48 Angel investors

AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups. Founded in 2010, it started as an online introduction board for tech startups that needed seed funding. Since 2015, the site allows startups to raise money from angel investors free of charge.

Christen Eugen Ager-Hanssen is a Norwegian internet entrepreneur & venture capitalist. Since the late 1990s, he has been based in London and is a highly controversial private equity professional. Ager-Hanssen was involved in several high-profile M&A deals and has become known for public hostile takeovers. In a Canadian Business cover story, he was described as both Gordon Gekko and a modern-day Viking. In 1999 he became one of Norway's richest citizens. He was reported to be worth over $2.5 billion in 2005.

Armen Berjikly is an Armenian-American entrepreneur and technologist, known as the founder and chief executive officer of both artificial intelligence company Kanjoya, and social network Experience Project. Berjikly's professional focus is on improving the relationship between technology and human emotions.

Tikhon Bernstam is an American Internet entrepreneur who cofounded the companies Scribd and Parse.

Business Angel Network of Southeast Asia (BANSEA) is an angel investment network based in Singapore that provides information to potential investors about newly established businesses. The stated goal of BANSEA is to create business opportunities for angel investors, and aid in the development of profitable business networks.

Jason McCabe Calacanis is an American Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, author and podcaster.

Michael Chasen is an American businessman. He is a co-founder and former CEO of Blackboard Inc., a position he held from 1999 to 2012. In April 2013, Chasen co-founded SocialRadar, a technology startup company developing a location-based social app. In 2020, he co-founded ClassEDU, the maker of Class For Zoom, which aims to improve the effectiveness of Zoom-based remote learning.

Judith Caroline Clegg is a British strategy consultant, technology entrepreneur, and author. She is the founder and CEO of Takeout, a strategy consultancy based in London and New York City, and founder of The Glasshouse, a support network for tech entrepreneurs and investors. She was named one of the Fifty Most Influential Britons in Technology by The Daily Telegraph in 2009, and one of the Fifty Most Inspiring Women in European Tech by the Inspiring Fifty organisation in 2015. Judith co-created two initiatives that launched in the House of Commons: PAWS - The Policy for Animal Welfare Scheme and The #HANDSOFF Campaign.

Ronald Crawford Conway is an American venture capitalist and philanthropist, often described as one of Silicon Valley's "super angels". Conway is recognized as a strong networker.

Sherry Coutu CBE is a serial entrepreneur, former CEO, angel investor and non-executive director based in Cambridge, UK and originally from Canada.

Tugce Ergul is the founder of Angel Labs, the world's first investor accelerator. She educates potential investors around the world about angel investing.

Brad Feld is an American entrepreneur, author, blogger, and venture capitalist at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado, a firm he started with partners Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mendelson.

Timothy Ferriss is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru. He became well-known through his "4-Hour" self-help book series including the 4-Hour Work Week, the 4-Hour Body, and the 4-Hour Chef, that focused on lifestyle optimizations, but he has since reconsidered this approach.

Mark Fletcher is an American entrepreneur. He was the founder and CEO of the news aggregator website, Bloglines, and the Vice President of Ask.com until June 2006. Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005.

Dovi Frances is an Israeli-American businessman and venture capitalist. Frances is the founder of Group 11, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm with investments in Financial Technology companies such as Addepar, SoFi, HomeLight, TripActions, Tipalti, Sunbit, Next Insurance, and Papaya Global. Frances is also one of the main "shark" investors on the Keshet Media Group version of the reality television series, Shark Tank (Krishim).

Bradley Kent Garlinghouse is the CEO of financial technology company Ripple Labs. He previously was the CEO and chairman of Hightail. Before Hightail, he worked at AOL and Yahoo!

Seth Goldstein is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He has founded six companies, including Crossfader, Turntable.fm, SiteSpecific, SocialMedia, and Majestic Research.

Bernardo Hernández González is a Spanish technology entrepreneur and business angel. He is a General Partner with e.ventures in Berlin. He was head of Flickr at Yahoo until he left in April 2015. He had been Director of Product Management at Google and Managing Director at Zagat. He has started, alone or with other partners, several Internet companies in Spain, such as Idealista.com, FloresFrescas.com or 11870.com. He was an early investor in Tuenti, a leading social network in Spain where he served as President of the Board until the sale to Telefonica in the summer of 2010. He is also President of the Board of the first internet startup in Spain to go public, bodaclick.com.

