Paul Graham ranked No. 11 in Bloomberg Businessweek Top Angel Investors list

The Bechtolsheim one had some great info.<p><a href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/02/0225_angel_investors/11.htm" rel="nofollow">http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/02/0225_angel_investors...</a><p>&#62; As an angel investor, he’s famous for cutting a $100,000 check to Google’s founders even before they had chosen their now-famous name. In an e-mail, Bechtolsheim confirmed that the check has netted him more than $1 billion.<p>&#62; Bechtolsheim also expressed a sober perspective on the emergence of former Google employees as angels and entrepreneurs. "When people are part of a new company that gets very successful very quickly, such as Google (but this effect is by no means limited to Google), they sometimes confuse the root of this success and incorrectly assume that the success was due to their own actions. They then want to translate this experience to other opportunities, either in the same or in related spaces, which in some cases may turn out, but in most cases will fail, just like the majority of all VC investments fail. … The only thing different about the Google mafia compared to other similar periods in history is that more money was made at Google by more people (and more money will be lost here)."

The list of top angel investors.<p>No. 1<p>Chris Dixon, 38 Co-founder, Hunch Chris Dixon’s blog<p>No. of angel investments: 23 Companies funded (a sampling): Skype, Postini, Milo.com, Knewton, DailyBooth<p>No. 2<p>Ron Conway Investor<p>No. of Angel Investments: 190 Companies funded (a sampling): Google, Facebook, bit.ly, Digg, Mint.com, Twitter<p>No. 3<p>Reid Hoffman, 42 Chairman, co-founder, LinkedIn Reid Hoffman’s LinkedIn profile<p>No. of Angel Investments: 49 Companies funded (a sampling): Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Ning, Zynga<p>No. 4<p>Esther Dyson, 58 Investor<p>No. of Angel Investments: 60 Companies funded (a sampling): 23andMe, GridPoint, del.icio.us, Flickr, Meetup<p>No.5<p>Peter Thiel, 42 Founder, President, Clarium Capital Management<p>No. of Angel Investments: 26 Companies funded (a sampling): Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zynga<p>No. 6<p>Marc Andreessen, 38 Investor<p>No. of Angel Investments: 53 Companies funded (a sampling): Business Insider, Digg, LinkedIn, Qik, Scribd, Twitter<p>No. 7<p>Jeff Bezos, 46 Chairman, founder, Amazon.com<p>No. of Angel Investments: 18 Companies funded (a sampling): 37signals, Google, Linden Lab, Social Gaming Network, Twitter<p>No. 8<p>Chris Sacca, 34 Managing Director, Lowercase Capital<p>No. of Angel Investments: 32 Companies funded (a sampling): bit.ly, FanBridge, Gowalla, Posterous, SimpleGeo, Twitter<p>No. 9<p>Mike Maples, 42 Investor<p>No. of Angel Investments: 39 Companies funded (a sampling): Circle of Moms, Digg, Kongregate, Odeo, Twitter, Weebly<p>No. 10<p>Andy Bechtolsheim, 54 Founder, Chairman, Chief Development Officer, Astra Networks<p>No. of Angel Investments: 49 Companies funded (a sampling): Brightmail, Google, Granite Systems, Nvidia, Tapulous<p>No. 11<p>Paul Graham, 45 Co-founder, Y Combinator<p>No. of Angel Investments: 129 Companies funded (a sampling): Bump Technologies, FanChatter, Heyzap, Justin.tv, Scribd<p>No. 12<p>Max Levchin, 34 Founder, Chief Executive, Slide<p>No. of Angel Investments: 7 Companies funded (a sampling): Evernote, MixPanel, Raptr, Slide, Yelp<p>No. 13<p>Aydin Senkut, 40 Founder, Felicis Ventures<p>No. of Angel Investments: 65 Companies funded (a