The Top 25 U.S. High Technology Angel Investors

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2010 Rank	Investor	Number of Angel Investments	Percent of Companies Operating, Acquired, or Public (not dead)	Number of Employees*	Amount of Funding Received (in Millions)*	Best Financial Performance** (Rank)	Most Influential*** (Rank)	Most Diverse Portfolio**** (Rank)	Investment focus
1	Chris Dixon	23	100			1	11	1	B2B internet services, Consumer Internet
2	Ron Conway	190	97			2	1	12	Consumer Internet, Mobile
3	Reid Hoffman	49	96			4	3	24	Consumer Internet, Social Networking, Gaming
4	Esther Dyson	60	98			3	16	25	Consumer Internet, Social Networking, Space Exploration
5	Peter Thiel	26	92			8	2	9	Consumer Intenet, Mobile, B2B internet services
6	Marc Andreessen	53	100			6	6	20	Cloud Computing, Virtualization, SaaS, Consumer Software
7	Jeff Bezos	18	100			5	12	16	Online Marketplaces, Space Exploration
8	Chris Sacca	31	94			16	9	6	Consumer Internet, B2B Internet Services
9	Mike Maples	39	97			13	13	8	Consumer Internet, Mobile, Gaming, Retail
10	Andy Bechtolsheim	49	100			12	8	19	B2B Internet services
11	Paul Graham	129	84			7	14	21	Infrastructure, Virtualization, Networking
12	Max Levchin	7	100			21	4	3	Consumer Internet, SaaS
13	Aydin Senkut	65	95			9	21	11	Consumer Internet, B2B Internet Services
14	Bill Joy	24	100			20	7	7	Consumer Internet, Mobile, B2B Internet services
15	Kevin Rose	12	100			14	19	10	Networking, Infrastructure
16	Dave Duffield	18	89			10	15	22	Consumer Internet
17	Andrea Zurek	26	92			15	24	5	Consumer Internet, Search, Software
18	Marc Benioff	9	100			17	22	4	SaaS, B2B Internet Services
19	Jeff Clavier	52	92			22	5	17	Consumer Internet, B2B internet services
20	Caterina Fake	6	83			24	20	2	Consumer Internet, E-commerce
21	Martin Varsavsky	28	96			23	10	15	Consumer Internet
22	Naval Ravikant	21	90			18	17	18	Consumer Internet, B2B Internet Services
23	Joe Kraus	5	100			11	25	23	Consumer Internet, SaaS
24	Eric Schmidt	9	100			19	18	13	Enterprise Software, Consumer Internet
25	Lauren Flanagan	23	96			25	23	14	Healthcare & Biotechnology

^*Figures are total for all companies in the portfolio.
^**Annual growth of investments, companies operating at
valuations above $100 million, and the sale of any companies for over
$50 million.
^***Co-investment connections reveal how many angels they have
worked with, uniqueness of co-investments, and critical bridges between
angel groups.
^****Range of industries and countries in the angel's
portfolio.

Data: YouNoodle

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