Find 157 AI Seed Angel Investors in Silicon Valley

We found 157 verified angel investors and VCs actively investing in AI startups at the Seed stage in Silicon Valley.

Global micro-VC and accelerator. 3000+ companies in 78 countries. $2.7B+ AUM.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Partner at Y Combinator. Co-founder of Tutorspree. Expert in marketplaces and B2B.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder and CEO of Box. Angel investor in enterprise cloud and collaboration.

Redwood City, CASeedSeries A
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Co-founder and CEO of Quora. Former CTO of Facebook. Angel in AI and consumer products.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries A
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Co-founder of Base10 Partners. Expert in automation and future of work. African-American led fund.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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VP of Developer Relations (DevRel & DX) at Rapid. Google Developers Advisory Board & AI Dev Panel founding member. Two exits, one acquisition. My software serves millions of developers, proud code contribution to NASA Ingenuity Mars mission. I invest time and money in developer-focused startups with diverse teams, bold ideas, and automation. My recent investment was with Resend. (VP of DX at Rapid)

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Founder of Cowboy Ventures. Coined the term 'unicorn' for startups. Former partner at Kleiner Perkins.

Palo Alto, CASeedSeries A
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I run basecase, an early-stage venture firm by builders, for builders. We help founders nail their "base case"—recruiting their first engineers, securing their first customers, and raising their first institutional round—and "recurse" onwards. I invest $500k-5M checks. (Founder at basecase)

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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General Partner at Initialized Capital. Expert in enterprise and developer infrastructure.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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I'm a 2x founder with an exit (WANNA to Farfetch), currently experimenting with new projects and helping/investing in other founders via http://FundraisingHackers.com. Typical check size is $5-10k. (Founder at FundraisingHackers)

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder and CEO of Scale AI. Angel investor in AI infrastructure and data tooling.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Founder of Dream Machine VC. Former TechCrunch editor. Invests in next-generation internet.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder of Code.org. Mentor at NEA. Early investor in Facebook, Zappos, Dropbox, airbnb.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder and CEO of Replit. Angel investor in developer tools and AI-first companies.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder of Cloudera (IPO $4B+). Active angel in enterprise data and AI.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries A
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Co-founder of a16z. Former co-creator of Netscape browser. Blogs extensively on technology.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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Former OpenAI, former Tesla AI. Angel investor and advisor in deep learning and AI.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Partner at Haystack. Expert in seed-stage enterprise and developer tools.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Founder @

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder and CEO of 23andMe. Angel investor in genomics, biotech, and health tech.

Sunnyvale, CASeedSeries A
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Co-founder of Tribe Capital. Former partner at Social Capital. Data + product expert.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Partner at Almaz Capital. Expert in CIS tech companies expanding globally.

Portola Valley, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners. First book on AI-first companies. Expert in enterprise AI.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Co-founder of Elance and Gupshup. Angel in messaging and marketplace startups.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Co-founder of a16z. Author of 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things'. Former CEO of Opsware.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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I enjoy helping dev tool creators build top-notch teams, figure out go-to-market, and meet other great investors. I've been working on developer tools for most of the past decade as CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph. I host a podcast featuring creators of dev tools--if you've built something you'd love to share with the developer world, I'd love to have you on the show! (Founder & CTO at Sourcegraph)

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder and CTO of Slack. Angel investor in developer tools and infrastructure.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Founder of Precursor Ventures. Expert in pre-product and pre-seed stage startups.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Founder of SignalFire. Uses data + AI to source and back startups earlier than others.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Founder of CapitalX. Expert in AI and consumer companies from China and US.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Founder of Hearsay Social. Angel investor in enterprise SaaS and AI products.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Angel and Partner at Long Journey. Former Founders Fund. Backed SpaceX, Uber, Postmates early.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Partner at Precursor Ventures. Expert in pre-seed and first-check investing.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Partner at Y Combinator. Co-founder of imeem. Expert in early-stage B2B and developer tools.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Former YC Partner and Apple AI lead. Active angel in AI startups and deep tech.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Founder/COO @

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Former VP of AI at Unity. Angel investor in AI gaming and developer tools.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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CEO and Managing Partner at GV (Google Ventures). Led investments in Uber, Slack, Nest.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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Founder @

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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President of Salesforce Industries. Angel investor in vertical SaaS and enterprise AI.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Partner at Khosla Ventures. Pioneer investor in AI, machine learning, and autonomous systems.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries A
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Global Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital. Joined in 1988. Led investments in Google, ServiceNow, Nubank, Palo Alto Networks.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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Founder of Innovation Endeavors. Eric Schmidt's VC fund. Expert in AI, robotics, climate.

Palo Alto, CASeedSeries A
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Co-founder of Facebook and Asana. Active angel and co-founder of Open Philanthropy.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Partner at Race Capital. Expert in US-China tech bridge and Asian-American founders.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Serial entrepreneur and investor. Co-founder of Color Genomics. Backed Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe early.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Co-founder of Twitch. Angel investor in gaming and consumer platforms.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Founder and CEO of Zoom. Angel investor in video communication and enterprise tools.

