Super angel investor is a term sometimes used to describe a group of serial investors in early stage ventures who are perceived to be particularly sophisticated, insightful, or well-connected in the startup business

Startup company

A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets...

 community, particularly with respect to technology companies in Silicon Valley, California and other technology centers.

There is no universally recognized set of criteria for distinguishing among 'super angels', traditional angel investors

Angel investor

An angel investor or angel is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity...

, and venture capitalists. Some common features that have been proposed include:

• Creating a professionally managed investment fund
• Serial investing (investing in numerous startup companies)
• Investing at a seed round in startup companies
• Funding rounds in the (rough) range of $50,000 to several million dollars, larger than typical "friends and family" rounds but smaller than most venture round
  Venture round
  A venture round is a type of funding round used for venture capital financing, by which startup companies obtain investment, generally from venture capitalists and other institutional investors. The availability of venture funding is among the primary stimuli for the development of new companies...
  
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• Taking an active role in portfolio companies
  Portfolio company
  A portfolio company is a company or entity in which a venture capital firm, buyout firm, holding company, or other investment fund invests. All of the companies currently backed by a private equity firm can be spoken of as the firm’s portfolio....
  
  
• Raising money from general partner
  General partner
  General partner is a legal term used to describe a person who joins with at least one other person to form a business. A general partner has responsibility for the actions of the business, can legally bind the business and is personally liable for all the business's debts and obligations.General...
  
  s and other principals, without passive investors in the fund
• Fund principals who are experienced entrepreneurs

Partial list of investors who might be considered 'super angels'

