# Top 50 Restaurants Angel Investors in United States in May 2026

## Donald C. Moore III
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Restaurants, Robotics, Industrial Automation

Donald C. Moore III is the Partner at DOM Food Group.

## Jason Finger
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Jason Finger is the founder of Salvo Health.

## Max Mullen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Max is the Co-Founder of Instacart. He started the company with two co-founders in 2012. Previously, he's worked for several startups including Schematic, an award-winning interactive agency which was acquired by WPP. Max is originally from Los Angeles where he graduated from the University of Southern California, studying entrepreneurship andcinematic arts.

## Kimbal Musk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Software, News

Kimbal Musk is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Big Green.

## Naval Ravikant
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Blockchain

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

## Dave McClure
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

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.

## Justin Waldron
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

## Michael Seibel
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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.

## Dylan Field
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

## Wayne Chang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Wayne Chang (born August 3, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding Crashlytics, which in little over a year was acquired by Twitter for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO), creating i2hub, a popular filesharing network, his seedinvestments that include companies like JetSmarter, Draftkings, and Gusto, and his lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers, who were famously depicted in The Social Network movie.

## Brendan Wallace
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

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

## Ben Leventhal
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Restaurants, SEO, Apps

Ben is the co-founder of Eater, the national food blog network now owned by Vox Media. Recently he’s worked with food, tech and media companies like Food Network, Kitchensurfing, and Cover. Outfits like NBC Universal, InterActive Corp, Scripps Networks, DailyCandy and New York Magazine also make appearances on his CV. He is on the board ofdirectors of Hot Bread Kitchen, an organization that prepares minority women for careers in the culinary industry,and is on the James Beard Awards restaurant voting committee. He’s currently working on Resy.

## Güimar Vaca Sittic
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace

Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.

## Steven Kamali
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Restaurants, Hospitality, Food and Beverage

A serial investor and entrepreneur with a passion for hospitality, restaurants and technology.

## Marc Rowan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Media and Entertainment

Mr. Rowan is the CEO and a co-founder of Apollo Global Management, LLC and Managing Partner of, inter alia, Apollo Management, L.P. Mr. Rowan currently serves on the boards of directors of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Athene Holding Ltd., Caesars Entertainment Corp. and Caesars Acquisition Co. He has previously served on the boards of directorsof the general partner of AP Alternative Assets, L.P., AMC Entertainment, Inc., Beats Music, Cablecom GmbH, Culligan Water Technologies, Inc., Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Countrywide PLC, Furniture Brands International, Mobile Satellite Ventures, LLC, National Cinemedia, Inc., National Financial Partners, Inc., New World Communications, Inc., Norwegian Cruise Lines, Quality Distribution, Inc., Samsonite Corporation, SkyTerra Communications Inc., Unity Media SCA, Vail Resorts, Inc. and Wyndham International, Inc.Mr. Rowan is also active in charitable activities. He is a founding member and Chairman of the Youth Renewal Fund and a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Mr. Rowan also serves on the boards of directors of Jerusalem Online and the New York City Police Foundation. Mr. Rowan graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a BS and an MBA in Finance.

## Igal Weinstein
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series C, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Igal Weinstein

## Arielle Zuckerberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Analytics, Productivity Tools, Gaming

Arielle Zuckerberg the youngest sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in October 2015, in a bid by the firm to inject youth and diversity into its line-up of partners. (TechCrunch)

## Michael Schroepfer
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Restaurants, Mobile Payments

Mike Schroepfer is the Vice President of Engineering at Mike holds a bachelor's degreeand a master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University and has filed two U.S. patents.

## Bedy Yang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: iOS, Marketplace, Social Media Marketing

Bedy Yang is a Managing Partner at 500 Global, a Fellow at Kauffman Fellows, and a Lecturer at VC Unlocked at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. She is also the Founder of +INNOVATORS. Prior to that, he was a Management consultant at Integration Consulting. He attended FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas and the University ofPennsylvania.

