Angel Registry Update - May 18, 2026
Angel Registry Update — May 18, 2026
Here are the latest US pre-seed, seed, and Series A deals, plus EDGAR Form D filings for May 18, 2026.
SECTION 1 — TECH/AI DEALS
Star Catcher$65M
Series A
Power grid in space
Investors: B Capital, Shield Capital, Cerberus Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, Helena, Oceans Ventures, MVP Ventures
Resolve AI$40M
Series A Extension
AI for running and operating software in production
Investors: DST Global, Salesforce Ventures, Jeff Dean, Fei-Fei Li, Gokul Rajaram, Raphael Schaad, Jake Mintz
PAVE Space$40M
Seed
Orbital transfer vehicles
Investors: Visionaries Club, Creandum
Nectar Social$30M
Series A
AI-powered marketing operating system
Investors: Menlo Ventures, Anthology Fund, True Ventures, GV, Kinship Ventures, Amy Wu Martin, Gwyneth Paltrow
Stitch$25M
Series A
Cloud-native OS for financial institutions
Investors: a16z, Arbor Ventures, COTU Ventures, Raed Ventures, SVC
GovWell$25M
Series A
AI government operating system
Investors: Insight Partners, Work-Bench, Bienville Capital, David Reeves, Andreas Huber
Wirestock$23M
Series A
AI creative data marketplace
Investors: Nava Ventures, SBVP, Formula VC, I2BF Ventures
Arkeus$18M
Series A
AI sensing for autonomous defense platforms
Investors: QIC Ventures, R+VC, Folklore Ventures, DYNE Ventures, Main Sequence Ventures, Salus Ventures, Beaten Zone
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
Greenboard$15.5M
Series A
AI-native securities compliance
Investors: Base10 Partners, Y Combinator, General Catalyst
Autoscience$14M
Seed
Virtual AI laboratory with AI Scientists
Investors: General Catalyst, Toyota Ventures, Perplexity Fund, MaC Ventures, S32
Shyld AI$13.4M
Seed
Active intelligence for healthcare facilities
Investors: Aulis Capital
Onramp$12.5M
Series A
Bitcoin-centric financial services
Investors: Early Riders, David Thayer
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
Sprouts.ai$9M
Pre-Series A
AI revenue agents for B2B enterprises
Investors: True Global Ventures, Accel
Graphon AI$8.3M
Seed
Pre-model intelligence layer for enterprise AI
Investors: Novera Ventures, Perplexity Fund, Samsung Next, GS Futures, Hitachi Ventures, Gaia Ventures, B37 Ventures, Aurum Partners, Arvind Gupta
LawX€7.5M
Seed
AI-powered OS for notaries and law firms
Investors: Motive Partners, WENVEST Capital, xdeck, Christoph Cordes, SIVentures, Ralph Müller
Furientis$5M
Pre-seed
Ship-based interceptor missiles
Investors: Silent Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, SV Angel, Vanderbilt University, Channel 39 Ventures
Violet Therapeutics$4.8M
Seed
Cell-to-cell communication for CNS drug targets
Investors: Mass General Brigham Ventures
SponsorCX$4.6M
Series A
SaaS for sponsorship management
Investors: Kickstart, BlueprintEquity, Capital Eleven, Frazier Group, Helm Ventures, Jeron Paul, Matt Stapleton
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
Dolfin$2.5M
Seed
AI for sales compensation
Investors: Swanlaab, Archipelago Next, Inveready
Saile$2.2M
Pre-seed
AI physician workforce platform
Investors: Matchstick Ventures, Headwater Ventures
Cosmico€12M
Debt+Equity
Future of Work holding company
Investors: P101 SGR, Prana Venture
Greenpixie£4.7M
Pre-Series A
Cloud and AI efficiency
Investors: VERBUND X, Octopus Energy
Named Individual Angels
Jeff Dean
Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind
Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and has been instrumental in developing many of the company's core systems, including MapReduce and TensorFlow. He currently serves as the Chief Scientist for Google DeepMind and Google Research, leading advancements in artificial intelligence.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Research Angel - Deep Tech
Fei-Fei Li
Cofounder/CEO at World Labs; Professor at Stanford University
Fei-Fei Li is a renowned computer scientist, often referred to as the "godmother of AI," best known for establishing ImageNet. She is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and a Founding Co-Director of Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI). Recently, she co-founded and serves as CEO of World Labs, a generative AI company focused on Spatial Intelligence.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Research Angel - Deep Tech
Gokul Rajaram
Founding Partner at Marathon Management Partners
