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

## Ronald Conway
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.

## Cyan Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Tim Kendall
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Mobile

Tim Kendall is the Co-Founder of Moment.He attend to the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2004.

## Wei Guo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

## Gary Griffiths
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Altos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Messaging

A 35-year veteran of the high-tech industry, Griffiths has led some of the web’s most innovative companies. Prior to co-founding Wisdom LLP, Griffiths was president and CEO of Trapit, Inc., the world's largest Wi-Fi network. iPass was acquired by Pareteum (NASDAQ: TEUM) in February 2019.Previously, Griffiths was president of products andoperations at WebEx, acquired for $3B by Cisco Systems, Inc. Griffiths was also co-founder and CEO of Everdream Corporation, a SaaS company, from 1999 to 2005, as well as CEO at HEAT.net from 1996 until its acquisition by Sega, Inc. in 1999.Griffiths has extensive experience overseeing financial and accounting matters as well as strategic initiatives at small technology companies. Over his long career in high tech, he has founded and/or invested in several successful businesses. Investments include Rackable Systems (which acquired SGI, and then was acquired by HP in 2017), CubeTree (acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand), Biba (acquired by Amazon), Janrain (acquired by Akamai), and DataFox (acquired by Oracle). In addition, Griffiths was a pre-seed investor in Zoom Communications (NASDAQ: ZM), which had its IPO in April 2019.Griffiths holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the US Naval Academy, as well as a Masters of Science in business administration from the George Washington University School of Business..

## Bruce Dunlevie
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series D
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile

Bruce Dunlevie is the General Partner at Benchmark. Additionally, Bruce Dunlevie has had 5 past jobs including Systems Designer & Programmer at Accenture.Bruce previously served as a member of the board of directors of Rambus Inc., a technology licensing company, from March 1990 to June 2011, and as a member of the board of directors of Palm,Inc., a provider of mobile products, from October 2003 to October 2007. Bruce holds a B.A. in History and English from Rice University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

## Christian Dörffer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Software, Mobile

Christian Dörffer is the Investor at Metafy, CEO and Co-Founder at Sweet Capital, and Founder and Chairman at Midnight Runners. He is a former Founder and Partner at BAMCAP. He attended Copenhagen Business School.

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

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

## Baron Davis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Mobile Apps

Baron Davis is the Founder at Baron Davis Enterprise.

## Ryan Allis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social Media, Collaboration, Artificial Intelligence

Ryan Allis is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He is currently a Managing Partner at HeartRithm (www.heartrithm.com), a crypto quant fund,and the Chairman Hive (www.hive.org).Ryan was previously the co-founder and CEO of iContact from 2003 until 2012. iContact grew to 300 employees, 70,000 customers, and $50M in annual sales before its Feb2012 sale to Vocus (NASDAQ:VOCS) for $170M.Ryan is also an angel investor and has invested in 34 firms including SpaceX, Robinhood, LendingClub, Change.org, and Off-Grid Electric.Ryan served as a National Co-Chairperson for Tech for Obama during the 2012 Presidential Election along with Reid Hoffman and Marc Benioff and was a inaugural member of the United Nations Global Entrepreneur Council. Ryan is the author of The Startup Guide: Building a Better World Through Entrepreneurship at www.startupguide.com and the book Zero to One Million (McGraw-Hill, 2008).Ryan attended the University of North Carolina and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

## Jenny Lefcourt
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle. Jenny earned her B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1998 she left Stanford to found Wedding Channel.com (sold: XOXO). In 2003 she co-founded Bella Pictures (sold: CPI). In 2014 Jenny joined Freestyle,and was promoted to GP in 2015. Some of Jenny’s notable investments include BetterUp, Crexi, Daily.co, Embark, Ridwell, Narvar and WELL Health. She is also a founding member and board member of All Raise. Jenny is an angel investor in Discord, MainStreetHub and Minted.

## Princeton Taylor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Princeton Taylor attended the University of Stanford.

## Scott Belsky
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.

## Auren Hoffman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Internet

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.

## Tom Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services

Tom Williams

## Dave Morgan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Marketing, Advertising, Mobile

Morgan is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia, a New York based marketing technology company that uses data, science and software to drive business outcomes for advertisers through traditional TV marketing. He previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOLin 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).

## Amanda Bradford
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: LGBT, Dating, Social

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

## Scott Cook
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Education, Software, E-Learning

Scott Cook is the Founder & Chairman of the Executive Committee at Intuit Inc. He co-founded Intuit Inc. in 1983 and now serves as the Chairman of the Executive Committee.

