# Top 50 Impact Angel Investors in October 2023

## Soheila Yalpani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Consulting, Sustainability, Information Technology

Soheila Yalpani is Co-Founder and COO at TerraScale. She attended The University of British Columbia.

## Mark Cuban
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Bill Gates
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing

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

## Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe /
-Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger)
- Equity Markets
- Real Estate
- FX
- Commodity
- Bonds
- Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT
- Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories:
- Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint
- Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi
- D2C / B2C
- Food & Beverages
- Pharma
- Media & Entertainment

## Sagar Ratilal Bavarva
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Solar

Sagar is a 6th Gen. young social researcher, sustainable explorer & energy investment partner from Netherlands & India Sub.Studied M.S (Associate - Executive Degree) in Business & Data Science with Specialization in Energy & Sustainable Technologies at Harvard University, an M.S (Executive) in Finance & Negotiation at YaleUniversity & M.Sc. degree in Management of Technology with Specialization in Entrepreneurship & Emerging Breakthrough Innovation at TU Delft, and Bachelors in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering.Previously he had been worked at Shell, Netherlands & London, Microsoft - Netherlands and Deloitte - the Edge Amsterdam. His recent association was with World Economic Forum, Netherlands, and Switzerland Sub as a Young Digital Associate. Currently he manages and work as a Joint Managing Director / Industrial Researcher at AASAN Group of companies - a family-owned business group of companies since 1988. Primarily focused over Large scale Industrial Management and Energy Audit, providing expertise over new renewable energy investments, sustainability and innovation tech solutions. As of now his current venture project is to create a next generation renewable energy park of 100 MW to create a sustainable fossil free energy living source for the Indian Subcontinent. Over global scenario he has achieved many Awards/Accomplishments listed below:Finalist as Entrepreneur / Startup leader at Outstanding Leadership Awards 2022 - Australia
Nomine: Dutch Intrapreneur Award 2021 - Netherlands
UN ECOSOC Youth Leader 2021 - New York
Positive Change Ambassador - Erasmus Rotterdam University - April 2021
Wall of Changemakers 2030 - Catalyst London
Antler's Copenhagen Founder's Program Feb Cohort 2022
Shortlisted @ World Startup Factory Scholarship Program 2021 | Rotterdam
Speaker @ World Sustainable Development Teach In Day - Hamburg
Winners @ Futurepreneurs Dutch Open 2020
Recognized as one of top 25 AI based Innovators @ Rockstart Accelerator AI 2019 - Netherlands
Finalist of Global Biomimicry Design Challenge 2018-19 - Minneapolis, USA
Winner of the worlds biggest Blockchain & AI Hackathon - Odyssey 2019 At present he also creating a global level smart and intelligent sustainable farmhouse. A digital solution of exploration and people's life storyline through building up to tomorrow's food for today's future! A brief storyline of creating a fossil-free sustainable living for the dutch sub. - BDF 1.0He also associated within other portfolio family run ventures such as: Habaple Partners, B'onwterp Labs, Spark Renewables LLP, Solwave Group of Companies.

## Chris Sang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

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

## Tom McInerney
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software

Tom McInerney advises and invests in early stage Internet companies. 

## Edward Ismawan Chamdani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
- Focus: Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle

Managing and Founding Partner of Ideosource Venture Capital, an Indonesia focused venture capital firm dedicated on early-stage to later-stage investments.

## Erik Peterson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS

Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.

## Rayyan Islam
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Biotechnology, Energy

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

## Rand Hindi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor in 50+ deeptech and web3 companies. He is the CEO at Zama, a homomorphic encryption startup. Rand started coding at the age of 10, created a social network at 14, and started his PhD at 21. He then created Snips, the first private-by-design voice assistant, which was acquired by Sonos. He was electedan MIT TR35, a Forbes “30 under 30”, and was a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris as well as a member of the French Digital Council.He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL).