Gokul Rajaram is a prominent technology executive and product leader, widely known as the "Godfather of AdSense" for his role in scaling Google AdSense to over $1 billion in revenue. He has held senior product leadership positions at Meta, Square, and DoorDash, and is a prolific angel investor with over 300 investments. He recently founded Marathon Management Partners to support long-term founder partnerships.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Enterprise AI / SaaS Angel
Raphael Schaad
Visiting Partner at Y Combinator
Raphael Schaad is a Swiss designer and MIT engineer who founded Cron, a calendar product acquired by Notion in 2022. He currently serves as a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and previously worked as the Head of Cron at Notion. He also spent four years building the award-winning personal magazine app Flipboard.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Product & Design Angel - B2B SaaS
Jake Mintz
Chief Product Officer at Valon
Jake Mintz is currently the Chief Product Officer at Valon. He previously co-founded Bump and has held roles at Stripe and Google. He is an active angel investor with investments in over 150 startups.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Research Angel - Deep Tech
Gwyneth Paltrow
Founder & Chief Executive Officer at goop
Gwyneth Paltrow is an Academy Award-winning actress and the founder and CEO of the lifestyle company goop. She also founded Kinship Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Through her ventures, she has become a prominent angel investor and entrepreneur.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Consumer & Lifestyle Angel - Marketing Tech
Amy Wu Martin
Partner at Menlo Ventures
Amy Wu Martin is a Partner at Menlo Ventures, focusing on consumer technology, gaming, and AI applications. Before joining Menlo, she focused on Web3 and gaming at FTX Ventures and led investments in consumer, gaming, and blockchain at Lightspeed Venture Partners. She holds a B.A. in biochemistry from Harvard.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI Consumer Angel - Marketing Tech
David Reeves
Chief Executive Officer at Ready Rebound
David Reeves is a Milwaukee native who spent 16 years in Silicon Valley helping run two software start-ups from an early stage, both achieving over $1B valuation. He previously served as President of OpenGov, where he helped the company become the fastest-growing government technology company in the country. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Ready Rebound and is an active investor and advisor with several VCs and start-ups.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: GovTech Angel - B2B SaaS
Andreas Huber
Co-Founder and CEO at First Due
Andreas Huber is the Co-Founder and CEO of First Due, a platform modernizing public safety operations through integrated software solutions for fire, EMS, and law enforcement agencies. He previously attended Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and has built First Due into a leading software provider in the public safety sector.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: GovTech / Public Safety Angel
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 supporting developers building with AI. Previously, he served as Product Lead at Stripe and Senior Developer Advocate at Twitter.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Research Angel - Deep Tech
Guillaume Lample
Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Mistral AI
Guillaume Lample is a Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Mistral AI, a pioneering French artificial intelligence startup. He previously worked as a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research (Meta), focusing on large language models, unsupervised machine translation, and symbolic mathematics. He holds a background from Carnegie Mellon University and is a prominent figure in the AI research community.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Research Angel - Deep Tech
Olivier Pomel
CEO and Co-Founder at Datadog
Olivier Pomel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Datadog, a leading cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform. Prior to founding Datadog, he built data systems for K-12 teachers as VP of Technology for Wireless Generation. He is also an active angel investor, backing numerous promising companies.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Enterprise Software & AI Infrastructure Angel
François Chollet
