BZ

Bob Zangrillo

Founder, Chairman and CEO of Dragon Global.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 34 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
Operator-angel🌍 United States
19
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5
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2
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1
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34y
Years active

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Jul 2025
Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers
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Jul 2025
Exowatt is a next generation renewable energy company offering commercial and industrial customers a modular full-stack energy solution that can provide dispatchable power and heat for up to 24 hours per day, specifically designed to meet the needs of energy-intensive applications such as data centers. Our mission is clear, to make sustainable renewable energy always available and almost free.
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Jun 2025
Articul8 AI is a technology company whose products transform enterprise data and expertise into powerful engines of growth, value and impact. Our full-stack GenAI platform is revolutionizing how enterprises harness their data and expertise to build expert-level Generative AI applications for their mission-critical challenges. Our products deliver enterprise-scale impact with ROI in hours to weeks. General-purpose GenAI models, while necessary, are not sufficient to deliver enterprise-specific decisioning and actioning. Our platform addresses this gap by making it straightforward for companies to build sophisticated, enterprise-scale and expert-level GenAI applications that encode their domain expertise. Our proprietary technology does the heavy lifting through autonomous decisions and actions, automated data intelligence, improved precision and relevance with industry knowledge encoded into Articul8s library of domain and task-specific models. We are purpose-built for regulated industries and meet the highest standards of compliance, data security, privacy and performance, including traceability and auditability at every step. We are trusted by leading global enterprises like AIAA, Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation, Uptycs, AWS, NIQ, Intel and Franklin Templeton to transform their mission-critical work. We are the enterprise GenAI platform that simply works! For more information, please visit www.articul8.ai.
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Dec 2023
Welcome to the new edge. Armada is the world’s first full-stack edge computing platform, revolutionizing connectivity, compute, and AI solutions where they’re needed most - anywhere on Earth.
Board Observer
2019
Selina is one of the world’s largest hospitality brands built to address the needs of Millennial and Gen Z travelers, blending beautifully-designed accommodation with coworking, recreation, wellness, and local experiences. Custom-built for today’s nomadic traveler, Selina provides guests with a global infrastructure to seamlessly travel and work abroad. Founded in 2014, each Selina property is designed in partnership with local artists, creators, and tastemakers, breathing new life into existing buildings in interesting locations worldwide – from urban cities to remote beaches and jungles. Selina’s portfolio includes 150+ open or secured properties across 25 countries. Web: www.Selina.com Instagram & Facebook: @Selina Twitter: @Selinahotels
mid stageHospitality
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Apr 2016
Fair is an automotive FinTech company that’s revolutionizing car buying by offering unprecedented freedom, flexibility and an end-to-end mobile experience. We believe fairness matters. That’s why we’ve created a game-changing new app that lets you shop, get approved and pay for a car all on your phone with just a driver’s license and bank account. Get in-app approval for a monthly payment amount that works for you, then head to the dealership and check-out in minutes. You can drive your car for as long as you want, and return it any time you’re ready. That’s the Fair way to drive!
Investor
2016
Didi Chuxing is a computer software company based out of 中关村软件园数字山谷, 海淀区, Beijing Shi, China.
Seed Investor
2016
H2Pro is on a mission to enable affordable green hydrogen at scale by providing the world with the leading next generation electrolyzer. Green hydrogen is the missing piece in the puzzle for achieving net zero, but faces two critical challenges: economic viability and compatibility with renewables. H2Pro is reinventing green hydrogen production to overcome these barriers and deliver the lowest Levelized Cost of Hydrogen (LCOH). H2Pro’s breakthrough electrolysis technology solves the key challenges of traditional electrolysis by decoupling hydrogen and oxygen generation (producing hydrogen and oxygen at separate times). This decoupled process significantly cuts down both capital and operating costs via a streamlined membrane-less reactor design, economical materials, and highly efficient energy usage. H2Pro’s technology is also designed from day one for direct renewable integration, making it the first fit-for-green electrolyzer. Headquartered in Caesarea, Israel, H2Pro was founded in 2019 based on years of research conducted at the Technion. H2Pro has raised over 100 Million USD. It is backed by leading investors and strategic partners, including Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Temasek Holdings, Horizons Ventures, ArcelorMittal, Yara Growth Ventures, OurCrowd, COPEC, Hyundai, Sumitomo Corporation, Extantia, Bazan, Doral and New Fortress Energy. Today, we are a team of 100 people working every day to make green hydrogen affordable at scale. The future of our planet may depend on it. Nature Articles on H2Pros Decoupled Water Electrolysis (DWE) technology: Technologies and prospects for decoupled and membraneless water electrolysis: https://rdcu.be/elIbi Decoupled hydrogen and oxygen evolution by a two-step electrochemical–chemical cycle for efficient overall water splitting: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-019-0462-7.epdf?author_access_token=rI0
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Sep 2015
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now. The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.
Seed Investor
2014
