Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Berkeley 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 Berkeley Angel Investors
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Carl Bass
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Carl Bass was president and CEO of Autodesk from 2006-2017. He spent 24 years at Autodesk where he held a series of executive positions incl…
Martin Eberhard
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Martin Eberhard is an engineer, a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and inventor on at least 17 patents. He received a BS in Computer Eng…
Samvit Ramadurgam
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Samvit went through the Y Combinator program and started his first venture-backed company when he was nineteen years old. Prior to starting …
Chris Anderson
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
I’m the CEO of 3DR, founder and chairman of the Linux Foundation’s Dronecode Project, and founder of the DIY Drones and DIY Robocarscommunit…
Mike Olson
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Mike (@mikeolson) co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and served as its CEO until 2013, when he took on his current role of chief strategy officer (…
Nick Sutardja
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Nick Sutardja – CEO @ Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology
Peter Read
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Peter is a partner of Read Investments, specializing in commercial real estate acquisitions and development. He is the former Co-Owner of Gr…
Arjun Singh
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Arjun Singh
Chris Hulls
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Chris is the cofounder and CEO of Life360. Before doing the whole startup thing, he did a stint in banking at Goldman Sachs and spent a …
Steve Newcomb
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
I love to think of entrepreneurs as heros of a sort.To imagine a single person that starts with a simple idea and then turns that idea into …
Skip Battle
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Skip Battle is a Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a long time Institute Moderator. Skip was previously Executive Chairman of …
Caroline Winnett
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Caroline is Executive Director of Berkeley SkyDeck, UC Berkeley’s flagship startup accelerator. At SkyDeck she leads a program that hosts ov…
Fareed Mosavat
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Fareed Mosavat
Jerry D’Ascoli
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Jerry D’Ascoli
Steven Berger
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Steven Berger is the Director at BeBop Sensors.
Mark de Souza
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Mark P. de Souza is the COO, Director, Co-Founder at MyoTherix.
Tom Dinwoodie
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Tom Dinwoodie is founder and former CEO and CTO of SunPower Corporation Systems, a global provider of the world’s highest efficiency solar s…
Michael Pollan
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. …
Connor English
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
In the past decade, Connor has worked on PV systems from the ground up – designing, building, engineering, and costing. He has become a reco…
Robert Crabbs
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Chief Executive Officer at Mercury Touch, Ltd.
Ryan Chapman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Ryan Chapman is a junior studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a concentration in Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley. He pr…
Steve Bernstein
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Steve Bernstein
August Flanagan
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
August Flanagan is a Founder of Cronitor.io.
Nicholas Gunther
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Nicholas Gunther
Étienne Fontán
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Étienne Fontán – Director @ Berkeley Patients Group
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