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Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in United States (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in United States Recruiting startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United States Recruiting startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
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
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
Sam Altman
Angel
4 United States, Ghana, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $1.2M–$100M
Jacob Gibson
Angel
3 United States, Kenya, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1M–$16M
Daniel Gross
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning $3.9M–$20M
Avichal Garg
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Blockchain, Financial Services $968k–$33M
Hans Robertson
Angel
3 United States Series A, Seed Software, Human Resources, Security
Ilya Sukhar
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Developer Tools $1.2M–$15M
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
Emmett Shear
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Health Care, Gaming $485k–$2.4M
Rudy Gadre
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A Software, Mobile, E-Commerce $500k–$4M
Eric Wu
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Real Estate, Internet, Software $1.5M–$31M
Lauren DeLuca
Angel
3 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Michael Seibel
Angel
3 United States, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $120k–$20M
Tikhon Bernstam
Angel
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Enterprise Software, Financial Services $485k–$3.7M
David Windley
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A Human Resources, Recruiting, Enterprise Software
Michael Lynton
Angel
3 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Seed Content, Media and Entertainment, Apps
Paul Graham
Angel
3 United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software $1M–$12M
Jessica Livingston
Angel
3 United States, Mexico Seed, Angel, Series A Medical Device, Education, Health Care
Drew Houston
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $9.4M–$116M
Aaron Levie
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $750k–$45M
Brendan Wallace
Angel
2 United States, Spain, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, FinTech $1M–$25M
Tom Friel
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A Recruiting, Sales, Software
Jared Friedman
Angel
2 United States, India, Poland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $125k–$6M
Dave McClure
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $100k–$30M
Russell Fradin
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Recruiting $1.1M–$5.1M
David King
Angel
2 United States, France Seed, Series A Internet, Mobile, Blockchain
Dan Rosensweig
Angel
2 United States, Brazil Seed, Series A Recruiting, Internet, EdTech $5M–$10M
Paul Buchheit
Angel
2 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $100k–$8.5M
Tim Mayeur
Angel
2 United States Pre-Seed Internet, Recruiting, Marketing $20k–$913k
Fritz Lanman
Angel
2 United States, Brazil, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $100k–$15M
Gordon Wintrob
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Series B InsurTech, Software, Recruiting
John Pestana
Angel
2 United States Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Enterprise Software, SaaS, Software
Brad Zions
Angel
2 United States, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $680k–$9M
Robby Walker
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel Software, Travel, Internet
Ron Gula
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Cyber Security, Software, Information Technology $760k–$20M
Joshua Schachter
Angel
2 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Internet $625k–$13M
Josh James
Angel
2 United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $250k–$15M
Julia Hartz
Angel
2 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series C Software, Internet, Information Technology $2.3M–$55M
Kevin Hale
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $120k–$3M
Auren Hoffman
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Analytics, Internet $160k–$26M
Joshua Steiner
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A Recruiting, Information Technology, Professional Networking
Ellen Levy
Angel
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Mobile, SaaS $450k–$10M
Brian Spaly
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage $1.1M–$9M
Vishal Makhijani
Angel
2 United States Seed, Debt Financing Software, Enterprise Software, Recruiting
Shervin Pishevar
Angel
2 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, E-Commerce $1M–$100M
Matt Mickiewicz
Angel
2 United States, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Human Resources, Internet, Software $250k–$15M
Bill Clerico
Angel
2 United States, Mexico, The Netherlands Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Banking
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Elad Gil
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Recruiting startups, 20 in the past 12 months

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.

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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.
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Jack Altman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in United States Recruiting startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Jack Altman is the founder and CEO of Lattice.

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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.
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Kyle Vogt
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in United States Recruiting startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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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.
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Sam Altman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in United States Recruiting 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: 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.
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Jacob Gibson
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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.
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Daniel Gross
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Daniel Gross is the Co-Founder of Pioneer. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a Head of AI.

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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
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Avichal Garg
Angel · Stanford, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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.
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Hans Robertson
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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.
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Ilya Sukhar
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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

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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.
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James Beshara
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

James Beshara is the founder of Magic Mind.

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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.
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Jason Calacanis
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

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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!
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Emmett Shear
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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.
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Rudy Gadre
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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.
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Eric Wu
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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.
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Lauren DeLuca
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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.
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Michael Seibel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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.

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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.
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Tikhon Bernstam
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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

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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.
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David Windley
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

David Windley is the President at Caldwell. He attended San Francisco State University, Lam Family College of Business.

