# Top 50 Sporting Goods Angel Investors in May 2026

## David Blitzer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Sports, Fantasy Sports, Sporting Goods

David Blitzer joined HBSE Ventures as Founder.

## Frank Bober
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hardware, Mobile Apps, Sporting Goods

Frank Bober founded Stylesight in 2003 in response to the growing industry demand for a faster and more effective Web-based approach to the process of product inspiration and development.Stylesight is the continuation of a career that spans every aspect of the fashion industry including design, manufacturing, trend forecasting, productdevelopment and merchandising.Frank’s career began in the 1960s as a menswear designer with an eponymous collection. He later held senior executive positions at Arthur Richards and Polo Ralph Lauren before founding CMT Enterprises in 1979. At CMT, he pioneered the private label concept by both designing and producing private label men’s and women’s apparel for many of America’s top retailers. He sold CMT Enterprises in 2000 after 21 successful years.

## Alex Hoye
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Advertising

Alex Hoye is the Co-founder and CEO of Full Stack Supply Co. He previously worked at Runway East as a Co-founder. Alex Hoye attended Stanford University.

## David J. Adelman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Sports

As CEO of Campus Apartments, David J. Adelman is one of the nation’s leading experts on university-affiliated real estate development. Under his leadership, Campus Apartments has grown into one of the nation’s largest providers of on- and off-campus student housing with more than $2 billion in assets under management across 24 states.Mr. Adelmanis an active private investor, entrepreneur, and member of his community. He has served in leadership positions at Franklin Square Capital Partners, a leading manager of alternative investment, as well as FS Investment Corporation and FS Energy and Power Fund, both publicly registered business development companies focused on investing in the debt securities of private U.S. companies.Mr. Adelman also serves on the Actua Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTA) Board of Directors; Penn Medicine Board of Trustees; Wheels Up Board of Directors; Board of Councilors of the USC Shoah Foundation-The Institute for Visual History and Education; Vice Chair of University City District Board of Directors; and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).David is also the CEO and Founder of Darco Capital.

## Mark Livings
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Content Marketing, Information Technology, Software

Founder of a diverse group of businesses including globally-distributed consumer brands (Lyre's Spirits Co) as well as growth-award winning companies specialising in the supply of marketing services and products to the FMCG\ CPG industry. These businesses include an integrated creative agency, a digital printing and personalisation platform,a branded merchandise and speciality packaging supplier as well as a specialty promotional logistics and fulfilment provider.Mark has worked closely with over 50 major FMCG organisations in the grocery, pharma, liquor and health and beauty space and has grown a portfolio of businesses servicing their go to market requirements over the last seven years.Passionate about technology, Mark has invested across all business units ensuring a competitive edge is maintained with best in class platforms to delivery quality creative, product production and fulfilment services to some of the world's most recognisable businesses and brands.

## Blake Griffin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Sports, Consumer Goods

Blake Griffin, the six-time All-Star, former Rookie of the Year and Slam Dunk Champion, is regarded as one of the most influential players in recent history. Second only to his basketball talent is his innate knack for comedic timing, which has been showcased in numerous national ad campaigns, top-tier media, and through his annual charity comedyshow, Comedy.by blake. Behind the camera, Blake serves as the Cofounder of Mortal Media, his Hollywood production company, which works on projects in the film, TV, and digital spaces. A true triple-threat, adding to athlete and actor, Blake and his brother Taylor also run the Team Griffin Foundation, their non-profit organization that provides young men and women with opportunities to learn the essential lessons of life, competition, and hard work by inspiring them to nurture their passions in athletics, academics and the arts.

## Matthew Ocko
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

Matthew Ocko has nearly three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive and venture capitalist, with over 20 patents granted or pending in areas as diverse as hardware systems and social games. He still reads C++ code but admits to occasional struggles with Erlang. Matthew is a co-founder & co-managing partner ofData Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. During his venture capital tenure, he has invested in and/or helped grow a variety of companies including XenSource (CTRX), Zynga (ZNGA), Impermium, Verisign (VRSN), Facebook (FB), Virtuata (CSCO), Akimbi Systems (VMW), Cotendo (AKAM), Tango.me, MetaWeb (GOOG), FlashSoft (SNDK), DataMirror (IBM), UltraDNS (NSR), Kenshoo, Metamarkets, Fortinet (FTNT), SupportSoft (SPRT), Alantro (TXN), CouchBase, Spool (FB), BranchOut, On-Ramp Wireless, and many others.