## Larry Braitman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment

Larry Braitman - Angel Investor; Advisor @ Braitman & Company

## Marc Randolph
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Mobile

Marc Randolph is a Board Member of several companies. He has founded Netflix in 1997, serving as the online movie service's founding CEO, as the executive producer of it's web site, and as a member of it's board of directors until 2004. Since leaving Netflix he has been an active investor, executive mentor and consultant fornumerous early-stage tech companies.Prior to founding Netflix, Marc was a co-founder of numerous other tech start-ups, including IntegrityQA, Visioneer, Microwarehouse, and MacUser Magazine.He currently sits on the boards of Rafter, ReadyForce, Getable, Looker and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); as well as on numerous advisory boards.

## Andy Dunn
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Wellness, Health Care

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

## Nisha Dua
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Cosmetics

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

## Tom Vorisek
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Machine Learning

Founder Esalen Ventures, LLC which has made more than 75 private/angel investments from pre-seed to mezzanine stages and is an LP in 8 PE Funds. Tom is also an International Fine Art Dealer with a focus on paintings of 20th century American, European and Asian artists.Prior to his current roles, Tom was an experienced executive with over 20years in cross-disciplined leadership roles in Advertising-General, Digital and Mobile, Ad Tech, Emerging Media, Technology and Early Stage Venture. Co-Founder FCB Sports Marketing, FCB/SF, IDG, Flycast (IPO), McGrath Rentcorp (IPO) and Ad Infuse (acq by Velti).

## Trevor Wright
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Gaming

I am entrepreneur and operator. In the past, I co-Founded and sold Vitrue to Oracle for $300 M. I also co-Founded and sold Black Bag Advertising to WPP for $14 M. I was also on the founding team At Flycast Network which had an IPO and was later acquired for $2.2 B. I am currently an angel investor with company exists totaling over $1 B so far.

## Kathleen Hale
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Social, Automotive

Kathleen is an entrepreneur, venture capital fund manager and early-stage investor focused on helping to find, incubate, and grow ideas for solving our greatest challenges. As the COO and founding team member of Builders + Backers, Kathleen is working in communities across the country to restore personal agency, increase capacity forentrepreneurial thinking, identify promising solutions and ultimately scale and fund the ones that work.As a partner in Builders + Backers Capital, Kathleen invests in early-stage startups and helps other accredited investors do so as well through investment syndicates.Kathleen also is the Director of Operations the 1776 Ventures, a venture capital fund with some of the world's most promising startups, including Twiga Foods, Guild Education, HopSkipDrive, and Swiftly.Previously Kathleen has founded and grown multiple consumer products companies, including one of the earliest treadmill and standing desks companies in the US. She helped to take these companies from idea to manufacturing, e-commerce and retail success, and licenses with international brands.Prior to launching her first e-commerce business, Kathleen was an accomplished attorney and founding partner of a law firm. She served clients of all sizes and helping to secure tens of millions of dollars in judgments for them.Kathleen is an experienced public speaker who has been featured at conferences around the U.S. and abroad. Her articles and interviews have appeared in FastCompany, Tech.Co, PBS, Forbes.com and Livestrong.com.

## Pascal Levy-Garboua
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Pascal Levy-Garboua is an angel investor, founder, and operator.
He is currently VP. Business Development at Checkr, where he joined as their first executive and Employee #9.Previously, he was CEO/Cofounder at SixDoors, Cofounder at VirtuOz (acquired by Nuance Communications) and VP Product at IQ Engines (Acquired by Yahoo). He started hiscareer at eBay in France.Pascal invested in 85+ Companies including Checkr, Wag, Womply, Origin, RealtyShares, and Caviar (Acquired by Square).

## Jason Rosenthal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Social, Virtual Reality

Jason Rosenthal is CEO of Lytro which is transforming the camera into a powerful computational photography platform. Rosenthal joined Lytro from Silver Lake Partners where he was an Operating Executive.Previously, he was CEO of Ning which was acquired by Glam Media. At Ning, Rosenthal led the transition of the company from a free, ad supportedservice to a premium subscription model. Under Rosenthal's leadership, Ning grew from 17,000 paying subscribers to over 100,000 in less than 18 months.Before joining Ning, Rosenthal was Vice President of HP Software's Business Service Automation product line which encompasses the former Opsware product portfolio (acquired by HP for $1.6B) and leading solutions in the storage management, desktop management, and mobile device management space. Prior to Opsware's acquisition by HP, Rosenthal held multiple executive positions at the company including Senior Vice President and General Manager of Server Automation Products at Opsware, Inc.Earlier in his career, Rosenthal served as director of product management for the AOL's E-Commerce Platform Division which he joined through the company's acquisition of Netscape Communications.Rosenthal began his career working for Rebuild LA, the inner city economic development organization founded in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots by Peter Ueberroth.Rosenthal holds a B.A. in history from Pomona College where he also serves on the board of trustees and he received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.Specialties: Social Media, Cloud Technologies, Mobile Applications, Executive Management, Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Development, Engineering Management, Professional Services

