Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Greater Los Angeles Area 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 Greater Los Angeles Area Angel Investors
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Michael Stoppelman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael Stoppelman is an active angel/seed investor in Los Angeles. He’s the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at Yelp. He started…
Gwyneth Paltrow
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Gwyneth Paltrow is one of today’s most prolific and celebrated actors in both television and film. Additionally, Paltrow continues to develo…
Shaan Sethi
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Shaan is a Co-Founder / Managing Member of B4L Capital Management and a Co-Founder of Jaanuu by Dr. Neela. Previously, Shaan was an investme…
Marc Weinstein
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
I graduated from Wharton with a BSc in Economics and began my career as an investment banker. In 2012, I left my cushy job at Morgan Stanley…
Brendan Rogers
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Brendan Rogers is currently the Co-Founder of Founder 2 a.m. [Ventures] an early-stage India Fund. Previously, Brendan Co-Founded Wag! the …
John Robinson
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
President & COO of 100 Thieves.
Harry Tsao
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Harry Tsao is an internet entrepreneur based in the Pasadena area. Harry started his internet career at GoTo.com and then went on to co-fou…
Karim Mokhtar
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Karim Mokhtar – Founder and CEO @ Mokhtar Group Inc.
Phil Quist
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Phil Quist – Agent @ Creative Artists Agency
Connor Theilmann
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Connor Theilmann
Talmadge O’Neill
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Start-up internet entrepreneur and investor. Currently: General Partner at JuvoCapital, VC firm with no LPs that has invested more than $…
Michael Blend
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
I have been starting/growing technology companies since I downloaded Mosaic in 1993. A couple of these companies have reached $1B+ valuation…
Yves Sisteron
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Yves Sisteron – Managing Partner and Co-Founder @ Upfront Ventures
Kevin Gould
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Kevin Gould – Founder & CEO @ Kombo Ventures
Nanea Reeves
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
As CEO of TRIPP, Nanea Reeves brings over 15 years experience in digital distribution, video game technologies and mobile application develo…
Michael Eisner
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael Eisner has been a leader in the American entertainment industry for more than four decades, beginning his career at ABC where he hel…
Michael Gruen
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Michael Gruen is an American entrepreneur, political consultant, Instagram personality, marketer, corporate advisor, and public relations sp…
Jeremy Zimmer
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jeremy Zimmer is one of the Hollywood agency’s 6 owners and is a UTA co-founder and managing director. The grandson of legendary Hollywoo…
Sean Keegan
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
SEAN KEEGAN is the CEO of Digital Asset Strategies and manages Digital Asset Strategies’ investment programs and manages the firm’s overall …
Ryan Kavanaugh
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Ryan Kavanaugh is an LA-based businessman, serial entrepreneur, film industry veteran, and the Co-Founder of Triller. The AI-enabled app all…
MJ Eng
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
MJ Eng is a co-founder and the president of [ShoeDazzle](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shoedazzle#/entity), an online e-commerce w…
Amit Kapur
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Entrepreneur and investor. Former CEO/co-founder of Gravity (acq by AOL) and COO of MySpace (acq by News Corp).
Joshua Roth
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
CTO @ Ring
Dusan Miletich
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Real estate investor with a side gig investing in early stage companies.
Mikael Hed
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Investor, Executive Chairman at Kaiken Entertainment Ltd.
Brian C. Dilley
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Brian likes to create highly scalable and useful web and mobile applications that become a positive part of people’s daily lives. Brian has …
James Veraldi
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
James Veraldi
Ross Weber
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Internet Entrepreneur with focus in the travel vertical.
Rick Caruso
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Rick J. Caruso is founder and chief executive officer of Caruso Affiliated, one of the largest, privately held real estate companies in the …
J.R. Johnson
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
J.R. Johnson is a Strategic Advisor at Women.com. He is a former Founder and CEO at Trippy.com and Lunch.com. Johnson was previously found…
Derek Callow
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Derek Callow is the chief marketing officer at Fair.
Joseph Melika
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Joseph Melika joined Inspectiv as CEO & Founder in 2018.
Srini Panguluri
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Founder of Agent.
Bret Disend
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Bret Disend
Wendy O
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Wendy O – Marketing and Community Growth @ MonetaryUnit
Vince Broady
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Vince Broady is the founder and CEO of thisMoment.com. Prior to founding thisMoment, Broady was Senior Vice President and Head of Yahoo E…
Jimmy Hutcheson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jimmy Hutcheson’s digital publishing company, Hutch Media, was acquired in April of 2015 by Danny Zappin’s holding company, Zealot Networks….
Nick Tran
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Nick Tran is the Global Head of Marketing at TikTok.
Zac Park
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Co-Founder at Cubcoats.
Howard Brown
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Howard Brown is a three-time entrepreneur with a proven track record of success and innovation in marketing, sales, and cloud computing. Tha…
Rick Patri
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Rick Patri – President and Chief Executive Officer @ Monsterbass
Rob Santos
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Robert is the founder of AFO Finance Group. He is also the Managing Partner and member of its investment committee. His primary responsibili…
Miles Beckett
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Miles Beckett is the Cofounder and CEO of the social entertainment company, EQAL, and is the co-creator and Executive Producer of the web se…
Vaibhav Puranik
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Vaibhav Puranik
Peter Benedek
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Peter Benedek – Founder @ United Talent Agency
Nick Gross
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Nick Gross
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
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Navneet Chugh — chairman of Chugh LLP
Sanjeev Rao
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Sanjeev Rao serves as senior vice president of product at true[X].
Tim Ursich, Jr., D.C.
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Tim Ursich, Jr., D.C.
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