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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.
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Michael Lynton
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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.
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Paul Graham
Angel · Mountain View, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Paul Graham

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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
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Jessica Livingston
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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.
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Drew Houston
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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.
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Aaron Levie
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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
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Brendan Wallace
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Brendan Wallace is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall. Brendan Wallace attended Princeton University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Spain, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.8M; Series A $5.2M–$17M; Series B $12M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • dot.LA — dot.LA is a digital newsroom covering L.A.'s startup and tech community. dot.LA’s mission is to celebrate and empower the Los Angeles startup and tech community, fueling innovation around the world.
  • Allbirds — Allbirds is an apparel and fashion company that specializes in manufacturing eco-friendly wool shoes. It is dedicated to making the most sustainable footwear using premium natural materials, designed for the to and fro of everyday life.The company is driven by a mission to prove that comfort, good design, and sustainability don’t have to bemutually exclusive. Its commitment to making better shoes in a better way is fueled by a belief that the shoe industry needs to focus less on flash and more on thoughtfulness.Allbirds is based in San Francisco and founded in 2015.
  • Yellow — eNaming.com is excited to exclusively offer YELLOW.APP the domain name to the public for the first time. We believe the .APP top-level domain is a critically im
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Tom Friel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Tom Friel is a Member of the Advisory Board at DocuSign.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Sales, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • TextRecruit — Modernize, streamline, and accelerate your communication with candidates and employees by text recruiting through SMS, popular apps, and more.
  • Candidate Labs — Candidate Labs is a modern talent agency, pairing seasoned recruiters with technology and data to make the hiring of sales and marketing professionals seamless and intelligent.
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Jared Friedman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Jared Friedman is a partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, where he invests in and helps startups. Previously, Jared was co-founder and CTO at Scribd, a top 100 web property. He studied computer science at Harvard University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
  • 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!
  • The Mednet — The Mednet is a community of physicians helping each other treat patients with cancer.Their Mission is Improve knowledge sharing between physicians so that patients get high quality care wherever they are treated.They help physicians get answers to questions where there is no clear answer in guidelines or published research and expert opinion isnecessary. All answers are indexed and searchable so that every physician can quickly access expert knowledge to provide their patients with high quality care.
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Dave McClure
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Series A $1.2M–$6.5M; Series B $2.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
  • Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
  • Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
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Russell Fradin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Russell Fradin is the Vice Chairman of Carbon Health. From October 2005 to April 2010, Russell co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Adify Corporation, an on-line advertising company sold to Cox Enterprises. Prior to that time, Russell was comScore’s Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, Senior Vice President ofBusiness Development at Wine.com and Vice President of Business Development at Flycast Communications. Russell currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at comScore, TubeMogul and CoachArt and has previously served on the boards of Udemy, Outside.in and several others. Russell holds a B.S. degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoop — Thrive in a hybrid work environment with Scoop's solutions for Workplace Safety, Workplace Utilization, Team Coordination, Desk Management, and Commute.
  • BeyondHQ — BeyondHQ is a real-time, user-driven platform that helps companies run unlimited talent and real estate analyses while saving time and money.
  • LIT Videobooks — LIT is a new platform that allows you to view bestselling business books in a new video book format.
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David King
Angel · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

David King is a Founder of Highlighter. He attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for Computer Engineering.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Mobile, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • dYdX — Trade Perpetuals on the most powerful open trading platform, backed by @a16z, @polychain, and @paradigm.
  • TruStory — TruStory is a social network that enables productive debate. To make progress on any issue, we need to learn from different perspectives, find common ground, and have the humility to change our minds. Our mission is to make the Internet more open-minded by incentivizing people to hear all sides of a debate.
  • Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
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Dan Rosensweig
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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.
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Paul Buchheit
Angel · Mountain View, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Angel $100k–$1M; Series A $650k–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Character.ai — character.ai is bringing to life the science-fiction dream of open-ended conversations and collaborations with computers.
  • Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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Tim Mayeur
Angel · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Tim Mayeur

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Recruiting, Marketing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $20k–$913k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Walzay — Companies send offers to the best tech talent from around the world for full-time roles.
  • Kriya AI is now Kalendar AI — Kalendar AI books new revenue on autopilot
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Fritz Lanman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Fritz Lanman is the CEO of Mindbody Business. He previously worked at ClassPass as an Executive Chairman. Fritz Lanman attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • boam.ai — The easy way to find your next meal. Combines your favorite review sites, restaurant platforms, and tools in one place.
  • Gaize — Gaize provides video evidence from automatically performed SFST eye tests.
  • Ginger Health Company (dba Wonderbelly) — Ginger Health Company provides digestive health products and solutions.
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Gordon Wintrob
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Gordon Wintrob - Co-Founder & CTO @ Newfront