Prerna Gupta is a serial entrepreneur focused on consumer entertainment. She currently is the CEO of Telepathic Inc., which developed the smartphone app Hooked. She cofounded several startups focused on music, dating, and short-stories. In 2011, she was named one of the most influential women in technology by the magazine Fast Company.

Auren Raphael Hoffman is an American entrepreneur and CEO of Safegraph, a firm that tracks people’s GPS locations using smartphone apps, angel investor and author.

Razmig Hovaghimian is an American entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of the international online streaming video site Viki, and senior executive officer of global content and a board observer at Rakuten. He is also a co-founder and board member of Embrace.

Darren T. Kimura is an American businessman, inventor, and investor. He is best known as the inventor of Micro Concentrated solar power (CSP) technology otherwise known as MicroCSP.

William Klippgen is a Singapore-based Norwegian entrepreneur and technology venture capitalist who co-founded the price comparison portal Zoomit.com. He served as one of the judges on the television series Angel's Gate, which was broadcast on Channel NewsAsia in 2012. Klippgen is a co-founder and serves as the Managing Partner at Cocoon Capital. He holds an MBA from INSEAD where he is an Entrepreneur in Residence.

Joe Kraus is the founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, along with his long-time business partner Graham Spencer. Currently, Kraus is an Investment Partner on the GV team and President at Lime.

Aileen Lee is a U.S. angel investor. A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures.

Gigi Levy-Weiss is an Israeli businessman and investor. He works primarily with internet, software and gaming companies. He is currently involved with various startup companies including SimilarWeb, Plarium, myThings, Hola, MyHeritage, and Kenshoo. He is the former CEO for online gambling company 888 Holdings, and is on the board of the Israeli-Palestinian nonprofit organization MEET, being formerly involved with Latet. In 2014 he co-founded the investment firm and business accelerator NFX Guild. He joined the supervisory board at Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA in Germany in May 2015.

Jessica Livingston is an American author and a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator. She also organizes Startup School. Previously, she was the VP of marketing at Adams Harkness Financial Group. She has a B.A. in English from Bucknell University. She is a 1989 graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover.

John May is an American venture capitalist, the Managing Partner of the New Vantage Group, which has organized five angel investing organizations in the Washington, D.C. area since 1999, placing funds into more than 50 companies.

Jonathan “Jon” Medved is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor in Israel's high-tech scene. He is the founder and CEO of OurCrowd, a leading equity crowdfunding platform. Medved was named one of the “50 Most Influential Jews” by the Jerusalem Post, where he was dubbed “the startup nation’s guru.” Jon lives in Jerusalem with his wife Jane, their children and grandchildren.

Raymond Alexander Muzyka is a Canadian investor, entrepreneur and physician. Originally trained as a medical doctor and practicing as an emergency department and family physician after graduation, he is the co-founder of video game developer BioWare, and was CEO, senior vice president, and general manager of the BioWare label of Electronic Arts. In October 2012 he announced that he was embarking on a 'third career' mentoring and angel investing in technology, new media, medical and social entrepreneurs, and impact investing at ThresholdImpact.

Luke Nosek is a Polish-American entrepreneur, notable for being a co-founder of PayPal.

Oregon Venture Fund , makes venture investments in the Portland, Oregon area and throughout Oregon and SW Washington. The fund consists of 180 institutional and angel investors, of whom 85% have run or founded a business. The fund evaluates up to 300 business plans per year, selecting five to seven to invest in annually. In 2018, the fund changed its name from Oregon Angel Fund to Oregon Venture Fund and launched a new $30M fund. Since its inception, Oregon Venture Fund has generated an average annual rate of return of 34% and a return on investment exceeding $3.50 for each dollar invested.

Alan Patricof is an American investor, one of the early pioneers of the venture capital and private equity industries. He founded Apax Partners, which is one of the world's largest private equity firms.

Jeffrey Peterson is an American technology entrepreneur and California born millionaire who is considered the pioneer of Hispanic internet in the United States. He is best known as the founder of Quepasa, the first Latin American online community to go public and trade on a stock exchange in the early dot-com internet era of the late 1990s. In 2012, Quepasa changed its corporate name to MeetMe and continued trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under ticker symbol Nasdaq: MEET. MeetMe subsequently acquired the Skout, if(we), Tagged, and hi5 social networks and internet brands. As of mid 2018, renamed parent company the Meet Group had a market value of about U.S. $300 million.

