# Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in United States in May 2026

## Bryan Rosenblatt
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Retail

Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- 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.

## Joanne Wilson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail

Joanne Wilson has had many careers. She started out in retail, eventually moving to the wholesale arena. She then transitioned to the media side of the technology world, before once again reinventing herself as an investor. She is currently an active angel investor with a portfolio of over 90 companies such as Food52, Sweeten, Vengo, Nestio, Phinand Phebes, Makers Row, Clutter, and Union Station. She has been involved in numerous real estate transactions from beginning to end and continues to make investments in that world. She is also an investor in a few restaurants in the New York area. In addition to these endeavors, Joanne has been involved in various education projects and served as chairperson at Hot Bread Kitchen, non-profit committed to increasing access to the culinary industry for woman and minority entrepreneurs. She also sits on the board of The Highline. Joanne has maintained her very popular blog, www.gothamgal.com for over 11 years and has recently take her talents to the airwaves on her podcast, ""Positively Gotham Gal"". She loves to bake, cook, throw a good party, travel, read, collect art, do the crossword and stay on top of what's happening around the globe and in NYC.Her most successful venture is being married to her best friend, Fred and raising their three kids- Jessica, Emily and Josh

## Jonathan Keidan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care

Jonathan is the Founder of Torch Capital. A long time entrepreneur and investor, he has spent his career at the intersection of the media, technology and entertainment industries. He is the Co-Founder of digital media company InsideHook and has spent a decade as an active early stage investor and advisor to a number of New York and LA's topstart-ups.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

## Scott Belsky
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Justin Waldron
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

## Kyle Vogt
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage

Kyle Vogt is the CEO of Cruise and former cofounder of Twitch

## Mark Cuban
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, E-Commerce

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Broadcast.com. Mrk attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

## Wei Guo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Nick Green
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Wellness, Food Processing

Nick Green is the Co-Founder and CEO of Thrive Market, a membership-based market that makes high-quality, healthy, and sustainable products available for every budget, lifestyle, and geography. For $60/year, members unlock wholesale prices on top natural and organic products, and Thrive Market matches every paid membership with a free one fora family or individual in need. A serial social impact entrepreneur, Nick began in the education space with his first business, Ivy Insiders, a college test prep and mentorship program that made tutoring more affordable and helped over 20,000 students get into better colleges. Outside of work, Nick loves traveling, investing, reading biographies, and spending time with his wife and 2-year old daughter. He originally hails from Minneapolis, MN and earned his B.A. in Economics from Harvard.

## Walter Robb
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic

Walter Robb is the co-founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market.

## Jason Finger
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Jason Finger is the founder of Salvo Health.

## Matt Mullenweg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

Matt Mullenweg is the CEO at Automattic Inc. Matt Mullenweg attended the University of Houston.

## Kevin Love
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Food and Beverage

Kevin Love is an American basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association.

## Güimar Vaca Sittic
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace

Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.

## Donald C. Moore III
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Restaurants, Robotics, Industrial Automation

Donald C. Moore III is the Partner at DOM Food Group.

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

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Daniel Curran
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

## Kimbal Musk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Software, News

Kimbal Musk is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Big Green.

## Scott Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

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.

## Kevin Moore
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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. 

## Jen Rubio
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fashion, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce

Jen Rubio is the Co-Founder and CEO at Away.

## Wayne Chang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Wayne Chang (born August 3, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding Crashlytics, which in little over a year was acquired by Twitter for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO), creating i2hub, a popular filesharing network, his seedinvestments that include companies like JetSmarter, Draftkings, and Gusto, and his lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers, who were famously depicted in The Social Network movie.

## Alex Pattis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Software, Health Care

Alex Pattis is a General Partner at Riverside Ventures. He attended The University of Arizona.

