Angel Investors Directory

Before joining General Catalyst Partners, Adam Valkin was at Accel Partners, where he was a Venture Partner in the firm’s London office focusing on investments in Internet and mobile services. At Accel he led investments in several early-stage companies including Dragonplay, Hailo, fiverr, Gocardless and Qriously, and also worked with Myheritage, Seeking Alpha and Spotify. Prior to Accel, Adam was Global Head of Digital Media & New Business at television production company Endemol. He was previously a partner at venture capital firm Arts Alliance where he was involved with its investments in Kenshoo, Propertyfinder, and Prepay Technologies. Adam was also a co-founder, investor and one-time CEO of LOVEFiLM which was sold to Amazon.com in 2011. As a Managing Director at General Catalyst Partners, Adam concentrates on early-stage technology companies. Adam is currently a board member of CCP (creator of Eve Online), an active General Catalyst investment. He is also responsible for the firm’s investments in LoyalBlocks and Yplan. He is based in the firm’s Cambridge office. Adam was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa and holds a degree in economics from Harvard University.

Ajay came to IVP from Dropbox, where he guided the company through its IPO and first several years as a public company. As a first-time CFO, he stepped into a leadership role early in his career, and learned firsthand how to build, support and inspire a high-performing team.As an investor, Ajay is always on the lookout for companies that are solving big problems in market categories on the precipice of disruptive change. He is also focused on helping IVP build platform capabilities closely attuned to the needs of our founders. It’s why we launched the CFO Collective—the first community of its kind—which brings the brightest minds in strategic finance together to support one another and lay the groundwork for the future.

Ali Rohde is the General Partner / Co-founder at Outset Capital.

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.

Amish Jani is a Founder and Partner of FirstMark and has been an active venture capitalist for over 20 years. He invests broadly across the cloud and Internet landscape, including SaaS applications, ecommerce, infrastructure and more. Amish has been recognized by CB Insights and the New York Times as a Top 100 Venture Capitalist globally. In 2022, he was recognized by Business Insider in The Seed 100 (best early-stage investors) and named one of the 50 Most Important VCs in New York. Amish has invested in industry-defining companies that include Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), Starry (NYSE:STRY), Frame.io (acquired by Adobe), Pendo, Tracelink, Guru, Bluecore, InVision, IMImobile (LSE: IMO, acquired by Cisco), Schoology (acquired by PowerSchool), Boomi (acquired by Dell), Aveksa (acquired by EMC), and many more. Prior to founding FirstMark, Amish served as a Partner with Pequot Ventures.

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.

Andy McLoughlin invests in early-stage software startups that help businesses operate like the best companies in the world either by building better, selling more, or operating more effectively. His portfolio includes LaunchDarkly, Human Interest, Focal Systems, Fountain, Crossbeam, Coder, Sym, Tailscale and Mutiny. Prior to joining Uncork in 2015, Andy was co-founder of Huddle, a London-based enterprise collaboration platform which was acquired in 2017. He was also an active angel investor with a personal portfolio of 40+ startups including Intercom; Tray.io, Pipedrive (acquired by Vista Equity Partners; Bugsnag; Apiary (acquired by Oracle); Buffer; Secret Escapes; Calm; and Postmates (acquired by Uber).

Angus Davis is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a general partner with Foundation Capital. Angus was the founder and CEO of Upserve, a restaurant point of sale, payments, and analytics start-up that he grew to work with more than 10,000 restaurant customers. In 2020, Lightspeed Commerce acquired Upserve in the stock deal then valued at $450 million. Before Upserve, Angus co-founded Tellme Networks in 1999, speech recognition and mobile search start-up that grew to profitability with more than $100 million in ARR and over 300 employees with over $200 million in backing. In 2007, Microsoft acquired Tellme for $800 million. Angus left Microsoft in May 2009 to start Upserve. Before Tellme, Angus joined Netscape Communications in 1996 as the company's youngest employee at age 18. He worked in the office of the CTO and he was product manager for the flagship Web browser and the Web rendering engine ("Gecko.") He represented Netscape on the HTML and CSS standards groups and he helped establish Mozilla.org, before leaving to co-found Tellme in 1999 with Mike McCue, Netscape's VP of Technology. In addition to his work in technology, Angus is active in education reform.

Aniq left Cornell University to grow and sell his first company, and never looked back. Before joining Vast in 2014, he was the CEO at Instinctiv (acquired by SoundCloud), and later became President of Moat (acquired by Oracle).

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.

Antonio was born and raised in Mexico City and lives in NYC. He has a diverse background in venture capital, hedge funds, corporate law and economic development. Prior to ANIMO, he was a managing partner at Capital Invent, a Mexico-based early stage VC fund and an investor at FJLabs, a marketplace-focused venture firm.

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.

Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.

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.