Best AngelList Syndicates 2024
What is an AngelList Syndicate?
A syndicate is a group of investors that pools their capital using a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to invest in a startup as one line entry on its cap table. AngelList provides the software for this investment vehicle to make it a cost-effective and attractive source of capital for startups.
Best AngelList Syndicates
There are over 200 active AngelList Syndicates on the platform. Here are the top ones to apply to join:
1. Flucas Ventures (by Ashley Flucas)
Ashley Flucas is general counsel/partner at a real estate finance fund with transaction representing $14B in development. Before that, she was an ex-capital markets lawyer.
Investments include: Databricks, Brex, AngelList, Rescale, Alto Pharmacy, Turing, GrubMarket, Maven Clinic, Hyperscience, Bungalow, Plastiq, Cover, Hello Alfred
- Median investment (lead): $1,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $290,100
- Deals in the last 12 months: 18
- Unique LPs that have invested: 2,053
2. Flight.VC (by Gil Penchina)
Gil Penchina was an early VP at eBay and started Fastly, a public company with a ~$2.3 billion market cap as of Jan. 2024.
Investments include: LinkedIn, Paypal, PagerDuty, Discord, Indiegogo, Dollar Shave Club, Sapho, Fastly, Wealthfront, AltSchool, Pillow, Cruise, Palantir, Ripple
- Median investment (lead): $3,500
- Median investment (syndicate): $115,000
- Deals in the last 12 months: 90
- Unique LPs that have invested: 4,452
3. Duro Ventures (by Sundeep Ahuja)
Sundeep Ahuja was a partner at Republic, an investing platform. Before that he was a principal business development manager at AWS and worked in product at places like MySpace and eBay.
Investments include: Sandbox VR, Sapho, Substack, Calm, Mosaic, Akido Labs, Opendoor, Postmates, Passport, Goodreads
- Median investment (lead): $1,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $121,300
- Deals in the last 12 months: 43
- Unique LPs that have invested: 3,089
4. Zach Coelius
Zach Coelius was the CEO of Triggit, an online advertising technology company.
Investments include: HelloSign, Cruise, Branch, Apprente, Loom.ai, OneSignal, Copper, Glide
- Median investment (lead): $5,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $278,300
- Deals in the last 12 months: 13
- Unique LPs that have invested: 1,830
5. SaxeCap (by Amrit Saxena)
Amrit Saxena was a co-founder and CTO of Stella Jobs, an AI-powered staffing business. Before that, he was a Data Science Product Development Lead at Palantir.
Investments include: Palantir, SpaceX, Flutterwear, Jeeves, Turing, Seso, TrueNorth, Dover, Flow Finance, Ripplematch, Influent
- Median investment (lead): $10,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $161,700
- Deals in the last 12 months: 69
- Unique LPs that have invested: 2151
6. Operator Ventures (by Craig Hunter)
Craig Hunter is the CEO of Dwelling that helps people buy homes by providing up to $30,000 in down payment assistance. Before that, Craig was one of the first 50 employees at Uber and a General Manager at Ritual.co, an order-ahead app.
Investments include: Uber, Almanac, Clearco, Unit, Superhuman, Inspectify, Kabo, Clubhouse, Lime, Grove, Carta, Lambda School
- Median investment (lead): $2,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $151,800
- Deals in the last 12 months: 2
- Unique LPs that have invested: 552
7. Adapt Ventures (by Ammar Amdani)
Ammar Amdani is the CEO of Altiam CX, a nearshore business process outsourcing company.
Investments include: Welcome Homes, Pogo, On Deck, Italic, Clay, Standard Metrics, Plot, Vibely, Modernbanc, Lighthouse, Stagger, Zelt
- Median investment (lead): $1,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $130,200
- Deals in the last 12 months: 5
- Unique LPs that have invested: 528
Jonathan Wasserstrum founded SquareFoot, a venture-backed prop-tech startup funded by RRE and DRW VC.
Investments include: Atmos, Eden Health, Morty, Nomad Homes, Porter Road, Room, Local Locker, AlphaFlow
- Median investment (lead): $1,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $93,500
- Deals in the last 12 months: 43
- Unique LPs that have invested: 1,900
9. Climate Capital II (by Sundeep Ahuja)
Sundeep Ahuja was a partner at Republic, an investing platform. Before that he was a principal business development manager at AWS and worked in product at places like MySpace and eBay.
Investments include: Mosaic, Iron Ox, WeaveGrid, Amperon, Rebellyous Foods, Shiru, Opus 12, Atmo
- Median investment (lead): $10,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $80,000
- Deals in the last 12 months: 66
- Unique LPs that have invested: 1,032
10. Rob Ness
Rob Ness was in the engineering and civil affairs branch in the US Army. He also was a consultant at Grant Thornton and Booz Allen Hamilton.