## Ted Rheingold
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Finance

Ted Rheingold was an experienced owner/operator that realigned his Internet, startup and business experience to grow cause-oriented for-profit businesses. He was Strategic Advisor for delivering services traditionally provided by non-profit. He recently wrote about his InVenture provides financial identity and credit scoring services to the previously unbanked in South Asia and Africa. It offers free SMS, Voice and Android money-management tools for small business owners and head of households and licenses it's credit scoring services and algorithms to finance institutions, NGOs, governments, and credit providers. Ted is perhaps best know for founding and serving as CEO of Dogster, Inc. makers of Ted sold Dogster & Catster to Ted's first business Previously Ted served as Engineering Production Leads at Voquette and Preview TravelHe has served as a Mentor with 500 Startups and i/o Ventures. And has Investor and Advised at Lumatic, Colingo, Visually, TastemakerX, Petsana, DogVacay, StoryPanda, Reclip.it, Colloquy, Ad Hoc Labs & Cir.caTed Rheingold died from kidney cancer on September 4, 2017.

## Giora Kaplan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Video, Internet, Software

Giora Kaplan is our Co-Founder, and has served as our Chief Technology Officer since March 2008, was our Co-Chief Executive Officer from 2006 to March 2008, and has served as one of our directors since 2006. From 2004 to 2006, he served as a technology and product management consultant to several start-up companies.Giora was the founder andChief Executive Officer of Promotix Technologies Ltd., an Internet advertising and publishing company, from 1999 to 2001. He also co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer or Optimedia Ltd., an electronic and online publishing company, from 1992 to 1999. Giora served in the Israeli Defense Forces' elite computer intelligence unit from 1988 until 1991.

## Chris Kitze
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Social, Travel, Finance

Chris Kitze is the Community Member at FLASHcoin Community.He attended University of Colorado Boulder.

## Zach Weinberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical

Before co-founding Flatiron, Zach was Co-Founder, President and COO of Invite Media, an advertising technology company based in NYC. Invite Media built the industry's first enterprise advertising platform for buying and optimizing online media in real-time. Invite Media was acquired by Google in 2010. Prior to Invite Media, Zach co-foundedEatNow.com which was privately acquired. An active angel investor, Zach has invested in over 30 technology startups throughout the country, including Bell Biosystems, Breakthrough.com, Care at Hand, DocPhin, Doctor Evidence, Genomera, Meddik, Oscar, and Predilytics. Zach studied economics and entrepreneurship at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

## Jackson Moses
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Government

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

## Vivek Garipalli
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Machine Learning

Vivek Garipalli was the Co-Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Clover Health. He attended Emory University.

## Bobby Aitkenhead
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, iOS

Bobby Aitkenhead: has over 9 years of experience across the financial sector, from Investment Banking to Fintech. He has held senior roles at Citi Bank and Fortis Bank, evaluating credit safeguarding liquidity, managing balance sheet positioning and directing FX and interest rate trading desks. Bobby Co-Founded and held the CEO position of BlueKitea cross-border payment platform for immigrants, which was acquired by Xoom Corporation and later by Paypal. He was also General Partner and Co-Founder of Advance Finance Venture Capital Firm (ATW Ventures), a VC with 2 active funds of more than $ 100 Million of Assets Under Management.

## Marc Benioff
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Mark Pincus
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, FinTech

Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.

## Jeremy Yap
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests in the Europe, North America, and Israel.

## Shervin Pishevar
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce

Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.

## Bo Shao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Bo Shao was born and grew up in Shanghai, China. When he was four, his father taught him mathematics by training him to add up a deck of poker cards, as his family was too poor to buy any other tools. After practicing dozens of times a day, by the time he was twelve, he could add up a deck of 52 cards in 12 seconds. He went on to win over a dozenhigh school mathematics competitions in China.During his junior year of high school, Bo was admitted to Harvard College with a full scholarship. He was one of the first to go to Harvard College directly from mainland China with such a scholarship since 1949. “When I was applying in 1990, everyone thought it was impossible. Since then, Harvard has admitted two or three students every year from China on full scholarships. It taught me that if one works hard, and believes in himself, and with a bit of luck, he can achieve things beyond his wildest dreams.”After working in the Boston Consulting Group in Boston and obtaining an MBA from Harvard Business School, Bo went back to China in 1999 and started EachNet, an online marketplace. “My parents thought I was nuts, to turn down very lucrative job offers and the chance of getting a green card” Bo recalls, “I was very naïve and totally unprepared for business in general and the huge challenges of bootstrapping a startup in particular.”After four years, after a lot of trial and error and through the boom and bust of the Internet industry, Bo and his team persevered and built EachNet to become the largest consumer e-commerce site in China. EachNet was acquired by eBay for US$225 million in a landmark transaction in 2003. The Asian Venture Capital Journal named Bo the Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003.Bo is now focused on helping entrepreneurs build promising businesses in China. Bo says, “Being the CEO and founder of a startup is a very lonely job. An entrepreneur feels incredible responsibility to his team, his customers, and his investors. Sometimes it feels like every decision could make or sink the company, but there is no guidebook or right answer. Everyone looks to him for answers but he has no one to share his worries with.” Bo likes to get involved in the early stages of a company, become a partner and resource for the founders, and use his experience to help founders.

