Angel Registry Update - May 14, 2026
Angel Registry Update — May 14, 2026
Here are the latest US pre-seed, seed, and Series A deals, plus EDGAR Form D filings for May 14, 2026.
SECTION 1 — TECH/AI DEALS
Exaforce$125M
Series B
Agentic security operations
Investors: HarbourVest, Peak XV, Mayfield, Khosla Ventures, Seligman Ventures, AICONIC
Star Catcher$65M
Series A
Power grid in space
Investors: B Capital, Shield Capital, Cerberus Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, Helena, Oceans Ventures, MVP Ventures
Stitch$25M
Series A
Cloud-native OS for financial institutions
Investors: a16z, Arbor Ventures, COTU Ventures, Raed Ventures, SVC
Optura$17.5M
Series A
Enterprise healthcare ROAI platform
Investors: Salesforce Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, Susa Ventures, Matrix Partners, HC9 Ventures
Outmarket AI$17M
Series A
AI for insurance
Investors: Permanent Capital Ventures, SignalFire, Fika Ventures, TTV Capital, Dash Fund
Casimir$12M
Seed
Quantum vacuum energy
Investors: Scout Ventures, Lavrock Venture
White Circle$11M
Seed
Enterprise AI control platform
Investors: Romain Huet, Dirk Kingma, Guillaume Lample, Thomas Wolf, Olivier Pomel, François Chollet, Mehdi Ghissassi, Paige Bailey, David Cramer
Synthetic$10M
Seed
AI bookkeeping for startups
Investors: Khosla Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, Tobi Lütke, Kaz Nejatian, Zach Abrams, Cosmin Nicolaescu, Michael Tannenbaum
Hint$10M
Seed
AI home management (Martha Stewart)
Investors: Slow Ventures, Montauk Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, Amplo, Energy Impact Partners, Hannah Grey, Brian Kelly
Furientis$5M
Pre-seed
Ship-based interceptor missiles
Investors: Silent Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, SV Angel, Vanderbilt University, Channel 39 Ventures
Cimento AI$3M
Pre-seed
Human-risk security platform
Investors: Bowery Capital, Indie VC
Hacktron$2.9M
Pre-seed
AI cybersecurity testing
Investors: Crane Venture Partners, Project Europe, Vercel Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures
Saile$2.2M
Pre-seed
AI physician workforce platform
Investors: Matchstick Ventures, Headwater Ventures
Named Individual Angels
Romain Huet
Head of Developer Experience at OpenAI
Romain Huet is a French entrepreneur and engineer with a passion for developer platforms. He currently leads Developer Experience at OpenAI, inspiring and equipping developers to build with AI. Previously, he was a Product Lead at Stripe.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Research Angel - Deep Tech
Durk Kingma
ML Research at Anthropic
Durk Kingma is a prominent computer scientist and machine learning researcher who co-invented the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) and the Adam optimizer. He was part of the founding team at OpenAI and later worked as a Research Scientist at Google Brain/DeepMind before joining Anthropic.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Research Angel - Deep Tech
Guillaume Lample
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Mistral AI
Guillaume Lample is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Mistral AI, a pioneering French artificial intelligence startup. Prior to founding Mistral AI, he worked as a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). He holds a Master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Research Angel - Deep Tech
Thomas Wolf
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Hugging Face
Thomas Wolf is the Co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO) of Hugging Face, a leading collaborative AI platform known for its open-source contributions. He spearheaded the development of the Hugging Face Transformers and has been instrumental in the open-source AI movement.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Angel - Deep Tech
Olivier Pomel
Co-Founder & CEO at Datadog
Olivier Pomel is the co-founder and CEO of Datadog, a leading cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform. Prior to founding Datadog in 2010, he built data systems for K-12 teachers as a VP of Technology for Wireless Generation. He has grown Datadog into a multi-billion dollar company while being highly capital efficient.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Enterprise Software/SaaS Angel - Cloud Infrastructure & AI
François Chollet
Co-Founder at Ndea
François Chollet is a distinguished software engineer and AI researcher best known as the creator of the Keras deep-learning library. He spent nearly a decade at Google contributing to deep learning research and TensorFlow before leaving in late 2024. He is currently the Co-Founder of Ndea and ARC Prize, focusing on advancing artificial general intelligence.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Research Angel - Deep Tech
Mehdi Ghissassi
CPTO at AI71
Mehdi Ghissassi is a seasoned product management leader and angel investor based in London. He previously served as Director and Head of Product at Google DeepMind and Google Brain, focusing on integrating advanced AI into enterprise products. He is currently the CPTO at AI71.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Research Angel - Deep Tech
