I am now investing via Flash Angel Investments

• I invest in highly technical founders who like to build things with their hands, care about customer service, and love open source.
• I invest in teams great at software across all industries.
• I don't care if/where you went to school or worked, but I do care about your git profiles or YouTube videos or personal homepage or other portfolio.
• I have made angel investments in ~50-100 companies.
• My check size is usually $10,000, but sometimes less and sometimes more.
• I usually invest in seed rounds, but sometimes later like a Series A.
• I usually invest as an individual, but sometimes through a shell company.
• I love being the first check.
• My research commitments mean I don't have time to be the lead investor.
• I like to invest in companies in accelerators. Accelerators streamline logistics. I'm happy to trade a worse valuation for time savings.
• I invest mostly in "hard tech" startups, but sometimes invest in other things.
• I do a lot of things for the founders I invest in, from technical strategy to recruiting to marketing to writing code to designing DSLs to code reviews.
• I avoid companies that believe in patents or copyright.
• I am not much help with legal or fundraising issues, but do provide a lot of fundraising intros.
• I invest in things I'm interested in, that I think could make the world better, and in founders who I want to work for (since I will be doing part time work for you for many many years).
• I am delighted when I get returns but expect zeroes. I want you to go after your biggest dreams, and I only win big if you win big.
• All the money I make I reinvest in more startups, give away, put into research, or spend on my family and fancy vacations.
• I am happy to receive cold pitches via plain text email.

A sample of the companies I've invested in is listed below: