Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors (May 2026)
For AI agents: Short investor table (Markdown), Detailed investor list (Markdown)
| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Elad Gil
Angel
|
5 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$75M |
|
Paul Forster
Angel
|
5 | United Kingdom, Germany, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $750k–$9.9M |
|
Xavier Niel
Angel
|
4 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $643k–$19M |
|
Sam Altman
Angel
|
4 | United States, Ghana, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $1.2M–$100M |
|
Dan Rosensweig
Angel
|
4 | United States, Brazil | Seed, Series A | Recruiting, Internet, EdTech | $5M–$10M |
|
Binny Bansal
Angel
|
4 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Apps | $480k–$18M |
|
Jack Altman
Angel
|
4 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $600k–$55M |
|
Kyle Vogt
Angel
|
4 | United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage | $1.1M–$8M |
|
Will Martin
Angel
|
3 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $614k–$3.1M |
|
Phanindra Sama
Angel
|
3 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, SaaS, Software | $200k–$2M |
|
Avichal Garg
Angel
|
3 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Blockchain, Financial Services | $968k–$33M |
|
Kunal Shah
Angel
|
3 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $150k–$13M |
|
Stefan Ciecierski
Angel
|
3 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Video, Software | |
|
Jessica Livingston
Angel
|
3 | United States, Mexico | Seed, Angel, Series A | Medical Device, Education, Health Care | |
|
Aaron Levie
Angel
|
3 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $750k–$45M |
|
Martin Henk
Angel
|
3 | Estonia, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $375k–$1.2M |
|
Drew Houston
Angel
|
3 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Internet | $9.4M–$116M |
|
Edward Lando
Angel
|
3 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$4.5M |
|
Michael Seibel
Angel
|
3 | United States, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $120k–$20M |
|
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
|
3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Education, Task Management, Recruiting | $1.4M–$16M |
|
Jens Schumann
Angel
|
3 | Germany, Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | |
|
Volker Rofalski
Angel
|
3 | Germany | Seed, Angel, Series A | Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce | |
|
Michael Lynton
Angel
|
3 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Seed | Content, Media and Entertainment, Apps | |
|
Jacob Gibson
Angel
|
3 | United States, Kenya, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1M–$16M |
|
Paul Graham
Angel
|
3 | United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software | $1M–$12M |
|
David Windley
Angel
|
3 | United States | Seed, Series A | Human Resources, Recruiting, Enterprise Software | |
|
Daniel Gross
Angel
|
3 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning | $3.9M–$20M |
|
Eric Wu
Angel
|
3 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Real Estate, Internet, Software | $1.5M–$31M |
|
Anand Chandrasekaran
Angel
|
3 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $300k–$6M |
|
Rudy Gadre
Angel
|
3 | United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Mobile, E-Commerce | $500k–$4M |
|
Tikhon Bernstam
Angel
|
3 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Enterprise Software, Financial Services | $485k–$3.7M |
|
Ilya Sukhar
Angel
|
3 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Developer Tools | $1.2M–$15M |
|
Emmett Shear
Angel
|
3 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Health Care, Gaming | $485k–$2.4M |
|
Hans Robertson
Angel
|
3 | United States | Series A, Seed | Software, Human Resources, Security | |
|
Brian Requarth
Angel
|
3 | Brazil, Colombia, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Real Estate, Software, SaaS | $326k–$15M |
|
Will Brooks
Angel
|
3 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $614k–$3.1M |
|
Lauren DeLuca
Angel
|
3 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | |
|
Martin Tajur
Angel
|
3 | Estonia, Poland, Ukraine | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Recruiting | $482k–$500k |
|
James Beshara
Angel
|
3 | United States, India, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, E-Commerce | $1M–$15M |
|
Jason Calacanis
Angel
|
3 | United States, Australia, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$13M |
|
Julia Hartz
Angel
|
2 | United States, Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series C | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $2.3M–$55M |
|
Joakim Karske
Angel
|
2 | Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Education, Recruiting, Professional Services | |
|
Laszlo Bock
Angel
|
2 | United States | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Software | |
|
Greg Brockman
Angel
|
2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $2.3M–$4.3M |
|
Andres Kull
Angel
|
2 | Estonia | Seed, Series A | AgTech, Farming, Software | $536k–$546k |
|
Bhupen Shah
Angel
|
2 | India, United States | Angel, Seed, Series A | Software, Big Data, Recruiting | |
|
Robby Walker
Angel
|
2 | United States | Seed, Angel | Software, Travel, Internet | |
|
Sir Terry Leahy
Angel
|
2 | United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, SaaS, Mobile | |
|
Indrek Prants
Angel
|
2 | Estonia | Seed, Series A | Education, Recruiting, Professional Services | |
|
Jonathan Keidan
Angel
|
2 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care | $1M–$88M |
| Access all 1100 angel investors in Recruiting startups. | |||||
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Investor list
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $10M–$30M; Series B $20M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Resend — Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
- Neon — Postgres made for developers. Easy to Use, Scalable, Cost efficient solution for your next project.