## Daren Cotter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.

## Mark Pincus
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Christopher J. Dean
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Retail

Christopher J. Dean joined Summit Partners in 2001. Prior to Summit, he worked for Morgan Stanley, J.H. Whitney & Co. and Sun Microsystems. Based in Summit’s Boston office, Chris is active in the firm’s investment activities in North America, Europe and Asia.During his 12 years with Summit Partners, Chris has served as a director ofmany companies. He is currently a director of Aurora Diagnostics, Champion Windows, Commercial Defeasance, Focus Financial Partners and Salient Partners. His prior directorships include optionsXpress Holdings (NASDAQ: OXPS, later acquired by Charles Schwab), PSC Info Group (acquired by Roark Capital Group) and Senior Home Care (acquired by Oaktree Capital Management).Chris holds a BA in history, summa cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

## Giovanni Gardelli
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

## Dave Morin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, Software

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

## Gary Vaynerchuk
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company, and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations.
In the late 90s, after identifying “the internet” as a land-grab opportunity, Gary transitioned his father’s localliquor store into one of the first wine e-commerce platforms resulting in growing the family business from $3-60MM in sales during a 5-year period.During his time in the family business, Vaynerchuk also started one of the first long-form episodic video shows on YouTube in 2006 called WineLibraryTV, filming 1,000 episodes over a 5-year window. Gary’s wine knowledge, charisma, and uncanny ability to engage with his community landed him appearances on national television with Ellen Degeneres and Conan O’Brien, as well as establishing him as one of the most followed people on social media during its nascent years.Not only did Gary leverage content creation and the rise of social media for his personal brand, but it was the seed which would become the pillar to his now 9-year old advertising agency VaynerMedia, servicing brands with an ever-expanding variety of offerings.Outside of being the Chairman and CEO of his own companies, Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook,Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber.Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 50 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook.Gary also appeared as judge in Apple’s first original series “Planet of the Apps” alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Will.i.am onIn addition to VaynerMedia, VaynerX also houses The Gallery, a new publishing company started after acquiring leading women’s lifestyle property PureWow in January 2017. In addition to running VaynerMedia, Gary also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports and restaurant reservations app Resy.Gary is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise, and is a longtime Well Member of Charity:Water.

## Lloyd Danzig
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Sports, Fantasy Sports

Lloyd Danzig is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sharp Alpha Advisors.

## Roger Ehrenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Advertising, FinTech, Software

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

## Maria Thomas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Maria Thomas is a consumer Internet pioneer and entrepreneurial business builder. She is also a well-respected member of the Board of Directors of both a publicly traded and a private equity backed company. She's currently (2017) an expert advisor and hands-on contributor to Remote Year.In 2016, Maria was Interim CEO at Glamsquad:http://blog.glamsquad.com/post/145956909567/corepower-yoga-amy-shecter-glamsquad-ceo. Maria is the former CEO of Etsy, a position she took in July of 2008 after Founding CEO Maria Prior to 

## Patrick Bamford
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: B2C, Shoes, Sporting Goods

Patrick Bamford

## Robin Knox
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Network

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

## Nat Turner
- 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, Nat was Co-Founder and CEO 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, Nat started numerousinternet companies and also worked at Say Media and First Round Capital. An active angel investor, Nat has invested in over 30 technology startups throughout the country, including Bell Biosystems, Breakthrough, Care at Hand, DocPhin, Doctor Evidence, Genomera, Meddik, Oscar, and Predilytics. Nat earned a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Economics with concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In his spare time, Nat is an avid golfer and tries to trick trout with fake bugs.

## Drew Brees
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Sports, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Drew Brees is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the NFL, an entrepreneur, and an investor.

## Sjaak Fleer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods

Sjaak Fleer

## Michael Carrick
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Michael Carrick is an English professional football coach.

## Andrew Bogut
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Sports, eSports, Gaming

Andrew Bogut

## Lodie Grubb
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Outdoors, Online Portals, Sporting Goods

Lodie Grubb

## Emir Selimovic
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods

Emir Selimovic

## Arno Gerken
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Consumer, Sporting Goods, Sustainability

Arno Gerken

## Dave Hanson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Sales, Sporting Goods

Investor / YouTuber

## Teddy Riner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Software

Teddy Riner is the three-time Olympic champion and ten-time World champion of judo.

## David Grubb
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Outdoors, Online Portals, Sporting Goods

David Grubb

## Peter Troensegaard Jensen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Drones, Retail, Sports

Peter Troensegaard Jensen

## Khalid Qazi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, AgTech, Events

Khalid Qazi is a founders of Dineout

## Todd Forest
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Real Estate, Apps, Marketplace

Todd Forest - Managing Director @ NAB Ventures

## Guido Giordano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Email, Content

Guido Giordano - Director - Venture Programs @ Invest Ottawa

## Paul Heywood
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Shoes

Paul Heywood is Chief Operating Officer at IPInfo, Chairman at Memory.AI, Board Member at UNRVLD and Partner at York.IE. He is the former Chief Revenue Officer of Puppet, VP Worldwide Sales at Oracle, VP Worldwide Sales at Dyn and Chairman of DevOpsGroup. He attended University of Wales, Cardiff.

## Josh Childress
- Type: Angel
- Location: Irvine, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Analytics, Communities

Joshua Malik Childress is a former professional basketball player who last played for the San-en NeoPhoenix of the Japanese B.League.

