# Top 50 Fitness Angel Investors in United States in May 2026

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Benjamin Ling
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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).

## Shane Neman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Founder of EZ Texting and JoonBug. Serial entrepreneur and investor in Tech, Real Estate & Hospitality.cA forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

## Wei Guo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

## George Godula
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile

Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments.
Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)

## John Doerr
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

John Doerr is a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Since joining KPCB in 1980, John and his partners have backed some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, including Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt of Google; Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Scott Cook and Bill Campbell of Intuit; and Mark Pincus of Zynga. John’s passion ishelping entrepreneurs create the Next Big Thing in mobile and social networks, greentech innovation, education and economic development. Ventures sponsored by John have created more than 200,000 new jobs.John serves on boards in the areas of Internet technologies and greentech, including Amyris, Bloom Energy, Coursera, Essence Healthcare, Flipboard, FloDesign Wind Turbines, Google, iControl, mCube, Quantumscape, Renmatix, Upthere and Zynga. He also led KPCB's investment in Twitter.John’s technology career began in 1974 at Intel, just as the chipmaker was inventing the groundbreaking 8080 microprocessor. During his Intel years, he held roles in engineering, marketing, management and sales. John also learned about operating excellence from Intel co-founder Andy Grove — insight that he continues to share with entrepreneurs today.He later founded Silicon Compilers, a VLSI CAD software company, and co-founded @Home, the nationwide broadband cable Internet service.Outside of KPCB, John supports entrepreneurs focused on the environment, public education and alleviating global poverty. These include NewSchools.org, TechNet.org, the Climate Reality Project and ONE.org.John earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He also holds several patents for computer memory devices.John is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of U.S. President Barack Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

## Hank Vigil
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hancock, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Hank Vigil serves as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Partnerships of Microsoft Corp. He was Senior Director of Strategy Planning and Business Development for the Digital Television Group at Microsoft, responsible for the development of Microsoft’s digital TV strategy.

## Rick Marini
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Rick Marini is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Catapult Capital.

## Henry Kravis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning

Henry R. Kravis is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. He attended Claremont McKenna College.

## Trevor Fetter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Fitness

Trevor Fetter

## Terry Moore
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Medical, Wellness

Terry Moore

## Peter Livingston
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, FinTech

Peter Livingston is the Founder and General Partner at Unpopular Ventures. Peter attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Max Levchin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Jared Leto
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services

Jared Leto is a musician, actor, director, entrepreneur, and artist.His two decades of work as an actor have encompassed a host of intense and transformative performances. Leto’s recent performance as the transgender AIDS patient Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club earned him both an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, aswell as honors from nearly 60 critics’ organizations. Leto is set to play legendary villain, The Joker, in the upcoming supervillain film Suicide Squad (2016). Leto was honored with a Gotham Independent Film Award and Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award for his debut documentary feature, Artifact. Mr. Leto directed Artifact under the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins, the same alias under which he directs the award winning music videos for the multi-platinum-selling rock band, Thirty Seconds to Mars. Leto is the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist for the band, which has released four albums, including the recent Love Lust Faith + Dreams (2013). Notorious for their relentless touring, they have circled the globe playing sold-out arenas since 1998 and in support of the album This Is War, they played over 300 shows in nearly 60 countries on six continents to 3 million people, thereby breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest-ever concert tour by a rock band.Thirty Seconds to Mars has sold over ten million albums worldwide and their music videos have received more than a billion views on YouTube. The group has received numerous awards worldwide, including over a dozen MTV Awards; a Billboard Music Award; and honors from NME, Kerrang!, and Fuse. They were nominated for three 2013 MTV VMAs, including best rock video, which they won.Additionally he is deeply entrenched in tech as both an investor and founder. Leto has made over fifty tech investments (Uber, Nest, Airbnb, Stripe, Slack, Zenefits) and serves as advisor for several start-ups. He is the founder of Adventures In Wonderland, The Hive, VyRT, and A Sharp Knife.

