Angel investors in California
Source: FundingWatcher. Data as of 4 September 2026.
4,488
Angel investors in California
100
Rows shown
8
Stages recorded
12
Other types here
100 rows
| # | Name | Location | Investments | Lead | Exits | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naval Ravikant | Palo Alto, United States | 299 | 17 | 81 | 0 |
| 2 | Gokul Rajaram | San Francisco, United States | 277 | 11 | 36 | 0 |
| 3 | Marc Benioff | San Francisco, United States | 203 | 12 | 53 | 0 |
| 4 | Daniel Curran | Santa Monica, United States | 183 | 0 | 54 | 0 |
| 5 | Alexis Ohanian | San Francisco, United States | 181 | 5 | 57 | 0 |
| 6 | Paul Buchheit | Mountain View, United States | 175 | 5 | 76 | 0 |
| 7 | Scott Banister | San Francisco, United States | 162 | 8 | 61 | 0 |
| 8 | Shervin Pishevar | San Francisco, United States | 155 | 0 | 72 | 0 |
| 9 | Justin Mateen | Los Angeles, United States | 149 | 22 | 24 | 0 |
| 10 | Guillermo Rauch | San Francisco, United States | 144 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 11 | Wei Guo | San Francisco, United States | 143 | 1 | 32 | 16 |
| 12 | Peter Thiel | San Francisco, United States | 140 | 25 | 32 | 0 |
| 13 | Sam Altman | San Francisco, United States | 134 | 31 | 32 | 0 |
| 14 | Kevin Mahaffey | San Francisco, United States | 133 | 4 | 34 | 0 |
| 15 | Bradley Horowitz | Palo Alto, United States | 124 | 0 | 23 | 1 |
| 16 | Tim Draper | San Francisco, United States | 123 | 31 | 28 | 0 |
| 17 | Immad Akhund | San Francisco, United States | 122 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 18 | Louis Beryl | San Francisco, United States | 121 | 3 | 37 | 4 |
| 19 | Kevin Hartz | San Francisco, United States | 120 | 1 | 28 | 0 |
| 20 | Tom Williams | San Francisco, United States | 115 | 15 | 14 | 0 |
| 21 | Cyan Banister | San Francisco, United States | 115 | 4 | 30 | 9 |
| 22 | Kevin Lin | San Francisco, United States | 115 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 23 | Ron Conway | San Francisco, United States | 107 | 2 | 63 | 0 |
| 24 | Reid Hoffman | Palo Alto, United States | 106 | 10 | 38 | 0 |
| 25 | Jeff Dean | Palo Alto, United States | 104 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 26 | Garry Tan | San Francisco, United States | 97 | 3 | 28 | 0 |
| 27 | Mark Pincus | San Francisco, United States | 94 | 2 | 26 | 0 |
| 28 | Justin Kan | San Francisco, United States | 93 | 2 | 14 | 0 |
| 29 | Arjun Sethi | San Francisco, United States | 88 | 1 | 26 | 0 |
| 30 | George Burke | San Francisco, United States | 88 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 31 | Auren Hoffman | San Francisco, United States | 86 | 2 | 44 | 0 |
| 32 | Jeremy Yap | San Francisco, United States | 84 | 0 | 27 | 86 |
| 33 | Benjamin Ling | Menlo Park, United States | 78 | 2 | 40 | 17 |
| 34 | Ashton Kutcher | Los Angeles, United States | 77 | 1 | 31 | 0 |
| 35 | Roman Smolevskiy | Menlo Park, United States | 74 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 36 | Joshua Schachter | United States | 72 | 1 | 38 | 0 |
| 37 | Adam D’Angelo | Mountain View, United States | 69 | 1 | 13 | 0 |
| 38 | Brendan Wallace | Los Angeles, United States | 68 | 0 | 28 | 0 |
| 39 | David Morin | Mill Valley, United States | 66 | 3 | 38 | 0 |
| 40 | Eric Ries | San Francisco, United States | 66 | 2 | 23 | 0 |
| 41 | Aaron Levie | United States | 66 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| 42 | Brad Flora | San Francisco, United States | 66 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| 43 | Dave McClure | San Francisco, United States | 63 | 1 | 34 | 0 |
| 44 | Farzad Nazem | Menlo Park, United States | 63 | 0 | 33 | 0 |
| 45 | Yuri Milner | Los Altos Hills, United States | 62 | 6 | 27 | 0 |
| 46 | Steve Chen | San Francisco, United States | 62 | 3 | 16 | 0 |
| 47 | Avichal Garg | San Francisco, United States | 62 | 2 | 20 | 0 |
| 48 | Ryan Petersen | San Francisco, United States | 62 | 1 | 13 | 0 |
| 49 | Darian Shirazi | San Francisco, United States | 59 | 2 | 14 | 0 |
| 50 | Jude Gomila | San Francisco, United States | 58 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 51 | Mitch Kapor | Oakland, United States | 58 | 1 | 31 | 0 |
| 52 | Rick Marini | San Francisco, United States | 58 | 1 | 20 | 0 |
| 53 | Baron Davis | Los Angeles, United States | 58 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 54 | Jeffrey Seibert | San Francisco, United States | 58 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| 55 | Michael Ovitz | Beverly Hills, United States | 58 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 56 | Cory Levy | San Francisco, United States | 57 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 57 | Varsha Rao | San Francisco, United States | 57 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| 58 | Akshay Kothari | San Francisco, United States | 57 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 59 | Jason Calacanis | San Francisco, United States | 56 | 4 | 20 | 0 |