Paul Forster
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.6M; Series A $2.9M–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
- finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
Xavier Niel currently works as the Co-Founder & CEO for NJJ Capital. Xavier Niel is the Iliad Group's majority shareholder and founder. He has been involved in the data communications, Internet and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 1993, before dedicating himself full-time to developing the Group, he founded Worldnet,the first Internet service provider in France, which was sold to Kaptech (LDCom Group) in December 2000. He has been responsible for the Group's major strategic developments, from the launch of the ANNU service and the development of Internet access services based on France Télécom’s repayment scheme as a financial model to the launch of the Freebox project.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $643k–$11M; Series A $3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
- Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
- Poolside — Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform intended to offer cutting-edge foundation concepts and infrastructure.
Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Sam was previously the Chairman of Y Combinator, a leading silicon valley startup accelerator.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Ghana, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $4M–$36M; Series B $23M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
- teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
- Vital Bio — Reinventing diagnostics for proactive & accessible care. Diagnostics designed for better outcomes. Eliminating gaps between care and treatment.
Dan Rosensweig has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since February 2010 and as the Chairman of our board of directors since March 2010. From March 2009 to February 2010, Rosensweig served as President and Chief Executive Officer of RedOctane, a business unit of Activision Publishing and developer, publisher and distributor ofGuitar Hero. From August 2007 to March 2009, Rosensweig was an Operating Principal at the Quadrangle Group, a private investment firm. From April 2002 to April 2007, Rosensweig served as Chief Operating Officer of Yahoo!, an Internet content and service provider. Prior to serving at Yahoo!, Rosensweig served as the President of CNET Networks and prior to that as Chief Executive Officer and President of ZDNet, until it was acquired by CNET Networks. Rosensweig also currently serves on the board of directors of Adobe Systems as well as Birchbox.Rosensweig holds a B.A. in political science from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Recruiting, Internet, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Series A $5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
- Galena — Plataforma de desenvolvimento profissional que empodera colaboradores, maximiza o potencial das equipes e ajuda a reter os melhores talentos.
- Mustard — Elevate your game with real time analytics and instruction from the world's best coaches and athletes.
Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Internet, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $480k–$5.4M; Series A $2M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Virgio — Women's & Men's Clothing and Accessories | Shop Trendy Fashion Online
- Leela Life — Timeless Indian wellbeing secrets for peaceful and joyful living
- Alltius Inc. — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
Jack Altman is the founder and CEO of Lattice.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $600k–$7.2M; Series A $9M–$30M; Series B $27M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reflex — Pynecone is an open-source, full-stack Python framework that makes it simple to build and deploy web apps in minutes. Pynecone combines the flexibility, performance, and customizability of traditional web development with the ease of use and accessibility of low-code frameworks.
- Verifiable — A modern data engine to power healthcare credentialing, licensing, enrollment and provider network management. Built for the new demands of today's healthcare.
- iVerify — IVerify is a mobile threat hunting company that provides mobile security solutions for individuals who want to know they can trust their devices with their most sensitive information without sacrificing privacy.
Kyle Vogt is the CEO of Cruise and former cofounder of Twitch
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BetterBrand — Designing a Better future of food. The Better Bagel features Fewer Carbs and More Protein.
- Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.
- Imbue — We want machines that learn the way humans do.Our mission is to build human-like general intelligence and make it safely accessible in order to foster a more abundant, equitable, and unconstrained society.We take a first-principles approach, starting from simple self-supervised architectures and evolving them to tackle human developmentalmilestones of increasing complexity.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $614k–$2.8M; Series A $2.1M–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Co-Founder of Redbus.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Internet, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $350k–$2M; Angel $250k–$350k; Pre-Seed $200k–$625k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
- Jovian — Learn practical skills from Silicon Valley engineers, build real-world portfolio projects, and earn a certification. Kick start your data science career!
- Bytebeam — Accelerate your IoT initiatives with Bytebeam - our platform makes it 10X simpler and quicker to build cutting-edge smart products
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $968k–$5M; Series A $12M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pulley — Pulley has helped thousands of companies manage their cap table and equity. Onboard with us today.
- Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.
- Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.
Kunal Shah
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 189
- Round size: Seed $810k–$4M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.3M; Series A $2.8M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jugyah — Jugyah is a technology company transforming how the next billion urban Indians rent their homes.Our pioneering, fin-tech powered business model is radically changing the long term home rental market.We believe there is a better place (”jugyah”) out there for both renters and property owners where they feel like they belong. Our goal is to takethem there.Backed by the largest real estate developers in the country and some of the top tier angels and VCs, we are currently in beta.
