Fund India

💡 Raising money for your startup? You probably know the top VC funds, but what about the angel investors actually writing the first checks?

Lenny Rachitsky teamed up with Crunchbase to uncover the most active angel investors of the past five years—and the results might surprise you.

Top 10 most active angel investors:

🥇 Edward Lando & Nadav Ben-Chanoch (Pareto Holdings) – 415 deals

🥈 Gokul Rajaram (DoorDash) – 170 deals

🥉 Elad Gil – 160 deals

🏅 Scott Belsky (Adobe) – 151 deals

5️⃣ Jon Oringer (Shutterstock, Pareto Holdings) – 142 deals

6️⃣ Charlie Songhurst – 135 deals

7️⃣ Naval Ravikant (AngelList) – 128 deals

8️⃣ Mark Cuban – 127 deals

9️⃣ Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence, ex-Stripe) – 127 deals

🔟 Sahin Boydas (Gusto, ex-RemoteTeam) – 100 deals

Some takeaways:

▪️ Pareto Holdings (Edward Lando & Jon Oringer) is backing startups at an insane pace

▪️ Gokul Rajaram & Elad Gil dominate across AI, B2B, and fintech

▪️ Naval Ravikant, Scott Belsky & Mark Cuban remain highly active

▪️ Lachy Groom & Sahin Boydas are newer names shaking things up

If you're a founder, these are the names to know.