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39 Best Raleigh Angel Investors

Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Raleigh 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 Raleigh Angel Investors

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.


Bob Young

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, a premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 3…


Scot Wingo

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Scot Wingo is the CEO of Spiffy.


Greg Clark

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Greg Clark is a Managing Partner at Crosspoint Capital Partners.


Bruce Boehm

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Bruce Boehm is an independent venture capitalist and advisor to several specialty venture capital funds. Mr. Boehm has over 25 years of vent…


Tom Darden

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Tom Darden is the Chief Executive Officer of Cherokee Investment Partners, a private equity fund that invests in large-scale real estate pro…


James Whitehurst

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

James Whitehurst is President and Chief Executive Officer at Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise IT products and…


David Gardner

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed

David Gardner is a serial entrepreneur, writer, adviser and very early stage investor with nearly thirty years of experience in creating and…


James Avery

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Founder and CEO of Adzerk. Started Kevel in 2010 to productize the ad server built while running Zerk Media and The Lounge and Ruby Row ad n…


Brian Marks

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Founder & CTO at Trinket


Aaron Houghton

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Aaron Houghton


Charlie Stiefel

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Prior to joining Brickell, Charles was chairman and CEO of Stiefel Laboratories, Inc. Founded in 1847, Stiefel Laboratories was a family-own…


John Andrews

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Media Disruptor. Levering 20+ years of experience in consumer packaged goods marketing coupled with 8 years of ground up social media kno…


Christy Shaffer

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Christy Shaffer – Board Chair @ KinoDyn


Robert McKenzie

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Robert McKenzie is the co-founder of Rankin McKenzie LLC, North Carolina’s largest and most trusted financial management firm. As an accompl…


Sanyin Siang

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Sanyin Siang – Advisor @ GV


Zac Penix

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture

Zac Penix – Venture Adviser & Company Builder @ Digital Strategies


Matt Schembari

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Matt Schembari


Morgan Darwin

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Sr. Advisor, Lead Investor, CEO-founder of a global healthcare company and a service and technology company, decorated 22-year service-disab…


Alex Osadzinski

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Alex Osadzinski is a lifelong lover of technology (i.e. a geek) with a passion for building, growing and managing teams and companies. Alex …


Stephen Malik

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Stephen Malik


Blane Warrene

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Blane Warrene


Karl Murphy

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

CEO of a growing on-demand technology fueled mobile car washing and detailing business. I lead a team that delivers convenient, trusted and …


Steve Klein

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Steve Klein is the co-founder of StatusPage.


Mark Rosenberg

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Mark Rosenberg


Cliff Bleszinski

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Cliff Bleszinski – CEO & Founder @ Boss Key Productions


Barrett Joyner

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Barrett Joyner – Director of Consulting Services @ Bunkhouse Productions


Andrew Kennedy

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Andrew Kennedy is a leading voice in the world of food traceability. In addition being the product visionary behind FoodLogiQ Connect, he is…


David Wilson

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

David Wilson


Anil Kamath

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

President & CEO @Dmorph Inc.


David Henning

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

David Henning – Partner @ Otimo Retail


Auryn Macmillan

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Auryn Macmillan is a Product Manager at Gnosis.


Stephen Hoffman

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Stephen Hoffman


Lee Nackman

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Lee received a BS in Computer Science from Brown University and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel …


John McMains

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

John McMains – CEO @ Principled Technologies


Steve Reaser

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Steve Reaser – Partner @ Sproutwise Kids


Jim Geikie

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Jim Geikie is a partner at One Better Ventures.


Rick Deckelbaum

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Rick Deckelbaum has been a business leader, entrepreneur and civic leader in North Carolina during his 25 plus year career. Throughout his c…


Kirk Owen

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Kirk Owen


Joe Desimone

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Joe Desimone

Written by Mark Kendall

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