## Keith Rabois
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Keith Rabois is the General Partner at Founders Fund. He has a unique background as an entrepreneurial executive and investor. Since 2000, he has been instrumental in driving five startups from their early stages to successful IPOs. He has provided seed capital to another ten companies that are currently valued at over $1 B, including Airbnb, Lyft,YouTube, Wish, Yammer.Since March 2013, Keith Rabois has served as a senior partner at Khosla Ventures, a technology venture capital fund founded by Vinod Khosla. He specializes in funding early-stage companies with a primary focus in consumer, financial services and health care innovation. At the same time, Keith co-founded Opendoor, a startup which transforms the painful process of selling a home into delightful and immediate experience. At KV, Rabois has led investments in a broad array of startups including, DoorDash, Stripe, Thoughtspot, Affirm, Even Financial and Piazza.Over the prior decade, he forged several of the most important new social and commerce platforms. Keith began his career in the industry as Executive Vice President of Business Development & Public Policy at PayPal [NASDAQ: PYPL, later acquired by EBAY] and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn [NYSE: LNKD] and as a chief operating officer of Square [NASDAQ: SQ].As a board member, Keith guided Yelp [NYSE: YELP] and Xoom [NASDAQ: XOOM] from inception to successful initial public offerings.Earlier in his career, Keith Rabois served as a litigator at the pre-eminent Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, specializing in antitrust, IP, and complex commercial matters. He joined the firm after clerking for the Honorable Edith H. Jones on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. After leaving the practice of law, Keith served as policy director for former Vice President Dan Quayle.Keith Rabois earned a bachelor's degree Phi Beta Kappa in political science with distinction from Stanford University and a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School.

## Pankaj Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Analytics, SaaS, Mobile

Pankaj Jain is the Managing Partner at Saka Ventures. Previously, he was a Partner at 500 Startups, a California based seed fund and accelerator program. Pankaj focuses on investing in early stage startups across New York City, India, South Asia and has led investments in over fifty companies at 500 Startups across 6 countries.Pankaj spent over12 years in the Financial industry at firms such as JP Morgan, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) and GlobeOp Financial Services in various operational roles including enterprise mortgage risk management, application development, market data infrastructure, trade management, pricing infrastructure and customer service areas.In 2007, Pankaj’s adventures in India began, where he started a company building an on-demand, employment marketplace for the under-served. In 2008, Pankaj became a co-founder of the HeadStart Network Foundation and the led the efforts in Delhi. In late 2010, he began setting up Startup Weekend in India.

## Todd Olson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Legal Tech

Todd Olson is Co-founder and CEO of Pendo, a product experience platform that helps product teams create software customers love. A three-time entrepreneur, Todd has experienced the highs and lows of running fast-growth technology companies. A proficient coder by age 14, he spent his teen years working as a database designer and software architectfor MBNA Bank in Delaware. By graduation from Carnegie Mellon University, he’d invented a data integration product, co-founded Cerebellum Software, and raised seed capital. Cerebellum went on to raise $17 million in institutional capital and hire 65 people, only to shut down when funding dried up during the dotcom era. A role as vice president of product development at TogetherSoft brought Todd to Raleigh, where he eventually started 6th Sense Analytics, which he sold to Rally Software. The inspiration for Pendo came as Todd led the product team at Rally. With no product usage data available, he struggled to decide which of the dozens of feature requests that hit his desk each week were worth the investment of time and capital. After Rally’s IPO, he teamed up with fellow product leaders and technologists from Red Hat, Cisco and Google to launch Pendo in October 2013. The company has since raised $56 million in venture capital, landed more than 500 customers and now employs 170 people across offices in Raleigh, San Francisco, New York and Yakum, Israel. It was named a Top 50 U.S. Startup by LinkedIn in 2017.Todd prides himself on his product background, and the knowledge, experience and empathy it lends to customers of Pendo. He frequently speaks at industry events on topics like Agile software development, product management, startup fundraising and entrepreneurship. Outside of work, Todd is typically enjoying life in Raleigh with his wife and four children, aged 1 to 21. He also loves to bake, especially cakes.

## Matt Mullenweg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

Matt Mullenweg is the CEO at Automattic Inc. Matt Mullenweg attended the University of Houston.

## Brandon Leonardo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series D
- Focus: Marketplace, Local, FinTech

Brandon Leonardo is a Co-Founder at Instacart.

## Tom Conrad
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Information Technology, Software

Tom Conrad is the CEO at Big Sky Health. He attended University of Michigan.

