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Top 50 Wine and Spirits Angel Investors (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Wine And Spirits startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Wine And Spirits startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Hayden Zou
Angel
3 China Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Wine and Spirits, Food and Beverage
Fabrice Grinda
Angel
3 United States, France, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace $600k–$65M
James Robertson
Angel
3 China Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Wine and Spirits, Food and Beverage
Justin Waldron
Angel
2 United States, Japan, Chile Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $150k–$5.3M
Jeff Olyniec
Angel
2 China Pre-Seed, Series A Wine and Spirits, Food and Beverage
Russel Simmons
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, News, Mobile $750k–$4.5M
Niv Dror
Angel
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Internet, Marketplace $1M–$4.5M
Peter Hunn
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A Software, Internet, SaaS $4.3M–$4.5M
Kevin Weil
Angel
2 United States, India, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $2.7M–$8M
Robin Knox
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, SaaS, Social Network $37k–$2.9M
David J. Adelman
Angel
2 United States Series A, Seed Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Sports $3.6M–$7.5M
Joanne Wilson
Angel
2 United States, Poland, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail $500k–$11M
Matt Caspari
Angel
2 United States, Pakistan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Software, Information Technology $4.5M–$5.7M
Zach Segal
Angel
2 United States Seed Internet, Software, FinTech $4.3M–$4.5M
Arielle Zuckerberg
Angel
2 United States, Mexico, Norway Seed, Series A, Angel Analytics, Productivity Tools, Gaming
Magdalena Kala
Angel
2 United States, Sweden Seed, Convertible Note Gaming, Retail, Blockchain
Austin Rosen
Angel
2 United States, Israel, Singapore Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Lucas Driggers
Angel
2 China Pre-Seed, Series A Wine and Spirits, Food and Beverage
Casey Neistat
Angel
2 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Apps, Cryptocurrency
Matthew Kaness
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
Jen Rubio
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Fashion, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce $2.8M–$4.5M
Dave McClure
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $100k–$6.5M
Simon Szewach
Angel
2 China Pre-Seed, Series A Wine and Spirits, Food and Beverage
Ligaya Tichy
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Series A Food and Beverage, Apps, Marketplace
Rahul Vohra
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $1.2M–$75M
Michael Ströck
Angel
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Health Care, Medical, Information Technology $250k–$1.5M
Charles Hudson
Angel
2 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $850k–$18M
Christine Tsai
Angel
2 United States, Japan, Spain Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Mobile, SaaS, Software $205k–$1M
Jason Calacanis
Angel
2 United States, Australia, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$13M
Pankaj Jain
Angel
2 United States, India, Jordan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Analytics, SaaS, Mobile $50k–$1.1M
Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel
2 United States, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Internet $650k–$53M
Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
2 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $125k–$18M
Christen O'Brien
Angel
2 United States Seed SaaS, Logistics, Accounting
Bedy Yang
Angel
2 United States, Spain, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, SaaS
William Zeqiri
Angel
2 New Zealand, United Arab Emirates Seed, Equity Crowdfunding E-Commerce, Marketplace, Wine and Spirits $714k–$1.2M
Arianna Simpson
Angel
2 United States, Philippines Series A, Seed, Series B Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $3.1M–$60M
Parker Thompson
Angel
2 United States, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, SaaS, Restaurants
Lars Albright
Angel
1 United States, Sweden, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Mobile, Financial Services, iOS
Matt Soule
Angel
1 United States Series A Beauty, 3D Printing, Health Care
Nobuyuki Nakagawa
Angel
1 Japan Angel Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps
Ciara Wilson
Angel
1 United States Seed, Angel Training, Communities, Collaboration
Takashi Mitachi
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A SNS, Brewing, Employment
Rana Daggubati
Angel
1 India Seed, Angel Food and Beverage, Coffee, Wine and Spirits
Maximilien Peeters
Angel
1 Belgium Seed Distillery, Food Processing, Wine and Spirits
Kathia Cambron
Angel
1 Canada Seed Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Gaelle Lefebvre
Angel
1 Belgium Seed Distillery, Food Processing, Wine and Spirits
Chakradhar Gade
Angel
1 India Seed Fashion, Apps, AgTech $2.3M–$4M
Nitin Kaushal
Angel
1 India Seed Apps, AgTech, Farming
Frank Brenner
Angel
1 United States Series A Beauty, 3D Printing, Health Care
Tomas Lestrup
Angel
1 Canada Seed Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
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Hayden Zou
Angel · 3 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Hayden Zou