## Gary Vaynerchuk
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company, and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations.
In the late 90s, after identifying “the internet” as a land-grab opportunity, Gary transitioned his father’s localliquor store into one of the first wine e-commerce platforms resulting in growing the family business from $3-60MM in sales during a 5-year period.During his time in the family business, Vaynerchuk also started one of the first long-form episodic video shows on YouTube in 2006 called WineLibraryTV, filming 1,000 episodes over a 5-year window. Gary’s wine knowledge, charisma, and uncanny ability to engage with his community landed him appearances on national television with Ellen Degeneres and Conan O’Brien, as well as establishing him as one of the most followed people on social media during its nascent years.Not only did Gary leverage content creation and the rise of social media for his personal brand, but it was the seed which would become the pillar to his now 9-year old advertising agency VaynerMedia, servicing brands with an ever-expanding variety of offerings.Outside of being the Chairman and CEO of his own companies, Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook,Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber.Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 50 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook.Gary also appeared as judge in Apple’s first original series “Planet of the Apps” alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Will.i.am onIn addition to VaynerMedia, VaynerX also houses The Gallery, a new publishing company started after acquiring leading women’s lifestyle property PureWow in January 2017. In addition to running VaynerMedia, Gary also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports and restaurant reservations app Resy.Gary is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise, and is a longtime Well Member of Charity:Water.

## Rohan Oza
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Mobile

Rohan Oza is the Chief Marketing Officer across The Coca-Cola Company's still coke brands. He is also the founder of Idea Merchants Capital, a platform for investing and building iconic brands.Born and raised in Zambia and of Indian heritage, Oza attended the Harrow School in the United Kingdom and graduated from Nottingham University. Hethen received his MBA from the University of Michigan in the United States.Rohan began his career as a manufacturing manager at Mars M&M where he was recruited at the age of 20 as the youngest manager to run Snickers, the second largest product line in Europe.His first big career move was to The Coca-Cola Company where he ended up leading the Sprite brand to the number one brand for youth and African-American consumers. Rohan went on to manage the then declining POWERADE brand to three straight years of brand growth with the creation of break through designs, partnerships and advertising campaigns. In 2002, he was featured on the cover of Brandweek as one of their “top ten marketers” in the country and was featured on CNN as one of Coke’s fastest rising stars.Rohan left Coke to become a partner in a fledgling beverage company called glaceau where he built the power house brands vitaminwater and smartwater through innovative marketing programs and creative partnerships with celebrities like 50 Cent, Jennifer Aniston, Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, Venus Williams and Alicia Keys. Rohan’s career came full circle when the Coca-Cola Company purchased glacéau for $4.1 billion and Rohan was appointed as the Chief Marketing Officer across all of Coke still brands.Rohan subsequently went on to form Idea Merchants Capital. His latest ventures include popchips, the fastest growing snack in the country, and vitacoco the most exciting brand in beverages today. Following the model that he pioneered with 50cent and vitaminwater, Rohan has been instrumental in several celebrity investment deals for both popchips (Ashton Kutcher, Kim Kardashian and Heidi Klum) and vitacoco (Madonna and Rhianna)

## Nasir Jones
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.

## Lori Greiner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Retail, Pet

Lori Greiner - Owner @ For Your Ease Only

## John Legend
- Type: Angel
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Shopping, Digital Media

John Legend is a nine-time Grammy Award winning recording artist, critically-acclaimed concert performer, philanthropist/social activist, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. Legend’s debut album, Get Lifted (2004) sold more than three million copies worldwide and earned an astounding eight Grammy nominations withthree wins for Best New Artist, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B album. Legend’s follow-up album, Once Again (2006) earned RIAA platinum certification and a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. High off the success of his third consecutive Top 10 album, Evolver (2008), Legend embarked on an extensive world tour with an 11 piece band - his largest traveling show to date. Inspired by the monumental 2008 Presidential election, Legend teamed up with The Roots to release the socially conscious album, Wake Up! (2010.) The album was nominated for five Grammy Awards and won Best R&B Album, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B song (for “Shine”- an original composition also featured in Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim’s documentary film Waiting for Superman) along with two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Album and Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration. In 2007, Legend launched the Show Me Campaign, a nonprofit organization fighting poverty around the world. John also sits on the Boards of The Education Equality Project, Teach for America, and the Harlem Village Academies. Legend has been honored several times for his activism, including the 2010 BET Humanitarian of the Year award, the 2009 CARE Humanitarian Award for Global Change, and the 2009 Africare’s Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award. In early 2012, Legend released one of the hottest songs of his career, the RIAA gold-certified hit “Tonight (Best You’ve Ever Had),” which sat atop the Urban AC radio chart for six consecutive weeks. Legend recently released his fifth studio album Love in the Future, with executive producers Kanye West and Dave Tozer, and will embark on a North American tour this autumn.

## Fabrice Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.

## Shervin Pishevar
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce

Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.

