Angel Investors Directory

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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).

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

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.

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.

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.

Cristina Cordova is the COO at Linear. She was previously a partner at First Round Capital. Cristina previously served as the Head of Platform & Partnerships at Notion. Before Notion, Cristina spent more than seven years at Stripe as it scaled from 28 to nearly 3000 people, leading the Partnerships function and the business units for Stripe’s Corporate Card & Treasury products. Cristina was also previously an active angel investor, focusing on founders building fintech, SaaS and developer products as she advised and invested in more than 50 startups.

Dana Stalder is a Silicon Valley based general partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests in early stage software and fintech companies. Dana’s experience cuts across multiple disciplines including sales, marketing, finance, technology and product management at companies such as eBay, Netscape, PayPal and Respond.com. He has managed nimble ventures as well as 2,500-person teams. Dana joined Matrix in 2008 from PayPal, where he was a senior vice president and managed all business operations, including product, sales, marketing and technology.

David is a 5 time serial entrepreneur turned VC. David is best known for his blog, www.forEntrepreneurs.com, which covers topics such as the SaaS business model and Metrics, 9 steps to get to repeatable, scalable, and profitable growth, Time to Wow!, how to design and build a sales & marketing growth machine, etc. The blog has been rated #1 website for entrerpreneurs by Inc. magazine and #2 by Forbes. David founded a total of four companies, and did one turn-around. In 2001, he joined Matrix Partners, who had backed his last two startups, as a VC investor. Successful exits as a VC include: HubSpot, JBoss, AppIQ, Tabblo, Netezza, Diligent Technologies, CloudSwitch, TribeHR, GrabCAD, OpenSpan, Enservio and Conductor. David currently serves on the boards of Atomist, Apollo GraphQL, CloudBees, Digium, Namely, Salsify, and Zaius.

David Wu is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and angel investor. He is currently a Partner at Maveron, a Consumer-Only Venture Capital Firm headquartered in SF. He is obsessed with consumer tech, and spends most of his time daydreaming about the reinvention of entertainment, especially the convergence of social, gaming, and media. David is a Bay Area native and holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.

Drew Volpe is an investor, entrepreneur, and technologist with a deep experience in search, machine learning, sensors, and mobile technologies. He was the founding VP of Product Development for Semantic Machines, the stealthy AI startup backed by $21m from Bain and General Catalyst. Drew was previously co-founder/CTO of Locately and lead the development of Locately's location-based mobile market research platform from inception through the company’s successful acquisition by SMG. Prior to Locately, Drew was Director of Product Development at Endeca Technologies, a pioneer in search and unstructured database systems, acquired by Oracle for $1.1 billion. Drew is an active speaker and mentor for startups at MassChallenge, MIT, Harvard, and elsewhere. Drew holds an AB in Computer Science from Harvard University.

"At Parse, we set out to change how developers built apps -reaching millions of developers and powering hundreds of thousands of apps. From writing the first lines of code, managing the acquisition to leading the team as a semi-autonomous unit inside Facebook, it was both hard and great." "I led all of Facebook’s developer products including early efforts to build a developer platform in Messenger. It was a big change. Product-market fit and scale trump all. Facebook focuses on only a few important things and re-evaluates methodically -which is a huge advantage."

Itamar is a Solo Capitalist and the Founder of Recursive Ventures, a Silicon Valley based Pre-Seed fund, supporting AI and Emerging tech startups. Itamar has been on all sides of the startup table - a founder and executive, an institutional VC, and an Angel investor. As an investor, Itamar has supported over 50 successful startups, including Deel, Honeybook, Placer, Credible, MileIQ, Automatic Labs, Tile, SafeGraph, and Armory. Itamar was recognized by Business Insider as a Top 100 global seed investor in 2021 & 2022. Previously Itamar was a Founder and Operator, and spent over a decade in senior engineering, product, and business development roles. Itamar helped take Life360 from Seed to IPO and beyond, scaling the business to over $250m in revenue and led the company’s initial public offering. Before that Itamar was a founding team member and head of Product at Gigya.

Jerry started his career in Taiwan where he co-founded a semi-conductor startup. He then moved to Silicon Valley where he joined Atheros and later became a member of technical staff at Qualcomm. He sits on the boards of Giraffe360, Qashier, and Valispace.

Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. Josh founded First Round Capital in 2004 to reinvent seed-stage investing, and since that time the firm has invested in over 350 emerging technology startups – becoming one of the most active venture capital firms in the country. Josh was ranked 3rd on the 2018 New York Times list of Top Venture Capitalists and consistently ranks in the top 20 of the Forbes Midas List of the top 100 tech investors.