Name of fund	Key people	Portfolio companies
Floodgate	Mike Maples Jr., Ann Miura-Ko	Chegg Chegg Chegg or Chegg.com is an online textbook rental company in the United States based in Santa Clara, CA, which was created in 2001 by three Iowa State University students. Students rent textbooks typically by ordering online, and return books after the semester. It was founded by entrepreneurs Osman... , Digg Digg Digg is a social news website. Prior to Digg v4, its cornerstone function consisted of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. Digg's popularity prompted the creation of copycat social networking sites with story submission and voting systems... , Smule Smule Smule is an American software and video game developer and publisher headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Smule develops interactive "sonic" applications for the iPhone and other technology platforms... , Twitter Twitter Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
Felicis Ventures	Aydin Senkut	Meraki Meraki Meraki is a cloud networking company that provides hardware and software for building large scale wired and wireless networks. These networks are used by businesses, schools, and other organizations that need wireless access points, multi-site wired networks, or both. It uses a centralized... , Mint.com Mint.com Mint.com is a free web-based personal financial management service for the US and Canada created by entrepreneur Aaron Patzer. Mint originally provided account aggregation through a deal with Yodlee, but has since moved to using Intuit for connecting to accounts...
500 Startups	Dave McClure Dave McClure Dave McClure is an entrepreneur and prominent angel investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who founded and runs the business incubator "500 Startups". He is often described as one of the super angel investors.-Bio:...	SlideShare SlideShare SlideShare is a Web 2.0 based slide hosting service. Users can upload files privately or publicly in the following file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote or OpenOffice presentations. Slide decks can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or embedded on other sites. Launched on... , CrowdFlower, Recurly Recurly Recurly is a software as a service company that provides recurring billing management as an outsourced service. Founded in September, 2009 and made available as a public beta in January, 2010. Companies with subscription business models commonly encounter errors from payment gateways, acquiring... , Udemy
Founders Collective	Bill Trenchard, Caterina Fake Caterina Fake Caterina Fake is an American businesswoman and internet entrepreneur.Fake was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall, attended Smith College, and graduated from Vassar College in 1991.... , Chris Dixon, David Frankel David Frankel (entrepreneur) David Frankel is a founder and Managing Partner of the Founder Collective, a seed-stage venture capital fund headquartered in New York City and Cambridge that accounts among its partners Eric Paley and Chris Dixon .Mr... , Eric Paley, Mark Gerson, Micah Rosenbloom, Zach Klein	Minyanville Media
SofTech VC	Jeff Clavier	Tapulous Tapulous Tapulous, Inc. is an American software and video game developer and publisher headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company as part of the Disney Interactive Media Group... , RapLeaf Rapleaf Rapleaf is a Web 2.0 start-up company based in San Francisco, California founded by Auren Hoffman and Manish Shah. Acting primarily a B2B firm, Rapleaf's consumer information technology helps businesses understand their customers so they can personalize experiences in real time, segment customers,... ,
SV Angel	Ron Conway Ron Conway Ron Conway is an American angel investor, often described as one of the "super angels". Conway is recognized as a strong networker and is based in Silicon Valley.-Early career:... , David Lee, Mike Ghaffary, Brian Pokorny (former)	google Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... , Ze Frank Ze Frank On March 17, 2006, Frank launched the daily video program the show with zefrank. The format of the program combined commentary on media and current events with viewer contributions and activities... , AppNexus, Ask Jeeves, Aster Data Systems Aster Data Systems Aster Data Systems is a data management and analysis software company headquartered in San Carlos, California. It was founded in 2005 and acquired in 2011.-Products:... , Attributor Attributor Attributor is a provider of digital content protection for the publishing industry. Its products enable publishers to identify and verify copy infringement, enforce authorized use, analyze market demand and monetize digital content.- Features :... , Blippy Blippy Blippy is a social media sharing site operated from Palo Alto, California by a company of the same name, for users to post and follow each other's updates about their purchases of goods and services. It has been described as the "Twitter of personal finance", and is often compared with Twitter... , Bring Light Bring Light Bring Light, Inc. is an American company that runs an online web service which helps charities reach new donors and raise funds. It is also a social network for donors to find charitable projects to support and to help those donors make a bigger difference by getting others involved.-Origins:Bring... , BuzzFeed BuzzFeed BuzzFeed is a website that combines a technology platform for detecting viral content with an editorial selection process to provide a snapshot of "the viral web in realtime." Cofounded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti , BuzzFeed is located in SoHo, New York.