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Angel Registry Update - May 12, 2026

Angel Registry Update — May 12, 2026

Here are the latest US pre-seed, seed, and Series A deals, plus EDGAR Form D filings for May 12, 2026.

SECTION 1 — TECH/AI DEALS

Star Catcher$65M
Series A
Space power grid — collects solar power in orbit and beams to satellites
Investors: B Capital, Shield Capital, Cerberus Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, Helena, Oceans Ventures, MVP Ventures, John 'Jay' Raymond, Jeff Johnson, David Rothzeid
Roadrunner$27M
Series A
AI-native CPQ (configure, price, quote) software
Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Mamoon Hamid, Trae Stephens
Ciridae$20M
Seed
AI operating system for mid-market real economy businesses
Investors: Accel, a16z, General Catalyst, Sunflower Capital, Backcountry Ventures
Adfin$18M
Series A
Automated payments/finance platform for SME cashflow
Investors: Index Ventures, Visionaries Club, Stéphane Kurgan, Andrey Khusid
Greenboard$15.5M
Series A
AI-powered financial compliance automation
Investors: Base10 Partners, Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Commerce Ventures, Transpose Platform, Liquid2 Ventures
Infinitopes$15.4M
Seed
Precision immunotherapy biotech
Investors: Amplify Bio, Cancer Research Horizons, Kindred Capital, Octopus Ventures, Saras Capital
White Circle$11M
Seed
AI control platform to stop AI models from going rogue in the workplace
Investors: Romain Huet, Dirk Kingma, Guillaume Lample, Thomas Wolf, Olivier Pomel, François Chollet, Mehdi Ghissassi, Paige Bailey, David Cramer, Tiny VC
4AM$4M
Seed
Facial wipe consumer brand
Investors: CAVU Consumer Partners, B4 Capital, Type Capital
Secludy$4M
Seed
Synthetic data generator for AI training
Investors: Impression Ventures, LAUNCH, The Syndicate
Rogue$2.5M
Pre-seed
Protein snack company
Investors: Science Inc., Uncommon Ventures, Simple Food Ventures
Tolemy Bio$1.5M
Pre-seed
AI-native cell biology platform
Investors: Norrsken Evolve, Big Sur Ventures, JME Ventures

