500.co with cbinsights.com narrowed down a host variables. They open with:
We analyzed over 2000 angel investors on factors such as network strength, rate of follow-on investment, # of exits, brand and more.
Then they create three (3) lists.
- Top angel investors by Network Centrality
- Top angel investors by Follow-On Rate
- Top angel investors by Investor Mosaic
- Network Centrality literally means how many people they know and how well are they connected.
- Follow-On Rate means how well they were able to get additional funding.
- Investor Mosaic includes when they entered and how they exited. In other words, how go could they guess on a startup.
The links below to Angels open to Wikipedia, go to the blog article to get more information.
The top five (5) for each list
Network Centrality
- Alexis Ohanian
- Max Levchin
- Garry Tan
- Marc Benioff
- David Tisch
Follow-On Rate
- Bobby Yazdani
- Larry Augustin
- Matt Coffin
- Ashton Kutcher – yes the actor
- Gil Penchina
Investor Mosaic
- Naval Ravikant
- Joshua Schachter
- Paul Buchheit
- Jason Calacanis
- David Tisch
- The Top 20 Angel Investors
http://500.co/2014/06/20/the-other-1-ranking-the-top-20-angel-investors/- MOVED without redirect to
http://500.co/the-other-1-ranking-the-top-20-angel-investors/- 500.co moved the article again; here it is as cbinsights:
- https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/top-angel-investors
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