-Homepage content:The BuzzFeed homepage consists... , CastTV CastTV CastTV is an Internet video search and aggregation company based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 2006 by Edwin Ong and Alex Vikati... , Digg Digg Digg is a social news website. Prior to Digg v4, its cornerstone function consisted of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. Digg's popularity prompted the creation of copycat social networking sites with story submission and voting systems... , Foursquare, Kaboodle Kaboodle Kaboodle is a spelling derivation of the English word "caboodle", meaning a group, bunch, lot, pack, or collection of things or people. Caboodle is further derived from Boodle or booty... , Knewton Knewton Knewton is an adaptive learning company that has developed a platform to personalize educational content. The Knewton platform allows schools, publishers, and developers to provide adaptive learning for any student. Knewton recently announced a partnership with Pearson Education to power the... , MerchantCircle MerchantCircle MerchantCircle is a Mountain View, California-based start-up company which helps small businesses network with other local businesses and reach local customers through free marketing tools and social media features. Former CEO Ben T. Smith, IV co-founded the company in 2005... , Mint.com Mint.com Mint.com is a free web-based personal financial management service for the US and Canada created by entrepreneur Aaron Patzer. Mint originally provided account aggregation through a deal with Yodlee, but has since moved to using Intuit for connecting to accounts... , PayPal PayPal PayPal is an American-based global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders.... , PBwiki PBwiki PBworks is a commercial real-time collaborative editing system created by David Weekly, with Ramit Sethi and Nathan Schmidt joining shortly thereafter as co-founders. Based in San Mateo, California, the company's original name stems from their belief that "making a wiki is as easy as making a... , ScanScout, Seesmic Seesmic Seesmic is a suite of freeware web, mobile, and desktop applications which allow users to simultaneously manage user accounts for multiple social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter.... , Square Square (company) was a Japanese video game company founded in September 1983 by Masafumi Miyamoto. It merged with Enix in 2003 and became part of Square Enix... , Swipely Swipely Swipely is an online service and social network where members can share purchases with friends. Users post and recommend purchases, see where their friends are spending and what their friends are buying... , Twitter Twitter Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July... , Weebly Weebly Weebly is an online, free widget-based Web site creator, funded by micro-seed fund Y Combinator. It uses a widget-style format, allowing users to create pages with only a few clicks by dragging and dropping different page elements onto a page and filling in the content... , Zooomr Zooomr - History :Zooomr was created in 2005 by Kristopher Tate and Michael Van Veen of BlueBridge Technologies Group. On June 19, 2006, Thomas Hawk, a well-known photographer and blogger from San Francisco, was recruited by Zooomr as its so called "Chief Evangelist." On July 17, 2006, Zooomr released...
Greylock Partners	Reid Hoffman Reid Hoffman Reid G. Hoffman is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Hoffman is best known as the co-founder of LinkedIn, a social network used primarily for business connections and job searching.-Early education and career:...	LinkedIn LinkedIn LinkedIn is a business-related social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. , LinkedIn reports more than 120 million registered users in more than 200 countries and territories. The site is available in English, French,... , Friendster Friendster Friendster is a social gaming site that is based in Malaysia, KL. The company now operates mainly from the three Asian countries namely in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore.... , Zynga Zynga Zynga is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.... , Flickr Flickr Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to... , Kongregate Kongregate Kongregate is an online games hosting website owned by Gamestop Corporation, which allows users to upload user-created Adobe Flash or Unity3D games. It features an API that Flash and Unity developers can integrate into their games which allows users to submit high scores and in some games, earn... , Ping.fm Ping.fm Ping.fm is a free social networking and micro-blogging web service that enables users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously.Making an update on Ping.fm pushes the update to a number of different social websites at once... , Tagged, Nanosolar Nanosolar Nanosolar is a developer of solar power technology. Based in San Jose, CA, Nanosolar has developed and commercialized a low-cost printable solar cell manufacturing process. The company started selling panels mid-December 2007, and plans to sell them at around $1 per watt... , Knewton Knewton Knewton is an adaptive learning company that has developed a platform to personalize educational content. The Knewton platform allows schools, publishers, and developers to provide adaptive learning for any student. Knewton recently announced a partnership with Pearson Education to power the... ,
Founders Co-op	Andy Sack, Chris DeVore
Thrive Capital	Joshua Kushner Joshua Kushner Joshua Kushner is an American entrepreneur and businessman. He is a co-founder of Vostu, the largest social gaming company in Brazil, where he serves as Chief Strategic Officer. He is also the founder and Managing Partner of Thrive Capital, a venture capital fund...	co-founder of Vostu Vostu Vostu is a social gaming company which was launched in May 2007.Initially a social network for Latin America with a strong presence in Brazil, the company developed and launched its first successful social game in June 2009 under the title "Joga Craque", a soccer-focused RPG for Brazilian players...