Named Individual Angels

Mamoon Hamid
Partner, Kleiner Perkins
📍 Palo Alto, CA
💰 Invested in: Roadrunner ($27M, Series A)
🔗 LinkedIn | @mamoonha
✉️ Not found
Mamoon Hamid is a Pakistani-American venture capitalist. He began his career as an engineer at Xilinx, then joined U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) in 2005. He co-founded Social Capital in 2011 and joined Kleiner Perkins in 2017, where he is a Managing Member and General Partner. He has been recognized on Forbes' Midas List multiple times for his early investments in companies like Slack, Box, Figma, and Rippling.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Enterprise AI founders
Trae Stephens
Partner, Founders Fund; Executive Chairman, Anduril Industries
📍 San Francisco, CA
💰 Invested in: Roadrunner ($27M, Series A)
🔗 LinkedIn | @traestephens
✉️ Not found
Trae Stephens is a venture capitalist and technology entrepreneur. He co-founded Anduril Industries in 2017, a defense technology company, where he serves as Executive Chairman. He is also a Partner at Founders Fund and was a former U.S. intelligence analyst and early Palantir employee.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Defense Tech founders, Government Tech founders, AI/ML founders
Romain Huet
Head of Developer Experience, OpenAI
📍 San Francisco, CA
💰 Invested in: White Circle ($11M Seed, AI control platform)
🔗 LinkedIn | @romainhuet
✉️ romain@openai.com
Romain Huet is a French entrepreneur and engineer with a passion for developer platforms. He currently leads Developer Experience at OpenAI, and previously held product leadership roles at Stripe and Twitter. He is also an active angel investor and advisor.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML founders, Developer Tools founders
Durk Kingma
Research Scientist, Anthropic
📍 Netherlands
💰 Invested in: White Circle ($11M, Seed)
🔗 LinkedIn | @dpkingma
✉️ Not found
Durk Kingma is a computer scientist and machine learning researcher, known for inventing the VAE and Adam optimizer. He was part of the founding team at OpenAI and co-authored the influential paper "Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization." He is currently a Research Scientist at Anthropic.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML founders
Guillaume Lample
Cofounder and Chief Scientist, Mistral AI
📍 Paris, France
💰 Invested in: White Circle ($11M, Seed)
🔗 LinkedIn | @GuillaumeLample
✉️ Not found
Guillaume Lample cofounded Mistral AI in 2023, which raised $113 million in Europe's largest seed round. He previously helped build Meta's flagship LLM Llama and is considered an AI genius, working on large language models.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML founders
Thomas Wolf
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face
📍 Not found
💰 Invested in: White Circle ($11M, Seed)
🔗 LinkedIn | @Thom_Wolf
✉️ Not found
Thomas Wolf is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Hugging Face, a collaborative AI platform. Hugging Face has been a Sequoia-backed company since 2022. He is notably involved in open-source AI and machine learning.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML founders, Open-source AI founders
Olivier Pomel
CEO & Co-founder, Datadog
📍 New York, NY
💰 Invested in: White Circle ($11M, Seed)
🔗 LinkedIn | @oliveur
✉️ Not found
Olivier Pomel is the co-founder and CEO of Datadog, a leading cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform. Prior to founding Datadog, he was VP, Technology for Wireless Generation, where he built data systems for K-12 teachers. He is notable for building one of the most important cloud infrastructure companies of the decade.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML founders
François Chollet
Deep Learning Researcher, Google; Co-founder, Ndea; Co-founder, ARCPrize
📍 United States
💰 Invested in: White Circle ($11M Seed, AI control platform)
🔗 LinkedIn | @fchollet
✉️ francoisc@google.com
François Chollet is a French software engineer and AI researcher, best known as the creator of Keras, a widely used deep learning library. He is also the author of 'Deep Learning with Python' and a co-founder of Ndea and ARCPrize, making him a leading voice in the AI community.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML founders
Mehdi Ghissassi
Angel Investor
📍 London, United Kingdom
💰 Invested in: White Circle ($11M, Seed)
🔗 LinkedIn | @mghissassi
✉️ Not found
Mehdi Ghissassi is a prominent angel investor with a strong background in artificial intelligence. He previously served as the Head of Product at DeepMind and has invested in numerous AI-focused startups, including White Circle, Agemo SaaS, Pomo, Mistral AI, Spore.Bio, Odyssey, and AQEMIA. His expertise lies in AI/ML, data analytics, and IT infrastructure.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML founders
Paige Bailey
AI Developer Relations Lead, Google DeepMind
📍 San Francisco, CA
💰 Invested in: White Circle ($11M, Seed)
🔗 LinkedIn | @DynamicWebPaige
✉️ paigebailey@google.com
Paige Bailey is an accomplished AI leader with over 15 years of experience, instrumental in defining the developer experience for Google’s advanced generative models like Gemini, PaLM 2, and Gemma. She has a strong background in machine learning research and its business applications, having also worked at GitHub and Microsoft on ML developer tools and cloud AI advocacy. Prior to her roles in AI, she was a Senior Data Scientist at Chevron.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML founders, Generative AI developer tools founders
David Cramer
Co-founder & CTO, Sentry
📍 San Francisco, CA
💰 Invested in: White Circle ($11M, Seed)
🔗 LinkedIn | @zeeg
✉️ dcramer@gmail.com
David Cramer is a software engineer and the co-founder and CTO of Sentry, an open-source application monitoring platform. He is known for building developer infrastructure trusted by millions and has a background in hacking World of Warcraft databases as a self-taught engineer.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: DevOps founders, AI/ML founders, Open Source founders
Stéphane Kurgan
Executive Advisor, TCV; Venture Partner, Index Ventures; Co-Founder, QDE studio
📍 London, UK
💰 Invested in: Adfin ($18M, Series A)
🔗 LinkedIn | @stephane_kurgan
✉️ Not found
Stéphane Kurgan is a seasoned executive with three decades of experience scaling consumer and B2B businesses. He is best known for his role as Chief Operating Officer of King Digital Entertainment, where he oversaw significant growth, a $7 billion IPO, and the acquisition by Activision Blizzard. He also co-founded Digital Reserve, a P2P payments business.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Fintech founders, Gaming founders, B2B SaaS founders
Andrey Khusid
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Miro
📍 Amsterdam, NH
💰 Invested in: Adfin ($18M, Series A)
🔗 LinkedIn | @Khusya
✉️ andrey@miro.com
Andrey Khusid is the co-founder and CEO of Miro, a collaborative online whiteboard platform that has grown significantly under his leadership. He previously founded Vitamin Group. His work with Miro has established him as a prominent figure in the SaaS and collaboration technology space.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: SaaS founders, Fintech founders, Collaboration tools founders
John Jay Raymond
Senior Managing Director, Cerberus Capital Management
📍 Reston, VA
💰 Invested in: Star Catcher ($65M, Series A)
🔗 LinkedIn | Not found
✉️ Not found
General John W. 'Jay' Raymond served as the first Chief of Space Operations of the United States Space Force from 2019 until his retirement on January 1, 2023. He is widely recognized as the 'father of the Space Force' for his foundational role in establishing and leading the new military branch. Post-retirement, he joined Cerberus Capital Management as a Senior Managing Director, where he focuses on investments in technology, aerospace, and defense modernization.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: SpaceTech founders, DefenseTech founders, DeepTech founders
Jeff Johnson
General Partner and Global Head of Energy, B Capital
📍 San Francisco, CA
💰 Invested in: Star Catcher ($65M, Series A)
🔗 LinkedIn | Not found
✉️ Not found
Jeff Johnson has nearly 25 years of investment, entrepreneurship, and corporate experience across energy and technology. He previously served as a Managing Director at Temasek, leading US-based investment in energy and industrial growth. He also co-founded Xpansiv, a leading provider of market infrastructure for environmental commodities.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Energy Tech founders, Climate Tech founders, Space Tech founders

