Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Minnesota 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 Minnesota 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…
Russell Siegelman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Russell Siegelman is a Lecturer at the Stanford University.
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.
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…
Niklas Hed
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Niklas Hed is the Co-Founder of Rovio. He steers Rovio’s Research and Development efforts on new technologies, platforms and ventures to ens…
Bennie Bray
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bennie Bray – Co-Founder @ Monarch Capital Partners
Juan Sabater
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Juan Sabater serves as a Managing Director at Valor. Juan Sabater’s responsibilities include investment structuring and execution, due dili…
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…
Carol Bartz
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bartz has been a member of the Board of Directors since November 1996. Since November 2005, she has served as Lead Independent Director.Bart…
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
Jeff Hinck
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Jeff has been a venture capitalist since 1997 and has focused on early-stage business technology companies throughout his career. Jeff co-fo…
Dustin Coupal
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dustin Coupal
Christer Gardell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Main occupation: CEO Christer co-founded Cevian Capital in 2002 and has since worked as a Managing Partner in the company. From 1996 to 200…
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…
Kirk Cousins
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Kirk Cousins is an American football quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football…
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 …
Jim Bullock
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jim joined Zyga Technology as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in Nov. 2011. Prior, he served as President and CEO of Atritec…
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
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…
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
Brent Magid
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Brent Magid is a president and CEO at Magid.
Scott Heimes
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Scott Heimes – Chief Marketing Officer @ Zipwhip
John Sheehan
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
John Sheehan
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 …
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
Bobby Norment
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bobby Norment – COO @ University of the Nations
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
John Dennis
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
John Dennis – Managing Partner @ Woodrock & Co
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.
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