The Founders Fund The Founders Fund Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm which invests at all stages in companies with revolutionary technologies. The firm’s six partners, Peter Thiel, Sean Parker, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Bruce Gibney, and Brian Singerman have been founders of or early investors in numerous...	Peter Thiel Peter Thiel Peter Andreas Thiel is an American business magnate, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. With Elon Musk and Max Levchin, Thiel co-founded PayPal and was its CEO... , Sean Parker Sean Parker Sean Parker is an American technology businessman and entrepreneur. He co-founded Napster, Plaxo, Causes, and Airtime, and was Facebook's founding president. His net worth is estimated at $2.1 billion.-Early life:... , Ken Howery Ken Howery Ken Howery is a co-founder and managing partner at Founders Fund.Howery graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with a B.A. in Economics. He was a co-founder of PayPal and served as the company's first CFO from 1998 until 2002. His partner within this Paypal project was Peter Thiel at Thiel... , Robert May Robert May Robert May or Bob May or Rob May may refer to:* Robert May , English chef.* Robert May, founder in 1694 of Robert May's School, Odiham, Hampshire, England.* Bob May , Australian politician.* Robert L... , Luke Nosek Luke Nosek Luke Nosek is an American entrepreneur of Polish descent.Nosek received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During college in the summer of 1995, he cofounded SponsorNet New Media, Inc., along with fellow UIUC students Max Levchin and Scott Banister...	Gowalla Gowalla Gowalla is a location-based social network. Users 'check in' at Spots in their local vicinity, either through a dedicated mobile application or through the mobile website. As a reward users will sometimes receive virtual "items" from check-ins. Items have developed to become a promotional tool for... , Causes, Collaborative Drug Discovery Collaborative Drug Discovery Collaborative Drug Discovery is a software company founded in 2004 as a spin-out of Eli Lilly by Barry Bunin, PhD. CDD offers a web-based database solution for managing drug discovery data, primarily around small molecules and associated bio-assay data.... , Clickable Clickable A clickable is any active area in a graphical user interface for a game or application that can be triggered or activated by the user, usually by a click of a mouse. This is the primary method of user interaction. The number of clickables is roughly proportional to the complexity of game play and... , Facebook Facebook Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as... , Friendster Friendster Friendster is a social gaming site that is based in Malaysia, KL. The company now operates mainly from the three Asian countries namely in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore.... , Geni.com Geni.com Geni is a genealogy and social networking website. Launched on January 16, 2007, the Web 2.0 company aims to create a family tree of the world. While family profiles are private, Geni’s mission is to create a shared family tree of common ancestors... , Ironport IronPort IronPort Systems, Inc., headquartered in San Bruno, California, was a company that designed and sold products and services that protect enterprises against Internet threats. It was best known for IronPort AntiSpam, the SenderBase email reputation service, and email security appliances... , Mint.com Mint.com Mint.com is a free web-based personal financial management service for the US and Canada created by entrepreneur Aaron Patzer. Mint originally provided account aggregation through a deal with Yodlee, but has since moved to using Intuit for connecting to accounts... , OLX OLX OLX is an internet company based in New York City, NY and Buenos Aires, Argentina. There revenues was in 2010 to 2011 is $45m.The OLX website hosts free user-generated classified advertisements for urban communities around the world and provides discussion forums sorted by various topics.OLX gained... , Palantir Technologies Palantir Technologies Palantir Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Tysons Corner, Virginia, New York City and Covent Garden, London, is a software company that produces the Palantir Government and Palantir Finance platforms... , Pathway Genomics Pathway Genomics Pathway Genomics is a privately held personal genomics company based in San Diego, California. Using DNA genetic testing technologies, the company conducts services to generate personalized reports about an individual’s carrier status, drug response, propensity for the development of certain... , Powerset Powerset (company) Powerset is a Microsoft owned company based in San Francisco, California that, in 2006, was developing a natural language search engine for the Internet.... , Quantcast Quantcast Quantcast is a California based company that provides publishers and marketers with the ability to understand, deliver and reach their best audiences at a massive scale... , Rapleaf Rapleaf Rapleaf is a Web 2.0 start-up company based in San Francisco, California founded by Auren Hoffman and Manish Shah. Acting primarily a B2B firm, Rapleaf's consumer information technology helps businesses understand their customers so they can personalize experiences in real time, segment customers,... , Raptr Raptr Raptr is a social networking website and instant messenger, targeted towards video game players. The company was founded by Dennis Fong, co-founder of Xfire, in 2007 and is located in Mountain View, CA... , Slide.com Slide.com Slide, Inc., operator of the Slide.com website, is a Web 2.0 company founded by Max Levchin and based in San Francisco, California. Originally formed to make photo sharing software for social networking services such as MySpace, the company achieved its greatest success as the largest developer of... , SmartDrive SmartDrive SmartDrive was a disk caching program that shipped with MS-DOS versions 4.01 through 6.22 and Windows 3.x. It improved disk transfer rates by storing frequently accessed data in the main memory. Early versions of SmartDrive were loaded through a CONFIG.SYS device driver named SMARTDRV.SYS... , SpaceX SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or more popularly and informally known as SpaceX, is an American space transport company that operates out of Hawthorne, California... , Spotify Spotify Spotify is a Swedish-founded, UK-headquartered DRM-based music streaming service offering streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal. Launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB, the service had... , Yammer Yammer Yammer is an enterprise social network service that was launched in September 2008. Unlike Twitter, which is used for broadcasting messages to the public, Yammer is used for private communication within organizations or between organizational members and pre-designated groups, making it an example... , YouNoodle YouNoodle YouNoodle is a San Francisco-based company providing a networking website for small businesses. It has received particular attention for its "startup predictor", which aims to use mathematical models to predict the success of a new business based on information about its concept, finances, founders...
