AI Investors

AI investors back founders building with or on top of modern ML systems — foundation models, agent frameworks, inference infrastructure, and applied AI across verticals. Most active angels in this space come from operator or research backgrounds and are drawn to teams with technical depth, a distinct data moat, or unusual distribution.

Rounds are competitive and often oversubscribed, and warm intros through researcher or founder networks tend to beat cold inbound. Angels often contribute technical sparring, hiring help, and introductions to compute and data partners.

Example companies in this space:

OpenAI Anthropic Perplexity Mistral Hugging Face Cursor Runway ElevenLabs

Brian Holt

@btholt

dev and ai experience product manager frontend masters teacher dev tools and sports investor

$10K-$25K

Britton Winterrose

@britton

@winterrose on X. Head of Technical BD, Strategic Recruit & Partnerships @ Microsoft for Startups. 2x founder, ex-AWS. I write small checks - early. Fast, clear, founder-friendly.

David Scott

@cybersageventures

Operator-angel focused on trust infrastructure, security-native products, and AI governance.

$10K-$25K

Matthew Osborn

@osbornm

$250K-$500K

Taylor Leese

@tleese

Zach Holman

@holman

Founder, signed.com.

$10K-$25K