- Peping — India's best digital gastrointestinal care clinic. For gut health issues like constipation, bloating, acidity.Care plans by the best gastroenterologists and nutritionists.
- Clinikally — Video consult top skin & hair doctors online with the expertise of over 30,000 patients. Shop with us & get the finest skin & hair care products now!
Stefan Ciecierski
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: SaaS, Video, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.
Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator. She is also the organizer of Startup School, the big annual startup conference, and the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with successful startup founders.Y Combinator was the first of the new startup “incubators” that fund a bunch of startups at once. Since 2005 YChas funded over 560 companies, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Medical Device, Education, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Balto — Balto, the sports gaming platform made for the casual, everyday fan. We’re thrilled to have you. As a quick intro, we’re Nick Montana, Spencer Cassidy and Joel Karacozoff, three individuals with a passion for gaming and an affinity for bringing people together. As driven co-founders to deliver the best experience, They have set out to create asimple, social and fun gaming interface for all.
- Elpha — Elpha is where women succeed at work together. Become a member to access daily conversations with experts, insider job opportunities, and a lot of women talking candidly about work and life. Plus membership is free!
- Hype and Vice — Hype and Vice combines on-trend fashion with University brands to create officially licensed college apparel women! Cool college apparel to wear for tailgates and gamedays or to lounge around your dorm.
Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and cofounder Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy, incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads the companyin its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He has served on the Board of Directors since April 2005.Aaron attended the University of Southern California from 2003 to 2005 before leaving to found Box.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $750k–$6.6M; Series A $7M–$25M; Series B $10M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
- BoomPop — Work culture resources, virtual event inspiration, team building ideas, and fresh perspectives on the future work, brought to you by the BoomPop team.
- Superblocks — Superblocks is the fast, easy and secure way for developers to build custom internal tools fast. Connect your databases & APIs. Drag and drop UI components. Extend with Python or Javascript. Deploy in 1-click. Secure and Monitor using your favorite tools
Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $375k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $482k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Baserow — Self hosted open source no-code database and Airtable alternative. Baserow gives you the powers of a developer without leaving your browser.
- Breyta — Unify your customer and user data to get actionable insights throughout your customer lifecycle.
- SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.
Drew Houston is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company’s growth from a simple idea to a service used by over 600 million people around the world. Drew received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006. After graduating, he turnedhis frustration with carrying USB drives and emailing files to himself into a demo for what became Dropbox. Today, Dropbox is one of the world's leading business collaboration platforms, with 15 million paying subscribers and nearly 3000 employees across 12 global offices.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Series A $9.4M–$12M; Series B $18M–$116M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.
- Imbue — We want machines that learn the way humans do.Our mission is to build human-like general intelligence and make it safely accessible in order to foster a more abundant, equitable, and unconstrained society.We take a first-principles approach, starting from simple self-supervised architectures and evolving them to tackle human developmentalmilestones of increasing complexity.
Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 221
- Round size: Seed $321k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
- NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5.3M; Series A $5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
- Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
- Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Education, Task Management, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Jens Schumann, born on 6 June 1973, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LOTTO24 AG on 19 June 2020. Before that, since 2 May 2012, he was already Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He is one of the two founders of today's ZEAL Network SE (former Tipp24 SE) and was Managing Director and a Management Board member of Tipp24SE from 1999 to 2009. Jens Schumann has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL Network SE since July 2011. From 1998 to the formation of Tipp24 SE, he worked as a business consultant at Icon Medialab AG. Schumann studied law at the University of Münster from 1993 to 1998 and finished his studies with the first State Exam.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Adtriba — Data-driven marketing analytics, unbiased, cross-channel and easy to use multi-touch attribution, unified marketing measurement and marketing mix modelling
- aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
- Revo Foods — Revo Foods produces seafood products made of plants that is better for your health AND the environment.
Volker Rofalski is the founder of WebStock AG, which he sold to BAADER Bank in 1999 and TradeCross AG, which he sold to VEM Aktienbank in 2005. Since then, Volker was director of Equity Capital Markets and authorized officer of the VEM Aktienbank. Prior to this, he held several managing positions in diverse industries e.g. CFO at ELA Medical &Porges and Internet2000 AG. He studied business economics at the University of Augsburg. Volker is a member of the supervisory board of several listed and non-listed companies.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
- Instaffo — Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people.Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professionalgoals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.
- Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.
Michael Lynton is CEO of Sony Entertainment, where he oversees Sony's global entertainment businesses, including Sony Music Entertainment, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Lynton is also Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), managing the studio's overall global operations, which includemotion picture, television and digital content production and distribution, home entertainment acquisition and distribution, operation of studio facilities, and the development of new entertainment products, services and technologies.At Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lynton has focused on digital transformation, worldwide growth, content diversity and financial discipline, leading the studio through an era of innovation and success, putting Sony Pictures on the cutting edge of an industry experiencing rapid technological and global change.Sony Pictures' Motion Picture Group has enjoyed a remarkable run in the past several years, releasing such hits as Best Picture Oscar® nominees American Hustle, Captain Phillips, and The Social Network, as well as blockbuster franchises like The Amazing Spider-Man, Grown-Ups, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and The Smurfs.Between movies and TV, SPE received 26 nominations for the 2014 Golden Globes® and won seven awards, more than any other studio.Sony Pictures Television (SPT) is one of the television industry's leading content providers. It produces and distributes programming in every genre, around the world and for a multitude of platforms. In addition to one of the industry's largest libraries of award-winning feature films, television shows and formats, SPT boasts a current program slate that includes top-rated daytime dramas and game shows, landmark off-network series, original animated series and critically acclaimed primetime dramas, comedies and telefilms. In addition to its U.S. production business, SPT has 19 wholly-owned or joint venture production companies in 13 countries.SPT's worldwide media networks include 150 channel feeds available in 178 countries, reaching more than 1.3 billion cumulative households worldwide. Popular channel brands include AXN, Animax, and SET (Sony Entertainment Television), as well as the studio's ad-supported VOD service, Crackle.Sony Pictures Home Entertainment distributes Sony Pictures produced and third-party acquired theatrical and non-theatrical product on Blu-ray Disc, DVD and other digital media globally. Among the more than 3,500 titles in SPHE's catalog are the Spider-Man and Men In Black franchises, the Seinfeld TV series, and film classics on such as Lawrence of Arabia, Taxi Driver and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.Sony Pictures is also home to Imageworks, the only major studio Academy Award®-winning in-house visual effects unit.Under Lynton, Sony Pictures has been an industry leader in the migration to digital entertainment, from production and distribution to the introduction of new formats. The studio championed the industry's UltraViolet digital entertainment format, helped re-introduce 3D to the entertainment industry and is deeply engaged in the rapidly expanding 4K marketplace.Prior to joining Sony Pictures, Lynton worked for Time Warner and served as CEO of AOL Europe, President of AOL International and President of Time Warner International.From 1996 to 2000, Lynton served as Chairman and CEO of Pearson plc's Penguin Group, where he oversaw the acquisition of Putnam, Inc. and extended the Penguin brand to music and the Internet.Lynton joined The Walt Disney Company in 1987 and started Disney Publishing, serving as its President. From 1992 to1996, he served as President of Disney's Hollywood Pictures.Lynton holds a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature from Harvard College and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.Lynton is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of the American Film Institute, the Smithsonian Board of Regents, the Harvard Board of Overseers, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Trust, USC School of Cinematic Arts and the RAND Corporation.In addition, he sits on the board of directors of Snapchat and Ares Management, L.P.Lynton resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Elizabeth Jamie Alter Lynton, and their three daughters, Eloise Lynton, Maisie Lynton and Lucinda Lynton.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, Apps
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Read upcoming novels and many more from talented authors before they go mainstream!
- OLIPOP — 2-5g sugar. 9g fiber. 8 classic flavors. Discover the delicious new soda made with plant fiber and prebiotics for a happy, healthy you. Try it in Vintage Cola, Classic Root Beer, Strawberry Vanilla, Ginger Lemon and more. Non-GMO, gluten free, paleo, vegan, and just plain delicious.
- Impact — Impact: the entertainment industry network. The most network-driven industry in the world finally has its own network.
Jacob Gibson is the Co-Founder and Partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures. He is a former co-founder and COO at NerdWallet. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $8M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Adadot — Adadot empowers developers to improve their performance and wellbeing by analysing productivity and collaboration data.
- fortú — fortú is the personal finance platform for Latinos and Hispanics
- MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Paul Graham
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $3.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Novig — Novig is a peer-to-peer sports betting exchange and the first platform to offer commission-free bets.
- Manara — We identify and thoroughly vet undiscovered talent. You hire them directly for onsite or remote jobs, diversifying and accelerating your team. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of the Arab tech sector by untapping its human potential. Did you know that 52% of computer science graduates in Palestine are women? Follow us and visit our websiteto learn more.
- Roforco — Roforco runs a Roblox game accelerator that makes games successful by providing funding, resources and hands-on support. It's YCombinator for Roblox games, built by two YCombinator Alumni. Co-founders Artem and Brain have been building games together since they were 14 were developers on 12 top grossing titles, accounting for over 2.74billion plays/downloads.Prior to building the accelerator, Roforco was a game studio with a portfolio of games that reached benchmarks including 10 million monthly active users and 16,000 concurrent users. Roforco also worked with notable brands such as Unilever, for whom they made an branded game with over 50 million plays.In 2022, Roforco joined YCombinator's coveted startup accelerator and went on to secure a $1.5 million seed funding round from investors including Paul Graham, Dentsu Group, the prev. COO of Activision and the CEOs of Guilded and Jellysmack. Learn more about us at https://roforco.com/For press: tom@roforco.com Based and founded in San Francisco, CA
David Windley is the President at Caldwell. He attended San Francisco State University, Lam Family College of Business.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Human Resources, Recruiting, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Topia — The Topia Global Talent Mobility platform enables businesses to deliver mobility as part of a broader talent and business strategy with enhanced employee experiences. This drives competitive advantage by ensuring the right people in the right place at the right time. The Topia platform automates the entire global talent mobility process, fromscenario-based planning, compliance risk management, expat payroll, reporting and more. Topia powers global talent mobility programs for many of the world's most trusted brands, including Schneider Electric, Dell, Veolia, Equinor, AXA.