## Clark Landry
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Advertising

Clark Landry is the Managing Partner of Clover Leaf Ventures.Most recently, Clark was co-founder and COO at CESPPA, a cybersecurity company. Formerly, Clark was co-founder and COO at Maple Media (raised $30 million from private equity investors), co-founder and executive chairman at SHIFT (acquired by Brand Networks), co-founder and CEO at TopLevel Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines - publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM), co-founder and CMO at TagWorld (acquired by Viacom). Clark was a founding investor of Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel), Traffic Marketplace, an advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), Adconion Media Group, a provider of digital media advertising solutions (acquired by Amobee), Conversion Logic, an advertising attribution company, and CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace.Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Yale University.

## Max Mullen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Max is the Co-Founder of Instacart. He started the company with two co-founders in 2012. Previously, he's worked for several startups including Schematic, an award-winning interactive agency which was acquired by WPP. Max is originally from Los Angeles where he graduated from the University of Southern California, studying entrepreneurship andcinematic arts.

## Peter Rahal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Fashion, E-Commerce

Peter Rahal has 2 current jobs as Managing Director at Litani Ventures and Co-Founder at RXBAR. Peter Rahal attended the American University of Beirut.

## Alexis Ohanian
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce

Alexis Ohanian, born April 24, 1983, is an entrepreneur and investor in Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder and executive chair of reddit, a platform for online communities to share links and have discussions. While he learned his earliest lessons in leadership and web design from his high school Quake 2 clan and Everquest guild, Alexiscontinued his official studies at the University of Virginia, where he met his future co-founder Steve Huffman during freshman year move-in day. This would lead to the founding of reddit, which he recounted along with many lessons for entrepreneurs, in his national bestseller, Without Their Permission.At UVA, Alexis majored in business and history with a minor in German. Though he had originally planned to become an immigration lawyer, he experienced an epiphany in his junior year (while sitting in a Waffle House) that led him to the realization that he didn't want to practice law. Instead he convinced his best friend Steve to start a company with him.The pair traveled to Cambridge, MA during their senior year spring break to hear Paul Graham give a talk titled "How to Start a Startup." After the lecture, Alexis invited Graham out for a drink so he and Steve could pitch Graham on their business idea. Graham agreed, loved the idea, and suggested they apply to a new seed stage venture firm he'd launched called Y Combinator.
Alexis and Steve's original plan was to build an infrastructure that would allow people to order food from their cell phones. Though the idea was rejected, Alexis and Steve were invited to join the first class of Y Combinator, on the condition that they'd come up with a new concept. The next idea they pitched to Graham would become reddit.com.

## Erhan Bilici
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

Risk Management professional, experienced in Stress Testing and Capital Planning.
Economist, Investment Analyst, Financial Consultant. Interested in FinTech.

## David Grutman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Snack Food

David Grutman

## Dave McClure
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.

## Flip Gianos
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Video, Advertising

Flip Gianos is the General Partner, Emeritus at InterWest Partners. He attended Harvard Business School and Stanford University.

## Gary Hirshberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Londonderry, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food

