Investment partners in California
Source: FundingWatcher. Data as of 4 September 2026.
1,706
Investment partners 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 | Alexis Ohanian | San Francisco, United States | 181 | 5 | 57 | 0 |
| 5 | Paul Buchheit | Mountain View, United States | 175 | 5 | 76 | 0 |
| 6 | Scott Banister | San Francisco, United States | 162 | 8 | 61 | 0 |
| 7 | Shervin Pishevar | San Francisco, United States | 155 | 0 | 72 | 0 |
| 8 | Justin Mateen | Los Angeles, United States | 149 | 22 | 24 | 0 |
| 9 | Guillermo Rauch | San Francisco, United States | 144 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 10 | Wei Guo | San Francisco, United States | 143 | 1 | 32 | 16 |
| 11 | Peter Thiel | San Francisco, United States | 140 | 25 | 32 | 0 |
| 12 | Sam Altman | San Francisco, United States | 134 | 31 | 32 | 0 |
| 13 | Kevin Mahaffey | San Francisco, United States | 133 | 4 | 34 | 0 |
| 14 | Tim Draper | San Francisco, United States | 123 | 31 | 28 | 0 |
| 15 | Immad Akhund | San Francisco, United States | 122 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 16 | Louis Beryl | San Francisco, United States | 121 | 3 | 37 | 4 |
| 17 | Kevin Hartz | San Francisco, United States | 120 | 1 | 28 | 0 |
| 18 | Tom Williams | San Francisco, United States | 115 | 15 | 14 | 0 |
| 19 | Cyan Banister | San Francisco, United States | 115 | 4 | 30 | 9 |
| 20 | Kevin Lin | San Francisco, United States | 115 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 21 | Ron Conway | San Francisco, United States | 107 | 2 | 63 | 0 |
| 22 | Reid Hoffman | Palo Alto, United States | 106 | 10 | 38 | 0 |
| 23 | Jeff Dean | Palo Alto, United States | 104 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 24 | Garry Tan | San Francisco, United States | 97 | 3 | 28 | 0 |
| 25 | Mark Pincus | San Francisco, United States | 94 | 2 | 26 | 0 |
| 26 | Justin Kan | San Francisco, United States | 93 | 2 | 14 | 0 |
| 27 | Arjun Sethi | San Francisco, United States | 88 | 1 | 26 | 0 |
| 28 | Auren Hoffman | San Francisco, United States | 86 | 2 | 44 | 0 |
| 29 | Benjamin Ling | Menlo Park, United States | 78 | 2 | 40 | 17 |
| 30 | Ashton Kutcher | Los Angeles, United States | 77 | 1 | 31 | 0 |
| 31 | Roman Smolevskiy | Menlo Park, United States | 74 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 32 | Brendan Wallace | Los Angeles, United States | 68 | 0 | 28 | 0 |
| 33 | David Morin | Mill Valley, United States | 66 | 3 | 38 | 0 |
| 34 | Brad Flora | San Francisco, United States | 66 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| 35 | Dave McClure | San Francisco, United States | 63 | 1 | 34 | 0 |
| 36 | Yuri Milner | Los Altos Hills, United States | 62 | 6 | 27 | 0 |
| 37 | Steve Chen | San Francisco, United States | 62 | 3 | 16 | 0 |
| 38 | Avichal Garg | San Francisco, United States | 62 | 2 | 20 | 0 |
| 39 | Darian Shirazi | San Francisco, United States | 59 | 2 | 14 | 0 |
| 40 | Mitch Kapor | Oakland, United States | 58 | 1 | 31 | 0 |
| 41 | Michael Ovitz | Beverly Hills, United States | 58 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 42 | Cory Levy | San Francisco, United States | 57 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 43 | Jason Calacanis | San Francisco, United States | 56 | 4 | 20 | 0 |
| 44 | Max Mullen | San Francisco, United States | 55 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 45 | Justin Waldron | San Francisco, United States | 55 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 46 | Kevin Durant | Oakland, United States | 55 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 47 | Raymond Tonsing | San Francisco, United States | 54 | 3 | 27 | 0 |
| 48 | Michael Seibel | San Francisco, United States | 54 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 49 | Anand Chandrasekaran | United States | 53 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| 50 | Michael Stoppelman | Santa Monica, United States | 53 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 51 | Girish Mathrubootham | Pleasanton, United States | 52 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
| 52 | Paige Craig | Los Angeles, United States | 52 | 2 | 24 | 0 |
| 53 | Tom Preston-Werner | Ross, United States | 52 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 54 | Jeff Weiner | Mountain View, United States | 51 | 1 | 15 | 0 |
| 55 | David Sacks | San Francisco, United States | 50 | 5 | 22 | 0 |
| 56 | Jeremy Stoppelman | San Francisco, United States | 50 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| 57 | Kulveer Taggar | San Francisco, United States | 50 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 58 | Bill Tai | Palo Alto, United States | 48 | 2 | 12 | 0 |