- Comeet — Comeet is an applicant tracking system that makes it easier to source, recruit and hire talent in today's job market.
- Atipica — Building the world's first Inclusive AI for the talent life cycle.
Daniel Gross is the Co-Founder of Pioneer. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a Head of AI.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $3.9M–$7M; Series A $10M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.
- ElevenLabs — Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice.
- Weights & Biases — Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning
Eric Wu is the President of Opendoor. He previously worked at Trulia.com as a Head of Geo/Social Products. Eric Wu attended the University of Arizona.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Real Estate, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4M; Series A $14M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Roam — Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.
- Honey Homes — Hassle-free Home Upkeep
- Kindred — Kindred provides a home swapping network.
Anand Chandrasekaran is a Partner at General Catalyst. He previously worked at Facebook and attended Stanford University.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5.3M; Series A $1.6M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
- OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
- Fold Health — Crafting the building blocks of modern primary care
Rudy Gadre is Partner at Founder's Co-op. Rudy Gadre is an active angel Investor and is also an Advisor to startups. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President and General Counsel of Facebook, where Rudy Gadre was responsible for all legal matters since January 2006. In 1999, he joined Amazon and served as its Vice President and Associate GeneralCounsel for Business Development, intellectual property, and new technologies. He was the Principal Legal Negotiator for Amazon's most significant strategic alliances and joint ventures, where Rudy Gadre oversaw the development and licensing of patents and other intellectual property, and was responsible for all legal aspects of Amazon's new technology initiatives. From September 1994 to February 1999, Rudy Gadre worked at Perkins Coie LLP, as an Associate in the technology business group. At Perkins, he represented clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies in a diverse array of matters, including joint ventures, development, protection and licensing of intellectual property, and mergers and acquisitions. Rudy Gadre served as Vice President of Business Operations at Evri, Inc, from September 2008 to July 2010. He serves as a Member of Strategic Advisory Board at Syntonic Limited. He served as a Director of Jobaline.com Inc. He served as an Independent Director of The W Fund. He is a passionate supporter of the Seattle technology ecosystem. He was recognized by Washington Law and Politics magazine as a "Super Lawyer" in 2003 and 2004. Rudy Gadre holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College and graduated from the University of Washington School of Law.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.8M; Series A $700k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- neu — Get on-demand enhanced cleaning for your Airbnb. Use neu to auto-schedule cleans after every checkout, get access to vetted service professionals, and peace-of-mind
- Wrench — Wrench offers a convenient way to get great auto repair near me, diagnostic service and oil changes. Our mobile mechanics will come to you!
- Heyou Media Holdings — This domain used to be connected to a Wix website. Learn how to reconnect it, or create your own website.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Tikhon Bernstam is an American entrepreneur who cofounded the companies Scribd and Parse.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $485k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- Aviator — Avoid broken builds, long code-reviews, cumbersome merge processes and flaky tests. Put your mundane, frustrating workflows on autopilot.
- LemonEdge — LemonEdge is the first and only low-code development platform for the complex accounting demands of the private equity industry. LemonEdge enables businesses to develop or customise solutions 10x faster than traditional approaches.
Ilya Sukhar currently works as the General Partner for Matrix Partners. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a part-time partner.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4M; Series A $5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glean — Fast data exploration for data teams and everyone else. Empower your whole team to answer questions without SQL and start making better decisions faster.
- Reflect — Reflect is a networked note-taking tool. Keep track of your notes, books, and meetings.
- Hashboard — Hashboard is a business intelligence (BI) product built for data engineers to do their best work and easily spread the data love to their entire organizations. Define metrics on your data warehouse and let your whole team search, explore and find insights that drive your business.
Emmett Shear was the Founder and CEO of Twitch (www.twitch.tv), the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. Mr. Shear was also a Co-Founder of Justin.tv and a part-time Partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator, where he advises fledgling startups on product and strategy. Mr. Shear graduated from Yale University in 2005 and in2012 was included in Forbes Magazine on their 30 under 30 list. Twitch launched in 2011, and in 2014 The Wall Street Journal cited the brand as having the 4th largest peak internet traffic in the U.S.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Health Care, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $485k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pilot AI — Pilot AI operates as a tool that automatically turns call recording into structured information.