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Investment focus

  • Industry: InsurTech, Software, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vial — Vial is a global, full-service CRO delivering faster, more efficient clinical trials for biotech, powered by experienced ClinOps and technology leaders.
  • Center — Start point for your next NFT app.
  • Sensible — Fast & flexible data extraction from documents. Onboard documents in minutes with a single sample. Extract data in seconds.
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John Pestana
Angel · Provo, Utah, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

John Pestana is the co-founder and CEO at ObservePoint, the leader in marketing technology governance. John’s goal is to enable enterprises to focus less on manually verifying data for accuracy and more on strategic initiatives that help them increase revenue and improve customer experiences. He created ObservePoint to help companies achieve thisend by bringing insight, automation, and order to the chaos of data collection. Prior to co-founding ObservePoint, John co-founded Omniture, a web analytics software company based in Orem, Utah. John helped grow Omniture from a startup business to a large company with over 1,200 employees throughout the world. Omniture went public in 2006 and then sold to software giant Adobe in 2009 where it would become Adobe Analytics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Enterprise Software, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Domo — With Domo, you can use data and insights delivered in data experiences to multiply your business impact and drive your business forward.
  • Cardagraph — Allocate resources based on data to execute better and faster.
  • Icount.com — Icount is a SaaS provider of solutions to the political space aimed at increasing citizen participation at all levels of government. These solutions include interactive agendas for public meetings, polling engines, topical discussion boards, direct messages to elected officials, get-out-the-vote apps, and more. Through Icount's uniquevalidation process, users are connected directly with their elected officials at the local, state and national levels. Users can engage with their representatives on individual sites or through Icount's Citizen Portal. The Citizen Portal allows users to connect with all of their elected officials in one place, get an aggregated view of the social feeds, rss, videos and press releases from their elected officials, and connect with others to increase influence and improve political engagement.
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Brad Zions
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Brad Zions is a Los Angeles-based investor and entrepreneur. He is the founder and GP of Pitbull Ventures, a seed/preseed fund based in Los Angeles.Zions has deep domain expertise in digital media and the restaurant, apparel, and entertainment industries. Zions has been an active early-stage investor for the past 20 years, both as a partnerat Structure Fund and individually. Big winners in his portfolio include Clutter, Parachute Home, Harri, Vidmob, Pocket Watch and Embrace. Recent exits include Jukin Media, Podsights, Donut Media, and Venga. Previous exits include QXL (now Tradus, which Naspers acquired in 2008) and Google via Ron Conway's Angel funds I and II.Zions partnered with chef Alan Jackson in March 2009 to co-found Lemonade Restaurant Group. Serving as CFO until January 2011, Zions raised capital for the rapidly expanding fast-casual concept and helped grow Lemonade to 10+ locations.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $680k–$6M; Series A $1M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PopID — PopID is a software company that provides solutions for verifying an individual’s identity based on their face for applications such as loyalty, payment, and entry.
  • Podsights — Powerful measurement made easy. Use our advertising analytics and measurement tools, free of charge, to fine-tune your campaigns and help improve performance.
  • Champions Round — Champions Round is a sports entertainment company focused on building engaging fan experiences for the fantasy sports industry. Currently available for download on iOS.
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Robby Walker
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Robby Walker is Senior Director, Siri ExperienceSenior at Apple. He attended Arizona State University.