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wine and Spirits, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.
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Fabrice Grinda
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$4M; Series A $2.3M–$9.1M; Series B $2.7M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPless. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
  • PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
  • Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.
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James Robertson
Angel · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 3 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

James Robertson

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wine and Spirits, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.
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Justin Waldron
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Chile

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tippsy — Largest selection of sake delivered to you. Tippsy makes finding good sake easy and fun! Free shipping 6+ bottles. Sake club subscription offers special perks such as member-exclusive discounts, virtual sake tasting as well as a beginner's guide.
  • Breakr — Breakr connects artists and influencers to break new music through the culture. Music influencers can set up profiles, update their music preferences, and create digital campaigns available across all platforms. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.
  • Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
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Jeff Olyniec
Angel · Roseville, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Jeff Olyniec has been the CEO of New Vision Display since the company formed in 2012. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration- Marketing from Mississippi State University.Jeff previously worked at International Display Works (which was later acquired by Flextronics and is now the current NVD) in senior management roles includingsales and supply chain. He then moved on to Solar Power Inc, a worldwide leader in the design and construction of solar power generating facilities, overseeing all of the company’s operations in Asia as the EVP of the company.Jeff has lived and worked in China since 1996 and speaks fluent Chinese.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wine and Spirits, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.
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Russel Simmons
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Russ co-founded Yelp Inc. in July 2004 with former colleague and friend Jeremy Stoppelman.Prior to Yelp, Russ was one of the early employees and the lead software architect at PayPal. He led a team of top engineers on critical projects related to security, scalability, stability, and internationalization as the company scaled rapidly. Followinghis time at PayPal, Russ joined Max Levchin's (co-founder of PayPal) incubator, where he teamed up with Jeremy.Russ holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, News, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Circa — More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a uniqueformat – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users. Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.Circa was founded by
  • Haus — An alcohol brand designed for the way we drink today. Born and bottled in California, Haus is made with things you can pronounce - think chardonnay grapes. elderflower and lemon. With less alcohol than hard liquors, Haus is shipped directly to your door, so you can gather and connect on your time.
  • ShareWell — Struggling with mental health issues? ShareWell provides online peer support, a proven mental health alternative for therapy. Get group support when you need it.
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Niv Dror
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Niv Dror is a Managing Partner at Shrug Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eight Sleep — The #1 Smart Mattress with bed cooling technology, designed to help you fall asleep faster and stay asleep. Try it at home for 100 nights, risk-free.
  • Command E — Command E develops an easy keyboard shortcut to open any document, contact, file or record from the cloud. Command-E on Mac and Control-E Windows. Your data never leaves your computer.
  • Levels — Levels helps you see how food affects your health with data from biosensors like continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)
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Peter Hunn
Angel · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Peter Hunn is Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Clause, Inc. The Accord Project (now a Linux Foundation project) from Clause, Inc. is the leading organization for the development of techno-legal standards for smart legal contracts and distributed ledger applications in the legal industry. Peter is also an angel investor in earlystage startups.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Command E — Command E develops an easy keyboard shortcut to open any document, contact, file or record from the cloud. Command-E on Mac and Control-E Windows. Your data never leaves your computer.
  • Haus — An alcohol brand designed for the way we drink today. Born and bottled in California, Haus is made with things you can pronounce - think chardonnay grapes. elderflower and lemon. With less alcohol than hard liquors, Haus is shipped directly to your door, so you can gather and connect on your time.
  • MainStreet — Tax credits, contract negotiations, software discounts, and more. Let us do the work, while you grow your business. Free to see how much you'll save.
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Kevin Weil
Angel · Portola Valley, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Kevin Weil is the Head of Product at Instagram, overseeing consumer and monetization products. Prior to Instagram, Kevin was the SVP of Product at Twitter, overseeing product development and design across Twitter's consumer and ad products, as well as Vine and Periscope. Between 2010 and 2014, he led product development for Twitter'sadvertising platform, as well as the development of Fabric. Before joining Twitter in 2009, he was the first employee at web media startup Cooliris, working in user growth and analytics. He also worked worked at municipal wireless network provider Tropos Networks, Microsoft Research, and in a past life as a Physics Ph.D. Student, at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Kevin graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. In Mathematics and Physics, and holds an M.S. in physics from Stanford