## John Kobs
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Health Care

John Kobs - CEO, Founder & Chairman @ Apartment List

## Daren Cotter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.

## Julia Taylor Cheek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness

Julia Taylor Cheek is the CEO and Founder of EverlyWell, a digital health startup empowering consumers to order, self-collect, and understand lab tests. Based in Austin, EverlyWell launched in June 2016 after raising $3M in capital and garnering awards from Tech Crunch and Rock Health. They now have over 5,000 customers in 46 states. Julia was alsonamed the number one female entrepreneur to watch by CIO magazine for 2017.Prior to founding EverlyWell in 2015, Julia was the Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at MoneyGram International, a public financial services company that operates in 200 countries. As the youngest VP in the company, she worked for MoneyGram’s CFO for several years, leading corporate transactions, restructuring projects, and special projects for the CEO. Before that, she served as the founding Director of Strategy and Operations at the George W. Bush Institute and played a key role in building the organization from just a handful of employees to the Presidential Center that you see today at Southern Methodist University.After attending Vanderbilt, Julia started her career in management consulting at Deloitte and went on to earn her MBA from the Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar with high distinction. She also is a former multiple World Champion equestrian, officially retiring in 2009.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

## Lee Linden
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Logistics

Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.

## Fritz Lanman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Fritz Lanman is the CEO of Mindbody Business. He previously worked at ClassPass as an Executive Chairman. Fritz Lanman attended Yale University.

## Aaron Rankin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fitness, Software, Information Technology

Aaron Rankin is a co-founder and the CTO of Sprout Social, a leading Social Media Management (SMM) platform.

## Ellen Ma
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Information Technology

Ellen is an investor at UpHonest Capital, focusing on consumer products, marketplaces, softwares, and healthcare. Ellen leads UpHonest's media efforts in China through Silicon Valley Race (aka硅兔赛跑). Silicon Valley Races has over 30 million viewership in China with over 100k followers in Chinese VC communities. Prior to UpHonest Capital, sheworked in finance, consulting, auditing and banking.

## Howard Morgan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Howard Morgan is currently the Chairman of B Capital. He co-founded First Round Capital with Josh Kopelman as the first professional Seed Stage Fund, where he remains Senior Advisor. Prior to First Round, Howard helped found Idealab with Bill Gross, and served as President of Renaissance Technologies, which he co-founded with Jim Simons. Prior tohis move into the business of technology, Howard served as a professor at the Wharton School and the Moore School, both at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as at Cornell University. He is also an Executive Fellow at UC Berkeley.
Howard’s research on user interface technology and the optimization of computer networks was critical to bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia in the 1970s. Through this early internet participation, he helped corporate and government agencies use technology to improve the efficiency of both large and small organizations. He also has deep experience with very large databases, and served as the first Editor of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems Journal.
Throughout his career, Howard has sought out great people and nurtured them so that they could realize their dreams. His mentees have included both PhD students researching a key topic, and early stage entrepreneurs building companies and taking them from seed stage through initial public offerings. He currently serves as a Director of Idealab, and he is on the board of several non-profits including Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and Math For America. He has also served on a number of public company Boards, including Franklin Electronic Publishers and Internet Brands, Inc. He was CEO of Kentek and Franklin during various turnover or transitional periods and in 1997 he was named Delaware Valley Entrepreneur of the Year. Howard is a respected author and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences.
Howard received a PhD in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1968, and a BS in Physics from City College of the City University of New York in 1965.

## Bradley Horowitz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

## Ben Gamble
- Type: Angel
- Location: Whitechapel, Newham, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Fitness, Recycling

Ben Gamble is the Founder at GlassFit.

## Michael Dornbrook
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Health Care

Michael Dornbrook Member of the Board of Directors at Modulate.ai. He attended University of Chicago during 1981-1983.

## Katie Shea
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Retail, Food and Beverage

Katie Shea is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Divergent Capital and an Angel investor. Before that, she was the General Partner at K50 Ventures and Kairos.

## Ziad Sultan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness

Ziad Sultan

## Christopher Klaus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Metropolitan, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Machine Learning

Christopher Klaus is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kava. He previously worked at Internet Security Systems as a Founder and CTO. Christopher Klaus attended Georgia Institute of Technology.

## Mike Krieger
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Mike Krieger is the CTO and co-founder of Instagram, a global community that shares more than 70 million photos every day. As the head of engineering, Mike focuses on building products that bring out the creativity in all of us. A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Mike holds an MS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. Prior to foundingInstagram, he worked at Meebo as a user experience designer and front-end engineer.

## Raffaele Vitale
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness

Raffaele Vitale

## Dak Prescott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sulphur, Louisiana, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Retail, Fitness, Robotics

Dak Prescott is an American football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League.