Jet (A Walmart Company) Bold vision. Brilliant minds. Nimble environment. Jet.com is changing the way the world shops with innovative technology and a people-centric approach. We move at the speed of a startup with access to unrivaled resources; our team likes to say it’s the best of both worlds. Ready for rapid growth and learning? Join us—the future of shopping is yours to build and explore.
Investor
2012
Life’s not about a job, it’s about purpose. We believe real change starts with conversation. Here, your voice matters. Come as you are and together we’ll do what’s right (not what’s easy) to serve the public conversation.
Investor
2010
Zynga was founded in 2007 with the vision that play would become one of the core activities on the Internet. We pioneered social games with the belief that if we could make games simple, accessible and social the world would start playing. We are excited that games have grown to become the second most popular activity by time spent, even surpassing email. But we have a lot of hard work, innovation and growth ahead of us to create a future where social gaming is a daily habit for everyone. Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a wholly-owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. With a massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions, the combined diverse portfolio of popular game franchises has been downloaded more than 5 billion times on mobile, including CSR Racing™, Dragon City™, Empires & Puzzles™, FarmVille™, Golf Rival™, Hair Challenge™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, High Heels!™, Merge Dragons!™, Merge Magic!™, Monster Legends™, Toon Blast™, Top Eleven™, Toy Blast™, Two Dots™, Words With Friends™ and Zynga Poker™.
Seed Investor
2009
Casa Dragones is a small batch producer with a passion for crafting exceptional tequila, one bottle at a time. Each bottle is hand-signed and numbered, hallmarking our commitment to quality. At Casa Dragones, it is our love of the craft and meticulous attention to detail that ensures an extraordinary experience and the highest possible quality. Founded in 2008 by CEO Bertha Gonzalez Nieves, the first female accredited Masetra Tequilera, and Bob Pittman, Co-Founder of MTV & CEO of iHeart Media, Casa Dragones has earned praise from tequila aficionados, top sommeliers & renowned chefs for its distinctive taste, arome and body that reflect the care and precision that go into its production. Casa Dragones Joven is a small batch, master blend of 100% Blue Agave silver and extra aged tequila, rested in new American oak barrels, for a complex, smooth taste that is perfect for sipping and pairing with food. Casa Dragones Blanco is a small batch, 100% Pure Blue Agave silver tequila, crafted to deliver the true essence of agave through an innovative process that focuses on purity, for a crisp, smooth taste that is perfect to enjoy on the rocks or in signature craft cocktails. Casa Dragones Añejo Barrel Blend, 100% Blue Agave Añejo sipping tequila, achieves its distinctive character from being matured in two different wood barrels, new French Oak and new American Oak, each selected for their individual flavor and characteristics. At the end of the aging process, both barrel styles are blended together to create a uniquely smooth, agave-forward taste profile.
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2001
Seed Investor
1997
UGO Entertainment Inc is a company based out of United States.
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2025
Investor
Jul 2025
Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers
Investor
Jul 2025
Exowatt is a next generation renewable energy company offering commercial and industrial customers a modular full-stack energy solution that can provide dispatchable power and heat for up to 24 hours per day, specifically designed to meet the needs of energy-intensive applications such as data centers. Our mission is clear, to make sustainable renewable energy always available and almost free.
Investor
Jun 2025
Articul8 AI is a technology company whose products transform enterprise data and expertise into powerful engines of growth, value and impact. Our full-stack GenAI platform is revolutionizing how enterprises harness their data and expertise to build expert-level Generative AI applications for their mission-critical challenges. Our products deliver enterprise-scale impact with ROI in hours to weeks. General-purpose GenAI models, while necessary, are not sufficient to deliver enterprise-specific decisioning and actioning. Our platform addresses this gap by making it straightforward for companies to build sophisticated, enterprise-scale and expert-level GenAI applications that encode their domain expertise. Our proprietary technology does the heavy lifting through autonomous decisions and actions, automated data intelligence, improved precision and relevance with industry knowledge encoded into Articul8s library of domain and task-specific models. We are purpose-built for regulated industries and meet the highest standards of compliance, data security, privacy and performance, including traceability and auditability at every step. We are trusted by leading global enterprises like AIAA, Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation, Uptycs, AWS, NIQ, Intel and Franklin Templeton to transform their mission-critical work. We are the enterprise GenAI platform that simply works! For more information, please visit www.articul8.ai.
2023
Investor
Dec 2023
Welcome to the new edge. Armada is the world’s first full-stack edge computing platform, revolutionizing connectivity, compute, and AI solutions where they’re needed most - anywhere on Earth.
2019
Board Observer
2019
Selina is one of the world’s largest hospitality brands built to address the needs of Millennial and Gen Z travelers, blending beautifully-designed accommodation with coworking, recreation, wellness, and local experiences. Custom-built for today’s nomadic traveler, Selina provides guests with a global infrastructure to seamlessly travel and work abroad. Founded in 2014, each Selina property is designed in partnership with local artists, creators, and tastemakers, breathing new life into existing buildings in interesting locations worldwide – from urban cities to remote beaches and jungles. Selina’s portfolio includes 150+ open or secured properties across 25 countries. Web: www.Selina.com Instagram & Facebook: @Selina Twitter: @Selinahotels
mid stageHospitality
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