# Top 50 Legal Angel Investors in May 2026

## 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.

## Jack Newton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Legal, Legal Tech, Software

An experienced business leader, software developer and entrepreneur, Jack provides the strategic vision that has made Clio a leader in legal cloud computing.

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

## Jeff Seibert
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

As Senior Director of Product at Twitter, Jeff has led the company's consumer, developer, and publisher facing products, including Twitter for iOS, Android, and the Web, Fabric, Crashlytics, Answers, Digits, Twitter Kit, TweetDeck, Twitter's Publisher Platform, and Gnip.Previously, Seibert was Twitter’s Director of Developer Platformwhere he led Fabric, the company’s suite of mobile developer tools, as well as its enterprise Data Platform and Content Syndication efforts.Seibert was the co-founder and CEO of Crashlytics, an award-winning crash analysis service for iOS and Android apps. Crashlytics was acquired by Twitter in 2013 and has become an essential piece of the mobile developer toolchain - today powering over a million apps across well over two billion devices worldwide.Seibert co-founded Increo in 2007 and served as its COO and lead architect until its acquisition by Box in 2009. He subsequently oversaw the integration of Increo’s document preview and annotation technologies into Box’s cloud content platform.Seibert gained experience at Apple in both marketing and engineering capacities and led Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar series as Co-Coordinator. He was selected as a Mayfield Fellow in 2007 and received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.Seibert is a frequent presenter on both entrepreneurship and technical topics and has lectured at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, as well as keynoted Twitter Flight, AppsWorld, AnDevCon, EclipseCon, and others. Find him on Twitter at @JeffSeibert.

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

## Al Giles
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Legal, Software, Legal Tech

Al Giles

## Kevin Hale
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Kevin Hale was a partner at Y Combinator. He worked with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the earliest Y Combinator funded startups. The online form builder was later acquired by SurveyMonkey. He attended

## Alexander Edward Chesterman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company.
Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe's leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK's most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stagedigital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016.

## Pierre Lorinet
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Hotel, Legal, Software

Pierre Lorinet is a Non-Executive Director at Trafigura Group. He attended INSEAD.

## Elad Gil
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## David Rutter
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Information Technology

David founded R3 in 2015 and in his role of Chief Executive Officer is responsible for the strategic direction of R3.With over 30 years of experience leading some of Wall Street’s top institutions, David is a longtime creative thought leader in financial markets and innovation, and has played a significant role in the adoption of electronictrading in the global OTC derivatives industry.David served for ten years as the CEO of Electronic Broking at ICAP Plc, the world’s largest interdealer broker, where he led the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms. Prior to ICAP, David was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane.

## Wei Guo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Lisa Stone
- Type: Angel
- Location: Silicon Valley, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Legal, Beauty

Lisa Stone

## Mark Cuban
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Wesley Chan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Wesley Chan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at FPV Ventures, a $450M early stage fund that backs and serves mission-driven founders. He is an investor in five $10B+ "decacorns," his most notable being Canva where he is a member of the board of directors, led the Series A and C rounds, and is worth north of $40B. He founded GoogleAnalytics and Google Voice and holds 17 US patents for his work in creating Google AdWords. Among Wesley's 20+ unicorn investments, he wrote the first or very early check into fintech API decacorn Plaid, logistics powerhouse Flexport, SMB payroll leader Gusto, enterprise software unicorn Lucid, and stock trading platform RobinHood (NASDAQ: HOOD)-- and led investments in Canva, AngelList, Carta, Guild Education, Sourcegraph, Dialpad, RocketLawyer, Orca Bio, Checkr, CultureAmp, HyperScience, Zipline, Astranis, TrialSpark, and Ring (exit to AMZN). Business Insider named Wesley to their Top 100 Seed Investors list for two consecutive years in 2022 & 2021.He was formerly a Managing Director at Felicis Ventures and one of the first General Partners at GV (Google Ventures). He led investments and/or held board seats in Xilis, AngelList, Opsera, Pendulum Therapeutics, ProteinQure, Okera, Ascend.io, Overture Life, TopFunnel, Spring Discovery, iPierian (exit to BMS), Transphorm (NASDAQ: TGAN) and Dialpad. Wesley also founded GV’s seed investing program and wrote first checks into RobinHood, Plaid, Gusto, RobinHood, Vungle ($750M exit to Blackstone), Lucid, Optimizely, DataPad (exit to Cloudera), Freshplum (exit to TWTR), Namo Media (exit to TWTR), and Parse (exit to FB).Wesley is a recipient of Google’s Founders Award – the company’s most prestigious recognition – for leading the development of Google’s early client efforts, which led to the creation of Google Chrome. He also worked at HP Labs as a senior software engineer and at Microsoft Research as a research fellow. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT and completed his Masters degree at the MIT Media Lab.Technology Review magazine featured Wesley as a “Top 35 Under 35” innovator. Wesley’s accomplishments have been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, and Fortune, and his story as a product founder is featured in Steven Levy’s best-selling Google book, “In The Plex.” As a fan of the arts, Wesley is also a board member of the Met Opera in New York City.

