Mark Kendall
Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top San Diego Angel Investors. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.
This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.
Top San Diego Angel Investors
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Howard Lindzon
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Howard Lindzon – Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage
Tony Robbins
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Tony Robbins is an entrepreneur, best selling author, philanthropist, and the nations #1 Life and Business Strategist. A recognized authorit…
Bobby Brannigan
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Bobby is currently Co-Founder & CEO at Mercato, an online grocery marketplace that connects customers who want to do their food shopping at …
Kim Perell
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Kim Perell is an award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author, CEO, and angel investor, who has made headlines for her transformative stor…
Bill Maris
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bill Maris is an entrepreneur and prominent venture capitalist focused on technology and the life sciences. He is the founder and first …
Matt Michelsen
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Matthew Michelsen is the founder of GothamAlpha, cofounder and board member of Gunnar Optiks, cofounder and advisor of DashRadio, Advisor at…
Various Angels
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Various Angels
Tony Hawk
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Tony has won numerous awards, including Make-A-Wish’s Favorite Male Athlete, Teen Choice Awards’ Choice Male Athlete and Nickelodeon’s Kid’s…
Frank Westermann
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
– Co-Founder Co-CEO of 9am.Health – Co-Founder & CEO of mySugr (acquired by Roche in 2017) – Early stage investor with focus on digital heal…
Dave Hagewood
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dave Hagewood – CEO & Founder @ Psyonix
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Naveen Rao
Fred Luddy
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Fred founded Service-now.com in early 2004 and has served as Chief Executive and Technology Officer since inception. Prior to Service-now.c…
Oren Zaslansky
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Oren Zaslansky – Founder & CEO @ Flock Freight
Jordan Greenhall
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jordan Greenhall – Co-Founder, Chief Strategist & Executive Chairman @ Neurohacker Collective
Paul E. Jacobs
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Paul E. Jacobs is an Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Directors at QUALCOMM Incorporated. Paul has served as Chairman of the …
Mostafa Ronaghi
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Mostafa Ronaghi is the Board Member at 1health.io. in 2007, Mostafa co-founded Avantome, a privately held sequencing company (acquired by I…
John Zdanowski
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
John Zdanowski joined Assembled Brands as Co-Founder, Investment Committee Member, Board Member in 2013.Part-time John Zdanowski is serial e…
Afif Khoury
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Afif Khoury has spent the last decade involved in startups and venture capital investments as an attorney, venture capitalist and serial ent…
Suman Kanuganti
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
I am a creator, entrepreneur, father and husband. I love robots, technology, and humans. I create things that solve meaningful problems, see…
Paul Kedrosky
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dr. Kedrosky is a co-founder and managing partner at SK Ventures, an early-stage venture firm. He has more than two dozen investments in dro…
Taner Halicioglu
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Taner Halicioglu – Founding Partner @ Seed San Diego
Larry Bock
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Larry Bock is the founder and organizer of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, and a former founder of the San Diego Science Festival. M…
Brock Weatherup
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Brock Weatherup is the CEO/Founder of Metamorphosis Partners driving enterprise value through innovation in the $80B pet industry focused on…
Sharon Zhang
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
I am a scientist, a creator, and a builder. I believe in data, innovation, and humans. I am passionate about people and about technologies t…
Seth Shaw
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Seth Shaw – Chief Revenue Officer @ Airtable
Silvia Mah
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Silvia Mah
Miroslav Trnka
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Miroslav Trnka, born in Trnava in 1961, graduated from the Slovak Technical University in Trnava. He has been involved in the development of…
Matt Harrigan
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Matthew Harrigan, also known as Matt, serves as Chief Executive Officer of KININ, Inc.
