Mark Kendall
Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Houston 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 Houston Angel Investors
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Matt Mullenweg
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Matt Mullenweg is a co-founder of WordPress, an open-source blogging platform on the web. He is also the founder of Automattic, the company …
Ratan Tata
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Heading the Tata Group since 1991, Ratan Tata is the Chairman of Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata Group and major Group companies incl…
Michael Dell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael Dell is the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Dell, the company he founded with $1000 in 1984 at the…
Hakeem “Chamillionaire” Seriki
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Chamillionaire is a Grammy-winning American rapper & CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment. After his success in the recording industry, he parl…
Charlie Chanaratsopon
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Charlie Chanaratsopon is a Thai-American entrepreneur and investor. He is most notable for founding Charming Charlie, the colorful 290 natio…
Larry Lawson
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
In his role as eCardio’s Chief Executive Officer, Larry Lawson leads the company’s strategic direction and vision. With more than 35 years o…
Thomas J. Edelman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Thomas J. Edelman is a managing partner of White Deer Energy, an energy private equity fund. He founded Patina and served as its Chairman a…
Mohsin Ali
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Marketer, Strategist & Founder at Clayive Digital marketing, entrepreneurship, and chai enthusiast. I battle careless business and marketi…
Brad Jenkins
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Entrepreneur, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor, Founder
Bradley Radoff
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bradley Radoff – Partner @ Fondren Management
Andrew Bursten
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Andrew Bursten Co-Founded and served as President of Coastal Telephone Company, a long distance telecommunications company in 1985, which wa…
Mauricio Jimenez
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
Mauricio Jimenez started his YouTube channel in 2016 known as Maurikus nation he started making money of Adsense in 2019 which he became a g…
Shantanu Agarwal
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Shantanu Agarwal – President & Co-Founder @ Susteon
Matt Arnold
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Matt Arnold is a Co-Founder and member of the Board of Directors for Solid Biosciences Matt Arnold’s background is in energy commodities. H…
Richard Yoo
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Richard Yoo is the founder, and was previously the CEO, of Rackspace Managed Hosting. Through his vision and influence, Rackspace has become…
Beyoncé Knowles
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer, actress, songwriter, record producer, director, model, dancer, fashion designer and bu…
Marc Geller
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Marc Geller is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sternhill Partners. He has been managing venture capital funds since 1995. Prior to the f…
Juliana Garaizar
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Juliana Garaizar – Launch Director, Houston @ Greentown Labs
Kemal Farid
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Kemal Farid
Shahid Ullah
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Shahid Ullah is Chief Operating Officer, Afren Plc. Afren is an African focused independent oil and gas exploration and production company l…
Shayan Zadeh
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Shayan Zadeh is a serial entrepreneur who has founded, built, managed, and turned around multiple companies in different industries. Most r…
Gary Stimac
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Gary Stimac
Matthew Morris
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Matthew Morris is a Board Member at Stewart Title.
Oliver Harriehausen
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Oliver Harriehausen is the SVP Sales Enablement at Golden Pear Funding
Don Byrne
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
President, Endoscopy Business Group at MEDIVATORS .
Carlos Gutierrez
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Mr. Gutierrez serves on the Boards of MetLife, Inc. and Occidental Petroleum Corporation. He also serves as a trustee to several non-profit…
David Steakley
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David Steakley is an investor in real estate and private equity in Houston. David was a partner at the consulting firm Accenture, focusing …
Iain Cooper
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Iain Cooper is the Manager of Corporate Venturing at Schlumberger Limited since September 2007 in Mergers and Acquisitions Group in Houston,…
Miguel Calatayud
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Has over 18 years of experience in the food and beverage and health and wellness industries. As a founder of two start-ups and leader of wor…
Trenton Thornock
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Trenton is an owner of Hyperfuels LLC, a specialty fuel retailer and the US distributor of TOTAL ELF Professional Racing Fuels. On his most …
Jan Senderek
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jan is a Co-Founder & CEO at Loom.
Jason Hodges
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Entrepreneur and technology investor. Founded ShipStation, the leading shipping solution for eCommerce sellers.
