification technologies as well as the emerging BLE standard (full support for iBeacon and Android BLE) to wirelessly enable retail locations to interact with customersthrough existing consumer mobile apps, retailer-specific mobile apps, and/or custom created apps.

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Mika is a serial entrepreneur whose work life has been primarily centered on discovering talent and driving new ideas. He has done this in numerous industries and have discovered Grammy, Oscar and Emmy winning artists, created the original online short video company, run the internet’s most popular casual games web sites, built one of the firstsports tracking apps, and pioneered new business models in education.A few examples are the Nine Inch Nails (music), Jason Reitman (film), JibJab (animation), AtomFilms (online video), Shockwave/AddictingGames (games), MadRaces (sports) and the INSEAD San Francisco Hub for Business Innovation (education). he did this as a founder, a CEO, or as a senior executive.Entrepreneurs are Mika's favorite kind of talent, and he enjoys helping them realize their ideas and dreams for their start ups. He has done this working with Accel, Raine, and Sequoia and now leads Lakestar, a top global VC based in Europe.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Gaming, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Inkd.com — Inkd (formerly Pressplane) has two main products: Inkd, a true "buy & sell" community (rather like CafePress, Zazzle, Etsy and even stock image companies) wherein designers upload print creative and businesses can download and use the content as a cost effective alternative to hiring a designer, and Zapd, an app that allows users tocreate instant, themed websites straight from their iPhones.
GemShare — GemShare is the first service focused on finding and sharing high-quality recommendations with people you know and trust for the services needed to manage busy daily life. GemShare for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is the easiest and most dependable way to ask for and store the "best" local services - or "gems" - shared amongone's own trusted friends and networks. Founded in 2013 by two busy working moms, GemShare focuses on important daily needs where taste, trust and personal endorsements matter – everything from home improvement services, SAT tutors, and orthopedic surgeons to marriage counselors, music and language instructors, trusted childcare, and much more. Transforming the frequent exchanges that already happen when people ask “Does anyone know a good…?,” GemShare organizes this information and “best of” recommendations in one simple, searchable place. GemShare is based in San Francisco and backed by angel and venture capital investors including Second Avenue Partners, Greylock Partners, Rich Barton, Mika Salmi and Ellen Levy, among others.
Thismoment — Thismoment is a marketing technology company that enables the world’s biggest companies to connect with their target audiences in real time on any device. Through Thismoment Content Cloud, our digital storytelling platform, they enable effortless content curation, digital experience creation and sharing, content rights management and seamlessenterprise technology integrations. More than 150 top brands and agencies use Thismoment, including Coca-Cola, Intuit, Levi’s, Sephora, Fleishman Hillard and Digitas. Thismoment's vision is to give their customers endless opportunities to engage their customers with any content, anywhere. That’s no small feat, but after working with over 150 of the Fortune 500 brands since 2007, we think we’re in a unique position to make it happen.

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Sue Decker is principal of Deck3 Ventures LLC. She serves on the boards of directors of Berkshire Hathaway, Intel Corporation, and Costco Wholesale. She is also a trustee of Save the Children.During the 2009- 2010 academic year, she was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Harvard Business School (HBS). In this role, she was involved in casedevelopment activities, worked with students, and helped develop and deliver portions of the January 2010 Silicon Valley Immersion Program for HBS students.Prior to joining HBS, Decker performed a number of roles for Yahoo!, from June 2000 to April 2009. Her most recent position was president of Yahoo! Inc. from June 2007 to April 2009. In this role, she was a key participant in determining Yahoo!'s business strategy and vision and was responsible for all of the global business operations of Yahoo!, including sales, product marketing and distribution across the three major customer groups of audience, advertisers and publishers. Prior to becoming President, from December 2006 to June 2007, Decker served as the head of one of Yahoo!'s two major business units, the Advertiser and Publisher Group (APG). Before that, Decker was executive vice president and chief financial officer from June 2000 to June 2007, managing all aspects of the company's financial and administrative direction within key functional areas, including finance, facilities, investor relations (and human resources and legal through December 2006).Prior to joining Yahoo!, Decker was with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) for 14 years. Most recently, she served as the global director of equity research, a $300 million operation, where, among other things, she was responsible for building and staffing a non-U.S. research product based on global sector teams. Before she assumed these responsibilities, Decker spent 12 years as an equity research analyst, providing coverage to institutional investors on more than 30 media, publishing, and advertising stocks. In this capacity, she received recognition by Institutional Investor magazine as a top rated analyst for ten consecutive years.Decker holds a B.S. degree from Tufts University, with a double major in computer science and economics, and an M.B.A. from HBS. She also received the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst in 1989 and served on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) for a four-year term, from 2000 to 2004. She served on the board of directors of Pixar Animation Studios from June 2004 to May 2006, until its sale to Disney, and on the board of The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) from March 2005 to May 2007.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, Software, SMS
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Gusto — Gusto develops web-based payroll solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It operates an online platform that provides payroll, benefits, human resources, and integration services for employers and employees in the United States.Gusto offers health benefits and workers’ compensation benefits that include medical insurance, commuterbenefits, and 401(k) contributions as well as workers’ compensation insurance plans, time tracking, and integration services, and access to employees for processing payroll from web-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. It also provides access to employees and contractors to browse their previous pay stubs, review their payroll forms, verify their personal details, and statistics about their pay, tax payments and federal forms filing services, and security and support services.Gusto serves startups, coffee shops, doctors, creative agencies, lawyers, and boutiques. Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London founded ZenPayRoll in 2011 that became Gusto, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California with an additional office in Denver in Colorado.
Rakuten Americas — Curbside makes it easy to find, buy and pickup products at nearby stores. The Curbside app searches realtime local inventory across retailers and uses location-based technologies to alert stores when a customer is arriving for a pickup. Curbside helps consumers quickly get what they need and helps retailers better serve their increasinglymobile centric customers.
Tetrapod Software — Prompt.io is a robust P2P texting platform for nonprofits, political organizations, advocacy groups, and commercial uses, offering short code, toll free, and 10DLC.