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $2.7M–$2.7M; Series A $8M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OSlash - Text Expander and Keyboard Shortcuts — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
  • Slay — Slay is a positive social media network for teenagers
  • SLAY — SLAY is a social gaming company.
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Robin Knox
Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Social Network
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $307k–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $37k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
  • Handl — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
  • My Probate Partner — The better way to navigate probate in Scotland. Avoid large probate solicitor bills by completing your application with our 5-star fixed-price support service. Designed to make sure you get Scottish probate 100% right.
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David J. Adelman
Angel · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Series A $3.6M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Framebridge — Framebridge makes online custom picture framing ridiculously easy, fast, and affordable.
  • Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment — Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment (HBSE), founded by Josh Harris & David Blitzer in 2017, is a proud family of diverse, global brands and sports properties including the Philadelphia 76ers and the New Jersey Devils among many others.
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Joanne Wilson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Joanne Wilson has had many careers. She started out in retail, eventually moving to the wholesale arena. She then transitioned to the media side of the technology world, before once again reinventing herself as an investor. She is currently an active angel investor with a portfolio of over 90 companies such as Food52, Sweeten, Vengo, Nestio, Phinand Phebes, Makers Row, Clutter, and Union Station. She has been involved in numerous real estate transactions from beginning to end and continues to make investments in that world. She is also an investor in a few restaurants in the New York area. In addition to these endeavors, Joanne has been involved in various education projects and served as chairperson at Hot Bread Kitchen, non-profit committed to increasing access to the culinary industry for woman and minority entrepreneurs. She also sits on the board of The Highline. Joanne has maintained her very popular blog, www.gothamgal.com for over 11 years and has recently take her talents to the airwaves on her podcast, ""Positively Gotham Gal"". She loves to bake, cook, throw a good party, travel, read, collect art, do the crossword and stay on top of what's happening around the globe and in NYC.Her most successful venture is being married to her best friend, Fred and raising their three kids- Jessica, Emily and Josh

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Poland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$3.7M; Angel $500k–$1.2M; Series A $1M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lately — Lately uses AI to create your social media content and manage your social media marketing and social selling programs.
  • Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
  • Porter Road Butcher — Pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and chicken delivered straight to your door. Free of antibiotics, hormones, and GMOs. All of our beef is dry aged for 14 days! Shop better meat per piece or per month with Butcher's Choice Subscription Boxes at Porter Road.
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Matt Caspari
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Managing Partner at Strawberry Creek Ventures, an Alumni Ventures fund. AngelList syndicate lead. 2x venture-backed founder/CEO. Former Innovation @ Nike

