Super-angels are helping to reorganize early-stage investing with disciplined capital, uniform investing rules and a sense of community that venture capital hasn’t had for a long time.
And super-angels can now finance later rounds, in direct competition with venture capital funds. Their successes are already well-documented.
Super-angel Ken Lerer invested about $3 million of his own money for a stake in the Huffington Post that now is valued at more than $60 million. The Huffington Post was bought by AOL last month for more than $300 million.
Institutional Investor ranks the top super-angels.
Super Angel | Location | Investment Team | AUM |
Softtech VC | Palo Alto | ![]() | $30 M+ |
SV Angels | San Francisco | ![]() | $20 M+ |
IAVentures | New York | Roger Ehrenberg, Brad Gillespie | $50 M |
Lerer Ventures | New York | Kenneth Lerer, Ben Lerer | $7 M |
Social Leverage | Phoenix | ![]() | |
500 Startups | Mountain View | ![]() | $30 M |
Floodgate | Palo Alto | ![]() | $70 M+ |
Lowercase Capital | Truckee | ![]() | $28 M |
FelicisVentures | Palo Alto | ![]() | $40 M |
Founders Co-Op | Seattle | Andy Sack, Chris DeVore | $2.5 M+ |
Founder Collective | Cambridge, New York | ![]() | $40 M+ |