AngelList is a community of start-ups and investors who make fundraising efficient.
AngelList is a community of startups and investors who make fund-raising efficient.
Started by the dudes who do [Venture Hacks](http://venturehacks.com). Meet the [startups](http://angel.co/startups) and [investors](http://angel.co/).
As of March 22 2011, approximately 275 startups and 417 investors have raised money and invested via AngelList.
Naval Ravikant is the founder of Angellist. He is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList.
Previously Naval was a co-founder at Genoa Corp (acquired by Finisar), Epinions.com (IPO via Shopping.com), and Vast.com (largest white-label classifieds marketplace). He was a Venture Partner at August Capital and led investments in Scintera, Neopath, Technorati, Microdisplay, DeviceScape, and Mimosa.
Startups Naval has advised in areas ranging from founding to product design to fundraising including iPivot (sold to Intel), Intrinsic Graphics, Andale, XFire (sold to Viacom),
HedgeStreet, Engage, Photo.net, LoyaltyLab, Jaman, Hive7, Dulance (sold to Google), Bix (sold to Yahoo!).
Kevin Laws is the Founder & Board Member, Vast.
Before Vast.com, Kevin served as a Principal at PacRim Venture Partners with responsibility for sourcing and evaluating potential software investments.
Prior to PacRim, Kevin Laws was vice president of products at Epinions, where he helped build the company into the top consumer and review website.
Kevin also worked as a consultant in the Communications, Media & Technology Group at Booz, Allen & Hamilton and as Software Development Manager for Computer Sciences Corporations offices in Heidelberg, Germany, where he oversaw Development of several major projects, including one of the first large-scale web-based Intranets in 1993.
Kevin holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Dickinson College.
An MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
An M.A. in International Relations from Boston University.
He eats big data for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and sometimes for a midnight snack. He excels at bridging the gaps between technology & business and data & knowledge.
Sleeping is not his strong suit.
Jonathan Abrams is the founder & CEO of Nuzzel, the super-easy way to see news from your friends. Previously, Jonathan was the founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks, and a software engineer at companies such as Netscape and Nortel.
Jonathan is a mentor in Steve Blank’s entrepreneurship classes at Stanford and Berkeley, a top-rated mentor at The Founder Institute, an advisor to AngelList and LeanLaunchLab, and has been extensively involved in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial community for over ten years, including as a long-time member of the advisory board of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE), co-chair of the SDForum Venture Finance SIG, moderator of the SVASE CTO Forum, and a judge for the Stanford Entrepreneur’s Challenge business plan contest, the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, the Stanford-Berkeley Innovators’ Challenge, the Intel Challenge, and Start-Up Chile.
Dustin Dolginow is an Analyst in the Technology group at Atlas Venture.
Prior to joining Atlas, Dustin frequented the New York tech scene as a first time co-founder at Social Swipe, an online platform for generating reviews at social venues with the swipe of a credit card. Entering the space with only an idea, a modicum of savings and lots of passion, Dustin found a technical partner, iterated through several prototypes and became a practitioner of lean startup practices. The site continues as a side project and reminder of the challenges of building a sustainable web company.
Prior to entering early stage tech, Dustin began his career at Lehman Brothers, working within the Investment Banking Division on structured finance products. His three years on Wall Street provided a world of experience in global capital markets, fixed income instruments and various liquidity structures.
Dustin completed his B.A from Middlebury College in 2006.
Safa is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, with close ties to China, India and other international markets. Safa’s current investments are in U.S, India and Turkey.
Safa worked on Wall Street for ten years as a Senior Analyst and covered the emerging Internet companies in U.S. and China. Safa’s work on Search, Online Advertising, and User Revolution were closely followed by the top Internet companies, and investors.
Safa focuses on “Consumer Value Proposition” and Strategic positioning of companies. He is currently the Chairman of InvestmentYogi.com (India) and is an adviser to LocalMotion, Triptrotting, TheHunt.com, Passban, Early Bird Alert, ChinaVenture, and a number of other companies. He is also Chairman of the Board at Wings Learning Center, and a Chair of the Finance Committee at Village Enterprise.
Safa Lives in Palo Alto, with his wife and son.
Patrice holds a Business Engineering degree from Solvay Business School (ULB, Belgium).
He began his career at Citibank where he held responsibility for portfolio risk analysis and reporting.
He was the founder of Arbalet, a meta-search engine for jobs and comparison shopping funded by E-Merge, and had previously co-founded 2 other companies in Latin America (telecom and hospitality).
He also worked on statistical risk modeling at SAS Institute and accumulated 10+ years of experience in 14 countries as an independent consultant in financial risk management.
Patrice joined E-Merge as Partner early 2012.
Nivi is a co-founder of AngelList and Venture Hacks.
Previously, he was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Bessemer Venture Partners and Atlas Venture.
He has worked on startups including, Songbird, Grockit and Kovio.
He went to school at MIT where received 2 patents and published in Science.
Dan S. Miller Cloud+Mobile+Social
VC Partner / Startup C-Exec./ Roadmap Success – MBA.PMP.Series7&63
Serial Entrepreneur / Venture Partner – Working with exceptional founders and market-defining companies that have: Momentum & engagement – Setting the world on fire – Smartest teams – Big fish-small pond – Create Black Swans.
BoD Member, focused on – Company building, Execution, ROI, Teamwork, KPI’s, UX/CX.
Fundraising Products at AngelList
Founder at Mad Mimi