Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top San Jose 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 Jose Angel Investors
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
John Chambers
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Chambers has served as a member of the Board of Directors since November 1993. He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since Novembe…
Lip-Bu Tan
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Lip-Bu Tan is Chairman and Founder of Walden International and has been active in the venture capital industry for the past two decades. Add…
Shantanu Narayen
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Shantanu Narayen currently serves as president and chief executive officer of Adobe. He joined Adobe in January 1998 as Vice President and G…
Sunmeet Jolly
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Founder and Patent holder – GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 40 pre-IPO technology startups. Frequently invited by acce…
James Higa
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
James Higa – Founder. Managing Partner. @ Offline Ventures
Padmasree Warrior
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Padmasree Warrior is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Fable. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of NextEV, U.S. S…
David Chao
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David K Chao joined DCM Ventures as General Partner and Cofounder.
Jay Chaudhry
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jay Chaudhry is a seasoned entrepreneur with a track record of success. He is an innovator and trendsetter who has founded and funded severa…
Andrew Filev
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, provider of popular social project management software with customers from 50+ countries. A…
Sanjay Sathe
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
GenomeSmart was acquired in Feb 2020 by Konica Minolta Precision Medicine. GenomeSmart is an AI/ML based platform which helps people assess …
George Kurtz
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
George Kurtz is an internationally recognized security expert, author, entrepreneur and speaker. He has almost twenty years of experience in…
Michael Li
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Michael Li is VP of Data at Coinbase.
Anne Raimondi
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Anne Raimondi is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur who has helped grow numerous companies and even founded her own. Raimondi has re…
Daniel Schulman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Daniel Schulman joined PayPal in 2014 to lead the company into its next phase as an independent business, following the announcement of its …
Gary Gauba
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Gary Gauba
Sudheesh Nair
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Sudheesh Nair is the CEO at ThoughtSpot .
Shaun Coleman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Shaun Coleman – Co-Founder / Head of Products @ NewSpace Networks
Salman Azhar
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Salman Azhar – Managing Director @ Duke Angel Network
Sam Bright
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Sam Bright is Chief Product and Experience Officer at Upwork. Bright leads a globally distributed team across Product Management, Design, Us…
Yiren “Ronnie” Huang
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Yiren Huang is Co-Founder, VP of Engineering at CNEX Labs, Inc.
William Lansing
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
William Lansing is the Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors (February 2006) at FICO since January 2012. A 30-y…
Hana Yang
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Hana Yang is Co-Founder at Allocate.
Alex Fedosseev
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Alex Fedosseev has did 3 successful startups and exits in Telecom / Smart Home / IoT space Now bringing #Blockchain revolution to MediaTech …
John Warnock
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Since John Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke, the two have worked closely together to develop a stream of pioneering sof…
Bill Krause
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bill Krause has served as a director since 2004. Krause has served as President of LWK Ventures, a private advisory and investment firm sinc…
Dave House
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dave House has served as a director since 2004 and as the Chairman of our Board of Directors since December 2005. From January 2005 through …
Ben Curren
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Silicon Valley veteran and technology entrepreneur with 20 years experience building products and companies that help small businesses thriv…
Imad Ashfaq
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Imad Ashfaq
Payson Johnston
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Payson serves as the CEO of Crowdz, a Blockchain startup in the Silicon Valley, focused on digitizing, automating, and accelerating supply c…
Justin Stottlemyer
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Justin Stottlemyer is the Distinguished Architect at Intuit.
Nancy Schoendorf
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Nancy Schoendorf joined Mohr Davidow in 1993 she brought seventeen years of industry experience in a variety of engineering and executive po…
Tom Werner
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Tom Werner serves as SunPower’s CEO and chairman of the SunPower board of directors. Prior to joining SunPower, he held the position of chie…
Jon Karafin
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Jon Karafin joined Light Field Lab as CEO and Founder in 2017.
Brendan Bevensee
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Brendan Bevensee – CTO and Co-Founder @ Light Field Lab
Robert Zollars
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Robert Zollars has made a positive impact on many people and businesses for more than 30 years, leading 11 companies as president or chief e…
Patri Friedman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Patri Friedman is the General Partner of Pronomos since 2017. Patri Friedman is the founder of Seasteading Institute, a non-profit organizat…
Tony Lam
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Tony Lam is the President at the San Francisco Bay Area Wingstop Marketing COOP.
Chet Kapoor
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Chet Kapoor is Chairman and CEO of DataStax. He is a proven leader and innovator in the tech industry with more than 20 years in leadership…
Vinh (Vinny) Nguyen
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Vinh Nguyen joined eVinh as CEO in 2017.
William McLean
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
William McLean has over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. William McLean was the CEO of Ozmo Devices, focused on WiFi Di…
Kinh DeMaree
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Kinh is the Head Talent Huntress at Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio in Vancouver, SF, and Santiago. Previously, she was a senior …
Bud Biswas
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bud has an impressive track record of starting networking companies and turning them into profitable businesses, and has over twenty years o…
Steven Lee
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Founder at Crowdz.
Wade Luders
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
San Jose Real Estate and Start Up Investor
Maxim Surdu
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Investor and late founder of Kray Technologies
James Hogan
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Mr. James H. Hogan is a senior executive, investor – one of the leaders of Silicon Valley. His skills were built over 30 years in the semico…
Douglas G. Bergeron
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Douglas G. Bergeron has been CEO of VeriFone since July 2001 when he spearheaded the acquisition of the company from Hewlett Packard in a tr…
Barbara Siverts
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Barbara Siverts – HR & Process Advisor @ ASANA TECHNOLOGY (ISRAEL) LTD
Hooman Bolandi
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Sr. Project Engineering & Member of Technical Staff at Applied Materials.
Aaron Lewis
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Aaron Lewis
Anand Vijay
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Anand Vijay – Director of Engineering @ eBay
Riley Welch
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Riley Welch
Travis McPeak
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Travis McPeak
Eugene Pozdnikov
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Eugene Pozdnikov
John Reimer
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
John Reimer
Scott Shipman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Scott Shipman
Jason Khalipa
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jason Khalipa – President @ NC Fit
Patrick Hammon
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Patrick Hammon
Alfred Wu
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Alfred Wu – Technical Accounting and Policy @ Google
Raja Bose
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Technologist & Angel Investor
Phil Kearney
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Phil Kearney
Elnaz Sarraf
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Elnaz Sarraf
Luis Vargas
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Luis Vargas is Product Manager Core Payments at Facebook.
Sandeep Puri
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Architecture @ Work
Frank Chen
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Frank Chen Founding Engineer, Coursera.
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