| 60 | Max Mullen | San Francisco, United States | 55 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 61 | Justin Waldron | San Francisco, United States | 55 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 62 | Kevin Durant | Oakland, United States | 55 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 63 | Raymond Tonsing | San Francisco, United States | 54 | 3 | 27 | 0 |
| 64 | Kyle Vogt | San Francisco, United States | 54 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 65 | Michael Seibel | San Francisco, United States | 54 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 66 | Anand Chandrasekaran | United States | 53 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| 67 | Michael Stoppelman | Santa Monica, United States | 53 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 68 | Michael Birch | San Francisco, United States | 52 | 6 | 20 | 0 |
| 69 | Girish Mathrubootham | Pleasanton, United States | 52 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
| 70 | Paige Craig | Los Angeles, United States | 52 | 2 | 24 | 0 |
| 71 | Tom Preston-Werner | Ross, United States | 52 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 72 | Jeff Weiner | Mountain View, United States | 51 | 1 | 15 | 0 |
| 73 | David Sacks | San Francisco, United States | 50 | 5 | 22 | 0 |
| 74 | Charlie Cheever | Palo Alto, United States | 50 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 75 | Jeremy Stoppelman | San Francisco, United States | 50 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| 76 | Kulveer Taggar | San Francisco, United States | 50 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 77 | Eric Wu | San Francisco, United States | 49 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 78 | Georges Harik | Palo Alto, United States | 48 | 5 | 16 | 0 |
| 79 | John Collison | San Francisco, United States | 48 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 80 | Bill Tai | Palo Alto, United States | 48 | 2 | 12 | 0 |
| 81 | Frederic Kerrest | San Francisco, United States | 48 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 82 | James Beshara | San Francisco, United States | 47 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 83 | Mathilde Collin | San Francisco, United States | 47 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 84 | Ram Shriram | Menlo Park, United States | 46 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| 85 | Anthony Pompliano | San Francisco, United States | 45 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 86 | Drew Houston | San Francisco, United States | 45 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 87 | Eric Kwan | San Francisco, United States | 45 | 0 | 11 | 86 |
| 88 | Jared Leto | Los Angeles, United States | 45 | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| 89 | John Doerr | Menlo Park, United States | 44 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 90 | Marc Andreessen | San Francisco, United States | 44 | 2 | 32 | 0 |
| 91 | Othman Laraki | United States | 44 | 1 | 15 | 0 |
| 92 | Nicolas Dessaigne | San Francisco, United States | 44 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 93 | Siqi Chen | San Francisco, United States | 44 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 94 | Timothy Ferriss | San Francisco, United States | 43 | 4 | 19 | 0 |
| 95 | Ariel Poler | San Francisco, United States | 43 | 2 | 16 | 86 |
| 96 | Adrian Aoun | San Francisco, United States | 43 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| 97 | Blaine Vess | Los Angeles, United States | 43 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 98 | Chris Sacca | Truckee, United States | 43 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| 99 | Hiten Shah | Redwood City, United States | 43 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 100 | Sahil Lavingia | San Francisco, United States | 43 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
Table 1. Angel investors in California, by recorded investments. Source: FundingWatcher. Data as of 4 September 2026. Base: 4,488.
Investment stages
Among these 4,488Other investors in California
Angel investors elsewhere
New York1,835
England1,189
Texas521
Massachusetts517
Florida415
Washington370
Ile-de-France320
Maharashtra311
Illinois281
Ontario263
Karnataka253
Berlin245
Colorado201
Delhi200
New South Wales186
District of Columbia180
Stockholms Lan171
Sao Paulo170
Georgia155
Central Region147
Pennsylvania146
Bayern134
Madrid134
Catalonia122
Cite: FundingWatcher, 4,488 angel investors in California, 4 September 2026. https://fundingwatcher.com/investors/angel-investors/california-united-states/