SECTION 2 — EDGAR FORM D FILINGS

Total filings processed: 57 (18 operating companies, 39 funds/SPVs).

Honest Mary's Inc.Undisclosed
TX |
No executives listed
Nth Cycle Inc.Undisclosed
MA |
No executives listed
Creekside Investors, LLC, a California Ltd liability CoUndisclosed
CA |
No executives listed
SERTEXITY LABS INC.Undisclosed
FL |
No executives listed
Pagari Life Science Corp.Undisclosed
IL |
No executives listed
HII d-Matrix-02, a Series of HII d-Matrix, LLCUndisclosed
NY |
No executives listed
IMA Financial Group, Inc.Undisclosed
KS |
No executives listed
KRIVOX INC.Undisclosed
DE |
No executives listed
Bridge Purchasing Solutions, Inc.Undisclosed
AR |
No executives listed
Classmate Playdate, Inc.Undisclosed
FL |
No executives listed
Enclave Marston Gainesville JV, LLCUndisclosed
DE |
No executives listed
Digital Intelligence Robotics LtdUndisclosed
|
No executives listed
Hadron Energy, Inc.Undisclosed
CA |
No executives listed
Teamblind Inc.Undisclosed
CA |
No executives listed
Hive Health, LLCUndisclosed
FL |
No executives listed
OTTUMWA-IOWA PROPERTY, LLCUndisclosed
CA |
No executives listed
HII Zipline-01, a Series of HII Zipline LLCUndisclosed
NY |
No executives listed
SANDLER ASSOCIATESUndisclosed
NY |
No executives listed

📱 Social Media Post Pack

X/Twitter:White Circle just raised an $11M Seed round to stop AI from going rogue in the enterprise. 🛡️The cap table is a who's who of AI pioneers:@fchollet (Creator of Keras)@GuillaumeLample (Mistral AI)@Thom_Wolf (Hugging Face)@oliveur (Datadog)Dirk Kingma (Adam optimizer)More details in today's Angel Registry Update: [LINK]
LinkedIn:Space power grids are no longer sci-fi. 🛰️⚡Star Catcher just raised a massive $65M Series A to build the first space-based energy grid, beaming solar power to satellites in orbit. The round was backed by B Capital, Shield Capital, and notable angels including General John "Jay" Raymond, the first Chief of Space Operations for the US Space Force.Check out the full list of today's 11 major tech/AI deals and 57 EDGAR Form D filings in the Angel Registry Update. Link in comments! 👇

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