Angel Investors Directory

Anna Fang is the CEO and Partner of ZhenFund, an early stage venture capital firm in China. Anna oversees the fund's investments, portfolio management and operations. Anna's investments include e-commerce, AI and education companies such as RED (XiaoHongShu), Mia, Club Factory, Perfect Diary, Yitu, Mobvoi, Horizon Robotics and VIPKID. Before joining ZhenFund, Anna worked at GE China in Corporate Business Development, responsible for GE’s M&A and BD efforts in China. Anna started her career as an investment banker at JPMorgan New York office covering consumer and retail companies. Anna was made Forbes’ “The Midas List 2019”, named “Top 10 Early-stage Investors of the Year 2018” by Zero2IPO Group, voted “2018 China's 100 Best Investors” by entrepreneurs on 36Kr, and selected Forbes’ Midas Brink List in 2016. She was also named a Young Global Leader in 2016. Anna received an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in Economics and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She is currently an advisory board member of Columbia College and Columbia’s Global Centers; she also leads the Beijing chapter of Stanford GSB.

Ben Ling is an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personal investments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion, Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse. Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics. At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping. At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web. Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley. Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).

angel investor in Coinbase, Envoy, Linear, and over 40 startups started his career at Facebook as their first designer on User Growth in 2008. Later he was lead designer for Facebook Photos, one of the most used products on the internet.

Focuses on investments in B2B software applications, B2C software and services, and connected hardware. Prior to launching Precursor, Charles Hudson was a Partner with SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Internet and mobile startups. He was also the Co-Founder and CEO of Bionic Panda Games, an Android-focused mobile games startup. Charles spent several years working at In-Q-Tel, the strategic venture capital group for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. Before that, he co-founded two Internet startups (DealPilot.com in 1997 and Pageflakes in 2005). In 2008 he became an angel investor and discovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS.

Craig Shapiro is the Founder and Managing Partner of Collaborative Fund, a venture capital fund investing at the intersection of for-profit & for-good. He has invested in a number of category defining businesses, such as: Beyond Meat, Blue Bottle Coffee, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Facebook, Kickstarter, Lyft, Reddit, Sweetgreen, and Upstart.

Howard has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. With a differentiated vision for starting, managing, and successfully advising innovative companies, Lindzon is the public-face of Social Leverage. In 2008 Lindzon co-founded StockTwits. Stocktwits pioneered the 'cashtag' ($AAPL) and today has over 6 million monthly unique visitors to the site. In November 2021, Stocktwits raised $30 million from FTX and Times Bridge India. Previously, Lindzon founded Wallstrip (an on-line video show) which was acquired by CBS in 2007. The connection to StockTwits gives Social Leverage access to a talented and diverse community of professionals who continuously surface and evaluate FinTech opportunities.

Jack is a partner at Alt Capital. Prior to being part of Alt Capital, he was a co-founder and CEO of Lattice, a people success platform that help business leaders develop engaged, high-performing employees. He was also an angel investor to companies like Sora, ScienceIO, Rewatch, Product Hunt, Prelude, Command AI, etc.

Japanese professional football player who recently played for FK Sūduva in the A Lyga, and he is also general manager and coach of the Cambodia national team Invests under the KSK Angel Fund and Dreamers VC. Was a UN Foundation Global Advocate for Youth (2016-2019)

Kevin Zhang is a product manager and embedded system engineer specializing in Android/Linux SBC development based on Rockchip and Allwinner platforms. He leads full-stack product development at Rocktech Displays, from schematic design and firmware porting to mass production and market launch. With over 15 years of experience in industrial TFT displays and custom embedded systems, Kevin is passionate about helping companies build robust hardware solutions with optimized performance and seamless integration.

Investor and operator who lives and breathes startups. Early employee / General Manager at General Assembly (sold for $412mm 2018) where I launched several product lines and drove both top line revenue and cost improvements, ultimately growing my division from $0 to $30mm+ in 2 years. In 2016, I was named a 40 Under 40 for Tech Diversity in Silicon Valley. I'm passionate about the intersection of learning, entrepreneurship and technology. I invest in the future of income, edtech, fintech, crypto, consumer social and more. My specialities include venture formation, scaling sales and product teams, building culture, managing through uncertainty and growth, identifying go-to-market, and assessing new ventures.

ex-Managing member of MOKO BRANDS. Advisor to multiple startups. ex-General Partner at Spark Capital ex-COO at Connected Ventures Started his career as an analyst and investment banker at Bear Stearns.

Neil invests in companies that improve people's lives. He primarily focuses on companies using deep technologies and those in the healthcare, financial services, and education sectors. Neil is also an advisor to Upsolve, a bankruptcy nonprofit that has helped individuals clear hundreds of millions of dollars of primarily medical debt, and previously to Copia, a venture-backed technology company that has delivered over three million meals to people in need.

Soraya is a General Partner and founder of TMV, an early-stage venture firm investing in purposeful startups reimagining the future. TMV backs start-up companies focused on ideas that will reshape industries or inspire new ones. Fund I and Fund II investments focus on: frontier health organizations, marketplaces and design-driven technologies. Soraya is also the host of "Business Schooled - a Podcast by Synchrony," - a "Top 20 Business Podcast" on Apple - for which she travels the United States interviewing persevering founders who have made it past their startup days. Soraya began her career as Manager of Digital Partnerships & Social Media at The New York Times, where she positioned the global news leader on social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, partnered with startups large and small, and established award-winning campaigns. She went on to co-found the application Foodspotting, named by Apple and Wired Magazine as an “App of the Year," later acquired by OpenTable, then Priceline. Then Poly & Co, a digital growth marketing agency based in Boston and New York. For her work at The Times and startups, Soraya has been featured on the cover of Fast Company Magazine's “100 Most Creative People in Business” issue and on the cover of Brand Week’s "Digital Best” issue. Soraya was named an Inc. Magazine "30 Under 30" (2012), Fortune Magazine "40 Under 40: Women to Watch" (2015). She sat on the first digital advisory board of General Electric. She is a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader," a six-time mentor to TechStars New York - three-times named a "Mentor of the Year." Soraya graduated with honors from Georgetown University and completed the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century module at Harvard Kennedy School. She is currently on the board of directors for the non-profit Yamba Malawi, her 12th year advising the organization.

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