Angel Investors Directory

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Cofounder and General Partner at Spark Capital. Spark currently manages over $4B across venture and venture growth funds. Led our investment in Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) in early 2008 and served on their board from 2008-2011. Also led the seed investment in Tumblr (acquired by Yahoo!) and served on their board of directors for the entire duration of the company. Other investments include: Stack Overflow (acquired by Prosus N.V.), Overtime, Crowdrise (acquired by GoFundMe), Trello (acquired by Atlassian), Sincerely (acquired by Liberty Interactive Corporation), RunKeeper (acquires by ASICS), Foursquare, Boxee (acquired by Samsung), OMGPOP (acquired by Zynga) and thePlatform (acquired by Comcast).

Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. He previously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.

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.

Lan is the founder and Managing Partner of Basis Set, an early stage venture fund focusing on AI/Automation/Enterprise SaaS, with $300M+ AUM. She's one of the earliest investors in companies such as Scale (now worth >$7.3B), Workstream, Path Robotics, Ergeon, Quince etc. Basis Set was the largest early stage venture firms in AUM founded by a solo woman in 2017, according to SVB. Previously, Lan built and led the Corporate Development Strategy team at Dropbox during its most acquisitive time. She previously managed teams at McKinsey in New York and Shanghai, advising Fortune 500 companies on issues including big data, AI, and growth strategy. Earlier in her career, Lan designed and developed brain training games as a founder and studied human brain functions for her Ph.D. She also received her M.A. in Statistics, both from the University of Michigan.

Since June 2009, Chernin has served as Founder and Chairman of Chernin Entertainment, LLC, a film and television production company, and The Chernin Group LLC, which is involved in strategic opportunities in media, technology and entertainment.Since October 2010, Chernin has served as Co-Founder and Chairman of CA Media, LP, which builds and manages media, technology and entertainment businesses throughout the Asia Pacific region. From October 1996 to June 2009,Chernin served in several roles at News Corporation, most recently as President and Chief Operating Officer, and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Fox Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation. Chernin currently serves on the boards of directors of American Express Company, a diversified financial services company, and Pandora Media, Inc., an online music streaming company.Chernin previously served on the boards of directors of various companies in the media industry and the technology industry, including News Corporation, DirecTV, Inc., E*Trade Financial Corporation and Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. Chernin holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Chernin was selected to serve on our board of directors because of his operating and management experience at global media companies, his expertise in online and mobile markets and other new technologies and his service on the boards of directors of numerous other companies.

Rex focuses on early-stage and growth investments in consumer technology businesses. He’s particularly interested in online communication, Gen Z, commerce, marketplaces, and the future of work. Prior to Index, Rex worked at Airtable, a no-code platform letting anyone create with software. Previously, Rex was an investor at TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, TPG’s global growth equity and social impact funds, where he oversaw the launch of TPG’s impact measurement tool at the World Economic Forum. He has run creator marketing for Calm and worked on social innovation policy for the California Governor’s Office. Rex was a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University, where he received a graduate degree in business, and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Economics.  Rex writes Digital Native, a weekly blog about consumer technology.

Vic's current areas of interest include climate, crypto, deep tech, and developer tools. Vic is a seasoned operator having founded three venture-backed startups across mesh networking, communications, and developer platforms. He previously served as founder and CEO of Kanvas, a mobile platform for creativity which he led to a successful exit by Aol. Vic also founded Tracks to build the experiential graph and NearVerse for proximity based p2p mesh networking. Before he was a founder, Vic was a venture capitalist at RRE Ventures where he focused on cleantech, consumer, deep tech, and fintech. He also served as a VC at DFJ Gotham and Chart Venture Ventures. Vic started his career as a full stack developer building large scale enterprise systems.

One of the electronic duo, 'The Chainsmokers" named by Forbes as the highest paid DJs in the world seasoned Angel investor.

Alfred Lin is a Partner at Sequoia Capital and works with inspiring founders focused on disrupting the mobile, marketplace, commerce, consumer services, and online-to-offline sectors. He currently represents Sequoia on the Boards of Airbnb, Cobalt Robotics, Dia & Co., DoorDash, Houzz, and Zipline.

Built a venture capital fund from the ground up, while homeless. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a fund that is dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT. Started from scratch in 2015, Backstage has now raised more than $15 million and invested in more than 170 startup companies led by underestimated founders.

Brendan Wallace is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall, where he guides the firm’s strategic vision. Prior to starting Fifth Wall, Brendan co-founded Identified, a workforce optimization data and analytics company that raised $33 million of venture funding and was acquired by Workday (NYSE: WKDY) in 2014. He also co-founded Cabify, the largest ridesharing service in Latin America, and has been an active investor, leading more than 60 angel investments including Bonobos, Dollar Shave Club, Lyft, SpaceX, Clutter, and Philz Coffee. Brendan started his career at Goldman Sachs in the real estate, hospitality, and gaming group before joining The Blackstone Group’s real estate private equity practice. Brendan is from New York City and currently lives in Venice. He graduated from Princeton University, where he received his BA in political science and economics. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Prior to Coatue, Dan spent 20 years in leadership roles at both Amazon and Facebook. He has personally made more than 100 angel investments including Gusto, TripActions, OpenDoor, Flexport, Airtable and Figma.

Joanne’s passion for technology developed early, when her mathematician dad and computer scientist mom taught her how to program. By the time she was nine years old, she had turned her skills into a business and made her first webpage for a client. Joanne began her career as an engineer at Cisco Systems and later co-founded a mobile gaming company. Joanne was on the boards of TubiTV (acquired by Fox for $500m) and Mya (acquired by Stepstone), and is currently on the board of and/or invested in Tonkean, Jasper.AI, SafelyYou, EraDB, CaptivateIQ, Oasis Labs, Watchful and others. Joanne studies the impact of AI on the enterprise and invests in AI-first B2B applications and data platforms that are the building blocks of the automated enterprise. She has shared her learnings as a featured speaker at conferences including CES, SXSW, WebSummit, and has spoken about the impact of AI on society in her TED talk “Confessions of an AI Investor.”

Josh Felser is the Co-Founder of Climactic. He previously worked at State of California as a Task Force Member. Josh Felser attended Duke University.