PreSeries #AngelRanking — Top 5 Angel Investors In The US!
Angels investors are on the front-line of innovation, trusting teams in their early days, evaluating alpha-prototypes, and backing unproven ideas before everyone else. They end up writing virtually every startup’s first cheque. But some are better than others at finding hidden gems. Today let’s look at the 5 most prolific angel investors in the United States for the past 18 years.
FABRICE GRINDA
Fabrice Grinda (born 3 August 1974) is a French entrepreneur, blogger for Business Insider and super angel, with more than 200 investments around the world, including Alibaba Group, Airbnb, Beepi, FanDuel, Palantir, and Windeln. Grinda has had $300 million in investment exits. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Aucland, Zingy, and OLX and is a frequent conference speaker on trends in technology, emerging markets, and investing.
ALEXIS OHANIAN
Alexis Kerry Ohanian (born April 24, 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor, who is co-founder and executive chairman of the social news website Reddit. He also co-founded the early stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and started the social enterprise Breadpig. Ohanian is based in San Francisco, and was a partner at Y Combinator. In 2012, Andy Greenberg of Forbes magazine dubbed him “Mayor of the Internet”.
SCOTT BANISTER
Scott Banister (born 1975) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.
PAUL BUCHHEIT
Paul T. Buchheit is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested Google’s former company motto “Don’t be evil” in a 2000 meeting on company values.
NAVAL RAVIKANT
Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.
Biographies: Wikipedia
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