Mark Kendall
Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh Angel Investors
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Geoff Entress
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group…
Luis von Ahn
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Louis von Ahn is the CEO and Co-Founder of Duolingo. He is an associate professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and he’…
Bob Meese
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Bob Meese
William Guttman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
William Guttman – Chairman @ Axioma
Severin Hacker
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Severin Hacker a computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon, has created a technology that could transform the way we communicate …
Herb Shear
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Advisor Former CEO of GENCO (FedEX Supply Chain) Herb now spends time making interesting supply chain company investments, usually at priva…
J. Andrew Bagnell
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Dr. J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell is an Assistant Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute and National Robotics Eng…
Andrew Rabin
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Creator of innovative platforms that are changing the playing field for healthcare performance improvement.
Ed Engler
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Ed Engler is Managing Partner at Pittsburgh Equity Partners and focuses on early stage investments in information technology companies in th…
Ashok Trivedi
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Ashok Trivedi is a seasoned entrepreneur and a visionary thinker. Over the last 30 years, Ashok has been involved in recognizing impactful d…
Vicki Cheung
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Vicki Cheung
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Carter has extensive knowledge on how to establish and build a brand. His quick adaptive thinking allows him to come up with long term solut…
Jason Hong
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Jason Hong was a fellow in New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative. He is an associate professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute …
Sean Ammirati
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Sean Ammirati is an entrepreneur with experience building business both in the media and software industries. As ReadWriteWeb’s COO over…
James Haluszczak
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
James Haluszczak joined numoola as Founder, CEO, & Chairman of the Board in 2017.
Brad Sileo
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Brad Sileo
Dave Mawhinney
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dave Mawhinney is an Executive Director, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University since 2011.
Brian Arnone
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Brian has over 25 years’ experience in the event technology space. His career has consisted of performing in key leadership roles for compan…
Jeff Pepper
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jeff Pepper – Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ ElderVision
Siddharth Kothari
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Siddharth Kothari – Founder and CEO @ Appbase.io
Larry Weidman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Larry is a successful executive entrepreneur with more than 25 years of C-level experience leading high performance teams launching and comm…
Glen Meakem
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Realizing that there was no way for people to permanently store and share their family photos, videos, and other media in the cloud, Glen la…
Matt Newton
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Prior to co-founding Everest in 2015, Matt was the Vice Chairman of TriStar Investors, Inc., one of the largest and most successful acquirer…
Scott Russell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Scott Russell’s 25 year career has been in information technology, first as a senior manager of technology for some of the world’s largest f…
Barry Rabkin
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Barry Rabkin is the Director of Marketing at Near Earth Autonomy
Bill Besselman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Retail Executive
Kevin McAliley
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Kevin is passionate about building teams that create breakthrough technologies that powerfully improve learning. He has led four educational…
Katy Lanz
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Katy Lanz
Tom Jones
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
D. Thompson Jones (Tom) is a Managing Director of Draper Triangle. Seasoned entrepreneurial executive with over 25 years of sales & mark…
Stanley M. Marks
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Dr. Marks attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his bachelor’s degree in biology in 1969, and his medical degree in 1973….
Valerie S. Gaydos
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Valerie is an active angel investor and Founder of the Angel Venture Forum. She has been involved with many start-up companies in the areas …
Cheryl Heller
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Cheryl is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA and the founder of the design lab CommonWise. S…
Takeo Kanade
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Takeo Kanade is the U. A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics and the director of Quality of Life Techn…
William Thomas McClellan
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
William Thomas McClellan – CEO @ Figure 8 Surgical
Prof. R. Ravi
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Distinguished Professor at Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University
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