John Robert Camber Porter was an English businessman best known as the grandson of Sir Jack Cohen, founder of Tesco and son of Dame Shirley Porter.

Naval Ravikant is an Indian-American entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, chairman and former CEO of AngelList. He has invested early-stage in over 200 companies including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Wish.com, Poshmark, Postmates, Thumbtack, Notion, SnapLogic, Opendoor, Clubhouse, Stack Overflow, Bolt, OpenDNS, Yammer, and Clearview AI, with over 70 total exits and more than 10 Unicorn companies.

Robin Hood Ventures is a group of angel investors, focused on early-stage, high-growth companies in the Greater Philadelphia region. Its office is at the University City Science Center. Since 1999, Robin Hood has invested in industries including software, medical devices, biotech, internet and financial technology.

David Semel Rose is an American serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is an investor in startup technology companies and founder of New York Angels, an early-stage technology investment group. He is Managing Partner of Rose Tech Ventures, a venture fund focused on Internet-based business, and CEO of Gust, which operates a collaboration platform for early stage angel investing.

Keith Schacht is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the CEO and co-founder of Mystery Science and is on the board of directors of eSpark Learning. Schacht is a named inventor on 9 patents. Early in his career he was named one of the top 20 entrepreneurs under 25 by BusinessWeek. He has been a speaker at the TED Conference and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, and Wired.

Arjun Sethi is an American internet entrepreneur, investor and executive. He is co-founder and partner at venture capital firm Tribe Capital. He previously was partner at Social Capital and served as an executive at Yahoo! where he launched Yahoo! Livetext. Before that, he was co-founder and CEO of MessageMe and he was CEO of Lolapps, the developer behind Ravenwood Fair.

Miles Spencer is an American angel investor, media entrepreneur and explorer. He is best known for his role as co-host and co-creator of MoneyHunt, a reality-based show where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of experts. MoneyHunt was distributed to PBS stations in the US beginning 1997 and overseas beginning 1999. Spencer and co-host Cliff Ennico are known for their direct, fast-paced questioning and constructive criticism of entrepreneurs. The two developed the program after a classroom experience at a local continuing education class. The show is considered the original program of the genre, and has been copied in several markets worldwide, most notably Dragons' Den and Shark Tank. Spencer, who was born in Norristown, PA, readily admits in his book MoneyHunt to having been inspired by Enterprise, a French show hosted by Bernard Tapie, while he attended school there in the early eighties as an exchange student from Choate Rosemary Hall.

Steven Jonathan Spinner is an American business executive who is known for his work as an angel investor and adviser to Silicon Valley startups and his volunteer work as a fundraiser for President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. He previously served as a stimulus adviser for the United States Department of Energy and was peripherally associated with the Department of Energy loan to a failed solar company, Solyndra.

Balaji Srinivasan is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and essayist. He was co-founder of Counsyl, Teleport, 21.co,21 Inc and Earn.com. He is the former chief technology officer (CTO) of Coinbase and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

Mark Suster is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a managing partner at Upfront Ventures, the largest venture capital firm in Los Angeles. Suster is a prominent blogger in the startup venture capital world.

Karim Sy is a Franco-Iibano-Malian-Senegalese businessman, born in France. He is an entrepreneur and business angel. Since August 2017, he has been a member of the Presidential Council for Africa.

Dylan Taylor is an American executive and super angel investor in the NewSpace industry. He is the Chairman and CEO of Voyager Space Holdings and former Global President of Colliers International.

David Tisch is a businessman and angel investor based in New York City. He is managing partner of BoxGroup, a seed-stage capital firm, and a co-founder of TechStars New York City. He is the grandson of American businessman Laurence Tisch, co-owner of Loews Corporation. His great-uncle, Preston Robert Tisch purchased the New York Giants, now co-owned by Steve Tisch, who produced the films Forrest Gump and Risky Business.

Maynard G. Webb Jr. is an American business person and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship, and the national bestseller Dear Founder: Letters of Advice for Anyone who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business. A long-time technology executive and angel investor, Webb is a board member of Salesforce, Visa, and former chairman of the board of directors at Yahoo!. Webb founded Webb Investment Network in 2010 and is the former CEO of LiveOps and former COO of eBay.