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Mattias Westman is the Founding Partner of Prosperity Capital Management, an investment firm specializing in Russia and the former Soviet Union. PCM is an active investor with assets of some 2.8bn USD. Prior to founding PCM in 1996, he worked for investment banks Hagströmer & Qviberg and Alfred Berg and started investing in Russia in 1993.Westman has also served on the boards of several Russian companies and as Deputy Chairman of the Investor Protection Association in Russia. He holds a masters degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

SMS, Medical, Facebook
Series A, Series C, Debt Financing
United States

Portfolio highlights

IgGenix — IgGenix is a biotechnology company, directly address food and other severe allergies by re-engineering key antibodies involved in the allergic cascade. IgGenix isolates and transforms allergen-specific IgE antibodies into IgG antibodies that are designed to alleviate and possibly prevent the allergic cascade.
Bluestar Genomics —
Tetrapod Software — Prompt.io is a robust P2P texting platform for nonprofits, political organizations, advocacy groups, and commercial uses, offering short code, toll free, and 10DLC.

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Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

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EtherMail — EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.
Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.

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Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TipTop — Buying stuff is easy, selling it is hard. But maybe there is a world where you don't have to sell things any longer? Curious?
Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.

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Jonathan Miller is a Partner at Advancit Capital. He has been a director of TripAdvisor since the completion of the Spin-Off from Expedia in December 2011.Miller was the Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corporation’s digital media group and News Corporation’s Chief Digital Officer from April 2009 until October 2012. Miller had previously beena founding partner of Velocity Interactive Group (“Velocity”), an investment firm focusing on digital media and the consumer Internet, from its inception in February 2007 until April 2009.Prior to founding Velocity, Miller served as Chief Executive Officer of AOL LLC (“AOL”) from August 2002 to December 2006. Prior to joining AOL, Miller served as Chief Executive Officer and President of USA Information and Services, of USA Interactive, a predecessor to IAC/InterActiveCorp (“IAC”). Miller also served as a director of Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. from August 2008 until January 2010, and as a director of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. from January 2010 through April 2011.Miller is currently a member of the Board of Directors of J2 Global, Inc. Miller also serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute and is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Investment focus

Advertising, News, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Knotch — Knotch is the content intelligence platform for brands. We pair performance data with consumer sentiment in real time to help marketers plan, measure, optimize and benchmark. Information is the key to growth, and Knotch is committed to enhancing your content efforts across owned and paid strategies.
Fresco News — Visit FrescoNews today to find informative and engaging insights, news, and trends in technology and business. Check out the website for more details!
Greatist — Greatist | Health and Fitness News, Tips, Recipes, and Exercises

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Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

Investment focus

Advertising, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Noba — Give your team the benefit of inflation-protected savings in digital dollars, backed 1:1 to USD.
FL Newsletter — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.

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Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, provider of popular social project management software with customers from 50+ countries.Andrew started his first software development company at the age of 18. Today, he is a seasoned software entrepreneur, project and product manager, and advisor to several fast-growing ventures. Andrew'sviews on project management, business and technology are reflected in his Project Management 2.0 blog and occasionally in guest posts in tech and business media (VentureBeat, PandoDaily, etc.)Apart from business, Andrew is interested in human and artificial intelligence - from cognitive psychology to neuroscience to machine learning. He also trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Investment focus

Software, Drones, Google
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

TraceAir — Construction platform providing drone flights, 3D mapping, analytics, and data processing services to accelerate site work.
Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget

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Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Italy, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