## Rob Chesney
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Wholesale

Rob Chesney is a the Chief Operating Officer at Trunk Club since December 2011. Rob is a former Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners. In that role Rob advised entrepreneurs who were looking to scale their early stage startups and turn them into thriving, independent companies. Rob's particular interest was in consumer-focusedbusinesses with e-commerce, marketplace or payments-related business models. Rob has led small and large teams through periods of hyper growth, intense change and fierce industry competition. Prior to joining Greylock Rob was a Vice President at eBay. Most recently Rob ran the Company’s Buyer Experience team where he oversaw the Company’s largest business verticals including fashion, technology, media, collectibles and home. These verticals represent more than half of eBay’s $2 billion North America business. Prior to running eBay’s Buyer Experience team Rob was Vice President and General Manager of eBay Motors, which he joined shortly after it launched in 2001. When Rob left the group it was eBay’s largest stand-alone vertical. eBay Motors receives more than thirteen million unique visitors a month, ranking it in the top 10 for e-commerce properties. During his eight-year tenure as a General Manager at eBay, Rob managed teams across sales, business development, product management, engineering and customer service, as well as brokered partnerships and led acquisitions. Rob launched eBay’s first local classified offering, executed the company’s first social media integration and initiated eBay’s first private sale. Rob graduated from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at McGill University. Rob was born and raised in Toronto.

## Mike Greenfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, E-Commerce, EdTech

Mike is co-founder of 

## Scot Wingo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Scot Wingo is the Co-Founder, Executive Chairman, and CEO of Spiffy and General Partner at Triangle Tweener Fund. Scot attended the North Carolina State University and the University of South Carolina.

## Kristian Andersen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Kristian Andersen is a co-founder and partner at High Alpha and was a Co-founder at Octiv. He attended Anderson University.

## Cyan Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Social Media

Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.

## Brett Hurt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Apps

Brett Hurt current job as Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at data.world. Brett joined Austin Ventures in 2012 and focuses on early-stage software investing. Prior to AV, Brett founded Bazaarvoice (NASDAQ: BV) and served as CEO and President for seven and half years, leading the company from bootstrapped concept to almost 2,000 clientsworldwide and through its successful IPO. He subsequently guided the company through a successful follow-on offering and two acquisitions, PowerReviews and Longboard Media. Brett continues to actively support Bazaarvoice as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to Bazaarvoice, Brett founded Coremetrics and helped grow the company into a global, leading marketing analytics solution for the eCommerce industry before its acquisition by IBM.Brett holds an MBA in High-Tech Entrepreneurship from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. He serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Wharton School and previously served on the Board of Directors of Shop.org. Brett established the Bazaarvoice Foundation and is very active in the philanthropic arena. He received the Austin Entrepreneurs Foundation's Community Leadership Award in 2012. Brett is entrepreneur empowerment group RISE's Serial Entrepreneur of the year for 2012. He was named by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year for Austin in 2009 and is a member of the Austin chapter of the International Young Presidents' Organization (YPO). Brett was also named CEO of the Year for large companies by the Austin Business Journal in 2012.

## Clark Landry
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Advertising

Clark Landry is the Managing Partner of Clover Leaf Ventures.Most recently, Clark was co-founder and COO at CESPPA, a cybersecurity company. Formerly, Clark was co-founder and COO at Maple Media (raised $30 million from private equity investors), co-founder and executive chairman at SHIFT (acquired by Brand Networks), co-founder and CEO at TopLevel Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines - publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM), co-founder and CMO at TagWorld (acquired by Viacom). Clark was a founding investor of Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel), Traffic Marketplace, an advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), Adconion Media Group, a provider of digital media advertising solutions (acquired by Amobee), Conversion Logic, an advertising attribution company, and CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace.Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Yale University.

## Michael Yasiejko
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Internet, Software, EdTech

Michael Yasiejko is the General Manager, Executive Vice President at Tempus.He attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

## Rodney Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Payments, Restaurants, Financial Services

Rodney Williams, President & CEO, Belvedere Vodka.

## Michael Tannenbaum
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, SaaS, Finance

Michael B. Tannenbaum is the CFO at Brex.