Investments include: ClassPass, GrubMarket, VetPronto, Italist, Luxe, Sendbird, Neurable, Simplecast, Foresight
- Median investment (lead): $25,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $152,300
- Deals in the last 12 months: 72
- Unique LPs that have invested: 2,046
11. Better Capital (by Vaibhav Domkundwar)
Vaibhav Domkundwar is the founder of ReadyContacts, a software-powered global marketing and sales intelligene company.
Investments include: Open Financial Technologies, Framebench, Fliptop, Testbook, Klub, Rpueek Fintech, Mudrex, Clarisights, SuperGaming
- Median investment (lead): $3,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $208,000
- Deals in the last 12 months: 44
- Unique LPs that have invested: 979
12. MyAsiaVC (by Sajid Rahman)
Sajid Rahman was the founder of Telenor Health, a digital health business. He built one of the first accelerators in Bangladesh.
Investments include: AltSchool, Pillow, MD Insider, Cozy, One Month, Cleanly, Sapho, Clutter, Exo, Orange Chef, Vango, Tradesy, Zendrive
- Median investment (lead): $1,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $108,000
- Deals in the last 12 months: 64
- Unique LPs that have invested: 2,361
13. Unpopular Ventures (by Peter Livingston)
Peter Livingston was the CEO of Lifesquare, a digital health company, and the first engineer at iRhythm Technologies.
Investments include: Jeeves, Zepto, Yassir, Belvo, Kyte, Outer, Blissway, Prodigy, Pallet, Yummy, Hint Health, Gable, Rinse, The Juggernaut, Sniffspot, Nelo, Sleek
- Median investment (lead): $25,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $139,400
- Deals in the last 12 months: 66
- Unique LPs that have invested: 2,005
14. Mana Ventures (by Morgan Schwanke)
Morgan Schwanke was the former Head of Business Development at Restream, helping creators manager their live content.
Investments include: Unity, Clara, Restream.io, JuneShine, Odeko, Superplastic, Onebrief, Blackcart, Playbook, Sanzo, Frame Therapy
- Median investment (lead): $15,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $184,000
- Deals in the last 12 months: 139
- Unique LPs that have invested: 3,640
15. Riverside Ventures (by Bryan Rosenblatt)
Bryan Rosenblatt is a Partner at Craft Ventures. Before that, he was Head of Sales, East Coast at Reddit and worked on the partnerships team at Twitter.
Investments include: Slack, Lambda School, Meural, Yaypay, Density, Bonobos, Carta, Bitsbox, AppOnboard, Stackin’, Madison Reed, Public Goods
- Median investment (lead): $2,500
- Median investment (syndicate): $113,000
- Deals in the last 12 months: 67
- Unique LPs that have invested: 2,617
16. Calm Ventures (by Zachary Ginsburg)
Zachary Ginsburg worked in investment banking and runs a newsletter called Last Money In.
Investments include: Headspace, Thrive Market, Overtime, People.ai, Turing, Bungalow, ZenSports, Yumi, HelpNow, Nate, Yotta Savings
- Median investment (lead): $1,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $254,000
- Deals in the last 12 months: 110
- Unique LPs that have invested: 3,992
17. DVC (by Dan Hightower)
Dan Hightower is a Product Lead at AngelList.
Investments include: MyCar, Tributi, Avenify, Natilus, Talkdoc, SafeStamp, Locomation, InnerPlant, geCKo Materials
- Median investment (lead): $1,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $117,600
- Deals in the last 12 months: 75
- Unique LPs that have invested: 2,416
18. Spacecadet (by Daniel Eckler)
Daniel Eckler created an image sharing social network called Piccsy, which reached 35 million visitors per year.
Investments include: Levels, Campus.edu, Ramp, Mem Protocol, Airhouse, Practice, Mootral, Toucan, Facet, Fion Technologies, Otis, Maker AI, Hyphen, Stagger, Superplastic
- Median investment (lead): $1,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $154,000
- Deals in the last 12 months: 23
- Unique LPs that have invested: 802
19. Tom Williams
Tom Williams runs a family office.
Investments include: knixwear, Grove Collaborative, Layer 6, Blockstream, brightwheel, Aspect Biosystems, Glowforge, Branch, Joist, YesGraph, Stasis Labs
- Median investment (lead): $10,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $205,100
- Deals in the last 12 months: 20
- Unique LPs that have invested: 1,029
20. Ride Wave Ventures (by Oleksiy Ignatyev)
Oleksiy Ignatyev is a principal data scientist at Oracle NetSuite.
Investments include: Stonks, Lula, Techmate, Amboss, Oasis, Forever Labs, Profi, MayaEats, Thematic, AppBlind, StormX
- Median investment (lead): $1,000
- Median investment (syndicate): $151,700
- Deals in the last 12 months: 45
- Unique LPs that have invested: 1,294
