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Angel Registry Update

March 13, 2026

Section 1 — Funding Briefing

Section 2 — Individual Angels Identified

Christina Cacioppo is the co-founder and CEO of Vanta. Before Vanta, she helped bring Dropbox Paper to market. She started her career at Union Square Ventures (USV). She is an angel investor in areas like team collaboration, programming interfaces, infrastructure in Africa, and security.

Tom Killalea is a seasoned technology executive with deep expertise in product development, digital innovation, customer experience, and security. He was Amazon's first CISO and has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors at MongoDB since July 2019. He is also a board member at Akamai, Satellogic, and Capital One Financial Corp. He previously served on the boards of Xoom Corporation and Carbon Black, Inc. He has authored and co-authored several technical publications and RFCs.

Venkat Venkataramani is the co-founder and former CEO of Rockset, a real-time analytics database company that was acquired by OpenAI. He is now the Head of Infrastructure at OpenAI. Prior to Rockset, he was an Engineering Director at Facebook, where he worked on online data infrastructure. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Anatoly Yakovenko is a co-founder of Solana, a high-performance blockchain. He has over a decade of experience in building high-performance operating systems, having previously worked at Qualcomm and Dropbox. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Alex Svanevik is the co-founder and CEO of Nansen, a blockchain data analytics company. He has an extensive background in data science and artificial intelligence, with over 10 years of experience in the field. Svanevik holds a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and has held various data science and consulting roles at companies like Schibsted Media Group and BearingPoint. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Pudgy Penguins NFT collection.

Paul Taylor is a Venture Partner at BlackRock, where he focuses on web3 investments. He has been an active angel investor and advisor in the crypto space since 2011. He was previously on the private equity team at BlackRock and is a former national youth chess champion.

Chris Heaney is the Co-Founder of Drift Protocol. He is an angel investor who is active in the crypto community and has invested in companies like VeryAI.

Ilja Moisejevs is currently at Coinbase and was previously the co-founder and CEO of Tensor. He was also a founding engineer at Calypso AI. He is an active angel investor in the web3 space.

Zano Sherwani is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Jito Labs, a company focused on building MEV infrastructure for the Solana blockchain. He previously worked as a Software Engineer at Parsec. Zano attended George Mason University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

Adam Jin is the co-founder and managing partner at Initial Ventures, a crypto-native venture capital firm. He is also an advisor at the Solana Foundation, where he helped build the APAC team. Previously, he was a partner and investor at FTX Ventures, focusing on infrastructure and application layer projects within the crypto space.

Charles Wayn is the co-founder of Galxe, a platform for building web3 communities, and Gravity, a full-stack, EVM-compatible blockchain for mass adoption. He was previously the CEO & Founder of DLive.tv. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Co-Founder and Project Lead at Galxe. Previously worked as the Co-Founder and COO at Lino, Co-Founder at DLive.tv, and the former Head of Data Products at Club Factory. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied Statistics and Computer Science.

Xander Oltmann is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder of Commodity Capital and the co-founder and CEO of Scope. Previously, he was part of the founding team and COO at hiQ Labs. He holds a degree in Political Economy from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Maj. Gen. Stephen T. Sargeant, USAF (Ret.) is the CEO of Sargeant Solutions LLC. He has over 30 years of senior executive experience in military and commercial aerospace operations and operational testing. He previously served as the Commander of the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center (AFOTEC) and was an angel investor in Swarm Aero.

Veenu Aulakh is a Director at Acumen America, where she leads the Medicaid Innovation Collaborative (MIC). She has over 20 years of experience in healthcare innovation, previously serving as President of the Center for Care Innovations (CCI) and holding positions at the California Health Care Foundation and Kaiser Permanente. She holds a Master of Science in health policy and management from Harvard University.

Ralph Ho is an experienced finance and investment professional with a diverse background in venture capital, hedge funds, technology startups, and investment banking. He was an early employee at PayPal, serving as Vice President of Finance and Treasurer, and later became the COO of Sequoia Capital Global Equities. He is also a CFA Charterholder and a Trustee on the UC San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees.

Carsten Maschmeyer is a German billionaire businessman and investor. He founded the financial services provider AWD Holding AG in 1988 and took it public in 2000. He is also a panel member of the German investment television series Die Höhle der Löwen.

This report is compiled by Manus AI for FounderPortal.ai subscribers. All information is sourced from publicly available press releases, news articles, and filings. Contact information for individual angels is sourced from public records only. This is not investment advice.