Peer vote names Jeff Dean the top active AI angel investor, with Umesh Khanna second
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-24
A peer vote initiated by Chris Barber asked "who are the best active angels in AI?" Voters could only pick angels working in the AI industry and couldn't vote for themselves; the organizer isn't on the list.
Top results:
- 5 votes: Jeff Dean (Discovery Loop, ex-GDM)
- 4 votes: Umesh Khanna (xAI)
- 3 votes: Sholto Douglas (Anthropic, ex-GDM), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face)
- 2 votes: Daniel Chang, Elad Gil, Eric Glyman, Logan Kilpatrick, Nat Friedman, Noam Brown, and others
The full list spans 50+ people, many ex-DeepMind/OpenAI/Meta AI operators; three votes went to the organizer himself.
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