Paige Bailey
AI Developer Relations Lead at Google DeepMind
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 at Sentry
David Cramer is a self-taught software engineer and entrepreneur who dropped out of high school in the 9th grade. He is the co-founder and CTO of Sentry, a leading open-source application monitoring and error tracking platform used by tens of thousands of companies. He has transitioned between CEO and CTO roles at Sentry and is an active angel investor.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: DevTools/Infrastructure Angel - B2B SaaS
Tobias Lütke
CEO at Shopify
Tobias Lütke is the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, the marquee shopping cart system of the e-commerce industry. He has served as the company's CEO since 2008, leading its growth from a small startup to a foundational internet commerce platform. He is also an active angel investor and operator-investor.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: E-commerce/SaaS Angel - B2B Tech
Kaz Nejatian
Chief Executive Officer at Opendoor
Kaz Nejatian is the Chief Executive Officer of Opendoor, having joined the company in 2025 after serving as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Product at Shopify. Earlier in his career, he founded and served as CEO of Kash, a payment technology company acquired in 2017, and held product leadership roles at Meta (formerly Facebook). He began his career practicing law before moving into entrepreneurship and product leadership.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Operator Angel - PropTech/Commerce
Zach Abrams
Co-Founder and CEO at Bridge
Zach Abrams is a prominent fintech entrepreneur and angel investor. He co-founded Bridge, a stablecoin payments company that was acquired by Stripe for $1.1 billion. Previously, he co-founded Evenly, a Venmo competitor that was acquired by Square, and served as VP of Product at Brex.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Fintech Angel - B2B/Payments
Cosmin Nicolaescu
CEO and Co-Founder at Accrual
Cosmin Nicolaescu is a distinguished software engineer and entrepreneur with a strong background in financial infrastructure. He previously served as an early engineer and manager at Stripe, and later as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Brex. He is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Accrual, an AI-native accounting infrastructure platform.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Fintech/AI Angel - B2B SaaS
Michael Tannenbaum
Chief Executive Officer at Figure Technology Solutions, Inc.
Michael Tannenbaum is the Chief Executive Officer and Director at Figure Technology Solutions, Inc., a role he has held since April 2024. Previously, he served as an executive at Brex, Inc., including as Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Business Officer. Earlier in his career, he held significant leadership roles at SoFi Technologies, Inc., including as Chief Revenue Officer, and worked in investment banking at JPMorgan Chase.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Fintech/Blockchain Angel - Financial Services
Brian Kelly
Founder at The Points Guy
Brian Kelly is the founder of The Points Guy (TPG), a leading travel media platform that helps consumers maximize their travel rewards and finances. He started TPG in 2010 as a blog and built it into a global brand, eventually selling it while remaining actively involved. Prior to founding TPG, he worked at Morgan Stanley and Lord & Taylor.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Media/Travel Angel - Consumer Tech
SECTION 2 — EDGAR FORM D FILINGS
Total filings processed: 67 (16 operating companies, 51 funds/SPVs).
Hotai Securities Inc$100,000,000
DEHUI LI —
VOLTX EX LTD.$100,000,000
CORY SPENCE —
SOLCAP 38N 2026-1 LLC$41,000,000
N/A KeyState Renewables LLC —
Joshua Miller —
Nicholas Miller —
Monte Miller —
SEP IX Associates, LLC$36,000,000
Eric Kutsenda —
Robert Seidler —
Matt Seidler —
Fellowship WL Investors, LLC$25,215,432
N/A BLDG Fellowship JV, LLC —
Fredrick King —
George LaHood, IV —
SEP Discovery Associates, LLC$15,000,000
Eric Kutsenda —
Robert Seidler —
Matt Seidler —
MO TOWER LLC$14,000,000
The Goldman Group LLC —
Ari Goldman —
Charles Goldman —
Squad Technologies LLC$8,000,000
PATRICK ZIEGLER —
JOHN ZIEGLER —
Paxos Medical Inc.$5,100,000
Jeffrey Erb —
Matthew Fraser —
PulsedLogic Inc.$5,100,000
Jon Ruais —
Jeffrey Erb —
EtiraRX, Inc.$3,000,003
Russell Hayward —
Ganesh Raj —
Justin Stebbing —
Annalisa Jenkins —
Innovatio Group, LLC$1,500,000
James Crouthamel —
OLILO, Inc$500,000
Joon Yang —
Public Policy Holding Company, Inc.(PPHC)$300,000
George Hall —
Roeland Smits —
Jill Kendrick —
Thomas Gensemer —
Neal Strum —
Matthew Mazzanti —
Simon Lee —
Zachary Williams —
Keenan Austin —
Benjamin Ginsberg —
Kimberly White —
Charles Brown —
Kathleen Casey —
Johnson Green —
NeuroMuse Inc.$250,000
Yifan Zhao —
Jiaye Tan —
Fanzhuo Ai —
KARMAN ULTRANATIVE LLCIndefinite
N/A ZANBATO CAPITAL LLC —
N/A ZANBATO ADVISORS LLC —
KNUT NICOLAI SAND —
GREGORY WRIGHT —
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