Mark Kendall
Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica Angel Investors
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
James Siminoff
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
A lifelong inventor and successful entrepreneur, Jamie created the world’s first Wi-Fi video doorbell while working in his garage in 2011. T…
Jose Feliciano
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
José E. Feliciano is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Clearlake Capital Group.
Jesse Draper
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jesse Draper joined Halogen Ventures as General Partner in 2016. Jesse Draper is founding partner of Halogen Ventures as well as creator and…
Michael Ryan Dubin
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Michael Dubin is a co-founder and chief executive officer of [Dollar Shave Club](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dollar-shave-club#/…
Zander Lurie
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Zander is CEO of SurveyMonkey and serves on its board of directors, which he has been a part of since 2009. Previously, Zander was Senior Vi…
Jake Kassan
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Jake Kassan – CEO/Co-Founder @ MVMT
Robert Gryn
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Robert turned Codewise into one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies, with a 290% average revenue growth rate since the beginning of operat…
Shivani Siroya
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Shivani Siroya is the founder and CEO of Tala, a mobile technology and data science company that is working to deliver financial access, cho…
Hayden Slater
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Hayden Slater started Pressed Juicery in 2010 with his two childhood friends Hedi Gores and Carly de Castro with the goal of making high nut…
Aaron Hirschhorn
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Aaron Hirschhorn is the Founder & CEO at Gallant.
Allen Morgan
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
After 12 years as a General Partner/Managing Director/Venture Partner at Mayfield Fund, I’m now fully-engaged in two pursuits: (1) as an act…
Scott Marlette
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
For two decades, Scott has been a pioneer in building tools and resources that help consumers live better lives. He was one of the first emp…
Jim Armstrong
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
A successful and experienced early stage venture investor across a variety of enterprise and consumer facing technology companies, Jim has e…
Jiake Liu
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jiake Liu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Outer.
Josh Berman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Currently Josh is the Co-Founder and CEO of BeachMint, a next generation eCommerce company based in Santa Monica, CA. The company is focused…
Michael Mahan
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael Mahan is the President of dick clark productions and a Partner of Mosaic Media Investment Partners. Mr. Mahan brings a wealth of exp…
Chad DePue
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Chad DePue is CTO at Whisper.
William Woodward
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bill’s technology interests include innovative software platforms, emerging new media models, and broadband convergence. His personal intere…
Tim Davis
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Venture
Timothy T Davis, MD is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Physiatry) and Pain Medicine. The founder of Source Healthc…
Brady Brim-DeForest
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Brady Brim-DeForest is the Chief Executive Officer of Theorem.
Peter Chernin
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Since June 2009, Chernin has served as Founder and Chairman of Chernin Entertainment, LLC, a film and television production company, and The…
Richard Rosenblatt
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Richard is Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Whipclip, an app that enables users to share their favorite TV moments. Prior to Whipclip, Ri…
Tom Dare
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Tom has over 20 years of experience building and managing Internet companies through startup, growth, funding, and exit stages. Tom is the c…
Vlad Panchenko
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Volodymyr Panchenko is private merchant of digital games in the world. He is founder of skins.cash — 2nd biggest virtual items marketplace….
Alexander Straub
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Alexander Straub is the Founder of Windfinity and Straub Ventures, and the Managing Director of Material Machines.
Jonathan Congdon
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jonathan Congdon – President & Co-founder @ Beachbody
William Barnes
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Operator turned investor – first 50 at UBER, started LA and scaled West Coast Operations.
Gregory Milken
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Gregory Milken is Managing Director at March Capital Partners, where he focuses on investments in digital media, gaming and esports. Gregor…
Zach Bruhnke
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Zach is the Founder of Spout, a YC W12 Alumni and a serial entrepreneur, Zach has founded four tech startups selling his first while still a…
Kyle Mitnick
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Kyle Mitnick
Ben Marcus
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Ben Marcus is an aviation expert and executive. Prior to AirMap, he co-founded and was CEO of jetAVIVA, the world’s largest light business j…
Scott H. Cohen
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Debt, Private Equity, Venture
Scott Cohen has over 25 years of professional investment experience, including public and private debt and equity. Mr. Cohen joined Silver …
Shaun Arora
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Shaun Arora graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with Honors and went to work as a cultural anthropologist for consumer package…
Brian McLoughlin
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Mr. Brian McLoughlin is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at MTech Capital. Previously, he was a Partner at Upfront Ventures for 13 years. …
Fred Krueger
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Fred Krueger is a NINE time founder with multiple exits in the social networking, advertising, and casual gaming space. His lifelong career …
John Rudolph
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
John is an advisor to many media and tech firms, as well as an investor. He is a trusted advisor to seed stage and large companies with a s…
Shomik Dutta
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Shomik has built a diverse career in politics, renewable energy, and finance. He is a veteran of several Democratic campaigns and served as …
Adam Townsend
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Adam Townsend was named Executive Vice President, Investor Relations at CBS Corporation in July 2008, charged with overseeing the Company’s …
Tom Villante
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Tom co-founded YapStone, Inc. in 1999 and serves as its Chairman of the Board. Villante served as the Chief Executive Officer of YapStone, I…
Joe Perez
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Joe Perez – Founder @ Tastemade
Joshua Montross
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Joshua Montross
Scott Kriz
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Scott Kriz
Tristan Couvares
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Tristan Couvares, currently founded and runs one of Los Angeles’ premier staffing firms targeting venture-backed startups and engineers, The…
Mike Einziger
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Michael Aaron “Mike” Einziger (born June 21, 1976) is an American musician, best known as the guitarist and co-songwriter of the rock band I…
Chris Ahearn
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Chris Ahearn is a Venture Partner at FirstMark Capital and an active independent investor. He is currently on the boards of NewsCred, WiserC…
Nick Green
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Nick Green is the Co-Founder and CEO of Thrive Market, a membership-based market that makes high-quality, healthy, and sustainable products …
Alex Karelin
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
A lifelong entrepreneur and prolific angel investor, Alex formed TulaCo in 2010, but the core of the team has been working together since 19…
Robert Goldberg
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Robert Goldberg Board Member at Lyte.