## Timothy Ferriss
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Finance

Timothy Ferriss is a start-up angel investor Twitter, Posterous, RescueTime and others, blogger and entrepreneur. Tim's best-known written work is The 4-Hour Workweek, which had been sold into 35 languages and reached #1 on The New York Times, BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. On May 3, 2009, it celebrated its 2ndstraight year on The New York Times business bestseller list since its publication on April 27, 2007. Tim is a Guest Lecturer in High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering at Princeton University since 2003. Other education-related interests includes social media-based fundraising experiments, such as LitLiberation, which outraised television host Stephen Colbert 3-to-1 with no fixed costs. Most recently, Tim used Twitter as a distributed tool for gathering data on post-campaign donations (see Tweet to Beat). Tim is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org, Evernote, StumbleUpon, Trippy, about.me, TaskRabbit and Uber. Tim has been invited to speak at some of the world’s most innovative organizations, including Google, MIT, Harvard Business School, Nike, PayPal, Facebook, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Microsoft, Ask.com, Nielsen, Princeton University, the Wharton School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Tim has also been invited to speak and keynote at world-renowned technology summits including EG, FOO Camp, E-Tech, Supernova, LeWeb, and the Web 2.0 Exposition, where he shared the stage with figures like Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Google, and Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon. Tim received his B.A. degree from Princeton University in 2000, where he studied in the Neuroscience and East Asian Studies departments.

## Jim Swartz
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Jim Swartz is the Founding Partner of Accel and the Founder and Co-Chair of Christian Center of Park City. He attended Carnegie Mellon University.

## Ted Leonsis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Sports, Internet, Social Media

Ted Leonsis is the Founder, Chairman, Principal Partner, and Chief Executive Officer of Monumental Sports and Entertainment and a Co-founder at Revolution Growth. He was a CEO at AOL and attended Georgetown University.

## Will Herman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software

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.


## Jason Witten
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Fitness, Robotics, Health Care

Christopher Jason Witten (born May 6, 1982) is a former American football tight end who played 17 seasons, primarily for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Tennessee, and was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft. Witten ranks second in all-timecareer receptions and receiving yards by an NFL tight end, trailing only Tony Gonzalez. Initially retiring in 2018, he became a color analyst for ESPN's Monday Night Football

## Dick Boyce
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Food Delivery, Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Mr. Boyce is a partner of TPG, head of TPG's Operating Group and a member of the firm's leadership committees. From 1997 through 1999, Mr. Boyce was President of CAF, Inc., a consulting firm that provided operating oversight and support to various companies owned by TPG. During much of this period, he served as the Chief Executive Officerof clothing retailer J. Crew Group, Inc., while providing operating oversight to the remainder of the TPG portfolio. Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Boyce was employed by PepsiCo, Inc. from 1992 to 1997, most recently as Senior Vice President of Operations for Pepsi-Cola North America. Other roles at PepsiCo, Inc. included Chief Financial Officer, General Manager of the Canadian Business Unit, and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Strategic Planning. Mr. Boyce was previously a partner at Bain & Company and worked in sales and marketing at Union Carbide Corporation before business school. Mr. Boyce received a B.S.E. with honors from Princeton University and received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves on the board of directors of Burger King Corporation. Mr. Boyce has previously served on the boards of directors of Gate Gourmet International, J. Crew Group, Inc., Kraton Polymers LLC, ON Semiconductor Corporation and Network General Corporation.

## Charles Huang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Wellness, Mobile, Education

Charles is the Co-Founder of Blue Goji Corp and CEO & Co-Founder of Indigo 7 and also the Advisor of Berkeley SkyDeck. He is a former co-founder of RedOctane and the co-creator of the Guitar Hero video game franchise. Guitar Hero launched in 2005 and went on to become the fastest video game to reach $1B in sales. Charles left Guitar Hero in2010 and is currently the co-founder of Indigo 7, a startup focused on brands in fashion apparel and entertainment. He is an active, serial angel investor. Charles immigrated to California as a young child and currently resides in Silicon Valley with his wife and two daughters. He holds a BA in Economics and Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

## James R. Andrews
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Fitness, Robotics, Health Care

James R. Andrews is an American orthopedic surgeon.