## Dave Balter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

Dave is the founder and CEO of Flipside Crypto, Inc., Inc, a company which characterizes cryptocurrencies.Previously, Dave was co-founder and CEO of Smarterer, a skills assessment company acquired by Pluralsight (NASDAQ: PS) in 2014. Post-acquisition, Dave was the Head of Transactions at Pluralsight, while also serving as a Board Observer. In2001, Dave founded and was CEO of BzzAgent, a social media marketing company, which was acquired by dunnhumby, a division of Tesco in 2011. From 2011-2014 Dave sat on the Global Executive Team at dunnhumby, where he led all venture and M&A activity.

## Thomas Rebaud
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Social Media

Thomas Rebaud is 28 years old when he founds Meero in 2016, driven by the desire to make the Internet more beautiful. The story begins in 2007 when he joins EMLyon Business School. Still a student, he becomes president of the Junior branch of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, a cooperation present in 15 countries whose aim is to developentrepreneurship as a vector of growth and employment in the world. Through this, Thomas develops a solid knowledge of good business practices. In 2013, with a second Masters under his belt, he sets up his first Internet-free loan comparison company, which works well but doesn’t take off. So he takes up an opportunity with Diji, a new kind of IT consultancy and engineering company. And that’s it. His progress at Diji leads him to discover the professional photography market, which is just waiting to be disrupted. Thomas gets it and seizes the opportunity by creating Meero!

## Nicholas Horbaczewski
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Sports, Internet

Nicholas Horbaczewski is the founder and CEO at The Drone League Racing and also the founder of Leeden Media. He is the previous senior vice president revenue and business development
at Tough Mudder Inc.
Nicholas ha a MBA at Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in history and literature at Harvard University.

## Ankit Mehrotra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Gaming, Food Processing

Ankit Mehrotra is the CEO & one of the four Co-founders of Dineout, India’s largest dining out and restaurant tech solutions platform in B2C and B2B front offering the most comprehensive suite of F&B tech products.
An engineer by a degree and a technology lover at heart, Ankit started Dineout with his friends in 2012 to change thelandscape of the dining industry in India.
Before turning into a passionate entrepreneur, Ankit lived in London for 10 years and worked for 7 years with BNP Paribas in London in various divisions including Investment Banking & Wealth Management, managing a portfolio of UHNWI while also studying for the CFA charter, which he got in 2011. He has enjoyed a fruitful career of over 10 years in the internet product space, including e-commerce marketplaces, online payments, operations and trade logistics.Ankit’s work has led him to be a winner of the 2016 Education UK Alumni Awards, Entrepreneur of the Year award 2016, and Young Entrepreneur of the year award in the year 2012.

## Ted Hettich
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce

Focusing on marketplace know-how, eCommerce retail sales, and project management I work daily to enable solutions for businesses globally.

## Todd Arky
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Food Delivery, E-Commerce

Todd Arky is the Chairman Of The Board of Experience Camps for Grieving Children.

## Sahil Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Apps, AgTech

Sahil is an alumnus of B.M.E College of Engineering, with a strong foundation in Engineering. He further went to IIM Kozhikode to study MBA in finance, strategy, and marketing. He has enjoyed a fruitful career of over 13 years in information technology and data analytics space. Focusing especially on building innovative and scalable techproducts, Sahil is spearheading the product development and growth retention strategies at Dineout. Sahil, along with the other 3 Co-founders, has successfully led Dineout to India’s largest dining out and restaurant tech platform which seats over 3.5 million diners every month and has 45,000 restaurants on its platform. Before Co-founding Dineout, Sahil served as a senior marketing analyst for NexTag and was settled in Chicago. He has also worked with globally recognized data analytics firm Mu Sigma as a senior business analyst and managed a team responsible for revenue management.

## Bernd Geilen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Consumer, Online Portals

Bernd Geilen used to work as CEO for ING Germany.

## Kevin Kaplan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Consumer Goods, Hardware, Sports

Kevin Kaplan is an enterprise onboarding specialist at Qualia. Attended School of Visual Arts.

## Jeffrey Kaditz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wilson, Wyoming, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Fitness, Medical

Jeffrey Kaditz is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and advisor who has helped drive a wide range of technologies and businesses. His fields of exploration have included rockets, high-energy particle physics, anti-ICBM technologies, consumer electronics, mobile gaming, finance, enterprise software, network security, and biotechnology.In 2012,he co-founded a leading fintech company, Affirm, with Manny Arias and they were later joined full-time by Nathan Gettings (Palantir co-founder) and Affirm's first Angel Investor, Max Levchin (PayPal co-founder). Prior to Affirm he served as Chief Data & Analytics Officer at mobile gaming giant ngmoco which was acquired by DeNA.Jeffrey has degrees in Physics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

## 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.

## Carsten Maschmeyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.

## Martin Kreiger
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods

Martin Kreiger

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Lorenz Bogaert is the Founder and Director of FixForm.

## Johannes Müller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods

As Managing Director and Chief Revenue Officer, Johannes leads the Workpath sales team and is responsible for international expansion and the strategic development of partnerships. He moreover is heavily involved in shaping the Workpath brand and regularly publishes on the topics of organization, leadership and the new working world.

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