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

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

## Duncan Painter
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: Legal, Computer, Software

Duncan joined the company in October 2011 as Chief Executive Officer. In March 2012, he led a significant restructure of the group, which saw the creation of Top Right Group and its separate business units operating at the heart of the customer communities they serve. In December 2015, following a successful three-year turnaround, Duncan formed thenew Group Company Brand – Ascential.As CEO, Duncan has a relentless focus on improving our products and services to ensure this drives greater customer retention. Ensuring our customers get improved value every year from our products; seeking constant feedback; adapting what our brands focus on and empowering our experts to have the confidence to be champions of insight or access to the markets we serve; have been the core ingredients to the strong results of the Group over the last few years.Before joining the Group, Duncan was an Executive at BskyB, where he supported their growth objectives to ten million customers. Prior to that, he was Global Product Leader at Experian plc, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of consumer intelligence company ClarityBlue, which was acquired by Experian in 2006, and European Systems Integration Director for Hitachi Data Systems.

## Michael Pennington
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B.
Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.

## Gregory Chang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Legal, Real Estate

Gregory Chang is a Vice President of Product at Doma. He previously worked as a Vice President for Product at Carta, where he oversees the core product, including cap table management and equity plan software. Greg is an angel investor focused on enterprise SaaS. His investments include Amplitude, Atrium, Ironclad, Gem, and Vanta among others. Gregis also a Sequoia scout, advisor at 8VC, Affinity and Qualia and previously served on the Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Council during the Obama Administration.

## Hristo Hristov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Advertising

Hristo Hristov - Chief Executive Officer @ DarikNews.bg

## Telmo Pérez Luaces
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Legal, FinTech

Telmo Pérez Luaces has all-embracing experience within the Internet and telecommunications sector. Starting at Netjuice Networks in 1999, then joining the Orange-France Telecom Group (2000-2015) and occupying numerous positions: Strategy Director. CEO Office (Wanadoo), Online Director and Portales (Orange Spain) and VP Strategy Home &Convergence (Orange Group). During this period within Orange Group, as VP Digital Corporate Development he adapted the online strategy and launched the main open innovation initiatives on a global basis, by being responsible for the design and implementation of the Orange Fab acceleration program globally, along with the corporate venture capital activity (Orange Digital Ventures). He has participated in the acquisition of a variety of Internet and telecommunications companies, and more recently in investments in startups related to IoT (Smart home, connected car, etc.) and Data areas. He has also been member of the Board of Directors of Orange Digital Services and Cityvox.

## Kevin Mahaffey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.

## Douglas Monieson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Software

Douglas has board responsibilities for two of HPA’s portfolio companies: UICO, a touch-screen manufacturing company, and Group Gift, a crowd-sourced B2B group gifting site. He also led the successful exit of Gradebeam, which was purchased by Textura in 2011. Gradebeam.com was a SAAS business that connects general contractors and subcontractors inthe construction industry. Douglas has been involved in the financial trading community for more than twenty years. He began his career in 1989 as a spot foreign exchange dealer at Manufacturers Hanover. He became a Commodity Trading Advisor in 1991 and worked for Commodities Corporation, where he successfully traded from both their Princeton and Chicago offices. Since 1994, he has been an active member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). He is a founding member of the NASDAQ100 futures pit, and served as the Vice Chairman of the Pit Committee from the pit’s inception until 2001. He worked closely with the CME Board of Directors and staff on pit design, pit space allocation and helped with the successful launch of the e-mini NASDAQ contract in 2001. Douglas is a valued member of the CME Pit Supervision Committee (1999-Present) and has served on the CME Group’s Political Action Committee since 2007. Douglas has made regular appearances as a financial commentator on Bloomberg TV and has made guest appearances on CNBC, CNNFN, and Canada’s Report on Business TV. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Modern Asset Group, an alternative investment management firm with an expertise in managed futures.Douglas graduated from the University of Michigan in 1987 with a BA in Economics and received his MBA in finance from the University of Chicago in 1989. He and his wife Leslie live in Lincoln Park with their two children, Aaron and Sarie.

