If you are a start-up looking for funds and still trying to find an angel to back you, here is a list of top angel investors according to number of investments made and successful exits.
Angel investors usually invest their own money, where the typical amount raised ranges from $150,000 to $2,000,000.
The top 10 angels investors ranked by number of investments made, according to Forbes are
1) Fabrice Grinda (245 investments): As an Internet entrepreneur and investor, Fabrice has successfully transposed, adapted and invested in business ideas between the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
In March of 2006, Fabrice co-founded OLX, with business partner Alec Oxenford, in the hopes of building the largest free local classified site in the world. Until December 2012, as co-CEO, Fabrice drove the company’s business development, investor relations, M&A and product development efforts.
2) Paul Buchheit (135 investments): Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features.
3) Wei Guo (129 investments): Wei Guo has been one of China’s most prolific startup investors in recent years, backing companies through his firm Wei Fund, which he launched in 2014, and then Uphonest, his $50 million second fund. Guo’s exits already include Scout, Chariot, Worklife, Virtroid and tbh. One focus for Guo is to help portfolio companies globalize their operations, according to Crunch database.
4) Alexis Ohanian (126 investments): Co-founder, Initialized Capital. Earliest seed investor in 100+ great startups — $20 billion in market value so far, according to the LinkedIn profile. He is best known as the co-founder of Reddit.
5) Scott Banister (126 investments): Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.
Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was the founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired by Microsoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001, according to Crunch database.
The others in the top 10 are Naval Ravikant (with 121 investments),Daniel Curran (114 investments), Marc Benioff (113 investments), Mark Cuban (110 investments), Simon Murdoch (99 investments).
Top 5 investors according to exits
Here are the top five angel investors, in order of number of exits:
- Fabrice Grinda (48 exits)
- Ron Conway (48 exits)
- Naval Ravikant (38 exits)
- Paul Buchheit (37 exits)
- David Tisch (35 exits)
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