Michael Margolis
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael Margolis – Managing Member @ Maric Fund Management
Rakesh Agrawal
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Rakesh Agrawal – Founder, CEO @ SnapStream Media
Alex Robart
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Alex Robart
Brian Kapiloff
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Brian is the President & CEO of Insgroup. He advises and oversees the servicing of major Property and Casualty and Risk Management clients …
Sebastien Long
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
I grew up in the hospitality industry, and working for my family’s vacation resort I’ve interacted with over 30,000 travelers. I’ve worked w…
Machine Gun Kelly
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Machine Gun Kelly is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, and actor.
Desikan Sundararajan
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Desikan Sundararajan
Hallie Vanderhider
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Hallie is Managing Partner of Catalyst Partners. She has an extensive career in both oil and gas as well as private equity, serving both in…
Jim Farnsworth
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
James W. Farnsworth has served as our President, Exploration since August 2016, after having served as our Chief Exploration Officer and Exe…
Mathew Knowles
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Mathew Knowles is the founder and CEO of Music World entertainment, and also teaches courses on entertainment management, the recording indu…
Amitav Misra
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Prior to Arundo, Amitav was a partner in Cardinal Advisors, a boutique investment banking, and strategic advisory firm. Prior to Cardinal, h…
Robert Beauchamp
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Robert Beauchamp is Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of BMC Software, the recognized leader in IT m…
Smith Johnston
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Smith Johnston, from Woodstock, Georgia, received a Bachelor of Science in biology in 1976 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1981 from Emory Unive…
Karun Sreerama
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
An accomplished engineer and executive, Karun Sreerama has helped numerous Houston-based companies through successful startup cycles in his …
Ezequiel Reyna
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Ezequiel Reyna’s significant accomplishments include the commencement of the first multi-million dollar settlement in the South Texas area. …
Chip Davis
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Chip Davis is a managing partner at Houston Ventures, L.P., an investment firm that funds companies that apply technology solutions in the e…
Srini Katta
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Srini Katta
Uzi Halevy
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Uzi Halevy – CEO @ The Litwin Engineering Group
Rod Canion
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Rod Canion – Director @ Invesco
Shaoqing Sun
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Shaoqing Sun – Founder & Chief Geoscientist @ C&C Reservoirs
Fred Poses
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Fred Poses – Independent Director @ Chesapeake Energy
Charles Powell
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Charles Powell – Partner @ Norton Rose Fulbright
Todd Scholl
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Before founding Trivia Duel in May 2014, Mr. Scholl was an international capital markets professional with 15+ years experience split betwee…
David Gow
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David Gow is Founder at Touch Bionics.
Elliott Nunez
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Mr. Nunez has 25 years of multi-industry executive leadership, brand marketing, business development, and finance experience. Most recently,…
Sungwuk Kim
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Sung-wuk Kim has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since the founding of ImmunoMet Therapeutics…
James Woodhill
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
James Woodhill – Founder & Chairman @ Authentify
Nimi Abili
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Nimi Abili
Vanita Shettar
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Vanita Shettar
Shaun Baker
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Shaun Baker
Wes Cossick
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Wes is the founder and CEO of Sparksuite. He provides the vision, guides the growth, and sets the company culture for this company and its s…
Milton Boniuk
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dr. Boniuk is an astute and highly successful businessman and entrepreneur, in addition to being an accomplished eye surgeon, educator, and …
Calvin McKnight
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Calvin McKnight
Ron Barshop
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Ron Barshop CEO of Beacon Clinics.
Andy Pechacke
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Andy Pechacke – President & CEO @ R4 Enterprises
Duncan R. O’Donnell
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Duncan R. O’Donnell
Femi Adegbola
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Femi Adegbola
Craig Massey
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Craig Massey
Lee Zieben
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Lee Zieben
Gary Horn
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Gary Horn is a CEO at Horn Solutions, Inc.
John Dennis
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
John Dennis – Managing Partner @ Woodrock & Co
Maxim Pushkarev
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Maxim Pushkarev
Luisger Lopez
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Luisger Lopez – Co-Founder, Director @ LatinMedios
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