## Kevin Moore
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

Kevin Moore has 10 years experience as an angel/opportunity investor and operator. Prior to that, he has over 15 years of progressive technology i-banking, corp dev, and CFO experience at startups and $Bn corporates. 

## Ramesh Haridas
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Software

Ramesh Haridas is an Angel Investor since June 2006. Ramesh has been an entrepreneur and an investor in early stage internet companies for the last 10 years. He has started and sold two internet companies. Ramesh was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Parakweet from March 2010 to February 2016. Parakweet is Ramesh's third startup.Ramesh has started and successfully sold two internet companies before - PrivacyBank.com, an online information bank; and Chintano -- an internet ad network that built proprietary contextual and behavioral targeting technology. Ramesh is also an active angel investor and was the first angel investor in 8tracks, nRelate (sold to IAC), and Esaya (sold to Linkedin); and an early investor in Mashery, AVG and Rapportive. In his free time, he enjoys playing squash and discovering good fiction. Ramesh holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

## Wayne Chang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Ben Narasin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Mobile

Ben Narasin is the Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital. He attended International Christian University, Babson College, and Harvard University.

## Ravi Garikipati
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, EdTech, E-Commerce

Ravi is a seasoned Technology leader and an entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience leading and building scalable businesses both in India and silicon valley, driven by technology.He recently founded Davinta, a Fintech startup focussed on financial inclusion at the bottom of the pyramid with a vision to build digital first platform todeliver micro lending and micro insurance for the last mile.As CTO at Flipkart, he lead a very talented team spanning all of Product management, Engineering, Design and User research, Data Science, IT, Security, Infrastructure . Defined and executed Technology vision, strategy and roadmap to democratize commerce through technology for 100s of millions of Indians at scale. He also incubated Ad Tech and Fin Tech businesses (within FK) with P/L ownership to create two significant revenue pools.Prior to Flipkart he was President and Chief Technology Officer at 247.ai, A silicon valley AI/Enterprise company where he led global product and technology groups to build customer acquisition & engagement platform driven by predictive modelling hosted in the cloud.He is also on board of a few companies in Financial Services domain and actively invests and advises many startups in India and US.

## Shu Duan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics

Shu Duan - Director @ Credit Suisse

## Bootstrapped Debt Financing
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Bootstrapped Debt Financing

## Sashi Reddi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, News

Sashi Reddi is a successful technology entrepreneur, business leader, and an active angel investor. Sashi runs a seed stage venture fund, SRI Capital, that is typically the first institutional investor in various technology and media start-ups. SRI currently has over 20 investments, spread evenly between India and the US. He is also a member of theinvestment team at Gabriel Investments.Previously, Sashi was the founder and CEO of AppLabs, the world’s largest independent software testing company with over 2,500 QA professionals in India, the US, and the UK. AppLabs was funded by Sequoia Capital India. CSC acquired AppLabs in September 2011. Series A investors in AppLabs received a 10X return on their investment in 6 years. Post the acquisition of AppLabs by CSC, Sashi served as the VP & GM, Big Data and Analytics at CSC, reporting directly to the CEO. A serial entrepreneur, Sashi has started three other companies prior to AppLabs. These were EZPower Systems (web content management pioneer acquired by DocuCorp, and eventually a part of Oracle), iCoop (group purchasing dotcom), and FXLabs (leading Indian game developer acquired by Foundation 9 Entertainment).Sashi received his BTech in Computer Science from the IIT Delhi, an MS in Computer Science from NYU, and later a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.Sashi serves on the advisory board of Wharton Entrepreneurship, board of Ben Franklin Technology Partners, as well as on the board of T-Hub, India’s largest incubator for start-ups. He is a charter member of TiE Philadelphia and TiE Hyderabad. He also runs a charitable organization, SRI Trust, that supports the educational and overall development needs of 600 children in 3 schools in India.

## Jim Nichols
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1

Jim Nichols is Product, Technology & Brand Communications at Volvo Cars.

## Joe Saviano
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Social, Sports, Content

Joseph R. Saviano is a Founder & Managing Partner at Dot Capital

## Ran Tushia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: News, Video, Social

Angel Investor for Startups

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