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50 Entertainment Angel Investors

When it comes to funding entertainment there are a few ways to skin an allegorical cat. There are prerelease sales, crowdfunding, donations, funding grants, fiscal sponsors, business loans and sponsors. The trend term of the digital age is venture capital, VC, and the darlings of venture capitalists are Angel Investors.

“An angel investor is an individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity. Angel investors usually give support to start-ups at the initial moments and when most investors are not prepared to back them.” Wikipedia

There are too many blogs about how to get funding and probably most of them are clickbait by fake influences. Fake social media influencers and fake experts are a bigger problem than you think, but that is for another article. So instead I’ve compiled a list of Angel Investors mostly in Silicone Valley and San Francisco who are interested in financing entertainment projects.

Entertainment Angel Investors

Babak Nivi Founder of @angellist and @venture-hacks · Investor in @uber · Advisor to @dropbox San Francisco · World Domination

Jayesh Parekh Co-Founder Sony Entertainment Television, Senior Advisor Jungle Ventures, Sanctum Wealth Management Singapore · All Markets

Artia Moghbel COO @dfinity // Investing @draft-ventures // Formerly COO @overnight and EIR @greycroft-partners San Francisco · B2B

Amir Mortazavi Cofounder of CANOPY (shared workspace), founder of real estate develop|design|build firm M-PROJECTS, angel investor, art collector. San Francisco · All Markets

Vamsi Sistla Advisor @sigmoid Operating Partner @laconia-capital-group Founder @WhatsNextAngels Angel @TIESV @arcfund @eniac-ventures Seattle · Location Based Services

Raju Indukuri,M.D Investor in healthcare and technology. Invests in startups to disrupt the obscenely costly healthcare market. Dallas · Productivity Software

Daniel Undurraga Entrepreneur, Software engineer and seed investor. Co-founder @cornershop sold to @walmart. Previously co-founded @needish & @clandescuento sold to @groupon. Silicon Valley · Bitcoin

Frederik Fleck Serial Entrepreneur, two exits, one company > $100m revenue, interested in mobile, fin tech,crowd sourcing, ... San Francisco · B2B

David Beyer Principal @amplify Partners • Founder @chartio • Founding Team @patients-know-best • Studied at @brown-university San Francisco · B2B

Jon Nathanson Venture Partner @ Taste Capital Management. Formerly PMM Lead @ Facebook for Media Monetization. Over $1 billion in product launches. Multiple big exits. San Francisco · Film

Ryan Spoon SVP Digital Product @espn. Principal at @polaris-partners-1. Formerly: @ebay, @berecruited (founder), Flite / @widgetbox. Palo Alto · B2B

Ling Wong Partners w/ entrepreneurs at every stage companies across industries life sciences health software consumer enterprise & emerging platforms Seattle · All Markets

Peter Livingston Founder/GP at Unpopular Ventures San Francisco · Internet of Things

Cameron Winklevoss Co-Founder & President @gemini • Principal @winklevosscap San Francisco · Location Based Services

Mark Friedgan Angel Investor; BS/MS Computer Engineering, @carnegie-mellon-university University; CIO Top 100/InfoWorld Top 25 CTO Berkeley · Personal Finance

Paul Sethi Co-Founder @2048 Ventures | @robuzz New York City · All Markets

David Sedano Investor. SWE, @google. PM of 20% Time. Founder, Google Garage. Silicon Valley · Robotics

Richard Kerby Venture investor New York City · B2B

Jim Barnett CEO and Co-founder Glint Inc. Prior: CEO/Founder @turn; President @overture Search; CEO @altavista; Chairman @sidestep and @sojern Silicon Valley · Crowdsourcing

Tristan Kromer 10 years in music, 5 in IT security, lived in 5 countries, blog at GrasshopperHerder and run Kromatic. Taught myself RoR and design. Silicon Valley · All Markets

Scott Schnaars VP Sales - Dynamic Signal Previously ran sales teams at @badgeville. @yahoo, @webex, @oracle & @socialtext. San Francisco · Health and Wellness

Conrad Wai VP of Product @yahoo. Previous: mobile ads @google, founded @jump-ventures, design+strategy consulting, CS+HCI @stanford San Francisco · All Markets