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $4.5M–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clover — Notes, Tasks, Whiteboards and a Daily Planner in a streamlined workflow
  • Cabinet Health — Cabinet Health is a sustainable healthcare company, starting with over-the-counter medicine. Cabinet sells 30+ OTC medicines and dietary supplements with a focus on environmental sustainability, quality, and personalized care.
  • The Better Meat Co. — The Better Meat Co. is a B2B ingredients company that offers plug-and-play plant protein formulations that quickly and cost-effectively enhance (or even replace) your meat products while improving nutrition, flavor, and yield.
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Zach Segal
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Zach Segal is the Head of Listings at Coinbase. Previously, he was a Product Manager at Earn, LendUp, and SendHub. Segal holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Florida State University College of Business. He lives in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Command E — Command E develops an easy keyboard shortcut to open any document, contact, file or record from the cloud. Command-E on Mac and Control-E Windows. Your data never leaves your computer.
  • Atmos — Atmos is building a managed marketplace for homebuilding, connecting home buyers that want to build a house with builders who can help them do just that and the financing to make it happen.
  • MainStreet — Tax credits, contract negotiations, software discounts, and more. Let us do the work, while you grow your business. Free to see how much you'll save.
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Arielle Zuckerberg
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

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)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, Productivity Tools, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Maria.
  • Riogrande — Unimos fuerzas con emprendedores de e-commerce para crecer y fortalecer marcas que la gente ama.
  • The Ticket Fairy — The Ticket Fairy is a marketing and analytics solution that helps events to get more, relevant attendees and secure their ticket income in advance. Running events is a huge risk. Costs can be massive (in the millions of dollars) and multiple factors affect attendance - even something as simple as rain can result in a 25% drop in on-the-door sales.They are used by large events to: - Increase revenue (typically by 10-25%) - Lower marketing costs - Increase social reach, to the right people - Manage and optimise advertising campaigns across multiple channels, including automating audience targeting - Reduce ticket resale fraud/scalping - Automate day-to-day business admin - Gain insights into customer demographics & brand engagement via social profile analytics - Plan future events via data-driven decision making, increasing event relevancy
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Magdalena Kala
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Ms. Kala joined Bain Capital Private Equity in 2013. She is a Vice President in the Consumer, Retail and Dining Vertical and is a member of the North American Private Equity team. Ms. Kala has also worked extensively in Bain Capital Private Equity’s Industrial Vertical. Ms. Kala received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business whereshe was an Arjay Miller Scholar. She graduated cum laude with an AB in Economics from Harvard University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Retail, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GOALS — Goals is a provider of an online football game. Goals is a multiplayer-first football game primarily for PC and consoles that offers a way for gamers to own in-game digital assets as they play.
  • Haus — An alcohol brand designed for the way we drink today. Born and bottled in California, Haus is made with things you can pronounce - think chardonnay grapes. elderflower and lemon. With less alcohol than hard liquors, Haus is shipped directly to your door, so you can gather and connect on your time.
  • Wilder World — An immersive 5D Metaverse built on Ethereum, Unreal Engine 5 & ZERO.
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Austin Rosen
Angel · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Austin Rosen is the founder and CEO of Electric Feel Entertainment and Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Last Crumb — Luxury cookies born in LA. Handmade & baked in weekly limited batches and delivered nationwide. Do people even read these anymore? Smack the link already.
  • Actual Veggies — Filling, Colorful & Delicious burgers Made With Fresh Veggies.
  • Creative Intell — Real education for the real music business
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Lucas Driggers
Angel · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Lucas Driggers

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wine and Spirits, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.
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Casey Neistat
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Casey Neistat is a Youtube sensation with 9.5 million subscribers and over 2 billion views. Neistat is also the co-founder of Beme, a video-editing social app.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Commsor — Commsor is the world's only full-stack company, providing Community-Led companies with the software, resources, and education to unlock the full power of community.
  • Notch — We are the first insurance designed specifically to cater the unique needs of the businesses and assets that make the digital economy. Get an instant quote today!
  • Creator Now — film school, reimagined for creators
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Matthew Kaness
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Matthew Kaness