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Andrew Boszhardt Jr. is a Founder and Managing Partner at Great Oaks Venture Capital and was a Managing Director at Neuberger Berman. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Tunnel X, Inc. — Tunnel X is secure, private conversation for everyone.Tunnel X offers web-based and mobile-based messaging which allows users the peace of mind they need to have private conversations without fear that co-workers, roommates, hackers, or government agencies will be snooping on their conversations.Users log in not with a traditional usernameand password (which are easily hacked), but with a photo which they have taken themselves, protected with a PIN. Digital information from this same image is used to encrypt all communications, whether they are text-based messages or shared files (users may share files of any type with each other).Unlike email, social media, and other forms of online communication, Tunnel X is geared specifically towards one-to-one, substantive conversation. Typing a message to the "wrong" person is essentially not possible on Tunnel X. Hitting "reply-all" is also not possible. And Tunnel X messages are not surrounded by the clutter of email spam or social-media clutter. Users use Tunnel X when they want to chat without distraction.Tunnel X SSL is configured for a post-Snowden world: all SSL connections are secured by PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy), which disallows government agencies from storing encrypted communications for later decryption. And messages in Tunnel X databases are superenciphered: triple-encrypted using three different algorithms (AES-256 and two AES runners-up, TwoFish and Serpent).
Karma — Get your very own domain easily. Fast and professional customer service.
SuperPhone — Increase engagement, drive revenue, and build better relationships with SMS / MMS marketing. Guaranteed ROI with 98% open rates for Shopify and BigCommerce stores.

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Mike Merkulov

Investment focus

Software, Furniture, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Germany, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Welltory — Helping millions reach peak health and productivity. A Heart Rate Variability App that navigates you to the summit of your potential.
Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget
Pufetto — Pufetto creates furniture for those who value in the present life. They want you to devote more time to really important things. It is very important for us that their products delight you for a long time and serve reliably. Therefore, they have done everything to make the choice and purchase of the best furniture surprisingly simple and pleasantfor every guest.

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Jason Johnson is a Silicon Valley technologist and entrepreneur with nearly twenty years of technology expertise. He is currently the CEO of August. Jason is also a managing partner of startup incubator Founders Den and the chairman of the Internet of Things Consortium. Jason co-founded mobile security software company AirCover (acquired by MDream, HK:8100). Previously he was vice president of Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB), vice president of Global IP Solutions (acquired by Google) and was the co-founder and CEO of InterQuest (acquired by Darwin Networks). Jason earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Pepperdine University and currently resides in San Francisco, CA with his wife and son.

Investment focus

Mobile, iOS, Internet
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Shyp — Get convenient, secure, and affordable shipping and packaging solutions anywhere with Shyp. Our goal is to make this the best shipping experience in the world.
ThirdLove — Bras designed for your body so you always look & feel your best. Available in A-H and half-cup sizes.
BetterDoctor — BetterDoctor helps validate and deliver accurate provider data to health plans, health systems, and hundreds of other companies via its API — from startups to publicly traded ones. This ultimately helps achieve the mission of helping consumers find the healthcare they need.Today, BetterDoctor's data platform and APIs power 9 health plans,350 companies, 1,500 developers, helping millions of people find the right doctor each month. Health Plans BetterDoctor uses multi-modal outreach to drive providers to attest their information on BetterDoctor's online portal. API PartnersBetterDoctor brings transparency to doctor data. Their real-time platform, master database and API services enable everyone to add doctor data to their systems, websites and applications. Today, BetterDoctor API and data tools power health insurance companies, healthcare startups and doctor search tools. https://betterdoctor.com/developers

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Actively making new investments in consumer and culture with Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm co-founded with JAY-Z and Jay Brown. Managing Director at Walden Venture CapitalInvestments include: Savage X Fenty, Pela, Hungry, Wheels, Hipcamp, Partake Foods, Pandora (founding investor - IPO, exit to Sirius XM) , SoundHound, Aarki, goTenna, HatchBaby, TouchBistro (exit), Robust Wealth (acquired by Principal Financial Group), Terayon (acquired by Motorola). Angel investments: include Netflix (IPO), BandPage (acquired by Google), Maestro, Jukely, LyricFind. Prior to Walden, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown. Led IPOs of Terayon, CBS MarketWatch, Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing), Maxis (acquired by Electronic Arts), Edmark (acquired by IBM) and among other equity and debt financings (Broderbund, Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Education: Larry received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. See the music he loves at www.pandora.com/people/larry. He was named to the Billboard Power 100 in music and the Twitter 140 to follow.

Investment focus

Mobile, E-Commerce, Music
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

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Pela — World's First 100% Compostable, Eco-Friendly iPhone and Android phone cases working towards plastic free oceans!
Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.
Fetch Delivery — Shop and dine, snap your receipts, and easily get free gift cards, merch, and rewards to your favorite brands with Fetch, the #1 rewards app!

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