How many investors are in the AngelMatch database?
There are 125,000+ investors in the AngelMatch database as of 2026, and the count grows every month as new profiles are added and old ones are cleaned up. That total covers individual angels, venture capital firms, private equity investors, corporate venture arms, family offices, accelerators, incubators, angel groups and syndicates. Every profile is tagged by location, market, stage and investor type, which is what makes the filter pages on this site work.
The quickest way to understand the shape of the database is by investor type. Roughly two-thirds of the profiles are tagged as angel investors, making individuals the largest group by a wide margin. Around 51,000+ profiles carry a venture capital tag and 45,000+ are tagged as private equity investors. Those groups overlap because many people wear more than one hat, so a partner at a fund who also writes personal checks shows up under both angel and VC. Smaller but useful pockets include 3,500+ micro VCs, 1,500+ corporate venture investors, 1,000+ accelerators and a few hundred family offices and angel groups.
For context on how big that is, the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire counted 422,350 active angel investors in the United States in 2023, meaning people who made at least one angel investment that year. AngelMatch doesn't claim to list all of them. It lists the ones with a public investing track record, a reachable profile and enough tagging to be worth your time, which is the slice you can actually pitch.
Where the investors are
About half of all investors in the database are based in the United States. The United Kingdom is a distant second at 8,500+, then India, Germany, France and Canada, each in the 3,000+ to 4,000+ range. Australia, Singapore, Sweden and Israel round out the top ten, each with 1,000+ investors. In total the database covers 100+ countries, though the tail gets thin fast. If you're raising outside the top twenty countries, you'll want to lean on adjacent markets and remote-friendly investors rather than expecting a deep local bench.
Inside the United States the concentration is even sharper. California alone holds 20,000+ investors, roughly one in six of everything in the database, and New York holds 11,000+. Massachusetts and Texas are the next tier at 3,500+ each, followed by Florida and Illinois at 2,500+. Everything else drops below 2,000. That means a founder in Denver, Atlanta or Nashville has a real local list to work, but not one deep enough to fill a round on its own.
At the city level, New York City and San Francisco are nearly tied at 10,000+ and 9,500+, and London is the only non-US city above 5,000. Los Angeles, Boston, Paris and Chicago each sit in the 2,000+ to 2,500+ range. Here's the practical takeaway: if you're not in one of those seven cities, the bulk of your investor list will come from somewhere else. Build it from the market and stage filters first and treat geography as a tiebreaker.
Which markets and stages have the deepest bench
Investors tag themselves to many markets, so the market counts add up to far more than the total. The broadest tags are B2B at 58,000+, information technology at 48,000+, consumer internet at 43,000+ and health care at 42,000+. Software, finance, enterprise software and fintech are all in the 35,000+ to 40,000+ band. Newer categories are narrower but still deep: artificial intelligence has 15,000+ tagged investors, cybersecurity has 14,000+ and cryptocurrency has 8,000+.
A big tag isn't automatically a good tag. "B2B" tells you almost nothing about whether an investor will care about your company. When you build a list, start from the narrowest market that still describes what you do, then widen only if the list comes back short. An investor tagged to both "fintech" and "payments" is a much better fit for a payments startup than one tagged to "finance" alone, even though the finance list is five times bigger.
By stage, the database is heavily weighted toward the early end. About a third of all investors are tagged to seed, and early stage venture accounts for another 23,000+. Pre-seed has 10,000+ investors, Series A has 5,500+ and Series B has 4,000+. The drop from seed to Series A is steep, roughly seven to one, and it mirrors the real market. The Center for Venture Research found that seed and start-up deals made up 41% of angel investments in 2023, the fourth year in a row that the earliest stage was the most common one for angels. If you're raising a seed round, you have the widest possible field. If you're raising a Series B, the list is short enough that you should be able to research every single name on it.
Angels versus VCs versus private equity: who to pitch when
The investor type you target should match how much you're raising and how far along you are, and the three big groups in the database behave very differently.
Angel investors write checks between $25,000 and $500,000 from their own money. They decide fast, often in a single conversation, and they care about you and the problem more than a spreadsheet. The 2023 Center for Venture Research report puts the average angel deal at $339,390 for about 9.7% equity, which works out to a $3.5 million valuation. That average is the whole round, not one check, so expect to stack several angels to get there. Their yield rate, the share of pitches that turn into an investment, was 24.2% in 2023. Roughly one founder in four who gets in front of an angel walks away with a check, which is a far better hit rate than most VC funnels.
Venture capital checks run from $2 million to $100 million or more. VCs invest other people's money, so they have a fund mandate, a partnership vote and a return target that all need to line up before they say yes. They move slower than angels, but a single yes can fill a round. When you pitch a VC, lead with the size of the market and the speed you're growing. When you pitch an angel, lead with why you're the person to build this.
Private equity investors in this database are mostly individuals with a PE background who also invest in earlier companies, not buyout shops looking for your seed round. Treat that tag as a signal that the person understands unit economics and cash flow, and expect to be asked about margins and payback earlier than a typical VC would ask. They tend to be a good fit once you have real revenue and a clear path to profitability, which usually means Series A or later.
How to build a shortlist that actually gets replies
The single most common mistake founders make with a database this size is exporting a thousand names and emailing all of them. Investors talk to each other, cold blasts get ignored and a generic pitch to a health care angel about your fintech product just marks you as someone who didn't do the work.
Start with stage. Filter to the stage you're actually raising, not the one you hope to reach next year. Then stack a market filter on top, using the narrowest tag that fits. Then add location only if it matters for your business, which it does for regulated industries, hardware and anything that needs local customers, and doesn't for most software. A good first list is 50 to 150 names, not 1,000. Check each investor's recent activity: if they haven't made a deal in your stage in the last two years, move them to the bottom.
Next, find the warm path. Most investors in the database list their portfolio companies and the markets they've backed. A founder they've already funded is your best introduction, and a cold email that mentions that founder by name will beat a template every time. If you're going in cold, keep the first email short, put your traction in the first two lines and ask for a specific 20 minutes rather than "a chat." If you use a template or a generator to get a first draft down, rewrite it in your own voice before it goes out.
Finally, keep score. Track who you emailed, who opened, who replied and who passed, plus the reason they passed. Investor fundraising is a numbers game with a memory, and the founders who close rounds fastest are the ones who know exactly where every conversation stands. A simple fundraising CRM handles this, but a spreadsheet works too if you actually keep it current.
Reading the numbers on every list page
Every filter page on this site shows a live investor count at the top, a sidebar with the breakdown by country, state, city, market, stage and type, and a sample of named investors. Those counts are pulled from the database when the page loads, so they'll always be slightly ahead of the rounded figures in the copy. That's by design. The rounded number in the text tells you the scale; the live counter tells you the exact figure today.
Two things to know when you read the sidebars. First, the counts overlap. An investor tagged to both seed and Series A appears in both lists, so adding up the stage counts gets you well past the total. Second, the sidebar on a filtered page shows the breakdown within that filter, so the market panel on the Canada page shows which markets Canadian investors favor, not the global ranking. Use that to find the intersection you actually need, like seed-stage fintech investors in London, before you start reading profiles one by one.
Where to go from here
The 125,000+ investors on this hub are only useful once you've cut them down to the few hundred who back companies like yours, at your stage, in a market they already know. Pick the filter that narrows fastest for your situation, usually stage first, then market, then location, and work down from there. If you're not sure how ready you are to start outreach, the fundraise readiness quiz takes a few minutes and will tell you what to fix before you send the first email.
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