Who Are the Investors on HN?

Over the last 20 years I have founded and co-founded multiple software startups myself so I know a bit about making a software business successful.

I would love to invest something like $100K in small software startups. But I have no idea how to go about it.

My favorite approach would be to band together with a few other small time investors and put $10k of my money into 10 different companies each.

One issue is that all my friends are still in the "dreaming about building a startup" phase. Nobody in my circle has the money/interest to invest.

The other issue is that I don't know how to find startups to invest in.

I'm an engineer turned VC, and I read HN on most days.

Eng career: one of the first 10 engineers at LinkedIn and Factual, and one of the first 10k engineers at Google.

Investing: I'm a partner at Susa Ventures. We're a $90m seed fund and we've backed companies like Robinhood, Flexport, and Fast at seed stage.

- $1m-$1.5m checks, generally when companies are raising $2m-$5m. - the 4 areas where we're most active are enterprise SaaS, fintech, logistics/supply chain, and healthcare IT. - we can invest pre-launch or pre-product, but prefer for there to be an MVP and idealy a few early pilots/contracts/users. - we like companies that have the potential to build strong moats in the long run (network effects, proprietary data, etc.)

Easiest ways to reach me: @lpolovets on Twitter or leo at susaventures.com

I've gotten more and more bandwidth constrained as our fund has grown, but I do my best to reply to emails/DMs where I'm a fit or could be helpful. If you mention HN, I'll prioritize your email. :)

Not sure there's a particular spreadsheet or anything of investors on HN, but it could be a fun idea.

For what it's worth- I'm an angel investor (past life: early GitHub, advisor at GitLab). I'm also starting an angel syndicate for former GitHub employees, too, so that might be a good option for you if you're in the devtools space and want a bunch of experienced Hubbers on your cap table.

Perhaps there is space for monthly "Who's raising?" and/or "Who's investing?" threads.

i’ve been angel investing for 15 years in approx 250 companies.

check into angellist and nfx signal. also post your project to show HN and people might reach out (i do.)

I run a small VC fund focused on early/seed companies: https://asimovventures.com/portfolio/

We’ve done a lot in robotics and 3D printing. Love talking to founders working on hard technical problems. Feel free to drop me a note, tyler@ [that website link].

Early days, but if by chance you’re doing anything in neurotech definitely reach out. I’m doing a PhD in neuroscience at Stanford and am keen to invest in this burgeoning space.

I invest in seed-stage dev tools startups alongside others (most of them are also on HN - here’s a list of people[1]) and I’m also a part of the Uber alumni investment syndicate[2].

[1] https://github.com/sw-yx/devtools-angels/

[2] https://angel.co/uber-alumni-investment-club/syndicate

I am one. I have invested in some YC (and non-YC) companies over the years. About half of my investments are listed here.

https://angel.co/p/diego-basch

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Early stage dev tools investor here, investing in technical tools for technical people. Focused mainly on seed through Series B.

Portfolio: https://whoisnnamdi.com/portfolio/

Hey,

I don't think there any many good lists of VCs, Investors etc in general. A friend of mine in the UK is making the "GlassDoor for VCs" which is making great progrss.

I do a fair few investments a year (4-5) a year.

This is a great book - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32600757-angel

I'm looking to join some AngelList syndicates, if anyone out there is looking for some fresh blood.

We are a startup trying to revolutionize multi-effect pedalboards and we're raising.

https://moddevices.com

I can be reached by email at ale@.

Is there a place where founders & investors can more easily connect? Seems like r/startups and r/venturecapital on reddit and AngelList, but I'm wondering if there's a more suitable forum for this type of thing.

Not really a fan of a spreadsheet. We need a place for people at all stages to be able to quantity their asks and be connected.

Great idea. I come from high-frequency trading and robotics, and I'm interested in a fairly broad range of B2B software and some B2C. I do have some deal flow through my friends, although I could always do more, and compare notes/share opportunities with others. My email is my profile. To the rest of you who posted, I'll try to reach out to you!

Republic.co has a list of companies you can invest in. Most recently, you could invest in Gumroad and Backstage Capital, among others. There is also AngelList syndicates.

I have some GME