## Dylan Taylor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication

Dylan Taylor is a global business leader, commercial astronaut, thought leader and philanthropist. Currently, Dylan serves as Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space, a multi-national space exploration firm focused on building the next generation of space infrastructure for NASA and other global space agencies.Dylan has been recognized by HarvardUniversity, SpaceNews, the BBC, the Financial Times, Pitchbook, CNBC, CNN and others as having played a seminal role in the growth of the private space industry. As an early-stage investor in more than 50 emerging space ventures, including Axiom, Kepler, York, Astrobotic, LeoLabs, Relativity, and Planet, Dylan is widely considered the most active private space investor in the world.Dylan’s technical background, global business experience and unbridled passion for space make him a unique figure within his industry. As a thought leader and futurist, he has written many popular pieces on the future of the space industry for Forbes, FastCompany, Newsweek, SpaceNews, The Space Review, and Space.com. As a speaker, Dylan has keynoted many of the major space conferences around the world and has appeared regularly on Bloomberg, Fox Business, and CNBC.Dylan has extensive global business experience as both a board director and CEO in several industries, including advanced electronics, finance and real estate. He previously served as a Director for UMB Bank, a Fortune 500 company based in Kansas City and as a mutual fund director for the Jackson Funds where he oversaw assets of $8B across 130 distinct funds. He has also served in the roles of CEO, President and Board Director for multinational companies like Prudential PLC, Honeywell, Colliers and Jones Lang LaSalle. Dylan was recognized as a Fortune 1000 CEO with P&L responsibility in excess of $3B and operations encompassing 15,000 employees in over 60 countries. In addition, Dylan has participated in 4 IPOs over the course of his career. Dylan is a leading advocate of space manufacturing and the utilization of in-space resources to further space exploration and settlement. In 2017, he became the first private citizen to manufacture an item in space when the gravity meter he co-designed and commissioned was 3D printed on the International Space Station. The historic item is now housed in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.Dylan is an explorer of note. On December 11th, 2021 Dylan became just the 606th human to go to space as part of the crew of Blue Origin’s NewShepard Mission 19. Accordingly, Dylan earned his commercial astronaut wings with the FAA and his universal astronaut wings from the Association of Space Explorers.He is also one of only a handful of humans to have descended to the deepest part of the world’s oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench as part of the Limiting Factor Expedition in July of 2022. In that mission, Dylan descended with pilot Victor Vescovo to a depth in excess of 10,800 meters (35,500 feet) into an area of the Mariana Trench that had never been visited by humans. Dylan is the youngest human to have been to the deepest part of the world’s oceans and crossed the Karman line into Space. Dylan has been a member of the Explorers Club since 2014.Dylan maintains an extensive philanthropic impact on the space industry. In 2017, Dylan founded the nonprofit and social movement, Space for Humanity, which seeks to democratize space exploration and develop solutions to global issues through the scope of human awareness to help solve the world’s most intractable problems. Space for Humanity has successfully sent two citizen astronauts to space via Blue Origin including both the first Mexican-born woman (Katya Echazareta), and first African-born woman (Sara Sabry). Building upon his passion and support for the space industry, Dylan serves as a strategic advisor for both the Archmission and the Human Spaceflight Program and is a co-founding patron of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which promotes the growth of commercial space activity. Additionally, he is also a leading benefactor to the Brooke Owens Fellowship, Patti Grace Smith Fellowship and Mission: Astro Access.Dylan is the founder and Chairman of Multiverse Media, an integrated global media company focused on science and technology, with an emphasis on space. Multiverse is the parent company of the popular space philosophy website 2211.world as well as the Ad Astra Dinners, a Jeffersonian-style dinner series featuring some of the world’s leading influencers discussing the future of humanity in space. Another subsidiary of Multiverse Media, Multiverse Publishing, publishes books by leading authors including Frank White, Isaac Asimov and Gerard K. O’Neill. Multiverse is also the executive producer of the documentary film, The High Frontier and the forthcoming film, Fortitude. For his influence as a global leader and his commitment to creating a positive impact on the world, Dylan has been honored with numerous personal and professional accolades in recent years. The World Economic Forum recognized Dylan as a Young Global Leader in 2011 and a full member of the World Economic Forum in 2014. That same year he was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. In 2020, Dylan was recognized by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation with their top honor for business and finance, following in the footsteps of 2019’s inaugural winner, the late Paul Allen
and subsequent winners Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.Dylan Taylor earned an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago and holds a BS in Engineering from the honors college at the University of Arizona, where he graduated Tau Beta Pi and in 2018 was named Alumnus of the year. He is also a graduate of the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at Harvard University.Dylan and his family reside in Denver, Colorado where he is active locally with Colorado Concern and the Colorado Spaceport. In his spare time, Dylan enjoys hiking, competing in triathlons and spending time outdoors. As a weekend warrior athlete, Dylan has more than 25 top ten finishes and 25 age group wins to his credit, and he regularly interviews world class athletes whom have shown extraordinary resilience as the host of the Legendary Podcast. He is married to legal expert, consultant and author Gabrielle V. Taylor with whom he has two teenage daughters.