Blaine Vess Former Co-Founder and CEO @solveconcierge and Former Co-Founder and CEO of @studentbrands Los Angeles · Freemium

Philipp Stauffer Tech Entrepreneur & Investor: Co-Founder FYRFLY VC, Co-Founder Onor, Founding MD Accenture Interactive, Partner Accenture, IPG, Product Innovation, Adchemy Palo Alto · Mobile Infrastructure

Derrick Hsiang Vice President @wi-harper-group ; focus on investing in seed stage companies in mobile, internet, gaming, e-commerce, software, cloud computing, big data space San Francisco · SaaS

Dan Rua Founder, CEO, Chairman, Angel, VC and Advisor with combined company exits >$1B+. People-backer with a soft-spot for passion. Orlando · All Markets

Oskar Hjertonsson Founder @needish. Sold to @groupon. Ex CEO @groupon Latin America. Investor @skout. Investor @welcu. Investor @playcomo. Investor @monki San Francisco · All Markets

Rob Ness GP at Asymmetry Ventures. Obsessively hunts the world's best startups. Served time @harvard-university, @berkeley. Silicon Valley · Location Based Services

Reid Hoffman Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor. Mountain View · B2B

John Giannandrea Investor in @tellme-networks, @onlive, @matrixx-software. Silicon Valley · All Markets

Tuoc Luong CEO MeID, former CEO of Shanda Online and SVP Global Search @yahoo San Jose · Life Sciences

Craig Sherman Managing Partner at @meritech-capital. Former COO of @ancestry.com, CEO of Gaia. Palo Alto · All Markets

Arie Abecassis Board Director/Investor at @seatgeek @adaptly @bizness-apps Founder @iconyc labs; Mentor @dreamit-ventures Philadelphia · Small and Medium Businesses

Jim Brandt Angel Investor Los Angeles · Mobile Commerce

Bill Zanker Founder: GRIT BXNG, The Learning Annex, Brainfuel, Great American BackRub Stores, FundAnything, Poetry.com. I start and/or invest in consumer companies. Park City · Film

Paolo Rubatto Managing Director, Founder at @start-capital San Francisco · Lead Generation

Anthony Saleh I am a man from LA. That is it. Los Angeles · Social Commerce

Dan Rose Chairman, Coatue Ventures & Coatue Growth. Previously 13 years at Facebook & 7 years at Amazon. Venture / Partnerships / BD / M&A / Product / Monetization. Silicon Valley · Productivity Software

Jim Pallotta Founder @raptor-ventures, @raptor-consumer-partners United States · Mobile Commerce

Gary Tsang Worked at @twitter, @serious-business • Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1 San Francisco · All Markets

Colin Carrier Founder, CEO. Investor & Venture Partner. Ex-Chief Strategy Officer, Twitch. San Francisco · Computer Vision

Justin Davidson Enterprise Architect for eBay Inc. responsible for strategy and roadmap for Infrastructure, Cloud, ITSM and Collaboration San Jose · Business Services

Tyler Winklevoss Co-Founder & CEO @gemini • Principal @winklevosscap San Francisco · Location Based Services

Ben Lam Founder Arical • Worked at @citicorp, @accenture Hong Kong · All Markets

Varun Dalal Principal at Telegraph Hill Capital. Focusing on early stage mobile technology investments. Barcelona · Mobile

Abhishek Jain Hong Kong · Clean Technology

Alain Chuard Entrepreneur. Former Googler. Founder & Chief Product Officer at Wildfire (acquired by Google). Palo Alto · Mobile Commerce

Matty Yohannan Entertainment/Media/Consumer/Tech/FinTech • @robertson-stephens @sofi-1 @roasting-plant • @stanford-graduate-school-of-business-1 @stern-school-of-business Austin · Defense

Michael Ciklin Investor @shareroot, @idonethis, @hullabalu, @wedgies, @credfm, Advisor @primeloop Studied at @princeton-university, UF JD/MBA/MRE Nashville · Visualization

Sam Kokin Investor at CAA Ventures. Former VC in Tel Aviv and Associate at EY. San Francisco · Audio

Information source: angel.co

So there, go for it. You can also get the Film and Video Money Directory

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