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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.
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Ron Gula
Angel · Baltimore, Maryland, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Frequently sought out by media such as the New York Times, Bloomberg and Forbes, Ron Gula is one of the leading cybersecurity thinkers in the industry. Ron started his career in information security at the National Security Agency conducting penetration tests of government networks and performing advanced vulnerability research. He was also theoriginal author of the Dragon Intrusion Detection System and CTO of Network Security Wizards, acquired by Enterasys Networks. At Enterasys, Ron helped many financial, government, service providers and commercial companies to enhance their network security monitoring. He also served as Director of Risk Mitigation for USinternetworking. While working for BBN and GTE Internetworking, Ron helped to develop one of the first commercial network honeypots and developed security policies for large carrier-class networks.Since co-founding Tenable Network Security in 2002, Ron has served as CEO. Under his leadership the company has become the leader in continuous network monitoring and is relied upon by more than 20,000 organizations world-wide to identify vulnerabilities, reduce risk, and ensure compliance.As a community leader and a passionate advocate for education and scientific research, Ron serves on the Advisory Board for the University of Maryland Cybersecurity Center. He was also appointed to the National Cybersecurity Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Advisory Board as part of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE). Ron has received special awards for leadership from both The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun, and was named Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 for defense and security. He has authored three patents, speaks regularly at industry conferences, and is often quoted on topics related to security. Ron holds a BS from Clarkson University and an MSEE from the University of Southern Illinois.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cyber Security, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $760k–$4.3M; Series A $3.5M–$10M; Series B $16M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FiscalNote — The #1 most trusted partner for managing the global issues and policy affairs that present the biggest risks and opportunities to your organization.
  • Protego Labs — Recognizing the inadequacy of traditional application security paradigms, Protego Labs designed the first comprehensive solution built with the unique constraints and opportunities of serverless in mind. Through continuous serverless security posture, dynamic serverless intelligence, and elastic defense, Protego helps organizations achieve controlover the security of their applications.
  • SecurityTrails — SecurityTrails is a total inventory that curates comprehensive domain and IP address data for users and applications that demand clarity. By combining current and historic data of all Internet assets, SecurityTrails is the proven solution for 3rd-party risk assessment, attack surface reduction and threat hunting. Their powerful API uses real-timedata foundations, and lightning-fast data stores to deliver internet assets faster and with greater accuracy. Over 100,000 users globally count on SecurityTrails’ fast-detecting products to prevent the next big threat and eliminate any potential blindspots. This includes Fortune 500 companies, top security vendors, and governments. From knowing an organization’s attack surface, shadow infrastructure, and spotting new domains, SecurityTrails makes sure there’s nothing left to be discovered.
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Joshua Schachter
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $625k–$3.3M; Series A $1M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
  • Urban Machine — Salvaging the past to build the future- Stealth Startup
  • Hidden Door — A new kind of social roleplaying experience, powered by narrative AI.
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Josh James
Angel · Provo, Utah, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Joshua G. James is the Founder of Silicon Slopes Venture Fund. He previously worked at Adobe Systems as an SVP, GM, and Founder Omniture Business Unit. Joshua G. James attended Brigham Young University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2M; Series A $4M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Entrata — Entrata property management software connects all of your property data and processes, allowing you to create better experiences for everyone. Better property management software.
  • Via — SMS Marketing | Mobile Commerce | eCommerce Marketing
  • Divvy — Divvy software gives users complete control and real-time visibility into company spending while eliminating the hassle of expense reports.Divvy is a secure financial platform for businesses to manage payments and subscriptions, build strategic budgets, and eliminate expense reports. By integrating real-time tracking for every businesstransaction, Divvy provides organizations with instant insight into their spend. With Divvy, you can make informed cash flow decisions, curb losses before they happen, and never have to save a receipt again.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lehi, Utah.
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Julia Hartz
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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.