## Sunmeet Jolly
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Founder and Patent holder - GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 40 pre-IPO technology startups. Frequently invited by accelerators and angel forums to Judge startup competitions and discuss technology innovation. Former IT Consulting industry executive who sold hundreds of millions of dollars in consulting services to Fortune 500companies working for Cap Gemini, HCL, L&T, NTT data.

## Ishara Yusdian
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Debt Financing
- Focus: Agriculture, Waste Management, Lifestyle

Investor | Storyologist | Builder

## Jeff Dean
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care

Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Senior Fellow in Google's Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain team, Google's deep learning research team in Mountain View, working on systems for speech recognition, computer vision, language understanding, and various predictive tasks. He has co-designed /implemented five generations of Google's crawling, indexing, and query serving systems, and co-designed / implemented major pieces of Google's initial advertising and AdSense for Content systems. He is also a co­designer and co­implementor of Google's distributed computing infrastructure, including the MapReduce, BigTable and Spanner systems, protocol buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow, a popular open­-source system for machine learning.​Jeff received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Mark Weiser Award and the ACM­-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.

## Naruhisa Nakagawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

## Danny Hayes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cyber Security, Aerospace, GreenTech

Danny is the CEO and Co-Founder of TerraScale, a green technology company reinventing the future of global sustainable development models.
Danny is committed to developing sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing energy and digital infrastructure challenges. He is currently leading various projects at the bleeding edge of technologicalinnovation and sustainable development, including Project Energos, TerraFinance, Global Vision 33, cybersecurity IP, MedTech, and more. In fact, his work as the developer of TerraScale’s flagship initiative, Project Energos, won the 2020 Platinum Outstanding Property Award London, the 2021 ICONIC Innovative Architecture Award, and the 2021 Golden Novum Design Award.Danny’s previous experience includes advising institutions, governments, corporations, and individual HNW clientele on developing smart, resilient infrastructure, master planning of industry development, large unit global sales, business negotiations with Fortune 500 companies, and lobbying political entities. He was also formerly a Metals Trader at Noble House Metal Trading.
Danny’s decades of work in and around sustainable infrastructure, finance, and technology led to his 2021 appointment to the role of Global Program Manager of the United Nations ImPPPact Program within the C.R.E.A.M. European PPP Alliance. He also is a member of the World Association of PPP Units & Professionals, a Managing Partner of Hudson Capital Advisors, and is advised by Goldman Sachs.In 2020, Danny was appointed Director Emeritus of the non-governmental organization Green Cross. Green Cross is a consultative member of the United Nations on Climate Change and the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. The Green Cross was founded in 1993 by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev and boasts honorary board members such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Jane Goodall. Danny serves as an Advisory Board Member of the University of California, Riverside. He serves as a Financial Advisor to Ambri (backed by Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures, KLP Enterprises, and GVB), FlowCell (Founded by Dr. Max Narovlyansky) and Chaired by Dr. Umer Sayeed-Shah (COB of Terrascale)Danny is also a member and the (best) Gold (50,000 USD) Sponsor of Top Tier Impact, a global ecosystem of investors, entrepreneurs, and professionals who are focused on solving the critical issues of our time.
Danny is also an (Incoming) Knight of Columbus (Knighted by Dominic Lanaway - Council: 611), a Catholic Fraternal Order founded in 1882, whose ranks have included prominent Americans such as President John F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, MLB Hall of Famer Babe Ruth, Governor Jeb Bush, Justice Samuel Alito, NFL Hall of Famer Vince Lombardi, and more. Committed to providing global charity and service, the Knights of Columbus have contributed $1.55 billion and 691 million volunteer hours to charitable projects over the past decade.

