Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Los Altos 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 Los Altos Angel Investors
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Adam Nash
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Adam Nash was the president and chief executive officer of Wealthfront, a software-based financial advisor from 2012 to 2016. He originally …
Manik Gupta
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Manik Gupta is the Chief Product Officer at Uber. Prior to taking on this role, Manik ran Uber’s Marketplace and Maps product teams, where h…
Shishir Mehrotra
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Mr. Shishir Mehrotra is a Co-Founder/CEO of Coda since June 2014 and served as Strategic Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer from Decembe…
Sergey Brin
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Sergey Brin, President of Alphabet and one of Google’s founders, has served as a member of Alphabet’s board of directors since October 2015….
Robin Vasan
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Robin Vasan is the founder and solo partner at Mango Capital, an enterprise focused seed stage firm.
Buddy Arnheim
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Buddy Arnheim – Partner, Chair of Emerging Companies and VC Practice @ Perkins Coie
David Eckstein
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David Eckstein is Chief Financial Officer of Menlo Security. David had been serving as an advisor to Menlo, helping raise $40M in its Series…
Christopher Nguyen
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Christopher Cuong T. Nguyen joinedFulbright University Vietnam as Board Member in 2018. Christopher Nguyen is co-founder & CEO of Adatao, a …
Ash Bhardwaj
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Ash has a long and impressive track record in building high growth technology businesses. From 2004 to 2008, Ash was founding CEO of Aricent…
Gerard Williams III
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Gerard Williams III is the CEO of NUVIA. Prior to co-founding NUVIA, he was a Senior Director at Apple and Chief CPU Architect for nearly a …
Gary Griffiths
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
A 35-year veteran of the high-tech industry, Griffiths has led some of the web’s most innovative companies. Prior to co-founding Wisdom LLP,…
Oded Hermoni
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Oded Hermoni is the managing partner and co founder of J-Ventures and J-Angels, a Silicon Valley based VC fund, which invested in 38 compani…
Pavel Cherkashin
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
Pavel Cherkashin is a venture fund executive, writer, former business-angel and an entrepreneur with a track record of developing technolog…
Osman Rashid
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Osman is a seasoned entrepreneur in the field of educational technology. He is currently the CEO of Convo Corp. and Founder & CEO of **Galxy…
Jim Scheinman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jim Scheinman is the Founding Managing Partner of Maven Ventures (www.mavenventures.com), the leading seed venture fund for emerging consume…
Guy Miasnik
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
A tech entrepreneur, investor and mentor focused on great teams and high impact opportunities in security, public safety, enterprise softwar…
Michael Tanne
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael is a tech executive, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He’s an advisor to [Pinterest](/company/pinterest), has a fund, [Endeavor Par…
Omar Tawakol
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Omar Tawakol is a leader in Silicon Valley and sees revenue in data. His intellectual blend of technologist, marketer and innovator are uniq…
Shawn Byers
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Shawn Byers – Partner @ MITS Fund
Sam Pullara
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Sam joined Sutter Hill Ventures from Twitter where he was a senior infrastructure engineer and a strategic technology advisor. He came to T…
Ilana Golan
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Ilana Golan is the founder of Golan Ventures and Leap, the exclusive program that has been transforming thousands of lives and careers. Tech…
Yuri Milner
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Yuri founded Mail.ru Group in 1999 and under his leadership it became one of Europe’s leading internet companies. He took that business publ…
Slavik Markovich
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Slavik Markovich is a serial entrepreneur with a passion to solve hard technology problems. He is co-founder and CEO of Demisto and serves a…
Leonard Speiser
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Leonard Speiser – Board Director @ The Level Hot Pantry
Ben Golub
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Ben Golub – Executive Chairman and Interim CEO @ Storj
Peter Hsieh
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dr. Peter Hsieh is a General Partner of Acorn Pacific Ventures, based in Silicon Valley. He did Venture Capital from 1997-2004 in Silicon…
Michael Scharff
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Experienced digital and omni-channel executive with a 25+ year track record of exceeding financial goals and driving high impact strategy, i…
Oudi Antebi
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Oudi Antebi is a Co-Founder of RedKix and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Oudi Antebi served as an Executive Vice President of Produc…
Nitin Mangtani
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Nitin Mangtani is Founder & CEO of PredictSpring, a innovative mobile commerce platform. Prior to Founding PredictSpring, Nitin was Grou…
Joe Hurd
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Joe Hurd runs marketing, business development and corporate engagement efforts for HAX and IndieBio in San Francisco, working with key compa…
Mikael Berner
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Mikael Berner is a serial entrepreneur and leader driving innovation in the technology industry. He holds nine patents in wireless technolog…
Jon Herstein
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Jon Herstein is an SVP, Customer Success and Chief Customer Officer at Box, guiding the client services, technical support, and implementat…
George Haber
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Haber’s Law! “If it can be done in Software it will”. Successful Serial Entrepreneur, Marketing Guru, Strategist, with proven track record, …
David Tsang
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David Tsang is the managing member and co-founder of Acorn Campus, an incubator and venture fund in Silicon Valley. Since the 1960s Mr. Tsan…
Balaji Prabhakar
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Balaji is Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Urban Engines. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford Univ…
Jack Carsten
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jack Carsten – Managing Director @ Horizon Ventures
Joerg Heilig
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Joerg Heilig
Terry Eger
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Terry Eger
Saar Gillai
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Saar Gillai is an Independent board director at Xilinx, Semtech, and Liquid Instruments as well as a CEO advisor to multiple companies. Saar…
Federico Faggin
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Federico Faggin – Founder @ Peaxy
David Auerbach
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
As a successful entrepreneur, David has also failed enough to appreciate the value of any success — big or small. His current roles as advis…
Maky Zanganeh
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Maky Zanganeh has more than 16 years of strategic planning, management, corporate, clinical, business and marketing experience in the pharma…
Eugene Zhang
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Eugene Zhang is the founding partner of TSVC (formerly TEEC Angel Fund) since 2010. Eugene is an entrepreneur himself, his investments …
Bill Moore
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bill Moore – Board Director @ CNEX Labs
Kathleen Estreich
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Kathleen (Loughlin) Estreich was the VP of Marketing & Operations of Scalyr. She is now an Angel Investor.
Anne Johnson
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Anne Johnson – VP Business Development @ Xockets
Marina Davidova
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Marina Davidova
Kevin Eyres
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Kevin Eyres
Gary Wipfler
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Gary Wipfler
Dr. Harry MIttelman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dr. Harry MIttelman – Director of Medical Advisory Board @ CosmeSys
Troy Detrick
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Troy Detrick currently works as Founder and General Partner at Canyon Oak Ventures.
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