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Top 20 LGBT Angel Investors (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in LGBT startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in LGBT startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Andy Dunn
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Wellness, Health Care $1.1M–$8.5M
Harry Briggs
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce $1.8M–$10M
Amanda Bradford
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed LGBT, Dating, Social $1.5M–$1.5M
Nisha Dua
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Wellness, Cosmetics $1.5M–$4M
Antoine Blondeau
Angel
1 United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Health Care $1.2M–$6M
Joel Simkhai
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Rental, Travel
Ross Veitch
Angel
1 Singapore, Thailand, United States Seed Real Estate, Internet, E-Commerce
Michelle Kennedy
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Women's, E-Commerce, Fashion
Silvia Mah
Angel
1 United States Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Baby
David Chang
Angel
1 United States, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $250k–$1.5M
Albert Lee
Angel
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Apps, Software $1.5M–$2M
Patrick Spaulding Ryan Ph.D
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps $89k–$330k
George Godula
Angel
1 United States, China, Algeria Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile $1.3M–$37M
Philippe von Borries
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed LGBT, Dating, Social
Chris Sinton
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Rental, Travel
Sam Altman
Angel
1 United States, Ghana, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $1.2M–$100M
Shinji Kimura
Angel
1 United States, India, Japan Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $1M–$106M
Mark Suster
Angel
1 United States, Poland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Advertising, Social Media $1M–$18M
Oksana Stowe
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $190k–$3.7M
Peter Boyce II
Angel
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Software, B2B, Cloud Computing $20k–$6.1M
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Andy Dunn
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Andy Dunn is co-founder and CEO of Bonobos, an apparel brand renowned for exceptional fit, high energy and great customer experience. Launched in 2007, Bonobos is now the largest apparel brand in the United States ever launched over the web. Previously, Dunn worked as a private equity analyst at Wind Point Partners and as a consultant at Bain& Company. He is a founding board member of education social enterprise Blue Engine and the founder of Red Swan Ventures, an angel investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.3M; Series A $3M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Varos — Join hundreds of DTC brands anonymously crowdsourcing CACs and other marketing KPIs to see how you compare in real time. It takes 2 minutes to sign up.
  • Ours — High quality, virtual couples therapy
  • Kabata — Full workout comprehension. Data-driven coaching. Gamified progression. Welcome to the next generation in connected fitness.
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Harry Briggs
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Harry is a partner at OMERS Ventures, previously at Balderton Capital & BGF Ventures- and the youngest investor in the inaugural Forbes "Midas List Europe", thanks to investments such as The Hut Group, GoCardless, Touch Surgery and Revolut. Prior to Balderton, Harry co-founded Firefly Tonics, a healthy energy drink brand that sells inover 30 countries, sold to Private Equity in 2012. Harry started his career at McKinsey & Co., the strategy consultancy, in London and New York.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2.9M; Series A $4.9M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
  • SeedLegals — Grow faster with SeedLegals. Unlimited expert support included. Trusted by 50,000+ startups and investors.
  • LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre
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Amanda Bradford
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Amanda Bradford is the founder of The League, an exclusive dating app that matches smart, busy, and ambitious people together. The goal was to create power couples by matching up highly motivated single professionals. She raised $2.1 million in seed funding in January 2015. Amanda studied at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, and worked for SequoiaCapital, Salesforce, and Google before launching The League.After graduating from Carnegie Mellon with a degree in Information Systems, Amanda joined Salesforce as a Sales Engineer. In 2010 she joined Google, where she worked as a product specialist on the DoubleClick team and then moved into New Business Development where she led partnership efforts around the commercialization of Google's BIg Data Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings. Amanda graduated with an MBA frp, Stanford Graduate School of Business and is interested in enterprise saas companies, big-data applications, and e-commerce.In 2014 she founded The League, a new dating app.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Dating, Social
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
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Nisha Dua
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Nisha Dua is Co-founder & Managing Partner at BBG Ventures, which she co-founded with Susan Lyne in 2014. BBGV is an NYC-based, early-stage fund leading investments in companies built by underestimated founders that are transforming our collective and lived experiences. BBGV invests across Sustainable and Transparent Commerce, Underestimated& Emerging Consumers, Health & Wellbeing, The Evolving Workforce, and Next Gen Communities. At BBGV Nisha has invested in over 70 start-ups including The Wing, Zola, Pymetrics, KiwiCo, Spring Health, Future Family and Winky Lux. Most recently, BBGV launched Fund III and led investments in Planet FWD, RadSwan, Thousand Fell, Oova, and Starface.Nisha has spent the last decade working in media, tech, strategy and law. She was the General Manager of AOL’s millennial site, Cambio, which she re-launched as a site “for girls, #BUILTBYGIRLS” in partnership with Girls Who Code. She then founded BUILT BY GIRLS, a software platform which connects girls and non-binary talent with professionals to prepare the next generation of leaders to step into careers powered by technology. Nisha was previously Chief of Staff for the AOL Brand Group, working on strategy, operations and special projects. She cut her teeth as a management consultant for Bain & Company and an M&A lawyer at Australian law firm Blake Dawson. Nisha acts as an advisor to numerous start-ups outside her role as an investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Diem — 8,346 Followers, 1,333 Following, 1,194 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diem (@askdiem)
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.
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Antoine Blondeau
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Antoine is a technology entrepreneur and an investor in technology companies in California and China. He has 20 years of leadership experience in technology marketing worldwide, as CEO, senior officer and director/advisor in listed companies, start-ups, turnarounds and midsize-to-large companies. Antoine has traded in the currency and stockmarkets for 10 years. Antoine's career highlights include working with the Tokyo representation of the French Prime Minister's DATAR unit to negotiate the setup of Mitsubishi Electric, Canon, Toshiba and Sony's industrial facilities in France, and a 4-year stint at Nortel Networks where he headed the OEM and Asia/Pacific unit of the company's digital wireless terminals business. Antoine was also president & COO of Zi Corporation, a developer of intelligent user interface software listed on the NASDAQ Main Board, and CEO of Dejima, Inc., a developer of distributed artificial intelligence software, which he sold to Sybase, Inc. In addition, Antoine worked at salesforce.com, the leader in on-demand enterprise applications, as vice-president, and at Good Technology, the last independent challenger to RIM Blackberry, as senior vice president. He is an investor, board member and advisor in a number of companies in California, Greater China and Japan. He is the author or co-author of 5 patents. Antoine holds a MBA from the Paris Graduate School of Management (ESCP) and has studied at the faculties of Economics and Commerce of Chuo University in Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.3M; Series A $6M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoShare — Moving, hauling, and delivery help is just a tap away with GoShare's easy app. Get a truck or cargo van in less than an hour.
  • LogicInk — LogicInk is developing bio-chemical signals that can be worn daily, to support your wellbeing with increased knowledge about your health and daily peace of mind.
  • Pathship — Pathship is an education platform that leverages AI and ML. An alternative to today’s higher education, connecting people with jobs they’re passionate about.
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Joel Simkhai
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Joel Simkhai - Chief Executive Officer @ Blendr