## Parker Thompson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Alameda, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Restaurants

Parker Thompson - General Partner & Founder @ Tnt Ventures

## Tony Hawk
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series C, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Apps, Mobile Apps

Tony has won numerous awards, including Make-A-Wish’s Favorite Male Athlete, Teen Choice Awards’ Choice Male Athlete and Nickelodeon’s Kid’s Choice Awards’ Favorite Male Athlete, beating out such sports icons as Shaquille O’Neal, Tiger Woods, and Kobe Bryant. From video games to skateboards to online media to clothing to world tours, Tony hasdominated the Action Sports market with his laid-back style. He is the most recognized Action Sports figure in the world and, according to some marketing surveys, one of the most recognizable athlete of any kind in the United States.Tony regularly appears on television and in films, and hosts a weekly show on Sirius XM. His autobiography, HAWK—Occupation: Skateboarder was a New York Times bestseller and is currently available in paperback. In 2010, Wiley Publishing released How Did I Get Here? The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO.As his income reached a level he never could have imagined, Tony made an effort to give back to the subculture that has given him so much. His Tony Hawk Foundation has donated over $4 million to 525 skatepark projects throughout the United States. The foundation helps finance public skateparks in low-income areas, providing a safe place to skate and helping young skaters from Marathon, Florida, to Sitka, Alaska, build their self-confidence. Skateparks that received financial assistance from the Tony Hawk Foundation currently serve more than 3 million young Americans annually.

## Ryan Graves
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Marketplace, Machine Learning

Ryan Graves is the Founder and CEO at Saltwater. He attended Miami University.

## Josh Spear
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Digital Media, Enterprise Software

Josh Spear is a trend spotter, blogger and brand strategist.
He is Founding Partner, Chairman at Undercurrent, a digital think tank based in New York City that provides planning, strategy and ideation services to global brands hoping to engage a new generation of human beings that were born digital.

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

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## James Altucher
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Advertising, Social Media, Social Media Marketing

James Altucher

## Andy Cohen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Payments, Credit Cards

Andy Cohen is the Advisor and Angel Investor at Cohen Global LLC. He is an accomplished executive with 25 years of experience successfully growing businesses.Prior to joining Bill.com, he founded and sold Caring.com, the nation’s leading online destination for those caring for aging loved ones. Andy grew the company to a profitable venturegenerating $24 million in revenue with a team of 150 people. Before founding Caring.com, he held various sales and marketing leadership positions at SuccessFactors, Intuit, Instill, Peapod and SC Johnson Wax, where he grew businesses from start-up to tens of millions of dollars in revenue. He earned an M.B.A. in marketing from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a B.A. in history from Stanford University.

## Brian Spaly
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage

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.

## Jeff Cruttenden
- Type: Angel
- Location: Newport Beach, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Jeffrey Cruttenden is the Co-founder of Say. Jeff co-founded Acorns with his father, Walter, to radically simplify and democratize investing. While in college, Jeff realized that most of his classmates were not able to come up with the lump sum needed to meet minimum balance requirements. Acorns was hatched as an investment application to allowpeople to easily invest their spare change into diversified portfolios. Jeff graduated Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Mathematics from Lewis & Clark College, and was recently featured as a Forbes "30 Under 30."

## Paul Hedrick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Beauty, Catering

Paul Hedrick - Founder @ Tecovas

## George Gong
- Type: Angel
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Blockchain

George Gong - Managing Partner @ Jubilee Capital Management

## Ligaya Tichy
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Apps, Marketplace

Ligaya launches new markets for consumer technology companies. She kickstarted Airbnb's international development as Global Head of Offline Marketing & Community during their most rapid growth phase. Prior to that, she was a Marketing Manager for Yelp, helping the company expand their footprint across the US. Ligaya now angel invests andadvises startups and serves as a mentor for 500 Startups. She is also a regular speaker at SXSW, various TEDx, and CMX Summit. Ligaya was also selected as a 2014 TechWomen by the US Department of State.

## James Freeman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Baby, Catering

James Freeman - Founder & CEO @ Blue Bottle Coffee

## Edward Zimmerman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, FinTech, Health Care

Ed is a venture lawyer and co-founded and Chairs the Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler LLP, a leading law firm. During his more than 20 years at Lowenstein Sander, he has represented hundreds of start-ups, growth companies and venture funds. He has angel invested in roughly 50 companies and invested as an LP in more than a dozen families of venturefunds. Ed has taught VC to MBA students at Columbia Business School for 8 years, has published more than 60 columns on venture/tech (and sometimes wine or music) on the ACCELERATORS page of the WSJ and founded and runs www.VentureCrush.com which includes FIRSTGROWTHVC and AngelVineVC.

## Shawn Tsao
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Restaurants, B2B, iOS

Shawn Tsao is the Founding Partner at Umai Hospitality Group. He Attended University of California, Berkeley.

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