Dustin Gillman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Dustin Gillman
Michael Weisman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Michael Weisman
Paul Puey
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Paul Puey – CEO & Co-Founder @ Edge
Douglas Winter
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
J. Douglas Winter, also known as Doug, co-founded Seismic Software, Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since June 2010. Douglas W…
Brett Turner
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Experienced executive with over 20 years in public & private high-growth technology companies. For the past 12 years, I’ve developed a stron…
Amir Khosrowshahi
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Amir has worked in technology and finance. He has a research background in machine learning, neuroscience, and distributed computing. He s…
Paul Grinberg
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Paul Grinberg serves Encore Capital Group as Group Executive, International and Corporate Development. In this role, oversees Encore’s Europ…
Andreas Roell
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Andreas Roell is Managing Partner for Analytics Ventures, a global venture studio providing end to end infrastructure to ideate, plan, form,…
Arjun Bansal
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Arjun is passionate about understanding and building intelligent systems. My career has spanned research in brain-machine interfaces, buildi…
Perrin Kaplan
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
As co-founder and principal for Zebra Partners, a global communications and marketing company, Perrin brings many years of gaming, entertain…
John Burd
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Previously, Dr. Burd was Founder & CEO of Oculir, developing a non-invasive glucose testing technology. Prior to Oculir, Dr. Burd was a Gene…
Taylor Cavanah
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Taylor Cavanah is a physicist, futurist, and creative marketer. He graduated from Rice University with a BA in Physics and from The Uni…
Alex Lukianov
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Alexis V. Lukianov is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of NuVasive®, Inc., a medical device company in San Diego, Calif…
Michael Leeman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael is the San Diego based Senior VP Business Development for Cognician, a self coaching and behavior change platform based in San Franc…
Mike Sherbakov
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Impact investor. Startup advisor. Social entrepreneur. Mike Sherbakov is CEO of Greatness Collective, where he connects purpose-driven lea…
Scot Chisholm
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Scot is the CEO & Co-Founder of Classy, a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising tools for nonprofits, modernizing th…
Eric Ostertag
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Eric Ostertag is the CEO at Poseida Therapeutics.
William Ruh
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
William Ruh is the Managing Principal and Executive Vice President at Aequitas Capital, a private equity firm with over $560 million in asse…
Marty Beard
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Mr. Marty J. Beard served as the Chief Executive Officer of LiveOps, Inc. from July 18, 2011 to June 2014. Mr. Beard served as the President…
Alex Podgurski
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Alex Podgurski is a marketing expert and Founder of APR Media based out of Puerto Rico. With over 16 years of professional experience, Alex …
Gerald Proehl
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Gerry Proehl is the former President and CEO of Santarus, Inc. where he led the sale of that company to Salix in early 2014 for $2.6 billion…
Andy White
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Andy White Bio: I most recently lead the VegasTechFund to become the 5th most active Micro VC firm in 2014. The focus was to empower amazing…
Doug Hecht
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Doug Hecht joined the MINDBODY team in March of 2017 as Senior Vice President of Consumer Products. In his role Doug oversees the developmen…
Steven R. Altman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Steve Altman joined Dexcom as Board Member in 2013.
Carol Gallagher
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Carol Gallagher joined NEA in October, 2014. She is primarily focused on biopharma investments. Carol is a proven entrepreneur, operator a…
Dan Bradbury
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Dan Bradbury is a Life Sciences Executive with over 30 years of experience creating and implementing strategies that transform businesses, b…
Ian Bonner
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Ian serves at Chairman of the Board after 3 years as CEO of Attensity. In a career spanning over 28 years, Ian has built a strong reputation…
Steven Cox
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Steven Cox is the Founder & CEO at TakeLessons.
Nathan Ramasarma
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Tech. entrepreneur & storyteller.
Private Investor
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Private Investor
Robert Finzi
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Robert Finzi is a consultant at Risk Data.
Daniel O’Leary
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Grant, Private Equity
Entrepreneur, Principle consultant to startups and fortune 500’s, 25 years of experience, military veteran and UC Berkeley Grad.