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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 and Python 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.
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Kevin Hale
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stilt — Financial Services for International Students and Immigrants
  • Postscript — Engage with customers wherever they are. Postscript helps you build strong customer relationships across the entire buying experience. Start your free trial today.
  • Taali Foods — Taali is a 'better for you' food company. We have a simple vision, we want our products to be a delicious and guilt-free snack that is loaded with the good stuff.Our anchor brand Taali Taali is a guilt-free snack made from popped water lily seeds. Our products are made of Non-GMO, whole, and natural ingredients that you can pronounceand spell to create a difference you can taste. We have on average 20% fewer calories and 67% less fat per serving (28g) than the leading popcorn brand. Roasted never tasted this good.
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Auren Hoffman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Angel $160k–$1M; Series A $900k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
  • Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
  • Calypso AI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
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Joshua Steiner
Angel · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Joshua L. Steiner is a Managing Principal of Quadrangle Group LLC focused on the firm's media and communications private equity business. Prior to the formation of Quadrangle Group in 2000, Mr. Steiner was a Managing Director at Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, where he was a member of the firm's Media and Communications Group. Prior tojoining Lazard, he was the Chief of Staff for the United States Department of the Treasury, where he was responsible for managing the Secretary of Treasury's staff and served as his adviser on domestic and international policy as well as management and communications issues. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the New York Public Library, Phillips Academy, Andover and the Enterprise Foundation of New York, an organization that helps develop and maintain affordable housing. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations where he is on the Board of Advisors of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Steiner received a M.St. in modern history from Oxford University and a B.A. in history from Yale University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Information Technology, Professional Networking
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Untapped — Untapped's diversity recruiting platform helps recruiters source diverse candidates, review hiring analytics and build communities. Start your free trial today!
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Ellen Levy
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Ellen Levy is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Connect.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$4M; Series A $4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Upwage — Our mission is to create $1 trillion in new wealth for the 44% of Americans who make less than $16/hr, using the power of big data & AI.
  • Stake — Renters earn Cash back for rent. Building operators outperform the market. That's the Stake win-win. Find out how we're building the financial tools for the next generation of rentals.
  • Rattle — Sales automation for scaling teams. Learn how revenue leaders use Rattle to effortlessly update Salesforce, improve pipeline accuracy and skyrocket their success.
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Brian Spaly
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Brian Spaly is the General Partner of Brand Foundry Ventures and Executive Chairman of Tecovas. He is a former CEO at TrunkClub. He attended Princeton University and Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $5.3M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cann — THC & CBD Infused Social Tonic For a Light, Uplifting Buzz Without the Hangovers
  • Cake — 18K Followers, 6,705 Following, 859 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Cake (@hellocake)
  • Crown Affair — Redefine your relationship with your hair through our products, guidance, and community.
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Vishal Makhijani
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Vish Makhijani is President & COO of Zumper. Prior to joining Zumper, Vish was CEO of Udacity where he oversaw all company operations to democratize education around the world. He had been instrumental in the development of Udacity's Nanodegree program. Vish has held leadership positions at high-growth companies, including Zynga andYandex, where he scaled the business to millions of users. He was also senior vice president of Yahoo's Search and Marketplace businesses, and general manager at Inktomi until it was acquired by Yahoo. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the New York and Silicon Valley offices, serving Fortune 500 and startup clients.Vish is currently on the boards of both Prosperworks and Pepperdata.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shabodi — Enterprise Software, SaaS, PaaS, 5G
  • Trimian — Startup based in Menlo Park, focusing on mobile apps. The name comes from 'tri-simian', referring to the three wise monkeys.
  • Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
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Shervin Pishevar
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Series A $1.4M–$15M; Series B $8.3M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
  • Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
  • NUE Life Health — NUE Life aims to improve mental wellness by enhancing brain function, performance, and longevity through evidence based and scientifically proven mental health treatments and products.
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Matt Mickiewicz
Angel · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Matt Mickiewicz is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of SitePoint. Mickiewicz also co-founded the web companies Flippa, 99designs, and Hired.Born in Kraków, Poland, living in Hameln -Germany, and currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, Mickiewicz created his first website at the age of 14 called Webmaster-Resources.com, whichlater became SitePoint. At 16, Mickiewicz traveled to Melbourne with his mother and met his soon-to-be business partner and co-founder, Mark Harbottle. At 16, Mickiewicz found himself closing $10,000 advertising deals between classes at high school. Mickiewicz barely finished high school and did not attend college.In 2008, Mickiewicz spun off 99designs from SitePoint, which went on to raise $35 million in capital from Accel Ventures, Michael Dearing / Harrison Metal, Dave Goldberg (SurveyMonkey), Anthony Casalena, and Stewart Butterfield (Flickr). In June 2009 Mickiewicz and Harbottle launched Flippa.com, the largest marketplace for buying and selling websites in the world. In the fall of 2012, Mickiewicz co-founded DeveloperAuction.com which raised $2.7 million was later renamed Hired. The company later raised a $15 million Series-A round in March 2014. By December 2014, Hired was reportedly valued at $200m and had raised an additional $15m in the capital in its Series B round.Mickiewicz was named a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur by Forbes and INC in 2011, a Smart Company 30 under 30 in 2012, and frequently speaks at conferences and seminars worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Human Resources, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$5.8M; Series A $11M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
  • Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.
  • Continuum Technology — Connecting world-class executive talent to the best venture-backed companies for consulting, advising and full-time roles.
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Bill Clerico
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Recruiting startups

Bill Clerico is the Founder and Managing Partner at Convective Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Release — Release Environments streamline the development process, with Environments as a Service: fast, shareable, scalable, managed, and easy to reproduce at every step, driven by Kubernetes.
  • Yendo — Our mission is to provide everyone with the most accessible, most affordable, and most transparent credit by leveraging their vehicles.
  • Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.
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Recruiting Angel investor funding in United States at a glance

Stats across 280 deals from 551 investors.

551
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280
deals
in United States Recruiting startups
$2M
median round
in United States Recruiting startups
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lead at least one round
52%
Seed
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