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Rental, Travel
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • misterb&b — Be welcomed in 1 million LGBTQ+ friendly accommodations in 200 countries. Find gay rooms, travel safely & get useful gay local tips. Secure payment & 24/7 assistance.
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Ross Veitch
Angel · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Ross is CEO & Co-Founder at Wego, an online travel marketplace (aka travel metasearch) operating across APAC and MENA backed by top-tier investors including Tiger Global, Crescent Group, Square Peg Capital, MNC Group and MEVP. Ross is a veteran of the Asian internet industry having established Yahoo!s Southeast Asian operations in Singaporeback in 1998 and leading product development efforts across the region for 6+ years. He is also Singapore Co-Chair of H2, the premier global leadership network for the digital industry. Ross has been an active angel investor in the technology sector for a decade and enjoys working with other passionate entrepreneurs. He has worked in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Kuala Lumpur and is now splits his time between Singapore and Dubai. He travels frequently for business but not nearly enough for leisure.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, Thailand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
  • Light — Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
  • PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
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Michelle Kennedy
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya, before being poached by the firm's successful biotech client, Quotient Bioscience to head up their legal team. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal,compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev, on the existing product, and exciting 'special projects' coming soon....

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Women's, E-Commerce, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sojo — Making your clothes work for you has never been so simple. Download Sojo today and have one of our community of seamsters bring your clothes to life.
  • Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.
  • Code First Girls — Code First Girls is on a mission to transform tech. We work with various partners to teach women to code for free; join the 150,000+ women we have taught so far!
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Silvia Mah
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Silvia Mah

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Baby
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reliabl — Lips is a feminist technology organization at the forefront of the inclusive design movement, building products designed to unlock opportunities for previously underserved and intersectionally marginalized communities. Our first product is a social media platform designed for women and LGBTQ individuals seeking a space to express themselves throughart without the unhealthy aspects of mainstream internet culture such as online harassment, censorship and plagiarism. We are building more inclusive Machine Learning and Contextual AI technologies that can be used across industries to improve the online experience of traditionally marginalized communities.
  • Sēkr — Your complete travel resource to locate campsites, facilities and connect with community.
  • Tot Squad — Tot Squad is a marketplace that connects new parents with health, wellness and safety services both virtually and in person. We're a one-stop shop in the $46B "New Mom Economy" consolidating the highly fragmented providers of services like car seat installation, babyproofing, and lactation consulting. Our car seat installationservices can be found on Amazon and Walmart as an add-on with a car seat purchase.
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David Chang
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

