Jessica Lessin

For the technology industry to thrive, investors need to find entrepreneurs in more places. And the talent pool is diversifying far faster than investments… · More firms are. That’s why we created the Future List. For three months, we worked with Social Capital to gather more than 6,000 data points on 552 senior investment professionals at 71 firms. We hope this contributes to the ongoing discussion around diversity.

Eric Schmidt, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are each associated with three of the most successful tech companies of the past few decades. But each are also… · More prolific angel investors, extending their influence into a wide array of new companies across a variety of industries.

With investments in at least 104 companies among them, the three top a list we’ve assembled of tech executives who double as angel investors. Others high up on the list include Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin.

And it doesn’t stop at those well-known names. More than a dozen senior executives at tech companies have stakes in at least one startup, The Information’s reporting showed...