## Will Neale
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

## Daniel Seijo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Legal, Content

Daniel Seijo - Cofounder @ Fuell

## David Beyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software

David is a Partner of Amplify Partners and co-founder of Chartio.com.Before joining Amplify Partners, David spent time as both a venture-backed entrepreneur and an early-stage investor. He began his career in technology as the co-founder and CEO of Chartio.com, a pioneering provider of cloud-based data visualization and analytics. He wassubsequently part of the founding team at Patients Know Best, one of the world’s leading cloud-based personal health record companies. David has been a prolific investor and advisor to entrepreneurs. He has personally invested in more than 50 early-stage companies, including Zymergen, Skycatch, Caribou Biosciences, Rigetti Computing, Casetext, Ginkgo Bioworks, Function of Beauty, Cruise Automation, and Bugcrowd. In addition, he currently serves on the advisory council of Bayes Impact, a nonprofit organization that deploys data science to solve important social challenges.He attended Brown University.

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Ahmed Haque
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Training, Education

Ahmed Haque is the Senior Vice President of Innovation at 2U Inc, a leading education technology company that powers graduate degree and skill-based certificate programs.Before his role at 2U, Ahmed was the Chief Academic Officer at Trilogy Education, where he oversaw product strategy, curriculum development, instructional management, and programanalytics. Under Ahmed's leadership, Trilogy developed a fleet of programs in software development, data analytics, ux/ui, cybersecurity, and financial technology taught to over 40,000 students at 50+ universities. Since creation, these programs have generated over $200M in total revenue and led to tens of thousands of adults transitioning into highly-paid careers in the tech sector. As a member of the starting executive team, Ahmed helped scale Trilogy from its initial 20 person staff to a 2,500+ workforce and through its acquisition by 2U, Inc. for $750M in 2019. He is also an investor and advisor focused on mission-driven companies in the education, health, wellness, and social impact sectors.

## José Manuel Cifuentes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, Big Data, Software

José Manuel Cifuentes has a markedly interdisciplinary background in engineering, languages ​​and finance, developing his activity among the financial and linguistic services sectors. As founder of Meteora Inversiones, Cifuentes is committed to the fintech, insurtech and proptech sectors with injections of around 15,000 euros. He has carried outinvestments in Housers, Finizens, Coverfy, Coinffeine, Cabify, Syna Capital and Propertista , among others. He is also a member and member of the analysis committee of Civeta Investment. Currently it has gone to investment in blockchain projects.

## Henry Yoshida
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Convertible Note
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Finance

Henry is CEO and Co-founder of Rocket Dollar, a web platform that lets people invest IRA money into private and alternative investments. Henry founded venture capital backed robo-advisor Honest Dollar[acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2016, now Marcus Invest], was the founder of a $2.6b assets under management RIA, and spent 10 years at Merrill Lynch.Henry is a Certified Financial Planner and has brought multiple innovative products and methodologies to the market. Yoshida graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, has an MBA from Cornell University, and lives in Austin with his wife and two daughters.Henry graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and has an MBA from both the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and Queen’s University in Canada. He resides in Austin, Texas with his wife and two daughters, Lillianna and Gemma-Day.Henry graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and has an MBA from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, Rachel, and daughter, Lillianna.

## Andrew Mullinger
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, SaaS

Andrew is currently focused on a number of projects helping Funding Circle scale globally.As a founder, Andrew has grown Funding Circle from an idea into the largest and fastest growing small business loan marketplace in the world. Andrew helped build out and lead the company’s operations before focusing on risk management. He was responsiblefor ensuring the performance of the first $1.5bn of loans originated globally has great risk adjusted returns for investors before handing over the reins to Jerome, our Global CRO.Since Funding Circle entered the US in 2012, he has split his time between Funding Circle’s San Francisco and London offices.Before founding Funding Circle, Andrew worked at Nomura and Citigroup specializing in regulatory and risk management. He also spent time at Ernst & Young as a consultant where he advised financial institutions, government and regulators on risk management and regulation, including a major UK bank on its SME credit models. Andrew holds a degree in Mathematics from Manchester University.

## Roberto Magnifico
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Legal, Mobile

With many years of experience in business finance and international financial markets, he is a collaborator with LUISS EnLabs, director at LVenture Group and a partner with InnovActionLab. Since 2008, he has occupied himself with startups, has acted as co-founder, business angel, advisor and mentor, focusing on turnover, internationalization andcrowdsourcing. He has worked in New York, Rome and London, filling important positions at Lehman Brothers, Banco di Roma, UBS, Barclays Capital and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. He was co-founder and director of companies and associations, including Business Value, Agorà SGR, Atlas Capital (hedge funds) and Business Club Italia. He has led trainings at Banco di Roma, UBS and Barclays Capital on tools and capital markets and was co-editor of publications about markets, published by Euromoney Publications. He is an alumnus of the University of Bari.