- GGWP — We provide game developers the tools to create more positive experience for their players
- Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
Hans Robertson serves startups as an investor and advisor. He is the former chief operating officer and the vice president of products at Meraki. Previously, he served EMC as the group product manager.Prior to EMC, Robertson was an accounts manager at VMware. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a Master of Engineering degree fromMassachusetts Institute of Technology.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Human Resources, Security
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dedrone — Dedrone is the global leader in anti-drone / counter-drone solutions with the most customers in more countries
- Verkada — Imagine all your building and security products on a single cloud-managed platform, accessible from anywhere in the world. Free 30-day trial. Simple, secure and scalable.
- Pilot — Meet your dedicated finance team. Pilot handles your bookkeeping, taxes, forecasting and more. See why thousands of businesses trust Pilot.
Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $326k–$7M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.4M; Series A $7M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
- Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
- VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $614k–$2.8M; Series A $2.1M–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Lauren DeLuca is a Founder and Managing Partner of Motivate Venture Capital, a Chicago-based Pre-Seed and Seed investor.He co-founded a family of niche FinTech firms and was an active Angel investor. In 2012, he co-founded Sailfish Systems, a managed services and market data provider for trading firms, banks, and hedge funds. Sailfish merged withVictory Networks in 2013 to serve clients across the US and Europe. The combined business was ultimately sold to QuantHouse, a Paris-based trading technology provider, in 2017.He co-founded Oxford Intelligence Partners at the beginning of 2015, a boutique stock market-analytics firm. Clients included many Fortune 500 companies before a successful exit to Q4 Inc., a Toronto-based strategic acquirer serving 1000+ clients. His personal Angel portfolio spans a multitude of B2B/B2C verticals and contains over thirty early- and growth-stage businesses, including Chime, HomeChef, TradingView, Appcast, Popular Pays, DeskPass and PostProcess Technologies. He received my MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame where he graduated Cum Laude in 2001.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carpe — Carpe antiperspirant is the #1 solution to sweaty underarms, hands, feet, & more. An effective antiperspirant developed by our sweat experts, chemists & dermatologists.
- Hallow — Hallow is a prayer app that offers guided meditation sessions to help us grow in our faith & spiritual lives and find peace in God.
- Wolf & Shepherd — Wolf & Shepherd is a men's fashion brand built on the principles of innovation, performance, and tradition that designs shoes to aide modern workers as they move throughout the day. It provides unparalleled comfort by concealing a foam technology into the heart of each sole.Wolf & Shepherd was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inEl Segundo, California.
Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Recruiting
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Estonia, Poland, Ukraine
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Pre-Seed $482k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MX Labs — Allow your user to comprehensively monitor their vital signs. Check wellbeing, prevent misdiagnosis, and motivate lifestyle changes thanks to Shen.AI.
- Teamscope — Understand what drives your team's performance, make exceptional hiring decisions, and unlock the full potential of your team.
- SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.
James Beshara is the founder of Magic Mind.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.3M; Series A $7M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rye — Rye builds developer tools and APIs to build the next generation of eCommerce experiences.
- BOND — Get closer to the people and products behind your screen than ever before. Step inside creator wardrobes. Shop their edits. Swipe their curations. Be inspired. We're bringing you a new way to discover.
- Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 333
- Round size: Seed $722k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M; Series A $2.7M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
- CyberFilm — Bring your story to life!
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Julia Hartz hopes to inspire people to live more by building the world's largest marketplace of live experiences. Since founding Eventbrite in 2006 with Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage, the company has generated over $3 billion in gross ticket sales, with more than $200 million tickets processed to events and experiences around the globe.A key to this growth and success is the people of Eventbrite (fondly referred to as The Britelings), which has grown to nearly 400 employees in six offices around the world.Julia cultivates and advocates for Eventbrite's award-winning culture (voted Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area five years running). She has been honored as one of Inc.'s 35 under 35 in 2014 and Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2013.Julia is also a frequent speaker on live experiences, consumer trends and entrepreneurship, and has been recently featured in Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg and Inc. Magazine. Previous to Eventbrite, Julia was a TV development executive at MTV and FX Networks.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5M; Series A $7M–$30M; Series C $51M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Microverse — Want to learn how to code? Pay $0 until you become a software developer and land a job. Learn programming from the best online coding school and connect with a global community.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
- Glimpse — Create a distributed showroom experience without the hassle of a real showroom. Drive product discovery and track the customer journey with Glimpse's platform.
Joakim Karske
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Education, Recruiting, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Jobbatical — Jobbatical takes care of the entire relocation process for you. Just sit back and relax.