Gary R. Hirshberg, Ph.D., Co-Founded Spiffly, Inc. in 2014. Gary Hirshberg serves as a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He serves as an Advisor at Renewable2 Management Company and Renewal2 Investment Fund. Gary Hirshberg co-founded Stonyfield Farm, Inc. (Stonyfield Farm Yogurt) in September 1983 and served as its Chief Executive Officer,since September 1983 until January 2012, President, since 1989. He oversaw Stonyfield's phenomenal growth, from its infancy as a seven-cow organic farming school to its $330 million in annual sales. In 2001, Stonyfield Farm entered into a partnership with Groupe Danone and in 2005, he was named Managing Director of Stonyfield Europe. He served as Director of the Rural Education Center at Stonyfield. Gary Hirshberg was a Managing Director at Stonyfield Europe. Previously, he served as an Executive Director at The New Alchemy Institute. He has extensive experience as an environmental activist, including terms as the Founding President of the Cape and Island Self Reliance Corporation and as the Founding President of the Cape Cod Environmental Alliance. Prior positions include serving as a Water-Pumping Windmill Specialist and an Environmental Education Director at the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Gary Hirshberg served as an Advisor at Renewal Partners LLC, Solera Capital, the Heinz Center Leadership Summit and the Corporate Ecoforum. Gary Hirshberg is Co-Founder and Chairman of O'Naturals. He served as the Chairman of Stonyfield Farm, Inc. He served as the Chairman of The Social Venture Network. Gary Hirshberg serves on several corporate and non-profit Boards including Applegate Farms, the Dannon Company, Honest Tea, Peak Organic Brewing Company, The Full Yield, Climate Counts, Stonyfield Europe, Ltd, Glenisk, Ltd, Solera Capital and Sambazon. He serves as Member of Advisory Board at Spiffly, Inc. He has been a Director at Blue Apron, Inc. and since February 27, 2017 Blue Apron Holdings, Inc. since October 2016. Gary Hirshberg serves as Director of Sweetgreen, Inc., Danone Communities and Quantum Designs, LLC. He serves as a Director of Ramp Sports LLC and The Full Yield, Inc. He served as a Director of Stonyfield Farm, Inc. Gary Hirshberg served as a Director of Monogram Energy, Inc. since June 1995. He served as a Trustee of Leadership New Hampshire, Inc. He serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of Simon Equity, LLC. He serves as Member of Social Advisory Board at Commons Capital Management LLC. Gary Hirshberg served as a Director of the New Hampshire Audobon Society and the Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod. Gary Hirshberg is the Author of the book Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World. He is a frequent speaker on topics including sustainability, climate change, the profitability of green and socially responsible business, organic agriculture and sustainable economic development. Gary Hirshberg has won numerous awards for corporate and environmental leadership, including Global Green USA's "1999 Green Cross Millennium Award for Corporate Environmental Leadership." He was named "Business Leader of the Year" by Business NH Magazine and "New Hampshire's 1998 Small Business Person of the Year" by the U.S. Small Business Administration. More recently, 2009 was a year of big wins as Gary Hirshberg was named one of "America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs" by Business Week magazine, Stonyfield was chosen "Business of the Year - Manufacturing" by Business NH magazine and Stonyfield won an EPA Clean Air Excellence award. He also is featured in 2009's most successful documentary, "Food, Inc." Gary Hirshberg served on the Advisory Panel for Newsweek magazine's Global Environmental Leadership Conference. He has received eight honorary doctorates and was named a Gordon Grand Fellow at Yale University. Gary Hirshberg holds an honorary Doctor of Science from New Hampshire College, an Honorary Doctor of Law from Notre Dame College in Manchester, New Hampshire and a B.A. from Hampshire College.

## Sean Rad
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Consumer Goods

Sean Rad is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. Rad served as Tinder's CEO and Chairman at various times from the company's inception until 2017. Rad also foundedCardify in 2012, Adly in 2009, and Orgoo in 2004.In 2020, Forbes included Rad on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. In May 2016, he was awarded an honoree diploma from the University of Southern California while delivering their undergraduate commencement.

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

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

## Jason Fiedler
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce

Jason brings to early-stage investing a combination of experience as a startup founder, VC-backed operator, growth-stage institutional investor, and angel investor.
In early 2013, Jason joined Uber in San Francisco where he launched and managed three of Uber's first 100 market launches. Prior to Uber, Jason spent two years at Insight VenturePartners as an investment analyst focused on growth-stage internet and software. Jason began his career in startups as a college Senior, co-founding Splash.FM, a social music discovery platform.
Jason graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics and received the Frederick H. Gloeckner award in Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School. Jason was awarded Forbes 30 under 30 for Venture Capital in 2018.

## Shamin Walsh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software

Shamin Walsh has over 13+ years as an active angel investor who gained experience in the consumer space through her early investments in companies such as Sweetgreen, Flexport, and Sir Kensington’s.Prior to joining BAM Ventures as a managing director, she was a consumer-focused partner at an early-stage generalist firm with tangible assets in3PL/fulfillment, cold storage/co-packing, and manufacturing, giving her a holistic perspective through which to evaluate emerging consumer businesses. She managed the investment portfolio and served on several boards, such as Alchemy 43. She also leveraged her experience as a transactional attorney to assist in contract negotiations, fund formation, and fund construction.

## Tom Colicchio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Marketplace, Internet

Tom Colicchio is an American celebrity chef most known for his work as head judge on the reality TV show Top Chef.

## Austin Rosen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Austin Rosen is the founder and CEO of Electric Feel Entertainment and Ventures.

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