Harrison Metal	Michael Dearing, Erik Rannala	AdMob AdMob AdMob is a mobile advertising company founded by Omar Hamoui. The name AdMob is a portmanteau for "advertising on mobile". It was incorporated in 2006 and is based in San Mateo, California. In November 2009 it was acquired by Google for $750 million. The acquisition was completed on May 27, 2010.... , Lumos Labs, Inc., Aardvark
	Keith Rabois	Xoom XOOM Xoom was an early dot-com that used to primarily provide free unlimited space web hosting, similar to GeoCities.-History:Xoom was founded by Chris Kitze in September 1996 as a download website offering free clipart and a productivity suite including a word-processing application, centering around a... , Vendio Vendio Vendio Services, Inc. is an American Internet software as a service company that provides sales management software by subscription. A majority of customers use Vendio for its eBay auction management program and eBay applications... , LinkedIn LinkedIn LinkedIn is a business-related social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. , LinkedIn reports more than 120 million registered users in more than 200 countries and territories. The site is available in English, French,... , yelp.com, YouTube YouTube YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.... , Alter-G, ThinkCash, Geni.com Geni.com Geni is a genealogy and social networking website. Launched on January 16, 2007, the Web 2.0 company aims to create a family tree of the world. While family profiles are private, Geni’s mission is to create a shared family tree of common ancestors... , Yammer Yammer Yammer is an enterprise social network service that was launched in September 2008. Unlike Twitter, which is used for broadcasting messages to the public, Yammer is used for private communication within organizations or between organizational members and pre-designated groups, making it an example... , Slide.com Slide.com Slide, Inc., operator of the Slide.com website, is a Web 2.0 company founded by Max Levchin and based in San Francisco, California. Originally formed to make photo sharing software for social networking services such as MySpace, the company achieved its greatest success as the largest developer of... , FanIQ, Handipoints Handipoints Handipoints is a website with a chore chart component and an MMORPG virtual world containing a range of online games and activities, called "HandiLand". It is developed by Handipoints Inc. The purpose of Handipoints is to "Make Fun of Work" and to provide parents with printable customizable chore... , Decorati, TokBox Tokbox TokBox provides a free API that allows anyone to add group video chat features to their own websites. Experienced programmers use the OpenTok API to build custom interactive video chat applications... , TownHog, Milo.com, eventbrite Eventbrite - Overview :Eventbrite is a website that allows event organizers to plan, set up ticket sales and promote events of any size and publicize them across Facebook, Twitter and other social-networking tools directly from the site's interface. It also enables attendees to find and purchase tickets to... , Counsyl, Circle of Moms, AirBnB, Palantir Technologies Palantir Technologies Palantir Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Tysons Corner, Virginia, New York City and Covent Garden, London, is a software company that produces the Palantir Government and Palantir Finance platforms... , Apture Apture Apture is a service that allows publishers and bloggers to link and incorporate multimedia into a dynamic layer above their pages.Apture is currently being used by several large organizations and publishers including The Washington Post, The Economist, Scribd, and the World Wide Fund for Nature as... , Sococo, SkyBox Technologies, SkyGrid, Scoopler Scoopler Scoopler is a real-time search engine. Scoopler was created by AJ Asver and Dilan Jayawardane, and launched in Private Beta in April 2009.. Scoopler gets its results real-time from a variety of services such as Twitter, Digg, Flickr and others. Scoopler is funded by Y Combinator..Scoopler's result... , Fqix, Treehouse, Specialty's Café & Bakery, Crave (blog), Movity, Homeboodle, Swipely Swipely Swipely is an online service and social network where members can share purchases with friends. Users post and recommend purchases, see where their friends are spending and what their friends are buying... , Miso (online service), MusicLab, GoGoBot, Qwiki, Hitpost, TopGuest, ZimRide, Wavii, Udemy, The Fridge (social network), Indinero, FutureAdvisor, OhLife, Formative Labs, Votizen, Causes, Square (application)
IA Ventures	Roger Ehrenberg, Brad Gillespie	Recorded Future Recorded Future Recorded Future Inc. is a software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, specializing in web intelligence and predictive analytics...
K9 Ventures	Manu Kumar	CrowdFlower
Lerer Media Ventures	Kenneth Lerer Kenneth Lerer Kenneth Lerer is an American businessman and media executive. He is the chairman and co-founder of The Huffington Post, a liberal/progressive American news website and content aggregating blog, headquartered in New York. He is the General Partner of Lerer Media Ventures, an angel fund in New York... , Ben Lerer	gdgt,
Lowercase Capital	Chris Sacca Chris Sacca Christopher Sacca is a venture investor, public speaker, private equity adviser, and former employee of Google Inc. He is an investor in Twitter.-Education:...	twitter Twitter Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July... , bit.ly Bit.ly bitly is a URL shortening service owned by bitly, Inc., a betaworks company. It is especially popular on microblogging website Twitter because it is the default URL shortening service on the website since May 6, 2009, replacing TinyURL... , Auctomatic
Social Leverage	Howard Lindzon	TweetDeck TweetDeck TweetDeck is an Adobe AIR desktop application for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, Foursquare, and MySpace. Like other Twitter applications it interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles... , bit.ly Bit.ly bitly is a URL shortening service owned by bitly, Inc., a betaworks company. It is especially popular on microblogging website Twitter because it is the default URL shortening service on the website since May 6, 2009, replacing TinyURL... ,