# Top 50 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in May 2026

## Bill Gates
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series E
- Focus: Energy, Health Care, Hardware

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

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

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

## Sagar Ratilal Bavarva
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Solar

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

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

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

## Patrick Soon-Shiong
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Internet, Manufacturing

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our Board of Directors since NantHealth’s founding in July 2010. A physician, surgeon and scientist, Dr. Soon-Shiong has pioneered novel therapies for both diabetes and cancer, published more than 100 scientific papers, and has received over 95 patents on groundbreakingadvancements spanning a myriad of fields.

## Sunmeet Jolly
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Gabor Cselle
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Renewable Energy, Internet

Gabor Cselle is a Partner at Area 120, Google's internal startup incubator.
Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising startup Namo Media which was [acquired by Twitter in 2014.

## Chris Murphy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously worked at SaaStock and attended Dublin City University.

## David Balensiefen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Battery, Semiconductor

David Balensiefen - CEO and Founder @ gridX

## Rayyan Islam
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Biotechnology, Energy

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

## David E. Weekly
- Type: Angel
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Robotics, Drones, Aerospace

David E. Weekly is the Founder and CEO of Medcorder and he was the Founding Director of Hacker Dojo. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

## Andy Booke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Battery, Semiconductor

Andreas Booke - Managing Director and Founder @ gridX

## Gaurav Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Solar, Energy, CleanTech

Gaurav Gupta

## Eugene Goldberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Eugene Goldberg

## Dr Ritesh Malik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Education

Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.

## Chris Sang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

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

## Dhruv Chitgopekar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Content, eSports

Dhruv Chitgopekar

## Edward Kim
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Edward Kim

## Kittu Kolluri
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Analytics

Kittu Kolluri is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Neotribe Ventures.

## Job Dura
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Energy, CleanTech, Architecture

Job Dura

## Carlos Pacheco
- Type: Angel
- Location: Curityba, Parana, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Energy, Blockchain, Renewable Energy

Angel Investor
IBGC - Certified Board Member

## Sierra Peterson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar

Sierra is a Founding Partner at Voyager Ventures.

## Marc Benioff
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

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

## Ramez Naam
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Automotive

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

## Nat Friedman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer.Nat is passionate about building products that delight customers, with love and attention to detail. Nat has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Nat was a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME foundation. At Novell,Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.Nat is an avid traveler who visited 20 countries in 2010, an active angel investor, and a private pilot.

## Lukasz Gadowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

## Marc Tarpenning
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series D
- Focus: Renewable Energy, CleanTech, Drones

Marc Tarpenning is a member of the advisory board at Clearpath Robotics , a manufacturer of unmanned vehicles for industrial research and development applications. He also provides services as an advisor to many other companies. Previously, he was a mentor at Greenstart.Marc is a Venture Partner at Spero Ventures. He was previously anentrepreneur in residence at Mayfield Fund before he joined Greenstart. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as the vice president for engineering at Tesla Motors. He also held executive positions at Packet Design, NuvoMedia, and Gemstar-TV Guide.Tarpenning holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco, California, United States.

## Supriya Paul
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Dating

Supriya Paul is the founder of John Talks.

## Christoph Ostermann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kempten, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Energy

Christoph Ostermann is a Co-Founder at Sonnen.

## Christian Bach
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools

Christian Bach is the President & Co-founder of Netlify.

## Luigi Bajetti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Silicon Valley, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Apps

Luigi Bajetti is the managing partner and founder of Lombardstreet Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California.Luigi is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the tech and internet industries, with a wealth of knowledge and expertise in building and scaling startups.As a full-time investor since2013, he has been leveraging his experience and insights to identify and support the next generation of Silicon Valley founders. With a passion for backing game-changing technologies and a talent for spotting emerging trends, Luigi has a proven track record of success in identifying groundbreaking startups. He has invested almost always at the earliest possible stage of seed in 20+ US startups valued at over $30 billion combined, including 8 that have since become unicorns.

## Naruhisa Nakagawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting

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

## Ray Muzyka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

Originally trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Ray Muzyka cofounded BioWare, a video game development studio focusing on story and character, in the early 1990s. He practiced emergency/family medicine for two years full time, with medicine transitioning to part-time over the following decade as he focused on his role as BioWare’s CEO. BioWare wasacquired by Electronic Arts in 2007, and Dr. Muzyka took on the roles of Senior Vice President at Electronic Arts and General Manager of EA’s BioWare division, which grew over the next five years to span eight development locations worldwide with about 2000 staff (1400 full time). He retired from video games in October 2012, with his third “career chapter” at ThresholdImpact, where he focused on sustainable, profitable impact investing: mentoring and angel investing in information technology, new media, and medical innovations with social entrepreneurs. An active angel investor and entrepreneurial mentor, Dr. Muzyka is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the A100, the Ashoka Support Network, and the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta (serving as Chair of the Human Resources Committee and on the Learning and Discovery Committee and as a member of the University of Alberta Advancement Council). He is Chair of the University of Alberta’s entrepreneur Venture Mentoring Service, a venture advisor at iNovia Venture Capital, and a member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Advisory Committee and the Alberta Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy. He also serves on a number of private company boards. He previously served on the board of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from 2001-2008 and was on the Board of Trustees of the Stollery Children’s Health Foundation from 2012-2015. He was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the International Game Developers’ Choice Awards 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Muzyka received the inaugural Alumni Innovation Award in 2015 from the University of Alberta. He additionally was named as the 2017 Allard Chair in Business at the MacEwan University’s School of Business and as an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club International in 2016, in recognition for his philanthropic efforts. Other awards include entry into Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and Ernst and Young’s 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year (IT, Prairies).He obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Alberta in 1990, his Doctorate of Medicine from there in 1992, and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business) in 2001.