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster

## David Helgason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

## Ralf Dummel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design

Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.

## Jordan Mendell
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Denver Area, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Consumer Electronics, Sports

Jordan Mendell is the chief product officer and head of mobile products at Mendell studied organic chemistry at the University of Colorado atDenver.

## John Legend
- Type: Angel
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Software

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

## Gokul Rajaram
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.

## Brad Flora
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience.
Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

## Akshay Singhal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Battery, Hardware, CleanTech

Akshay Singhal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Log 9 Materials a sub-organization of Log 9 Spill Containment.

## Slava Agafonov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Battery, Big Data

Technical leader and architect in enterprise software including S&P 500 customers for Microsoft. Built web portals for IBM with Team International, created medical FDA-approved devices with Medtronic over Global Logic. , and certified phone station in telecom business over the globe with Alcatel over Altron. Excellent background in distributedsystems, artificial intelligence, and Big Data. Passionate about tuning robust, high-performance systems that scale well. Two Master's degrees in Technical Management from Foster School of Business - The University of Washington in the USA and also computer science masters from Kharkiv Aerospace University in Ukraine. Slava received customer obsessions awards in Microsoft and always acting as a bridge from business to technology with a pioneering spirit. Viacheslav is passionate about leadership roles on strategic and impact projects with metrics-driven, high-performance, and scalable development. Expert in lean software development - it means rapid, agile prototyping with development cycles that fail fast to learn quickly and to apply innovative solutions in iterations. Clients hire me to develop new software products for innovative markets that are rapidly growing. They know that the best products come from great empathy and customer insights, but also require courage, hard work, and perseverance.

## Jonathan Wasserstrum
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, Property Management

Jonathan graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2012. Prior to business school, Jonathan worked in the International Capital Group at Jones Lang LaSalle where he advised foreign and domestic clients on more than $3 billion worth of transactions globally.

## Biz Stone
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Messaging, Mobile

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley.

## Ragnar Sass
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Gary Hirshberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Londonderry, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Rohan Oza
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care

Rohan Oza is the co-founder and managing partner of CAVU Venture Partners.

## Kris Gopalakrishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Gopalakrishnan (Kris to his colleagues) is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited. As Chief Executive Officer, he plays a key role in defining the company strategy and using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership in the industry.On June 22, 2007, Kris took over from Nandan M. Nilekani as the CEO andManaging Director of Infosys Technologies Limited. Kris previously served as Chief Operating Officer (since April 2002), and as the President and Joint Managing Director (since August 2006). His responsibilities included customer services, technology, investments and acquisitions.Kris' initial responsibilities at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the U.S. Between 1987 and 1994, he headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, U.S.) as Vice President (Technical). In 1994, Kris returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the company.Kris is currently the Chairman of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and Vice Chairman of the Board for Information Technology Education Standards (BITES) set up by the Government of Karnataka. Kris is the Vice Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industries(CII) Southern Regional Council. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.Kris holds a master's degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

## Marc Benioff
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

Marc Benioff is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Salesforce. Marc Benioff attended the University of Southern California.

