Super angel

Super angel (or "super-angel") investors are a group of serial investors in early stage ventures in Silicon Valley, California and other technology centers who are particularly sophisticated, insightful, or well-connected in the startup business community.^[1]

Super angels share some characteristics of traditional angel investors, and venture capitalists,^[1] and have been described as a hybrid of the two models.^[2] Unlike traditional angel investors, they are typically professionals for whom investing is their primary occupation.^[3]

Features

Some common features of super angels include:

• Creating a professionally managed investment fund^[1]
• Serial investing (investing in numerous startup companies)
• Investing at a seed round in startup companies
• Funding rounds in the (approximate) range of $50,000 to several million dollars, larger than typical "friends and family" rounds but smaller than most venture rounds
• Taking an active role in portfolio companies^[4]
• Raising money from general partners and other principals, without passive investors in the fund
• Fund principals who are experienced entrepreneurs

List of investors described as super angels

Name of fund	Key people	Portfolio companies
	Scott Banister, Cyan Banister	PayPal, Facebook, Uber, Zappos, Space Exploration Technologies
	Fabrice Grinda[5][6]	Alibaba Group, Airbnb, Beepi, FanDuel, Palantir, viagogo, Porch (company), Pond5, PeoplePerHour, Lending Club, Getaround, BrightRoll, Parking Panda, Fundly, Thuzio
Felicis Ventures[7]	Aydin Senkut	Meraki, Mint.com
500 Startups[8]	Dave McClure	SlideShare, CrowdFlower, Udemy,
Floodgate Fund[9]	Mike Maples Jr., Ann Miura-Ko	Chegg, Dasient, Digg, Smule, Twitter
Founders Collective[10]	Bill Trenchard, Caterina Fake, Chris Dixon, David Frankel, Eric Paley, Mark Gerson, Micah Rosenbloom, Zach Klein	Minyanville Media
Founders Co-op[11]	Andy Sack, Chris DeVore
Greylock Partners	Reid Hoffman[12][13]	LinkedIn, Friendster, Zynga, Flickr, Kongregate, Ping.fm, Tagged, Nanosolar, Knewton,
Harrison Metal[14]	Michael Dearing, Erik Rannala	AdMob, Lumosity, Aardvark
IA Ventures[15]	Roger Ehrenberg, Brad Gillespie	Recorded Future
K9 Ventures[16]	Manu Kumar	CrowdFlower
Lerer Hippeau Ventures[17]	Kenneth Lerer, Ben Lerer
Lowercase Capital[18]	Chris Sacca	Twitter, bit.ly, Auctomatic, Uber
	Shervin Pishevar[19][20]	TaskRabbit, Postmates, Klout, Voxer, Aardvark, Dollar Shave Club, BranchOut (advisor), Gowalla, LikeALittle, Qwiki, Votizen, Solve Media, Blackjet
	Keith Rabois[21]	Xoom, Vendio, LinkedIn, yelp.com, YouTube, Geni.com, Yammer, Slide.com, Handipoints, TokBox, eventbrite, Airbnb, Palantir Technologies, Apture, Scoopler, Swipely, Causes, AlterG, ZimRide, GoGoBot, Qwiki, Udemy, Indinero, FutureAdvisor, Votizen, Square, Inc.
SoftTech VC	Jeff Clavier[22]	Tapulous, RapLeaf,
SV Angel[23]	Ron Conway, David Lee, Mike Ghaffary, Brian Pokorny (former)	Google, Ze Frank, AppNexus, Ask Jeeves, Aster Data Systems, Attributor, Blippy, Bring Light, BuzzFeed, CastTV, Digg, Foursquare, Kaboodle, Knewton, MerchantCircle, Mint.com, PayPal, PBwiki, Seesmic, Square, Swipely, Twitter, Weebly, Zooomr
The Founders Fund[12]	Peter Thiel, Sean Parker, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek	Gowalla, Causes, Collaborative Drug Discovery, Clickable, Facebook, Friendster, Geni.com, Ironport, Mint.com, OLX, Palantir Technologies, Pathway Genomics, Powerset, Quantcast, Rapleaf, Raptr, Slide.com, SmartDrive, SpaceX, Spotify, Yammer, YouNoodle
Thrive Capital[24]	Joshua Kushner	co-founder of Vostu
Social Leverage[25]	Howard Lindzon	TweetDeck, bit.ly

References

1. Saint, Nick (October 4, 2010). "Who Are The Super Angels? A Comprehensive Guide". Business Insider.
2. Farhad Manjoo (February 2011). "How "Super Angel" Investors Are Reinventing the Startup Economy". Fast Company.
3. Pui-Wing Tam and Spencer E. Ante (August 16, 2010). "'Super Angels' Alight". Wall Street Journal.
4. Ingram, Mathew (October 7, 2010). "Fred Wilson on AngelGate and Where the Web Is Going". GigaOM.
5. Jeffries, Adrianne (18 April 2012). "The Clone Collector". Observer. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
6. Wellons, Mary Catherine (14 June 2012). "5 Minutes With a Visionary: Fabrice Grinda". CNBC. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
7. Saint, Nick (October 4, 2010). "Felicis Ventures". Business Insider.
8. Saint, Nick (October 4, 2010). "Dave McClure". Business Insider.
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10. Saint, Nick (October 4, 2010). "Founder Collective". Business Insider.
11. Saint, Nick (October 4, 2010). "Founders Co-op". Business Insider.
12. Ricadela, Aaron (April 2, 2007). "VCs Aim to Out-Angel the Angels". Business Week.
13. Weston, Julien (September 28, 2010). "Hoffman & Greylock launch $20m Greylock Discovery Fund". Wired.
14. Saint, Nick (October 4, 2010). "Harrison Metal". Business Insider.
15. Saint, Nick (October 4, 2010). "IA Ventures". Business Insider.
16. Saint, Nick (October 4, 2010). "K9 Ventures". Business Insider.
17. Saint, Nick (October 4, 2010). "Lerer Ventures". Business Insider.
18. Saint, Nick (October 4, 2010). "Lowercase Capital". Business Insider.
19. Rusli, Evelyn M. "Moving Into Social Web, Menlo Ventures Adds Partner". June 13, 2011. New York Times. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
20. "Shevin Pishevar". 2013. CrunchBase. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
21. Carlson, Nicholas (August 18, 2010). "Secret Silicon Valley Super Angel Keith Rabois Explains His Startup Portfolio". Business Insider.
22. Destin, Fred (August 6, 2010). "Super Angels, Lean VCs, Proto-Incubators, Whatever.". Fast Company.
23. Tomio Geron (October 18, 2010). "Ron Conway’s Big Deals: How He Found Google And Facebook". Wall Street Journal.
24. Saint, Nick (October 4, 2010). "Thrive Capital". Business Insider.
25. Saint, Nick (October 4, 2010). "Social Leverage". Business Insider.