David is GM, Expert Network at Hunt Club and a Founding Member at TBD Angels. As an entrepreneur and angel investor, he has held operating roles at 6 startups and invested in 90 companies. He was recently the CEO of Gradifi, which was acquired by E*TRADE. Previously, he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School and Director of theBabson Summer Venture Program.David has held product and marketing roles at 6 Boston-based startups that were acquired. He previously led the PayPal Boston office and co-founded the Start Tank innovation space. Earlier in his career, he held roles at TripAdvisor (IAC), m-Qube (Verisign), edocs (Siebel), SnapMyLife (Exclaim Mobility), and Goldman Sachs.As a leader in the entrepreneurship community, he holds several advisor/board memberships and has made 90 angel investments in early-stage startups. Awards include Boston Business Journal's Power 50: Most Influential Bostonians, BostInno’s 50 on Fire: Education Winner / Investment Winner / Tech Finalist, and Finalist for NEVY Angel of the Year.David holds a BS with Distinction in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Invalidate — IPR-tested prior art search. The ultimate patent invalidation tool.
  • LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.
  • Patented.ai — Building the world's first infringement detector.
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Albert Lee
Angel · San Carlos, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Albert Lee is co-founders of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Over the course of his career, Albert has focused on creating both consumer and business related products within some of the industry's most successful companies including eBay, Paypal and Yahoo. He also has deep experience in bothaffiliate marketing and online commerce from his time as Vice President of Marketing for Webjuice, an advertising technology startup focused on performance-based internet marketing. Albert has a B.A. in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Exer Labs — Motion intelligence software for healthcare providers, powered by our custom, next-generation AI that runs on any device with a camera.
  • Revery — The team at Revery is on a mission to make access to wellness affordable and accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, through the medium of gaming.
  • SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
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Patrick Spaulding Ryan Ph.D
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Patrick Spaulding Ryan PhD (X-Google, X-Bytedance) is an investor and advisor in early-stage businesses. Patrick invests through PSR Crypto, PRMM USA and is on the Investment Committee at Leawood Venture Capital. Patrick is fractional general counsel and investor in Turion Space, and legal advisor and investor at Bttn. Patrick previously workedat Google for 9 years as a Trust, Engineering & Strategy Principal, and for 2 years at Bytedance as lead TPM in security engineering R&D and as co-director of the web3 research program. Patrick received a PhD in law & economics from KU Leuven (Belgium) and is a graduate of University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), the University of Texas School of Law, and the MIddlebury Institute of International Studies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$330k; Angel $222k–$300k; Pre-Seed $89k–$330k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CurveCatch — CurveCatch brengt de voordelen van een kleine lingerie speciaalzaak en online shoppen samen. Enerzijds nemen we je bij de hand en nemen we alle complexiteit rond maten en pasvormen weg door deze voor jou uit te kiezen o.b.v. 15 jaar ervaring. Anderzijds ben je op 5min klaar met bestellen en kan je thuis lingerie passen alvorens deze te betalen. Je betaalt achteraf alleen wat je houdt. Bestel nu jouw box en ervaar deze nieuwe manier van shoppen!
  • Arrenda — Arrenda is a fintech startup that provides market-specific insurance and financial products to the real estate markets of Latin America. It also offers advance payments to landlords upfront to lower barriers to renting in the country. Arrenda was founded in 2021 and is based in Mexico City.
  • My Little Mascara Club — Meet the little mascara everyone is subscribing to, exclusively at My Little Mascara Club. Seriously smudge proof, packed with clean ingredients, and just the right size for you to always have a fresh, clump-free mascara. Delivered!
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George Godula
Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, China, Algeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3.8M; Series A $6.3M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mila Cares — Air breathers, rejoice. Meet Mila, the first air purifier designed with real, air-breathing humans in mind.
  • Yassir — Yassir is a transportation service that utilizes a mobile app to enable users to book drivers and travel safely.The company's app locates local drivers that provide on-demand convenience and food delivery, allowing Algerians to travel anywhere they want and get food delivered on-demand.Founded in 2016 by Amel Delli, El Mahdi Yettou,Mustapha Baha, and Noureddine Tayebi and is based in Algiers, Alger, Algeria.
  • Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential
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Philippe von Borries
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Philippe von Borries is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Red Ventures and the President of Lonely Planet. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Refinery2 9.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Dating, Social
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • The Garden — The Garden is an online media company.
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Chris Sinton
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