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Italic — Atelier-grade essentials from the same manufacturers as top brands with zero markups and logos.
  • Maker Wine — Craft canned wine, delivered to you. Maker works with the best small producers to bring you award-winning, zero sugar, minimal intervention wines in cans.
  • Interlace Ventures — Interlace Ventures is a seed stage fund partnering with ambitious founders in their first round of financing in the future of retail. We leverage our years of international entrepreneurial experience to help bring companies from seed to growth with time and care.
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Jen Rubio
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Jen Rubio is the Co-Founder and CEO at Away.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The Expert — Book consultations with the world's top design experts
  • Medley — Medley is a membership for curious, growth-minded people who want a structured, social, and accessible way to invest in themselves.
  • tvg hospitality — Venue Group is an entertainment and hospitality operator in the United Kingdom and the United States. The company was founded in 2019 by Ben Lovett and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
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Dave McClure
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Angel $100k–$900k; Series A $1.2M–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

Simon Szewach - Managing Partner @ The Legats Group

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wine and Spirits, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.
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Ligaya Tichy
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Apps, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
  • Haus — An alcohol brand designed for the way we drink today. Born and bottled in California, Haus is made with things you can pronounce - think chardonnay grapes. elderflower and lemon. With less alcohol than hard liquors, Haus is shipped directly to your door, so you can gather and connect on your time.
  • Holey Grail Donuts — Holey Grail Donuts is a producer of taro donuts fried in coconut oil, hand-harvested, and crafted. Its services also include catering, orders for groups or parties, outdoor seating, takeaway, and walk-in services.
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Rahul Vohra
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO at Superhuman. He is also the Technical Advisor at BOLDstart Ventures and Investor & Advisor at Partender and Investor of sendwithus and EasyPost.Rahul Vohra is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Rapportive and Game Designer at Jagex. Rahul received a bachelor of arts in Computer Science at the University ofCambrigdge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.5M; Series A $14M–$15M; Series B $31M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NexHealth — Join thousands of doctors, hundreds of developers, and millions of patients using NexHealth for EHR-integrated real-time online scheduling, patient communications, digital paperwork, and more.
  • Bubbles — Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets you tag anything on your screen and invite your teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.
  • Zed Industries — Code at the speed of thought. Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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Michael Ströck
Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Founding partner and investor at Calm/Storm Ventures. Previously founded companies in consumer e-commerce (KochAbo; exit to Marley Spoon in 2015) and enterprise SaaS (Gustav; YC S17). Launched and grew successful open source projects (Vienna RSS; over 10 million downloads), as well as various community and charity projects (FounderTalks.org,Chancen:reich).I‘m especially passionate about the very early stages of company-building and have a track-record of early stage investments in my own companies, as well as healthcare and health-tech startups like Mediclass, hi.health and Probably Genetic (YC W19). Other notable investments include Flaviar (YC S14), Joblocal.de (Exit 2015), Kiko, Biloba and an investment as one of the first limited partners in Austrian venture fund Speedinvest.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $578k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Catch — Set aside for taxes and retirement. Save thousands on health insurance. Free personal payroll and benefits for freelancers, contractors, and the self-employed.
  • Flaviar — Flaviar, a spirits tasting club, offers a subscription service that helps members discover new liquor products through sample tasting packs.Subscribers are given access to rare and original spirits, invite them to great events, and keep them educated and entertained with booze-themed content and receive personalized samples and complimentarybottles every month.Flaviar was established by Grisa Soba and Jugoslav Petkovic and was headquartered in London, England since 2012.
  • Glidian — Glidian understand the trouble of finding forms, tracking multiple authorization requests, and faxing out documents. Glidian is designed to solve all of your prior authorization needs.
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Charles Hudson
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Charles Hudson is the Managing Partner of Precursor Ventures and a Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Prior to that, he was a Venture Partner at Uncork Capital (formerly SoftTech VC). He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $875k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $850k–$2M; Series A $1.8M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BevSuite — Create promotional emails 10x faster with BevSuite. Purpose-built for beverage alcohol marketing. BevSuite uses the latest AI technology to generate catchy, high-performing subject lines and product notes. Start with a premade design and give it your own twist.
  • Maker Wine — Craft canned wine, delivered to you. Maker works with the best small producers to bring you award-winning, zero sugar, minimal intervention wines in cans.
  • Salut — Join the creator platform for fitness pros.
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Christine Tsai
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Christine is the CEO and Founding Partner of 500 Startups. Since the firm’s inception in 2010, she grew 500 Startups to over $600M committed capital, 2,400+ portfolio investments, 140+ team members, 26 accelerator batches, and a vibrant community of founders spanning 77 countries around the world. Christine has spent her entire professional careerbuilding and investing in Silicon Valley.Christine was the Product Marketing Manager of Google before that. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $205k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoPillar — Get dozens of high quality projects from professional designers: easy, fast and on a budget. Redesign your space on GoPillar.
  • Barn & Willow — A Simpler Way to Buy Window Coverings - drapes, curtains, blinds and shades. Crafted from the most exclusive and premium Belgian linen and organic cotton fabrics. Delivered in 10 days.
  • Headout — Headout is an on-demand mobile marketplace that helps travelers discover & book the most incredible tours, activities, events & local experiences in town for the next 24 hours at incredible prices. All it takes is 3 taps and 60 seconds.
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Jason Calacanis
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 333
  • Round size: Seed $722k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M; Series A $2.7M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
  • CyberFilm — Bring your story to life!
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Pankaj Jain
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WhizAI — One of the augumented analytics platform used for consumers purpose. Attend a trained session on life sciences data and other patient analytics as a sole! Hurry up to take a weekly demo on the life science by the best expertise on this field.
  • Cypherock — Welcome to Cypherock, where we are dedicated to building the world's safest cold wallet to protect your crypto. Discover Cypherock X1 with cutting-edge technology and robust security features.
  • Paperstreet — Write beautiful company updates to engage your investors, advisors, and users.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$3.1M; Series A $2M–$25M; Series B $8.3M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
  • Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups, 36 in the past 12 months