## Dez Bryant
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fitness, Ethereum, Internet

Dez Bryant

## Rande Gerber
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness

Rande Gerber is the founder and chairman of Casamigos Tequila. In 2013, Rande partnered with longtime friends George Clooney and Mike Meldman to launch Casamigos. Under Mr. Gerber’s leadership, Casamigos quickly became the fastest growing ultra-premium tequila in the country. Four years later, in 2017, Casamigos was acquired by Diageo for $1billion. Casamigos has garnered the highest accolades from the spirit industry’s most well-respected authority figures. Rande continues to steer the company with record breaking growth.Early in his career, Rande created the influential nightlife entities Midnight Oil Company and Gerber Group, establishing himself as a preeminent hospitality entrepreneur with an uncanny ability to know his consumer. He created cool and classic properties with an international and high profile clientele. He first made his mark in 1989 by opening The Whiskey Bar at Ian Schrager’s Paramount Hotel in NYC. Rande elevated the concept of the “hotel bar” by creating The Whiskey Bar’s upscale lounges, including The Whiskey, Whiskey Blue, Whiskey Park, The Penthouse, Midnight Rose, Stone Rose and SkyBar Los Angeles. Rande opened The Whiskey on Ocean Drive in South Beach in 1991 and is credited with being the original pioneer of South Beach nightlife. Rande went on to open 40 lounges, bars, restaurants and clubs in major cities including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas, Boston, Chicago, Madrid and Mexico
City. His extraordinary success made his companies the preferred partner for Starwood Hotels, W Hotels, Sofitel, Strategic Hotel Group and Sol Melia.Rande has been featured on television and in magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street journal, Bloomberg, Business Insider, GQ, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, MSNBC, and CNN among others.Rande’s philanthropic involvement includes the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Boys & Girls Clubs, American Children’s Hospital and more.He currently resides with his wife, Cindy Crawford, and two children, Kaia and Presley Gerber, in Malibu, California.

## Ma Ko
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Altos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Social Media, Internet, Pet

Michael is a tech executive, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He's an advisor to Enterprises, Dryft (acquired by Apple), Dulance (acquired by Google), and others.Michael cofounded AdForce, a pioneer in online advertising (IPO 1999), was EIR at Redpoint Ventures, and founded XDegrees a distributed storage solution (acquired by Microsoft). Michael also founded Wink/Search Engine Technologies (acquired 2008) and was previously product manager at Verity, the first leading search engine (IPO 1995). Michael was a founding board member of Full Circle Fund, and was board member at Cloudmark, Fundly, and GAIN Fitness.Michael holds an MBA from 

## Claudio Costamagna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness

Claudio Costamagna is Chairman of CC & Soci Srl and sits on the board of FTI Consulting, a business advisory group listed on the NYSE. Moreover, Mr Costamagna is a member of the board of Finarvedi, holding company of the Arvedi Group, Italiana Petroli and Salini Costruttori, holding company through which the Salini family controls Webuild, aleading Italian construction company. Born in Milan in 1956, Claudio Costamagna attended the Ecole Européenne in Brussels before returning to Italy and enrolling at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi. In 1981 he was awarded a degree in business economics. He then began his career in the financial control area of Citibank, before moving in 1985 to Montedison, where he was Head of Corporate Finance for the holding company.

## Ronnie Lott
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Sports

Ronnie Lott is a Founder at All-Stars Helping Kids.

## Mike Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, Fitness, Wellness

Mike Lee is Co-Founder of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Prior to founding MyFitnessPal, Mike co-founded NextC, a venture-funded startup focused on building online communities. During his 20 year tenure in the technology industry, Mike has held leadership positions at several other top start-upsin Silicon Valley, including Palm, Handspring, Beyond.com and Regis McKenna. Mike graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a B.A. in Economics.

## Vince Thompson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: Video, Mobile, Sports

Vince Thompson is the CEO and managing partner of Middleshift Consulting, a consulting firm dedicated to building revenue for internet companies.Thompson started his career in sales and business development at Third Age Media, before moving on to spend seven years at AOL where he served as a VP of various departments. Having worked as anexecutive at America Online, he also has years of experience in media companies, including Break.com, Total Beauty, TVGuide.com, Spark Networks, Inc. and Participant Media. Hutch Media, Entertainment Media Works, and Geodelic Systems are all companies which have seen him in advisory roles.Thompson holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

## Ramit Sethi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Fitness, Gift Card

Ramit Sethi graduated from Stanford, where he studied technology and psychology. Now he's the co-founder & VP of Marketing for PBwiki, a wiki startup in Silicon Valley.

## Jonathan Swanson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Jonathan Swanson is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Thumbtack. Before Thumbtack, Jonathan was a White House staffer working in the West Wing on financial market policy. He studied Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University.

## Shane Naughton
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Apps

Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage

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