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The Top Angel Investors: Behind the Rankings – BusinessWeek

26 Feb 2010   | Finding Angels

Tags: angel investor · angels

LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
  • http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_10/b4169039642419.htm

Bloomberg BusinessWeek partnered with startup tracker YouNoodle to analyze the performance of U.S. angel investors. The result is our first annual ranking of the top angel investors —chock full of surprises. Who knew that Amazon.com (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos is such an active financier of early-stage companies? He ranks No. 7 on our list, helping 18 new ventures get off the ground, including Google and the popular micro-blogging site Twitter. Or that former Googlers, Chis Sacca (No. 8), Aydin Senkut (No. 13), and Andrea Zurek (No. 17) —not exactly household names —are best performers. The trio is among some 40 former employees of the search giant who have become angel investors seeding a new generation of startups and, just maybe, helping shape the next wave of innovation.

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