Laszlo Bock is the CEO and Co-Founder of Humu, a company that nudges people towards better work habits—unlocking the potential of individuals, teams, and organizations. His New York Times bestselling book, WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead, has been published in more than 25 languages and garnered numerous“book of the year” honors. From 2006 to 2016, Laszlo was Senior Vice President of People Operations and a member of Google’s management team, growing the company from 6,000 to 72,000 employees. During his tenure, Google was recognized over 150 times as an exceptional employer, including being named the #1 Best Company to Work for in the United States seven times.Laszlo is credited with creating the field of “People Analytics”, the application of academic-quality rigor and Google-paced innovation to people management. He also led the development of what is now known as Google for Jobs.In 2010 he was named “Human Resources Executive of the Year” and in 2015 the “HR Professional of the Decade.” He (briefly) was ranked #1 in the world in the video game Assassin’s Creed.Laszlo earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Pomona College, graduating in three years, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vincent — Vincent is the most powerful search engine for investment opportunities. Explore over 1,000 live investments in real estate, VC, debt, art, collectibl...
- BrightHire — An Interview Intelligence platform that helps you run a more efficient interview process, reduce bias, and raise the quality of your hires.
- NinjaTech AI — A new paradigm shift in conversational AI for business
Greg Brockman is the Co-founder and Chairman of OpenAI. He was formerly the CTO of Stripe, a leading Silicon Valley startup.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uplimit (formerly CoRise) — Uplimit accelerates your professional growth through live, small group courses created and taught by top experts.
- Sandbar — Simplify and accelerate your AML compliance with Sandbar. We adapt with you to minimize risk and reduce your workload. Learn more and start a conversation today.
- Lambda — GPU Workstations, GPU Servers, GPU Laptops, and GPU Cloud for Deep Learning & AI. RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX A4000, RTX A5000, RTX A6000, and A100 Options. Ubuntu, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Pre-Installed.
Andres Kull
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: AgTech, Farming, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $536k–$546k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jobbatical — Jobbatical takes care of the entire relocation process for you. Just sit back and relax.
- VitalFields — VitalFields is a digital agriculture company that offers an easy-to-use farm management system for farmers to plan, manage and analyze their field activities, including simplified tracking and reporting of all crop inputs to help ensure compliance with European Union environmental standards. Founded in 2011 and based in Tallinn, Estonia,VitalFields is available in several European countries.
Bhupen Shah holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He brings with him a great deal of expertise and experience.Bhupen Shah has over twenty-five years of experience in technology development, product development and engineering management in embedded digitalmedia and communication solutions at Sling Media, Emuzed, Dazzle, RealChip, Philips Semiconductors, IBM and other such heavyweights. Bhupen successfully built cost-effective India-based development organizations. He co-founded Sling Media, and as COO & VP Engineering, was instrumental in bringing award winning Slingbox products into the retail market. Sling Media was acquired by Echostar in 2007 and Bhupen currently plays the role of CTO at the same. Prior to Sling Media, Bhupen co-founded Emuzed, Inc., initially serving as COO and EVP of Engineering. His team delivered PC and embedded digital media products to worldwide tier-1 OEMs. Emuzed was then acquired by Flextronics. Bhupen was also a key contributor and VP of Software at Dazzle, the first company to deliver video capture devices to the consumer market. Dazzle was acquired by SCM Microsystems.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Big Data, Recruiting
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tydy — From onboarding to offboarding - deliver the best Employee Experience, at scale. Tydy consolidates data from multiple systems and processes and uses artificial intelligence to send the right communication and notification to the right person at the right time.
- ten3T — ten3T is a medical grade wearable device startup. ten3T builds a sophisticated self enclosed, real time monitoring device - a 9 cm triangular patch that the patient places on their chest - for as long as is required - from a minute to several days.
- Locus.sh — Locus is an intelligent logistics automation and decision-making platform that comes with in-built route planning and vehicle allocation engine which improves consistency and efficiency of operations.The platform helps companies and enterprises in e-commerce, food delivery, FMCG, and other verticals to automate and optimize their logistics. Theproduct suite comprises a route deviation engine, order dispatch automation, a field user app, route optimizations, scheduling, tracking for end-customer, and predictive analytics. Offering the entire technology stack, in the form of a platform as a service.
Robby Walker is Senior Director, Siri ExperienceSenior at Apple. He attended Arizona State University.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Travel, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Adioso — Adioso is a better search and booking app for leisure travel.It allows users to:* search without constraints on destinations & dates* follow destinations or search terms to receive deals, trip recommendations, and other content to help them plan and book their trip.Its key benefits are:* Travelers find it much easier to choosethe very best travel options available* Airlines & suppliers can focus messages and offers at highly qualified customers.Founded in Australia in 2008 by Fenn Bailey and Tom Howard, Adioso was in the Winter ‘09 class of Y Combinator, and has received seed funding from Silicon Valley and travel industry investors.As of March 2012, Adioso has a team of eight engineers and designers in Australia and the US, and is moving rapidly towards the launch of some major new product features and global airline coverage.