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 157
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $125k–$4.2M; Series A $1.7M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
  • Lore — The Natural Language Block Explorer & Analytics Tool.
  • Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
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Christen O'Brien
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Christen O'Brien

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Logistics, Accounting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Partender — Partender: Bar inventory, Online Ordering, and Accounting Software in 15 min. Save $1,200-$5,000 in time, labor, and reduced inventory loss.
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Bedy Yang
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Spain, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Floqq — Floqq is the biggest marketplace for online video courses in Latin America.Speak a different language, get a promotion, change your profession, create a company, play a musical instrument, learn a new sport, or impress your friends with an exotic meal:- More than 10,00 high-quality online videos featuring all kinds of topics and skill-sets- Each course is taught by an real-world expert in the area - Learn at your own rhythm, with courses ranging in levels of difficulty - All the videos are always available on the website and mobile apps
  • Pick1 — While whoever doing polls/surveys focus on how to create the questions, Pick1 focuses on how to leverage the answers: social insights crunched to deliver actionable data.A Brand using Pick1 gets an highly customizable, flexible and integrated solution that connects seamlessly with third party technologies (SalesForce, MailChimp, Lithium),enabling the brand to process this information in an automated way: a "survey/marketing intelligence suite".The result of this is that: a) the Brand doesn't need to go through the pain of integrating a polling tool into its own properties, because Pick1 is taking care of that via API, b) any other solution would be not providing any kind of context data anyway, which Pick1 instead provides.The Brand can then leverage this further layer of data to create clusters of users, matching them with a more specific content/advertising to generate higher engagement and conversion.
  • Partender — Partender: Bar inventory, Online Ordering, and Accounting Software in 15 min. Save $1,200-$5,000 in time, labor, and reduced inventory loss.
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William Zeqiri
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

