Angel Investors Directory

Ali Yahya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in crypto. Ali works with numerous portfolio companies, including Dapper Labs, Flow, Compound, Avalanche, Near, Rally, and Dfinity. Before Andreessen Horowitz, he was a software engineer and researcher at Google X, where he worked on the Everyday Robot project, which aims to build a robot that is smart and affordable enough to be viable as a consumer product for the home. He also worked at Google Brain, Google’s Artificial Intelligence lab, where he was a core developer on TensorFlow, Google’s primary library for machine learning. Ali began his career as a student and researcher at Stanford University, where he focused on the intersection of Computer Security, Distributed Systems, and Computer Networking. He first discovered the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2010 while doing research at Stanford Computer Security Lab, and has followed the space closely ever since.

Amit joined Accel in 2016 and works with early-stage teams across a number of consumer, b2b, and developer-oriented categories. Areas of particular focus include fintech and digital health. Previously, Amit was an Accel entrepreneur as the co-founder of CardSpring, where he led engineering for its developer-facing API platform. Twitter acquired CardSpring, where he then led engineering for several of Twitter’s commerce initiatives.

Andrew invests in consumer technology, including social, marketplace, entertainment, and gaming experiences. Andrew is a prolific writer and leading voice on mobile, metrics, and user growth. For the past decade, he’s covered the topic on andrewchen.com. He is the author of The Cold Start Problem, which explores how new start-ups launch and scale by leveraging network effects. He is also a board member and instructor at Reforge, which offers selective growth-focused programs for experienced professionals in marketing, product, data, and engineering. Prior to joining a16z, Andrew led the Rider Growth teams at Uber.

Andrew Schoen is a partner of NEA since 2014, and focused on enterprise technology investments. In 2018, Andrew was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Venture Capital.

Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.

Asheem Chandna is a Founding Investor and Board of Directors at Neeva and Abnormal Security and also a Partner at Greylock Partners. He was a Founding Investor and Board of Directors at Avi Network. Asheem attended Case Western Reserve University.

Astasia Myers is a General Partner at Felicis. Before joining Felicis, she was an enterprise partner at Quiet Capital and an investor at Redpoint Ventures. Astasia focuses on early-stage investing across AI, data, open source, developer tools, and security. She has invested in LaunchDarkly, Solo.io, Hex, Semgrep, Airbyte, and Supabase, among others. With experience from an early-stage startup, Baird IT systems equity research, and Cisco CorpDev, Astasia has spent over ten years dedicated to enterprise software. Astasia earned dual bachelor’s degrees with honors and Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University and a master’s from the University of Cambridge.

His recent focus areas include infrastructure, security, and future of health. An original super angel turned multi-stage investor. Early backer of a number of iconic companies including Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), Credit Karma (Acquired by Intuit), Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), Guideline, Notion, Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN), Pluralsight (NASDAQ:PS), Rovio (HEL:ROVIO), Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), and Soundhound (NASDAQ:SOUN). Prior to starting Felicis, Aydin was a Senior Manager at Google responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific, including Japan. Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google’s first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products, and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for worldwide licensing deals.

Robert Goodman is a general partner at [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bessemer-venture-partners#/entity) since 1998. He also serves as a member of the board of directors at [Apperian](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apperian#/entity), [Vasona Networks](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vasona-networks#/entity), Light, [LogicNow](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/logicnow#/entity), Thinking Phones Networks, [Intigua](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/intigua#/entity), [Affirmed Networks](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/affirmed-networks#/entity), Anaqua, [CloudLock](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cloudlock#/entity), Disco, Vayyar, and Sedona Systems. Goodman served as a director at [Syncsort](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/syncsort#/entity) for over 7 years before he joined Bessemer Venture Partners. He has also worked at [Intucell](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/intucell#/entity), [Broadsoft](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/broadsoft#/entity), [SelectMinds](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/selectminds#/entity), [ART Advanced Recognition Technologies](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/advanced-recognition-technologies#/entity), [Flarion Technologies](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/flarion-technologies#/entity), and many other companies. Goodman holds a bachelor’s degree in arts from [Brown University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brown-university-2#/entity) and master’s degree in finance from [Columbia University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/columbia-university-in-the-city-of-new-york#/entity). He lives in New York, United States.

Bucky Moore is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins focusing on developer facing software and infrastructure investments. He is an early investor and partner to a number of innovative software companies including Netlify, Teleport, Planetscale, Rudderstack, Materialize, Labelbox, and CodeSandbox. Bucky previously worked at Opstrace as a Board Director. He attended the University of Southern California. Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, he was an investor at Costanoa Ventures, and prior to that an investor at Battery Ventures. He started his career in corporate development at Cisco. Bucky holds a BS from the University of Southern California.

Charles Birnbaum is a partner in Bessemer’s New York office, where he invests in early-stage and promising companies in the U.S. and Europe. He has a strong interest in fintech infrastructure, embedded financial services, consumer-facing products, the powerful emergence of DeFi, and the consumer-facing companies and infrastructure players that will serve as a bridge between DeFi and TradFi. Before joining Bessemer in 2013, Charles was one of the earliest team members at Foursquare, the location-based mobile application and social network, where he helped to bring forth the company’s first merchant-facing tools.

Hands-on early stage venture capital investor with a particular focus on working with passionate entrepreneurial teams developing companies around deep IP that addresses significant “pain points” for customers in emerging high growth fields.

Chris Dixon is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and co-leads its $350M crypto fund. Previously, Chris was the cofounder and CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technology company that was acquired by eBay in 2011. Chris has been a prolific seed investor, cofounding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies. Chris started programming as a kid, and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm, Arbitrade. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard. He has written about his theories and experiences as an entrepreneur and investor on Medium, and before that at cdixon.org; his a16z Podcast appearances can be found at https://a16z.com/author/chris-dixon/

Connie joined the firm in 2011 as a deal partner on the investment team before becoming a general partner in 2018. Previously, Connie worked at HP leading its webOS efforts in China. She started her career as a private equity investor at Elevation Partners, investing in media and entertainment.

With over 10 years of experience in the investment industry, Damir is a Partner at Index Ventures, a leading global venture capital firm. He focuses on consumer internet and B2B software and leads rounds at seed, venture, and growth stages. He has a passion for finding and supporting entrepreneurs who are building the next generation of technology products and services that solve real problems and create positive change.