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44 Best Minneapolis Angel Investors

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

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.


Daren Cotter

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits bo…


Patrick O’Shaughnessy

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Patrick O’Shaughnessy is the Chief Executive Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management.


Joshua Riff

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Joshua Riff is a healthcare innovator with a passion for driving consumer centered solutions. Currently, Josh serves as the CEO of the newly…


Larry Lukis

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Larry Lukis


John Cosgriff

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

John Cosgriff is Senior Vice President at UnitedHealth Group, where he focuses on strategy, acquisitions, and new business ventures. UnitedH…


Bennie Bray

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Bennie Bray – Co-Founder @ Monarch Capital Partners


Michael Berman

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Michael Berman is a successful entrepreneur within the medical device industry.He joined Scimed in 1986, leading its marketing activities un…


Michael Dougherty

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Founder and Chairman of Dougherty Financial Group LLC, a collection of seven financial service companies in 14 states managing assets in exc…


Robert Weber

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Robert Weber joined Great North Ventures as Co-Founder & Managing Partner in 2017.


Rob Walling

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur with products ranging from email marketing software Drip to SEO Keyword tool HitTail. He’s the author o…


Hassan Syed

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Hassan Syed is the Founder and CEO of Bir Ventures, a technology incubator that brings ideas to reality. A technologist at heart, he has bro…


Richard Cargill

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Richard Cargill is the founder of Turas Mara.


Casey Carl

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Casey Carl – EVP and Chief Omni Strategy and Operations Officer @ Walmart


Dustin Coupal

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Dustin Coupal


Doug Berg

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Doug Berg is a multi-startup entrepenuer who’s started and scaled several companies in the talent & consumer tech industry. Doug Berg serves…


Mike Bollinger

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Mike Bollinger is an explorer and entrepreneur. He is founder of Livefront, a mobile software design & development firm, and co-founder of T…


Ryan Weber

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Ryan is co-founder of NativeX. Ryan’s focus is to combine NativeX’s sales and marketing initiatives with cutting-edge technology by leading …


Kathy Fields

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Kathy Fields – Co-Founder @ Rodan & Fields


Jim D’Aquila

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Jim D’Aquila – Managing Director and Head of Consumer & Retail @ Lazard


Kathleen A. Tune

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Kathy joined Thomas, McNerney & Partners from Piper Jaffray, where she was a health care analyst focused on medical technology companies. Wh…


AR Weiler

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

AR Weiler


John Deedrick

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

John A. Deedrick is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Fourth Element Capital, a healthcare technology venture capital firm. He is Co-f…


Ravi Linganuri

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Ravi Linganuri


Gavin Lee

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Gavin Lee is an entrepreneur in the technology industry. His previous achievements include a partnership with Nintendo®, participating in th…


Bradley Melnick

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed

Career business transformation and relationship leader spanning a variety of roles, including operations management and efficiency, capital …


Joy Lindsay

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Joy Lindsay is President and co-founder of StarTec Investments, LLC, a private venture capital firm that has been investing in high-tech com…


Roy Martin

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Roy is currently the president and CEO of WELM Ventures, LLT, a small venture capital firm. Along with this, he is also the chairman of the …


Sean Hughes

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Sean Hughes is Founder @ StarBlock.com.


Alex Danzberger

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Alex Danzberger


Ken Holec

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Ken Holec has more than 30 years’ experience establishing strategy, leadership and execution for both private and public technology companie…


Mark Addicks

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

A former CMO and SVP of General Mills, Mark has a 26-year career leading iconic brands like Cheerios, Betty Crocker and Big G. A highly rega…


Loren (Skip) Singer

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Loren (Skip) Singer


Anton V. Vincent

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Anton Vincent became president of the General Mills Snacks division in 2014. He is responsible for the growth of some of America’s favorite …


Marc Belton

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Marc Belton


Thomas Schnettler

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Thomas Schnettler, is serves as Managing Director of Piper Jaffray Merchant Banking.


Robert Rinek

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Robert Rinek is a Managing Director and Partner of the Piper Sandler Merchant Banking Group.


Todd Parenteau

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Todd Parenteau


John Whaley

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Long track record in private equity with Norwest Equity Partners now focused on board level activity in emerging ventures, private companies…


John White

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

John White


Mark Usem

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Mark Usem – Financial Planner @ Affiance Financial


Adrian Peterson

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Adrian Peterson – Founder @ All Day Foundation


Rajesh Aggarwal

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Rajesh Aggarwal – Co Founder @ Minneapolis Biomass Exchange


Tom Linzmeier

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Founder at inkSIG Digital.


M3 Masters

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Founder at inkSIG Digital.

Written by Mark Kendall

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