We started #ANGELS in early 2015 and have invested in over 💯 startups. We’re proud to see many of these companies serving critical needs in 2020.

Here are 20 companies driving especially high impact in 2020:

💰 Anchorage provides a safe and secure way to store cryptocurrency online. As BTC is 📈 and more institutions look for ways to securely hold and trade tokens, Anchorage’s solution is a key piece of the 🧩 for the crypto ecosystem.

🏋🏾 Bold: Gyms have been shuttered yet it is important for seniors to still get physical activity. …

When we set out to start #ANGELS five years ago, our focus was on angel investing — finding the most compelling founders and companies and backing them. Along the way, we’ve discovered the opportunity for us to extend the sense of community we feel among the 6 of us to a wider audience of women founders, operators, and investors across the industry through a variety of events.

We didn’t set out to do events — it feels like there are so many already. But alas, we keep coming back to them being a powerful way to activate change and embolden…

Another birthday has come and gone for #ANGELS! We decided to take on this endeavor five years ago over drinks celebrating one of our actual birthdays and formally launched several months later. As we pass this milestone we are taking stock of what we’ve built to date and where we’re headed.

It takes years to know if you’re any good at early-stage investing. While we’ve had many exciting “markups” (to use industry parlance), true financial results — realized returns on invested capital — take years to materialize. And equally important are the other ways of being “good” that matter: like…

Four years ago this week, we founded #ANGELS, an angel investing collective focused on backing incredible founders with bold ideas. We thought our operational experience in building great companies such as Twitter, Netflix, Google and Slack would serve our founders well as they scaled and grew their businesses. We’ve backed entrepreneurs tackling a wide variety of challenges in a broad set of industries from marketplaces to transportation to healthcare to infrastructure to aerospace.

While investing, we quickly realized that we had a broader mission: to get more women on the cap tables of successful companies.

The cap table (or capitalization…

This past February, we at #ANGELS challenged the tech industry to talk about, measure and fix #TheGapTable. The cap table — the document that records who has ownership in a startup — holds the roadmap to power in Silicon Valley. Cap table wealth enables individuals to fund the next generation of products and institutions that shape our industry — and increasingly the world — through investing, starting a venture firm, founding a startup or funding political and philanthropic campaigns. We called it #TheGapTable because we suspected that women have a disproportionately low share of startup equity and capture just a…

Our mission at #ANGELS is to get more women on the cap tables of successful start-ups. Representation in the ownership structure of a company, not just the workforce, is vital to achieving equality because the cap table is where wealth and power is created in our industry. Our recent post on #TheGapTable outlines why this is so important.

We run an events and conversation series called #ANGELS Access to do our part to fix the #TheGapTable. Over 3+ years we’ve brought together hundreds of women in over a dozen events to share knowledge, diversify networks, and promote and support women…

Today, we are pleased to announce that we are adding Rival to the #Angels portfolio, which now has more than 60 companies. Rival is a commerce, data and security platform for live events. We’ve known Rival’s founder, Nathan Hubbard, from our time building Twitter together. At Twitter, we saw the power of bringing humans together for live experiences in the digital world. We are excited to see an innovative, experienced founder like Nathan build a team tackle this problem in the physical world.

The live event experience is broken for each constituent of the experience — fans, teams, artists and…

Three years ago this week, we launched #ANGELS and began investing in early-stage startups as a collective. Over 50 investments and thousands of hours of conversations among ourselves and with other women in our industry later, we have more conviction than ever in our mission: to get more women onto the cap tables of successful startups. Why do we focus on the cap table? Because it holds the roadmap to wealth and power in Silicon Valley.

The cap table, or capitalization table, is a legal document that records who owns shares in a company, and how many. It generates the…