San Jose, CASeedSeries A
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Partner at Redpoint Ventures. Former COO of GitHub. Open source and dev tools expert.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries A
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Co-founder of Village Global and On Deck. Expert in community-led investing.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder of Twilio. Angel investor in developer infrastructure and cloud tools.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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I’m currently working as Principal Brand Designer at Vercel, ensuring the maximum visual appeal of all our brands and products, including Next.js and Turborepo. I previously worked at Viacom (MTV, Comedy Central, and Paramount Pictures) and Auth0 and I was involved in the design of JWT and Passport.js. I typically invest $2.5-10k checks in early stage devtool startups focused on tech & design. (Brand Design at Vercel)

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Partner at a16z. Expert in AI and machine learning startups. Former AI researcher.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries A
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President and CEO of Y Combinator. Co-founder of Initialized Capital. Early investor in Coinbase, Instacart.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Partner at Lightspeed. Expert in developer infrastructure and open source. Led investments in Grafana.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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Co-founder and CEO of CrowdStrike. Angel in cybersecurity and enterprise tech.

Sunnyvale, CASeedSeries A
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Founder of Freshworks. Angel investor in Indian and global SaaS startups.

San Mateo, CASeedSeries A
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Board member at DoorDash and Pinterest. Former Square and Facebook. Active angel.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder of OpenAI. Angel investor in AI infrastructure and safety.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Partner at Y Combinator. Former Airbnb growth lead. Expert in growth and consumer products.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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YC Partner. Former Growth PM at Airbnb. Expert in growth and consumer products.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Founder of Rock Health. Pioneer of digital health venture. Mentor and angel in health startups.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Managing Director at General Catalyst. Author of 'Intended Consequences'. Health and AI expert.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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Co-founder of OpenAI and SSI. Pioneer in deep learning. Angel in AI safety research.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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World's top biotech accelerator (part of SOSV). Backs early-stage life science founders.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Founder/CEO @

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Partner at Bloomberg Beta. Expert in AI and the future of work. Author of AI roundup.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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I'm the VP of AI at Vercel, which acquired my startup Turborepo. Prior to that, I was the Engineering Lead at The Palmer Group, a strategy, design, and software engineering firm. I’m an educator, speaker, and OSS enthusiast with many popular OSS projects, and I invest 25-100k checks in devtool and enterprise SaaS startups. (VP of AI at Vercel)

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder and CEO of Ironclad. Angel investor in legal tech and enterprise SaaS.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder and former CEO of Twilio. Angel investor in developer tools and API startups.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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General Partner at a16z. Former partner at GGV Capital. Expert in AI and enterprise.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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Co-founder of Yahoo. Founder of AME Cloud Ventures. AI, data, and enterprise investor.

Palo Alto, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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Managing Director at Zetta. Former Facebook and VMware. Expert in AI product.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries A
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Chairman of Kleiner Perkins. Author of 'Speed and Scale' climate plan. Major climate tech investor.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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General Partner at a16z Bio. Former CSO of Genomics Health. Biotech and health expert.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries A
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General Partner at a16z. Expert in American dynamism — defense, national security, manufacturing.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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Founder of Stitch Fix. Angel investor in retail tech and consumer brands.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Co-founder of Instagram. Angel investor in consumer and social products.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Partner at Sequoia Capital focused on AI and healthcare. Previously investor at Bessemer.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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General Partner at GV. MD/MBA. Expert in life sciences and digital health.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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General Partner at a16z. Expert in healthcare and bio technology.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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Founder/CEO @

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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General Partner at Builders VC. Expert in frontier tech and life sciences.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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General Partner at a16z. Former CEO of SuccessFactors (sold to SAP for $3.4B). HR SaaS expert.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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I'm the VP of Developer Experience at Vercel, where my team helps developers build a faster web. I lead community and education for the React framework Next.js and I’m an open-source contributor. I'm also an advisor (mostly on dev communities) and investor in early stage startups where I invest small checks in tools making web development faster. (VP of DX at Vercel)

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Former Airbnb PM. Creator of Lenny's Newsletter. Angel investor and advisor in SaaS.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Deep background in AI, SWE, and Developer Relations. Helping companies scale in the DevTools and AI space based on my experiences in both areas at places like OpenAI, NASA, Apple, & PathAI. Typical check size is $20k. (DevRel at OpenAI)

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder of Scale AI and CrowdFlower. Angel investor in AI and ML startups.

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Founder of Define Ventures. Expert in healthcare services and digital health.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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Founder of K9 Ventures. Professor at Stanford. Early stage angel in SaaS and developer tools.

Palo Alto, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder of Pear VC. Former Stanford professor. Expert in AI and deep tech.

Palo Alto, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder of a16z and Netscape. Among the most influential VCs and angels in Silicon Valley.

Menlo Park, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Partner at Index Ventures. Expert in B2B SaaS. Led investments in Webflow, Notion.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Founder of Zetta Venture Partners. Expert in AI and machine learning investing.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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General Partner at a16z. Co-founder of Nicira (acquired by VMware for $1.26B). Expert in cloud infrastructure.

Menlo Park, CASeedSeries ASeries B
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Co-founder of PayPal and Affirm. Active angel investor in fintech and consumer.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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Partner at DCVC Bio. Expert in computational biology and AI for drug discovery.

San Francisco, CASeedSeries A
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I'm the founder of Siennai Analytics, a B2B AI consulting and development company, an early contributor to LangChainAI, and an AI educator (3.5 million people reached through my content so far). I have provided strategic AI consultations to leaders at major institutions including Evercore, BCG, PwC, and more. My speciality is building scalable, production ready AI chatbots that integrate with enterprise private data. I invest in B2B startups and devtools. (Founder & CEO at Siennai Analytics)

San Francisco, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Founder of Reputation.com. Expert in privacy tech and online reputation. Angel investor.

Redwood City, CAPre-SeedSeed
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Co-founder of Floodgate. Early investor in Twitter, Twitch, Lyft, Okta.

Palo Alto, CAPre-SeedSeed
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