Co-Founder at Ndea
François Chollet is a French software engineer and AI researcher best known as the creator of Keras, a widely used deep learning library. He previously worked as a Senior Staff Engineer at Google and recently co-founded Ndea, an AI lab focused on AGI, as well as the ARC Prize.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Research Angel - Deep Tech
Tobias Lütke
CEO at Shopify
Tobias "Tobi" Lütke is a German-Canadian billionaire entrepreneur who co-founded Shopify in 2006. Originally moving to Canada to snowboard, he built the e-commerce platform after struggling to find a suitable online store solution for his snowboarding equipment business. He has served as the CEO of Shopify since 2008, growing it into one of the world's largest e-commerce companies.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: E-commerce & SaaS Angel - Operator
Brian Kelly
Founder at The Points Guy
Brian Kelly is the founder of The Points Guy (TPG), a leading digital platform specializing in points, miles, and travel-related tips. He built the brand from a personal blog into a massively profitable travel media empire, which he later sold for $28 million. He continues to be a prominent voice in the travel and loyalty industry, helping consumers maximize their finances and travel experiences.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Consumer Tech & Travel Angel
Arvind Gupta
Founder and Managing Director at Novera Ventures
Arvind Gupta is the Founder and Managing Director of Novera Ventures, a venture capital firm he founded in 2025 to partner with cutting-edge founders. He is also a Partner at Mayfield Fund and the Founder and Venture Advisor at IndieBio, focusing on investments in human and planetary health. He is the author of 'Decoding the World' and has a background in science-based companies.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: AI/ML Angel - Deep Tech
Christoph Cordes
Co-Founder at Flink
Christoph Cordes is the Co-Founder of Flink, a quick commerce and grocery delivery startup based in Berlin. Previously, he served as the Co-Founder, CEO, and Managing Director at Fashion For Home, and was a Member of the Management Board at Home24.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: E-Commerce & Quick Commerce Angel - B2B SaaS
David Thayer
Strategic Advisor at Onramp
David Thayer is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone, serving as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer for Harvest Fund Advisors. Before joining Harvest, he served in various finance, compliance, and operations roles, and spent twenty years as a tanker, scout, and infantryman in the U.S. Army. He holds a BS from the Wharton School, an MA from the London School of Economics, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: Traditional Finance/Infrastructure Angel - Crypto/Bitcoin
Jeron Paul
SVP of Product at Salesforce
Jeron Paul is a four-time company founder and experienced investor. He is the founder and former CEO of Spiff, a commission software company that was acquired by Salesforce, where he now serves as Senior Vice President of Product. He also holds an MBA from Harvard and has a background as a former VC.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: SaaS/Enterprise Software Angel - B2B Tech
Matt Stapleton
Vice President at Salesforce
Matt Stapleton is a multi-time founder and seasoned professional with a background in entrepreneurship, finance, and sales operations. He co-founded Capshare, which was acquired by Morgan Stanley, and later co-founded Spiff, a commission tracking platform that was acquired by Salesforce for nearly $480 million. He currently serves as a Vice President at Salesforce following the acquisition.
🎯 Soar Portal Match: B2B SaaS / FinTech Angel
SECTION 2 — EDGAR FORM D FILINGS
Total filings processed: 27 (7 operating companies, 20 funds/SPVs).
MIM CORNERSTONE LLC$32,000,000
Julia Li —
Shape Memory Medical Inc.$17,000,000
Edward Ruppel, Jr —
Thomas Thaler —
Michael Henson —
Duncan Maitland —
Thom Rasche —
Carolyn Bruguera —
Cotan Labs, Inc.$10,000,000
Srikant Devaraj —
Varesh Rangan Krishnan Potti —
Arun Chandrasekaran —
WindowEdge AI Inc.$3,000,000
Adrian Au —
Craig Kitterman —
Hide Production, LLC$1,750,000
Paul McGrath —
Anna Gaskell —
Kristian Day —
MEDICAL EXERCISE INC.$100,000
Matthew Degelman —
Peppermist Co$20,000
Joel Falknor —
Jared Pinkerton —
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