## Maulik Majmudar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, mHealth, Hardware

Maulik Majmudar is the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder at Biofourmis. Maulik Majmudar attended Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School.

## Tom McInerney
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software

Tom McInerney advises and invests in early stage Internet companies. 

## Bo Wase
- Type: Angel
- Location: Skanderborg, Midtjylland, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy

Bo Wase is chairman of InCommodities.

## Juergen Mayerhofer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy

Juergen Mayerhofer is the CEO and Founder of Enspired and attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2018. Previously he worked with Eurelectric as Platform Member.

## Philipp Kloeckner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech

Philipp has been product manager and inhouse SEO at the market leading price comparison in Germany (Idealo.de) for 6 years. He specializes in the fields of accessability, crawlability and onpage optimization of websites with 1M+ subpages.Since 2011 Philipp Klöckner focuses on search consultancy and angel investing to share his experience insearch marketing, product and business intelligence with publishing houses, e-commerce companies and start-ups as an independent consultant and angel investor.

## Alef Arendsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Automotive, Electronics, Electric Vehicle

Alef Arendsen is the Founding Partner at Shamrock Ventures. He was the Founder of NewMotion and Spring company.

## Steve Melhuish
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Information Services

Steve Melhuish is the Founder of Rumah, Co-Founder and Board Director at PropertyGuru Group, Founder and CEO at Planet Rise, Founding Partner at Wavemaker Impact, and an Advisor and Investor at Eco-Business and Ampd Energy. He attended the University of Plymouth and the University of Reading.

## Rand Hindi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

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

## Josh Felser
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Consumer, Financial Services

Josh Felser is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Climactic VC, and a Co-Founder of Freestyle.

## Surya Panditi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Hardware, Renewable Energy, Internet of Things

Surya Panditi joined Enel X as CEO and President in 2019. Surya Panditi is the Senior Vice President and General Manager, Service Provider Networking Group at Cisco.He is responsible for the strategy, engineering, and marketing direction of Cisco's comprehensive family of service provider networking platforms, includingcore/edge/access routing, optical, and mobility. He manages strategic architectural convergence and alignment of innovative technologies across market segments to leverage investments in hardware, ASICs, and software to ensure that Cisco products meet customer needs.Panditi joined Cisco in 2005 and has served as Vice President and General Manager for a variety of Cisco engineering organizations. These include the Core Technology Group, the Service Provider Routing Technology Group, as well as the Access and Transport Technology Group, which included Cisco's portfolio of optical products, cable modem termination systems, quadrature amplitude modulation, and access transmission business units. His responsibilities included profit and loss, overall strategy, product development and positioning, and the introduction of leading-edge technologies and competitive products.With more than 25 years of senior leadership experience with several public and private data and telecommunications equipment provider companies, Panditi brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to Cisco. He served as President and CEO of Polaris Networks, a provider of optical transport switches. He also held the CEO position for Convergent Networks Inc., a provider of broadband voice infrastructure products for cable and telecom service providers. Panditi also served as Chairman, President, and CEO of Avici Systems Inc., where he successfully managed the company's growth and transition from a private to a public company. Earlier in his career, Panditi was Vice President and General Manager of the local area network infrastructure business unit at USRobotics.He also worked for,Intel Corporation, Ungermann-Bass, Telco Systems .Panditi has served on the Boards of,enKoo, a developer of remote access products now part of SonicWALL, Internet Photonics, a company acquired by Ciena Corporation in 2004, Avici Systems .Panditi holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

## Luke Kupersmith
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Luke Kupersmith - President & CEO @ Lojistic

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

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Broadcast.com. Mrk attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

## Ashley Mayer
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Environmental Engineering

Ashley Mayer is the Operating Council at Mixing Board . Ashley Mayer attended Georgetown University.

## Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

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

## Michael Gryseels
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Energy, Mobile

Dr. Michael Gryseels is the President of True Digital Group, the innovation unit set up by True Corporation, part of the Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group. True Digital was set up to capture new growth opportunities from digital, analytics, IoT, robotics, and related technologies. True Digital is headquartered in Thailand but has subsidiaries inIndonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, and investments in China, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Michael is also the Group Chief Digital Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of True's parent shareholder Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, Thailand's largest private corporation and one of the largest conglomerates globally, operating across 13 industries and 20+ countries, employing over 300,000 people.

## Krishna Kolluri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning

Kittu joined NEA in 2006 as a General Partner and focuses on information technology investments. Present NEA board memberships include OANDA, NEA-IndoUS Ventures, Novatium, RingCube Technologies, SnapTell, and Teracent. Formerly, Kittu was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Security Products Group at Juniper Networks, aposition he assumed following Juniper's acquisition of NetScreen Technologies. At NetScreen, he was General Manager of Secure Access Products, a position he assumed following NetScreen's acquisition of Neoteris, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. Kittu brings more than 17 years of experience at the leading edge of the technology industry. He co-founded Healtheon/WebMD, introducing online healthcare to the market. Before co-founding Healtheon/WebMD, Kittu worked at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) managing high profile Interactive TV projects. Kittu holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and a M.S. in Operations Research from the State University of New York, Buffalo.

## Hadi Partovi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software

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

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