sampling): Foodzie, Mixer Labs, Rapleaf, The Auteurs, TwitVid<p>No. 14<p>Bill Joy, 55 Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &#38; Byers<p>No. of Angel Investments: 24 Companies funded (a sampling): Blazent, NeoPath Networks, Dantz<p>No. 15<p>Kevin Rose, 33 Founder, Digg Kevin’s blog<p>No. of Angel Investments: 12 Companies funded (a sampling): Twitter, 3Crowd Technologies, Foursquare, SimpleGeo<p>No. 16<p>Dave Duffield, 69 Founder, Chief Executive, Workday<p>No. of Angel Investments: 18 Companies funded (a sampling): Acta Technology, Bridgestream, Netcentives<p>No. 17<p>Andrea Zurek, 39 Founding partner, XG Ventures<p>No. of Angel Investments: 26 Companies funded (a sampling): Lotus Vodka, Facebook, Red Mango, and Vaxart<p>No. 18<p>Marc Benioff, 44 Founder, Chief Executive, Salesforce.com<p>No. of Angel Investments: 9 Companies funded (a sampling): Mashery, Qik, Tapulous, Zuora<p>No. 19<p>Jeff Clavier, 42 Founder, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC Blog: Jeff Clavier’s blog, Software Only<p>No. of Angel Investments: 52 Companies funded (a sampling): bit.ly, Circle of Moms, DNAnexus, Mint.com<p>No. 20<p>Caterina Fake, 36 Co-founder Hunch Caterina’s blog<p>No. of Angel Investments: 6 Companies funded (a sampling): Etsy, Maya’s Mom<p>No. 21<p>Martin Varsavsky, 49 Founder, Chief Executive, Fon Martin Varsavsky’s blog<p>No. of Angel Investments: 28 Companies funded (a sampling): 23andMe, Dopplr, Eolia, Joost, Plazes, Tumblr, Wikio<p>No. 22<p>Naval Ravikant, 36 Founder, Chairman, Vast.com Blog: Startup Boy<p>No. of Angel Investments: 21 Companies funded (a sampling): Chatterous, DotSpots, Fluther, Twitter, Vidly<p>No. 23<p>Joe Kraus, 38 Partner, Google Ventures<p>No. of Angel Investments: 5 Companies funded (a sampling): InfraSearch, Linkedin, Napster, Odeo<p>No. 24<p>Eric Schmidt, 54 Chairman, Chief Executive, Google<p>No. of Angel Investments: 9 Companies funded (a sampling): Citizen Effect, CX, iShake, PublishOne, Sendmail<p>No. 25<p>Lauren Flanagan, 55 Co-founder, Managing Director, Phenomenelle Angels Fund<p>No. of Angel Investments: 23 Companies funded (a sampling): Alice.com, Stealth Therapeutics, U.S. Trailmaps

I think I was interviewed for this article. I guess I forgot how to talk in sound bites. At least I got promoted to exec!<p>I wish the "top" angels had some outside SV diversity; I know two thirds of that group pretty much directly.

Interesting that pg is second only to Ron Conway, in number of investments (I'm guessing this is YCombinator vs. Ron Conway Inc.) 190 vs 129 given that YC has only been doing it for 5 years.<p>EDIT: link to table: <a href="http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/future_of_tech_2010/" rel="nofollow">http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/future_of_t...</a>

I wish these sites would take the time to populate the title attribute for images so you can mouseover and see the name before clicking.

<i>The Harvard math PhD...</i><p>I thought pg's PhD was in Computer Science?

Interesting how pg is the only YC founder listed here. Other than being the most visible face of YC, why is only he on the list?

It would be interesting to get some numbers on YC's returns/investment ratios.

What tends to be the biggest contributor to angel success? Knowledge, instinct, network, luck? Or impossible to tell?<p>I'm assuming it largely comes down to the type of people (smart, hardworking, get 'er done) in the startup and the angel's network.

How on Earth is Chris Dixon #1??????

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