- AppJet — Y Combinator funded AppJet is an online programming tool for building simple web apps. Founded by former MIT students, AppJet intends to simplify the process of writing web applications. The applications are programmed on a web based text editor in the simple but powerful JavaScript programming language. JavaScript is used on both the server andclient side. They've included several bundles of code libraries for databases and more importantly interfacing with the Facebook API. In order to efficiently host users' applications, AppJet has developed their own application virtualization system. The system allocates processor time to active applications and cuts off greedy ones after running an alloted number of compiled lines of code to prevent abuse.AppJet as a dev platform seems no longer to be active. There are some legacy downloads available, however.
- Triplebyte — Start a job search that puts you in control.
Sir Terry Leahy joined Cheshunt, England-based Tesco in 1979 and held marketing positions at the retailer before becoming commercial director of fresh foods in 1986 and a member of the board in 1990. Leahy was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco plc in March 1997.Leahy received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New YearHonours. He was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader (2005 and 2006) by Management Today, recognized by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC as European Business Leader of the Year (2005), and named European Businessman of the Year by Fortune (2004). A Guardian Unlimited Politics panel found him to be the most influential non-elected person in Britain in 2007.Leahy is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business, a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine, and was voted Business Person of the Year by the Sunday Times.Sir Terry Leahy retired from Tesco in March 2011.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sirenum — Sirenum is a cloud-based platform for managing the staff lifecycle for agencies, recruiters and organisations who rely on staff for operational purposes.Sirenum is built on a highly agile technology platform, which allows us to connect with other service providers for functions not yet in the system. This trick allows us to deliver features thatthey would not otherwise have, if a client requires these features up front. Once significant demand for a particular feature becomes apparent, they may decide develop that feature in house, replacing the outside vendor and retaining additional profits.Sirenum is geared towards employers who operate complex workforces of shift workers. Sirenum is particularly suited to the Staffing, Railway, Aviation, Construction, Hospitality, Healthcare, Home care, Deliveries, Logistics and Transportation. Operators in these sectors typically have hundreds or thousands of employees.
- SYNALOGiK — Synalogik helps organisations improve efficiency and slash costs through automated data aggregation when multiple data sources are required.
- Uptime | Knowledge Hacks — Thousands of life lessons extracted from the world's best books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts - packed into 5 minute Knowledge Hacks.
Indrek Prants - Co-Founder @ Elasteq do Brasil
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Education, Recruiting, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jobbatical — Jobbatical takes care of the entire relocation process for you. Just sit back and relax.
Jonathan is the Founder of Torch Capital. A long time entrepreneur and investor, he has spent his career at the intersection of the media, technology and entertainment industries. He is the Co-Founder of digital media company InsideHook and has spent a decade as an active early stage investor and advisor to a number of New York and LA's topstart-ups.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $3M–$88M; Series B $21M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cityrow Go — Cityrow Go is a rowing-based fitness app for smartphones or tablets. It offers rowing classes programmed to deliver an effective, efficient, and motivating workout to the at-home user. It was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, United States.
- Lobos 1707 — Developed over the course of five centuries, Lobos 1707 Tequila is the continuing legacy of jimadors, crafters, and contributors from around the world. Founded by Diego Osorio, a descendent of the original family line, Lobos Tequila welcomes you into the pack and invites you to craft your legacy.
- Jane Technologies — Jane Technologies is a cannabis retail tech company that provides its consumers with a confident, safe and simple shopping experience. Users can browse local products in real-time, compare by price, proximity or popularity and place orders at local stores for free. Jane partners with dispensaries on a win-win basis; stores only pay for completedorders at a fraction of the price of other industry software.
Recruiting Angel investor funding at a glance
Stats across 575 deals from 1.1k investors.
Access all 1100 angel investors in Recruiting startups.
Open ListFAQ
Is Shizune data fresh/accurate?
Shizune has monitored hundreds of funding sources since 2020.
Our investor database is updated every day, so investor data is always fresh.
All metrics are calculated from confirmed public rounds, so the data is accurate.
Can I download investor list?
To download the Recruiting Angel Investors investor list, create a Shizune account. This investor list will be added to your saved investors and available for download in the export section.
You can also enrich the investor list with investor emails, phones, LinkedIns, and other contact data.
Can I access investor database?
To access all 1100 angel investors investing in Recruiting startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.
Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.
The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.
You can enrich with email and download the data.
Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?
Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.
To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.
To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.
You can enrich your investor list with Shizune. Download it too.
What is Shizune?
Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.
With Shizune you can:
- browse the database
- use smart matching
- enrich with emails
- download
All you need to find investors for your startup.
Who is Shizune for?
Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.
If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.
Is Shizune free?
Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.
Email search and export are paid features.
For full info, visit our pricing.
Who built Shizune?
Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.
Contact 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!