| 59 | Frederic Kerrest | San Francisco, United States | 48 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 60 | Mathilde Collin | San Francisco, United States | 47 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 61 | Ram Shriram | Menlo Park, United States | 46 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| 62 | Anthony Pompliano | San Francisco, United States | 45 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 63 | Eric Kwan | San Francisco, United States | 45 | 0 | 11 | 86 |
| 64 | John Doerr | Menlo Park, United States | 44 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 65 | Marc Andreessen | San Francisco, United States | 44 | 2 | 32 | 0 |
| 66 | Nicolas Dessaigne | San Francisco, United States | 44 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 67 | Timothy Ferriss | San Francisco, United States | 43 | 4 | 19 | 0 |
| 68 | Chris Sacca | Truckee, United States | 43 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| 69 | Sahil Lavingia | San Francisco, United States | 43 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 70 | Brian Requarth | United States | 42 | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 71 | Allen DeBevoise | West Hollywood, United States | 42 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| 72 | Roham Gharegozlou | San Francisco, United States | 42 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 73 | Joe Montana | San Francisco, United States | 41 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| 74 | Zachery Coelius | San Francisco, United States | 41 | 1 | 13 | 0 |
| 75 | Ali Partovi | San Francisco, United States | 40 | 2 | 24 | 0 |
| 76 | Lip-Bu Tan | Santa Clara, United States | 40 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 77 | Fred Ehrsam | San Francisco, United States | 40 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 78 | Howard Lindzon | San Diego, United States | 40 | 1 | 14 | 0 |
| 79 | Payam Zamani | Walnut Creek, United States | 40 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| 80 | Adam Nash | Los Altos, United States | 40 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 81 | Brian Lee | Los Angeles, United States | 40 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| 82 | Qasar Younis | Mountain View, United States | 40 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 83 | Thomas McInerney | Santa Monica, United States | 40 | 0 | 17 | 1 |
| 84 | Sunmeet Jolly | San Jose, United States | 39 | 1 | 14 | 0 |
| 85 | Tikhon Bernstam | San Francisco, United States | 39 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| 86 | Jacob Gibson | San Francisco, United States | 38 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 87 | Grant Van Cleve | Orange, United States | 37 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 88 | Edith Yeung | San Francisco, United States | 36 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 89 | Geoff Ralston | San Francisco, United States | 36 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 90 | Neeraj Arora | Mountain View, United States | 35 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 91 | Jack Dorsey | San Francisco, United States | 34 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| 92 | John W. Thompson | San Francisco, United States | 34 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 93 | Dan Rose | Palo Alto, United States | 34 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 94 | Matthew Ocko | San Francisco, United States | 34 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| 95 | Kelly Perdew | Los Angeles, United States | 33 | 1 | 11 | 0 |
| 96 | Owen Van Natta | San Francisco, United States | 33 | 1 | 14 | 0 |
| 97 | Adeyemi Ajao | San Francisco, United States | 33 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| 98 | April Underwood | San Francisco, United States | 33 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 99 | Harris Barton | San Francisco, United States | 33 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 100 | Jeff Kearl | San Clemente, United States | 33 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
Table 1. Investment partners in California, by recorded investments. Source: FundingWatcher. Data as of 4 September 2026. Base: 1,706.
Investment stages
Among these 1,706Other investors in California
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Cite: FundingWatcher, 1,706 investment partners in California, 4 September 2026. https://fundingwatcher.com/investors/investment-partners/california-united-states/