In 1994, at Cisco Systems, he pioneered the B2B Internet with cisco.com identifying, articulating and helping create a new business paradigm, the Global Networked Business. In 2000, as an early driver of digital philanthropy, he saw that as the Internet changed the way business was done, it had could change the way people helped each other. Usingthe power of the Internet for good, Chris Co-Founded NetAid innovating with online volunteering and the first mobile app for donations on the Palm VII. Chris was a founding board member of the ePhilanthropy Foundation, founded Cisco’s ePhilanthropy office, and was Co-Founder and Founding President & CEO of Network for Good raising $1B for nonprofits. He’s served on boards with local nonprofits, Internet startups, and produced a documentary. He currently serves on StartOut's Board of Directors. StartOut fosters LGBT entrepreneurs. While Board Chair at StartOut he helped professionalize and scale the organization to 12,000 members, opening chapters in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Rental, Travel
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • misterb&b — Be welcomed in 1 million LGBTQ+ friendly accommodations in 200 countries. Find gay rooms, travel safely & get useful gay local tips. Secure payment & 24/7 assistance.
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Sam Altman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Sam was previously the Chairman of Y Combinator, a leading silicon valley startup accelerator.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Ghana, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $4M–$36M; Series B $23M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Warp — Warp is a Rust-based terminal reimagined to focus on productivity, efficiency, and speed. It is now available on MacOS. Warp has an IDE-like input area and it groups input and output together into atomic units. It also features Warp AI, which explains errors and suggests commands using AI.
  • Uncommon — Uncommon is a pluripotent team of bio-creators, forging a healthier future of food. Formerly known as HigherSteaks
  • Vital Bio — Reinventing diagnostics for proactive & accessible care. Diagnostics designed for better outcomes. Eliminating gaps between care and treatment.
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Shinji Kimura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$106M; Series B $5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
  • Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
  • AlpacaJapan — Alpaca is a technology company developing financial system platforms powered by the collaboration of AI and people.
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Mark Suster
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Mark Suster is the General Partner of Upfront Ventures. He previously worked at salesforce.com as a Vice President. Mark Suster attended the University of Chicago.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Poland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $1.5M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Secfense — Secfense is the fast track to passwordless authentication. We help companies implement strong MFA in a no-code way and at large scale.
  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
  • InfoSum — InfoSum has developed a decentralized platform designed to remove the trust barriers between progress and privacy. Its platform enables advertisers, media owners, data providers, and other advertising technology firms to collaborate across multiple data sources, without requiring the underlying data to be moved or pooled. The company was foundedin 2016 and is headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
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Oksana Stowe
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Before Redrice, Oksana lead True Seed Fund and has invested in a number of successful early-stage companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $246k–$3.7M; Angel $190k–$369k
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
  • LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
  • LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre
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Peter Boyce II
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Peter Boyce II is an investor at General Catalyst, a venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, MA with offices in Palo Alto, SF and NYC.In addition to his work at GC, he also co-founded & manages Rough Draft Ventures: a program to support technology entrepreneurship on university campuses. Since joining General Catalyst in 2013 asone of the first two investment professionals based in their NYC office, he works closely with portfolio companies including: Cadre, Mark43, Outdoor Voices, Roman, Great Jones, Jet.com (acquired by Walmart), Rebag, Major League Hacking, Workflow (acquired by Apple), and Freebird. Through his work at the university level leading Rough Draft Ventures, he supports a community of 150+ early stage teams started out of universities including: Summer, FreeWill, Noken, Snackpass, Reverie Labs, Rocketvisor, Getaway, Cobalt Robotics, LogRocket, Instabase, Pavlov (acquired by Coinbase) and Legalist.Prior to his time at GC, he worked for online education marketplace Skillshare, helped launch GoGirl Finance (an online community for personal finance education), worked in media at Bad Boy Entertainment, and co-founded two students groups while a student at Harvard: Harvard Ventures & HackHarvard.Peter is a graduate of Harvard University, earning a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and a Secondary in Computer Science, with focus on Behavioral Economics & Network Theory. He grew up in New York City, where he graduated from Stuyvesant High School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, B2B, Cloud Computing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hopscotch — We believe the flow of money between businesses should mirror the seamless flow of money between individuals. As former small business owners ourselves, we're all too familiar with the intricacies of getting paid and making payments to service providers. Hopscotch's stored value accounts and consumer-like business profiles enable us tocreate an unmatched payments experience. But our vision extends beyond a payments platform. We're building a destination for small businesses to connect, transact, and grow together. A simple, easy-to-use interface. A community of businesses thriving. Together. As one.
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • The Vendry — The Vendry is a digital marketplace and professional community for the events industry. By joining The Vendry, event professionals get free access to RFP tools that help them source venues and vendors for their events, an exclusive jobs board, discussion forums and networking opportunities, and other resources to keep up with industry news and seekinspiration for their own events. As of September 2021, The Vendry has over 17,500 members and has helped plan thousands of live and virtual events.
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LGBT Angel investor funding at a glance

Stats across 17 deals from 38 investors.

38
investors
in LGBT startups
17
deals
in LGBT startups
$805k
median round
in LGBT startups
8%
lead investors
lead at least one round
41%
Seed
most common funding stage

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