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster

## Daniel Curran
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

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

## Julius Genachowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, News, Web Hosting

Julius Genachowski is a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, which he joined in 2014. He served as Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from 2009 to 2013. He held senior executive positions for about eight years at IAC, which owned and operated Internet and media companies including Expedia, Ticketmaster, and USA Network.Also prior to the FCC, he was engaged with several public and private companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector as a board member, investor, or advisor. He is a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute, and has taught a joint class at Harvard Business and Law Schools.Earlier in his career, he was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, and worked in Congress for the Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair and for then-Representative Charles Schumer. He is currently a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Mr. Genachowski currently serves as a director of Mastercard, Inc.

## Ned Staple
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Legal, SaaS, Advice

Ned Staple is the General Counsel and Company Secretary at Cazoo.

## Avichal Garg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stanford, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Financial Services

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

## Paul Grewal
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Email, Legal

Paul Grewal is the Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase.

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

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

## Felix Lopez Capel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, Big Data, Software

Felix Lopez Capel - Managing Director @ SEK Lab EdTech Accelerator

## Sergio A. Escobar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Real Estate

Sergio has a diversified investment portfolio of companies across the United States and Canada ranging from B2B Cloud & SaaS startups (leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Analytics and Security) to B2C Consumer startups (leveraging Mobile Apps, IoT/Wearables and eCommerce). Sergio has +15 years of experience as a multiple timestech entrepreneur with startups in Aerospace, eCommerce, Manufacturing, AgTech and Financial Technologies. Over the last 8 years, he has been deeply involved in the international entrepreneurial scene (incubators and accelerators) through his involvement in Founder Institute, Techstars Startup Programs, McGill X-1, Startup Chile, Startup Peru, Startup Bootcamp FinTech London, MsB Tunisia, Flat6Labs Tunisia, Kuwait National Fund, World Bank 'Tech Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the Caribbean', Krypto Labs in the Middle East and Creative Destruction Lab in Artificial Intelligence. He has been pioneering the Canadian investment scene by launching one of Canada's very first super angel funds: BCFventures.vc

## Robert Maier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Service Industry

Robert Maier is a Business Angel at Saarbrücker21 and an investor at various companies. Robert was a Founder and Managing Director at Visual Meta. He attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Stuart Marks
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hale, Cheshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Services, Information Technology

Stuart Marks is a successful entrepreneur who has built and sold four businesses over the past 25 years. They have spanned several sectors including CRM, location-based services and digital media. Every company applied innovation to challenge existing business models.Stuart has worked with a diverse and international customer-base includingSainsbury’s, British Airways, Unilever, Vodafone, BMW and various government agencies across the world. His previous company, ITIS Holdings plc, was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was Europe’s leading provider of real-time traffic information and connected car technology.The first company to commercialize crowdsourced data from GPS devices and mobile phone networks, Stuart sold the firm in 2011 to Washington-based INRIX before going on to establish L Marks to invest in the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

## Roope Marttila
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, Service Industry, Information Technology

Roope Marttila is the Co-Founder and CEO at Herculex.ai.

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

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

## Jon Staenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

Jon Staenberg has been working with venture backed companies for more than a decade, and has participated in over 100 deals. In this capacity he has started his own company, worked full-time in other companies, and consulted to over 50 startups. He is one of the most experienced venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest, having raised two fundstotaling over $100 million. After working in the marketing area at Microsoft for six years, he joined Virtual i-O as VP of Sales & Marketing. During the last eight years, he has been engaged in business planning, business development, financial planning and fundraising, recruiting and mergers and acquisitions work for a variety of Silicon Valley and Seattle-based startups.Jon serves on the boards of Class.com and Micropath, and is on the advisory boards of New Vine Logistics, Vista Broadband, Prime Advantage, Time Domain, Atlantes.com, OneName, Syncronex, and uReach.com.Jon graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, where he received his B.S., M.A., and M.B.A. While at Stanford, he started and ran two successful companies.Jon grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and is a hardcore Nebraska Cornhusker fan. In his spare time he collects sports ticket stubs.

## Ilya Sukhar
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Developer Tools

Ilya Sukhar currently works as the General Partner for Matrix Partners. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a part-time partner.

## James Meekings
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Software

As co‑founder and UK Managing Director James leads the UK business and is responsible for overseeing the overall strategic direction and day‑to‑day operation of Funding Circle in the UK. James co‑founded Funding Circle in the UK in 2010 after seeing how difficult it was for small businesses to access funding and wanting to build something better.Prior to Funding Circle James was at OC&C Strategy Consultants where he advised companies on strategy and growth across the retail, media and services sectors.James has a first class Economics and Management degree from Oxford University.

## Peter Kurer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Compliance

Peter Kurer - Advisor @ Apiax

## Daniel Recanati
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Analytics, Advertising

Daniel Recanati is the Founder & CEO of Rhodium. a private investment firm whose mission is to identify the most promising entrepreneurs and help them build thriving companies. focusing on Impact, digital, climate tech and space via Earth & beyond ventures.
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