William Zeqiri Passionate technology entrepreneur, product creator and angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Wine and Spirits
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: New Zealand, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $714k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
  • ArchiPro — Browse projects, find products, connect with professionals and learn about building, all in one place. Find everything you need to build your dream right here.
  • Invivo Wines — Invivo Wines is a premium new zealand winery producing world class wines from both the marlboroughand central otafgo regions.
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Arianna Simpson
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Arianna Simpson is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a Founder at Autonomous Partners company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $3.1M–$7.5M; Series A $20M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Celo — Celo is global payments infrastructure that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone
  • Haus — An alcohol brand designed for the way we drink today. Born and bottled in California, Haus is made with things you can pronounce - think chardonnay grapes. elderflower and lemon. With less alcohol than hard liquors, Haus is shipped directly to your door, so you can gather and connect on your time.
  • Freedom Robotics — Freedom Robotics creates powerful control and monitoring software to enable the next generation of robotics companies to build, operate, and scale robots and robotic fleets.
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Parker Thompson
Angel · Alameda, California, United States · 2 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Parker Thompson - General Partner & Founder @ Tnt Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Restaurants
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Mexico

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Lish — Lish specializes in corporate catering, office catering, online catering delivery, and workplace food solutions. We serve companies in Seattle & Bellevue/Eastside, including Redmond and Kirkland.
  • Primeloop — Primeloop makes it easy to track your press, and receive notifications about new comments, shares and engagement on all your PR clippings.
  • Free Agency — Hollywood-style career management for tech talent.
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Lars Albright
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Lars Albright is the General Partner at Unusual Ventures. He attended Harvard University and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Financial Services, iOS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Button — Button empowers the world's biggest Brands to supercharge their mobile marketing and ad performance using identity, deep linking, and machine learning technology.
  • Drizly — Drizly is an alcohol marketplace that offers a variety of beer, wine and, spirits online.With the speed and convenience of on-demand delivery and shipping, Drizly partners with retailers in 235 markets to offer consumers of legal drinking age unrivaled selection and a transparent, personalized shopping experience. Backed by institutionalinvestors, Drizly partners with retailers to bring their shelves online, helping them to reach new customers, tap into key market and customer insights, and diversify their business to grow sales.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Remix Media — Remix Media is building a mobile app that allows its users to mashup video content and overlay animations, text, and audio. It also provides services related to internet video, pop-culture, satire, mobile first, and more for its users. Remix Media is based in San Francisco, C.A.
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Matt Soule
Angel · Thomasville, North Carolina, United States · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Matt Soule

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, 3D Printing, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nufabrx — Nufabrx manufactures pillowcases designed to actively fight blemishes while its users are asleep. Its products are hand crafted from natural bamboo fibers and infused with natural ingredients. The combination of bamboo fibers and clinically proven natural remedies allows Nufabrx’s pillowcase to be anti-bacterial, anti-microbial, andhypo-allergenic, all while remaining eco-friendly.In a recent study comparing a Nufabrx pillowcase with a standard cotton pillowcase purchased from Target, Nufabrx pillowcase showed a reduction of 91.5% of the main acne causing bacteria P. It is also able to effectively reduce the S. aureus bacteria by 99% after 20 washes.Nufabrx was founded in 2012 by Jordan Schindler and is based in Seattle, W.A.
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Nobuyuki Nakagawa
Angel · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Nobuyuki Nakagawa - President and CEO @ Mynavi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
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Ciara Wilson
Angel · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Ciara is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and model.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Training, Communities, Collaboration
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cloud Paper — Tree-free toilet paper made with 100% ultra-soft bamboo, delivered straight to your door. Get sustainable toilet paper for the same price as your store bought brand with free shipping on all subscription orders.
  • Medley — Medley is a membership for curious, growth-minded people who want a structured, social, and accessible way to invest in themselves.
  • Ten To One Rum — Ten To One is a contemporary and elevated spirit, designed to challenge expectations & reinvigorate the way people taste.
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Takashi Mitachi
Angel · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Takashi Mitachi joined BCG in 1993 and is the head of BCG’s Japan operations. He leads the Strategy practice in Japan and is also a core member of the Financial Institutions, Marketing and Sales, and Organization practice areas.Takashi has led projects for Japanese and multinational clients in a wide range of financial and consumer industries.He has also written a book, The BCG Way – the Art of Strategic Insight, which focuses on how to develop capabilities to generate strategic insight.Before joining BCG, Takashi worked for 14 years at Japan Airlines, where his positions included manager of the corporate planning department at the head office in Tokyo. He holds an MBA with high distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School and a BA in American literature from the University of Kyoto.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Brewing, Employment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • POL — Make academia open & cool.
  • Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
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Rana Daggubati
Angel · Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Rana Daggubati is a Co-Founder at Social Swag India.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Coffee, Wine and Spirits
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • VS Mani & Co — Shop South Indian filter coffee, instant coffee that tastes almost like filter coffee, and wholesome snacks and spices at VS Mani & Co. Free delivery.
  • Salud Beverages — Your choice to discover and connect with latest collection of fashionable tshirt, hoodies, sweatshirt, hoodies for men, find the perfect choice at salud clothing Store.
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Maximilien Peeters
Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Entrepreneur who has a wide range of interests and has a great added value when it comes to creativity and marketing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Distillery, Food Processing, Wine and Spirits
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NietsCo — NietsCo. is the home of Botaniets Gin 0.0%, a leading selection of alcohol-free products, carefully distributed to the world's best restaurants, concept stores, shops and consumers.
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Kathia Cambron
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Kathia Cambron