David Travers
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
David Travers – Managing Partner @ Basepoint Ventures
Royce Disini
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Royce Disini is the Founder and CEO of Mobcrush. Prior to this, he worked as Product at M-GO. He was the Founder of Zabbi. He served as Exec…
Jon Ferrara
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jon Ferrara is a CRM and Relationship Management entrepreneur and noted speaker about Social Media’s effects on Sales and Marketing. His mos…
Brett Bernstein
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Brett Bernstein – Founder & CEO @ Gatsby
Joaquin Ayuso
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Joaquin Ayuso
James Young
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
James Young co-founder at Abridged
Adalsteinn Alli Ottarsson
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
As senior development director at Riot Games, Aðalsteinn “Alli” Óttarsson serves as a compass for the development efforts of League of Legen…
Thomas Unterman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Thomas E. Unterman founded Rustic Canyon in 1999 and has raised venture funds in excess of $800 million. Among his notable investments are N…
Jon Feltheimer
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jon Feltheimer is the Chief Executive Officer at Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. and Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc. Feltheimer serves as the …
David Ellison
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David Ellison is Chief Executive Officer of Skydance, the diversified media company he founded in 2010 to create elevated, event-level, comm…
Jared Ablon
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Jared Ablon previously was the Chief Information Security Officer at AirMap where he was the reciepient of the CISO of the year award by the…
Evan Rifkin
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Evan Rifkin is a CEO @ Burstly .
Russ Sach
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Russ Sach – Investor @ TurnKey Vacation Rentals
Nick Hedges
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
A 20-year veteran of the Internet and software as a service (SaaS) industry, Nick comes to MomentFeed having been President and CEO of Veloc…
Nicholas Green
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Nicholas R. Green joined Thrive Market as Co-Founder and CEO in 2013.
Charles La
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Charles La is a Senior Software Engineer at Google.
Brian Foley
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
CEO and Founder at Buddytruk
Arjan de Raaf
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Arjan de Raaf – CEO @ Totally.Dot
Abhimanyu (Abhi) Singh
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
VP Client Services at TaskUs
Danny Epstien
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Danny Epstien
Sandy Grushow
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Sandy Grushow – CEO @ Phase2Media
Eric Zdenek
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Eric Zdenek – CEO and Co-Founder @ TSN Advertising
Katherine Gaffney
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Katherine runs a strategy, finance and operations consulting practice advising tech startups and digital media companies in LA, SF, and the …
Josh Pritchard
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Josh Pritchard
Russell Tuchman
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Russell is the Founder and CEO of BashPros Inc. Previously Russell was the original Co-Founder of Buddytruk. A hard working and forward …
Nathan Walton
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Nathan Walton is a Partner and Head of the Ares Energy Group. He joined the Firm in 2006. Mr. Walton serves on the Ares Private Equity Group…
Logan Margulies
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Logan Margulies is a Head of Live Support at Riot Games.
Philip Wilson
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Philip Wilson – CEO/CoFounder @ Fullcourt
Hector Sahagun
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Hector Sahagun is an engineering manager at VideoAmp.
Atta Tarki
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Atta Tarki
Dean Gebert
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dean Gebert is the Product Development – Advisor, Consultant at Various Companies.
Punit Shah
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Punit Shah
Cris Popenoe
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Cris Popenoe – President @ Dawn Production
Josh Binnie
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Josh Binnie – CEO @ TeamNow
Jerry Jao
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Jerry Jao
Luis Santos
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Luis Santos – Founder @ EVERFREIGHT INC
Gustav Andersson
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Gustav Andersson – Board member @ LoanBook Capital
Jennifer Snow
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jennifer Snow
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