## Jackson Moses
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Government

A proven serial entrepreneur and early defense tech investor, Jackson Moses currently serves as the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures, an early stage venture firm that invests in exceptional founders building unrivaled aerospace, defense, and national security startups. He also manages Silent Capital, a private syndicate that providesits members exclusive access to leading defense and frontier tech deals. As a serial founder, Jackson’s companies - MainStreet (FinTech) and Spectrum Labs (enterprise AI) - have raised over $120M, employ hundreds of people, and generate $30M+ in ARR.Prior to founding Silent Ventures, Jackson founded and served as VP of Partnerships at MainStreet - the first company to make R&D tax credits accessible to startups and SMBs via industry-leading workflows, integrations, and back-office technologies. As a founding executive, he was responsible for defining GTM strategies, scaling revenue, building a world-class sales organization, and managing business development initiatives. To date, MainStreet has helped 2,000+ startups claim over $150M in savings, collectively extending their runway by centuries.Prior to founding MainStreet, Jackson founded and served as Chairman & CEO of Spectrum Labs - a frontier tech company that develops cutting-edge AI to make digital communities more profitable for Fortune 500 owners, marketers, and their users. Its customers span gaming, dating, and social media, and include Tencent (TCEHY), Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), Grindr (NYSE: GRND), Yik Yak, Wildlife Studios, and The Meet Group, among others.Prior to founding Spectrum Labs, Jackson worked in sales (Lynda.com), customer operations, and executive recruiting at LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to this, he worked as a Market Research Analyst at Cisco where he evaluated industry trends, new investment opportunities, and emerging threats to Cisco’s core business lines.Jackson actively advises startups, venture firms, and family offices on private sector aerospace and defense tech trends, investment opportunities, and capital allocation strategies. He serves as a Venture Partner to several large firms and has sourced deals for 8VC, Airbus Ventures, Tribe Capital, Susa Ventures, Lavrock Ventures, Afore Capital, and defense primes.Jackson holds two B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied Economics, with a concentration in monetary policy, and Political Science, with a concentration in game theory.Personal: www.jacksonmoses.com | Work: www.silentvc.com | Syndicate: www.silentcapital.vc

## Hadi Partovi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software

Hadi Partovi is an entrepreneur and investor, and CEO of the education non-profit Code.org. In 2013 Hadi and his twin brother Ali launched the education nonprofit Code.org which Hadi continues to lead full-time as CEO. Code.org has established computer science classes in 15% of US classrooms, created the most popular curriculum platform for K-12computer science, and launched the global Hour of Code movement that has reached over 100 million students.A computer science graduate of Harvard University, Hadi began his career during the browser wars in the 1990s, when he was Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer. In a second stint at Microsoft, he was General Manager of the MSN portal, delivering its first year of profit. As an entrepreneur, Hadi was on the founding teams of Tellme Networks and iLike, which were acquired by Microsoft and MySpace, respectively. Hadi has served as an early advisor to numerous startups including Facebook and Dropbox, and as a tech investor his portfolio also includes airbnb, Uber, Zappos, IndieGogo, Change.org, and others. Aside from his investments, Hadi also serves as a Director on the boards of TASER International and Convoy.

## Daniel Curran
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

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

## Sierra Peterson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar

Sierra is a Founding Partner at Voyager Ventures.

## Vishal Rao
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Advisory CTO and Angel Investor

## Nicholas Assef
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Battery

Investment banker, founder, angel capitalist. FOcussed on industrial technology applications including renewable energy and recycling technology.

## Qasar Younis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Transportation, Artificial Intelligence

Mr. Qasar Younis is the Founder of Talkbin. Mr. Younis serves as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Y Combinator. He is responsible to manage all Y Combinator events, operations, finance and legal functions, as well as advise startups. Previously, he served as a Part-Time Partner at the firm.

## Yun-Fang Juan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Silicon Valley, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Software

Yun-Fang Juan

## Jon Moulton
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking

Jon Moulton is a British venture capitalist. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital, and is the former managing partner of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners.

## Kristjan Raude
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things, Software

I am a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with 15+ years of international experience in sales & marketing, leading teams of 300+ with annual revenue of 10M+. Founder of 3 international companies and investor to 10+ startups. Member of the board at Estonian Business Angels Network.

## Ramez Naam
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Sustainability, Software

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

## Josh Manchester
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Satellite Communication

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

## Eric Schmidt
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Science/Engineering, Data and Analytics

Founding Partner @ Innovation Endeavors
Co-Founder @ Jigsaw
Founder and President @ Schmidt Ocean Institute
Founder @ TomorrowVentures
Executive Chairman @ Alphabet
Founder @ Schmidt Futures


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

Sundeep Ahuja is a tech founder, advisor & investor. Most recently he spent 3 years in BD @ AWS focused on Startups & AI/ML. Before that, he co-founded Silicon Climate (non-profit), Blissmo (acq by Oh My Green), Sparked, and RichRelevance (~$100m raised). Sundeep is an advisor at or investor in over 60 companies including Indiegogo,Change.org, Goodreads & Counsyl. He's also Executive Producer of #LastGlimpse, author of the category best-selling novel HALINE, a former actor with spots on entourage & 24, and has traveled to 50 countries. Sundeep holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

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