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
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Gaelle Lefebvre
Angel · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Gaelle Lefebvre

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Distillery, Food Processing, Wine and Spirits
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • NietsCo — NietsCo. is the home of Botaniets Gin 0.0%, a leading selection of alcohol-free products, carefully distributed to the world's best restaurants, concept stores, shops and consumers.
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Chakradhar Gade
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Chakradhar Gade co-founded Country Delight in 2015. He attended the Indian Institute of Management in Indore.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Apps, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Freakins — Looking for a wardrobe upgrade? Check out the collection of latest, trendy and stylish denim apparel by Freakins Online! Shop & enjoy Free delivery on all orders.
  • NxtWave — CCBP 4.0 Certification Programs are designed to transform you into highly skilled software professional. NxtWave offers a comprehensive online learning ecosystem to make you Industry-Ready
  • Ginglani Distillers — Ginglani Distillers operates as a whisky startup. Ginglani Distillers is the maker of Black Bow whisky.
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Nitin Kaushal
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Nitin Kaushal co-founded Country Delight in 2015. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Corporate Banking at Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, AgTech, Farming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Krishify — Krishify is a social network for farmers to discuss and solve their Agri input needs.
  • Ginglani Distillers — Ginglani Distillers operates as a whisky startup. Ginglani Distillers is the maker of Black Bow whisky.
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Frank Brenner
Angel · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Frank Brenner

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, 3D Printing, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Nufabrx — Nufabrx manufactures pillowcases designed to actively fight blemishes while its users are asleep. Its products are hand crafted from natural bamboo fibers and infused with natural ingredients. The combination of bamboo fibers and clinically proven natural remedies allows Nufabrx’s pillowcase to be anti-bacterial, anti-microbial, andhypo-allergenic, all while remaining eco-friendly.In a recent study comparing a Nufabrx pillowcase with a standard cotton pillowcase purchased from Target, Nufabrx pillowcase showed a reduction of 91.5% of the main acne causing bacteria P. It is also able to effectively reduce the S. aureus bacteria by 99% after 20 washes.Nufabrx was founded in 2012 by Jordan Schindler and is based in Seattle, W.A.
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Tomas Lestrup
Angel · 1 investments in Wine And Spirits startups

Tomas Lestrup

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
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Wine and Spirits Angel investor funding at a glance

Stats across 148 deals from 315 investors.

315
investors
in Wine And Spirits startups
148
deals
in Wine And Spirits startups
$2.6M
median round
in Wine And Spirits startups
6%
lead investors
lead at least one round
37%
Seed
most common funding stage

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