Caitlin Wege
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Caitlin Wege – Partner @ Moodoos Investments
Bob Kain
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bob Kain is a renowned pioneer in genomics. At Illumina, Bob led the invention of the modern, high throughput genome sequencer that brought …
Jade Charles
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jade Charles is responsible for the innovation and architecture of the Fragmob platform along with the mobile and social strategy. He is con…
Michael J. Slater
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Michael J. Slater is the Founder & CEO of Entry Ventures, a San Diego-based strategic venture firm founded on the principle of Potential Cap…
Clifford Wright
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Cliff Wright is the Founder of Octet and the inventor of OMEA. Mr. Wright is an accomplished entrepreneur with over 96 patents published, 84…
Keith Valentine
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Keith Valentine serves as our president and chief executive officer, and as a director of SeaSpine. Prior to joining SeaSpine, Keith Valenti…
David F. Hale
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David F. Hale is our Founder and Executive Chairman. He is Chairman and CEO of Hale BioPharma Ventures, LLC, a private company focused on th…
Stephan Goss
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Stephan Goss – Founder & CEO @ Zeeto
Hossein Eslambolchi
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dr. Eslambolchi is recognized worldwide as one of the foremost thought leaders and technological scientists. He joined AT&T Bell Labs an…
Alberto Osio
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Alberto Osio Hernández-Pons is a Founding Member of Angel Ventures Mexico.
David G. Martin
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David G. Martin – CEO @ RiffTrax
Michael Denzy
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael Denzy – Co-Founder @ Top Agent Connection
Michael Robertson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael Robertson joined OnRad.io as CEO in 2015.Michael Robertson is an accomplished technology entrepreneur with a consistent track record…
S. Douglas Hutcheson
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
S. Douglas Hutcheson serves as the Executive Chairman at Kymeta Corporation.
Hussein Yahfoufi
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Hussein Yahfoufi – CIO & Head of Strategic Initiatives @ eCapital
Jack Lief
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jack Lief
Kian Saneii
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Kian Saneii brings more than 25 years of leadership experience to Independa as our CEO.
Tim Horton
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Tim began working as a software developer in 2005 in the finance industry. In 2007, during the turbulent markets, his software and the engin…
Bill Lee
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
William Lee (Bill) is Senior Vice President Research at Gilead. Bill joined Gilead as Director of Pharmaceutical Product Development in …
Amy Chang
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Amy Chang – CEO @ Delta Nutrassentials
Michael McCarthy
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael McCarthy
Michael Sikorsky
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael Sikorsky – Partner and Executive Producer @ 1400 Months
Blake Sonuga
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Blake Sonuga
Raghu Sugavanam
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Raghu Sugavanam
Darren Johnson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Darren Johnson – Founder @ Top Agent Connection
Craig Lauer
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Craig Lauer
Peter Lasensky
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Peter Lasensky is Founder at NoteVault.
Eddy Vaisberg
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Eddy Vaisberg Start-up Exec (COO, CGO) || Angel Investor || Ex-BCG
Mark McDowell
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Mark McDowell is the Board Partner at Real Ventures.
Jerry Feitelson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jerry Feitelson – CEO& Co-Founder @ Agribody Technologies, Inc.
Julie Foudy
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Julie Maurine Foudy is an American retired soccer midfielder, two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion, and two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Oliver Ahmadpour
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Co-founder at CrowdClock
Paul Della Bitta
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Paul Della Bitta is a Vice President & Commercial Leader at Blizzard Entertainment.
Eric Otterson
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Eric Otterson is a mentor at TechStars, CONNECT and Startup San Diego. Currently MD at SVB, formerly with Cooley and COO at eAssist Global …
Nico Nierenberg
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Nico Nierenberg, early in his career as a systems programmer and applications developer at SAIC, developed a strong interest in inventing an…
Minh Hong
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Marketing, sales, recruiting and financial markets expert with experience at Morgan Stanley, Disney, IBM, and various startups. Series 7 & …
E. William Radany
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
E. William Radany has over 25 years experience in the biotechnology industry. Prior to joining Verdezyne, he was the President and CEO of Hi…
Frankie Delgado
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Frankie Delgado is a Mexican-American actor and producer.
James Martin Sr.
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
James Martin is an innovative business strategist and leader who combines nearly two decades of experience providing technical consultation,…
Kristina Chang
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Kristina manages Westlake International Group’s media, technology and consumer portfolio. Kristina specializes in investing in early stage …
Rob Benson
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Rob Benson
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