Thomas Bieser

Denver Angels is a powerhouse network of 800+ family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and accredited angel investors fueling Denver Ventures. We are champions of the startup community—investors, founders, and operators. By uniting as a community, we amplify our impact through powerful connections, capital, and unwavering support for entrepreneurs. Founded in 2016, weve grown into one of the most active investor communities in the country who are united by a shared mission to support visionary founders and unlock outsized outcomes. Our members bring seasoned capital, deep expertise, and high-impact connections to early-stage companies across the U.S. Learn more via the link below.

The future of communication. Acquired by Discord in 2021. Backed by $50M+ from Benchmark, Index, Kleiner, First Round, Disney.

People.ai is the leading AI data platform for go-to-market teams, powering trillions in pipeline and revenue for the world’s top enterprises. Started in 2016 by Oleg Rogynskyy to empower sales teams with the best tools, People.ai was built on one mission: give revenue leaders more than raw data—give them the answers they need to take action. Today, People.ai processes billions of signals from emails, meetings, and messages, then enriches that data to surface the most useful next steps. The result: activity becomes actions that move deals forward. Companies like Verizon, IBM, Red Hat, Cisco, Zoom, and Palo Alto Networks rely on People.ai to automate account planning, deal reviews, enablement, and forecasting—so their teams can stay focused on winning. People.ai in numbers: → Trillions of dollars in pipeline and revenue powered → Billions of sales signals processed → 70+ patents issued and 50+ more under review Visit our Jobs section if you want to work for us!

Were transforming the global food system by creating better ways to make meat, dairy and fish without using animals -- delicious, good for people, and good for the planet. Our approach: understand what people love about meat, dairy, and fish, and then explore the plant world for specific ingredients that recreate those experiences. In 2016, we launched the Impossible™ Burger: meat made from plants, for people who love to eat meat. Founded in 2011 by Pat Brown MD, PhD (Stanford Professor Emeritus) and backed by top-tier VCs and visionaries, we’re looking for the very best scientists, engineers, food developers, and business professionals in the world to join our creative, diverse, multi-talented and mission-driven team. We’re here to secure a sustainable future (and have fun while doing it). Come work with us to change the course of history.

PromisePay provides a modern payment platform built for government. We transformed the inconvenient and time-consuming process of paying down government debt into something that any resident can use. PromisePay is easy to use on mobile devices, offering all payment methods, in the languages residents speak, and broken down into easier payment plans. We have a team working 24/7 to talk to residents and help them make their payments. This means residents pay off debt faster, government gets more revenue, and government works better for everyone. Promise is a financial services technology company. We build payment processing tools and services for government. Promise has a team of technology and government experts from companies like Palantir, Stripe, and Google, and has raised over $50M from investors like Kapor Capital, XYZ Ventures, Bronze Investments, First Round Capital, Y Combinator, The General Partnership (formerly Sweat Equity Ventures), Howard Schultz, and others. Learn more at promise-pay.com

23andMe, headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, is a leading consumer genetics and research company. Founded in 2006, the company’s mission is to help people access, understand, and benefit from the human genome. 23andMe has pioneered direct access to genetic information as the only company with multiple FDA authorizations for genetic health risk reports. The company has created the world’s largest crowdsourced platform for genetic research, with 80 percent of its customers electing to participate. The 23andMe research platform has generated more than 180 publications on the genetic underpinnings of a wide range of diseases, conditions, and traits. The platform also powers the 23andMe Therapeutics group, currently pursuing drug discovery programs rooted in human genetics across a spectrum of disease areas, including oncology, respiratory, and cardiovascular diseases, in addition to other therapeutic areas. 23andMe was named as one of the San Francisco Chronicles Top Workplaces and one of Comparablys Best Places to Work in 2022. CEO, Anne Wojcicki was also named one of Glassdoor’s top CEOs in 2019 and one of Comparably’s "Best CEOs for Women" in 2021 and 2022. More information is available at www.23andMe.com.

Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK), the Security and AI company, operates at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience and enterprise AI acceleration. The Rubrik Security Cloud platform is designed to deliver robust cyber resilience and recovery including identity resilience to ensure continuous business operations, all on top of secure metadata and data lake. Follow @rubrikInc on X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, and Instagram.

StitchOps automates the work other platforms cant touch. Browser workflows, desktop apps, legacy systems, API connections, all from a single platform, all described in plain English. No code. No limitations. Just type in the workflow you want to build.

Denver Angels is a powerhouse network of 800+ family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and accredited angel investors fueling Denver Ventures. We are champions of the startup community—investors, founders, and operators. By uniting as a community, we amplify our impact through powerful connections, capital, and unwavering support for entrepreneurs. Founded in 2016, weve grown into one of the most active investor communities in the country who are united by a shared mission to support visionary founders and unlock outsized outcomes. Our members bring seasoned capital, deep expertise, and high-impact connections to early-stage companies across the U.S. Learn more via the link below.

The future of communication. Acquired by Discord in 2021. Backed by $50M+ from Benchmark, Index, Kleiner, First Round, Disney.

People.ai is the leading AI data platform for go-to-market teams, powering trillions in pipeline and revenue for the world’s top enterprises. Started in 2016 by Oleg Rogynskyy to empower sales teams with the best tools, People.ai was built on one mission: give revenue leaders more than raw data—give them the answers they need to take action. Today, People.ai processes billions of signals from emails, meetings, and messages, then enriches that data to surface the most useful next steps. The result: activity becomes actions that move deals forward. Companies like Verizon, IBM, Red Hat, Cisco, Zoom, and Palo Alto Networks rely on People.ai to automate account planning, deal reviews, enablement, and forecasting—so their teams can stay focused on winning. People.ai in numbers: → Trillions of dollars in pipeline and revenue powered → Billions of sales signals processed → 70+ patents issued and 50+ more under review Visit our Jobs section if you want to work for us!

Were transforming the global food system by creating better ways to make meat, dairy and fish without using animals -- delicious, good for people, and good for the planet. Our approach: understand what people love about meat, dairy, and fish, and then explore the plant world for specific ingredients that recreate those experiences. In 2016, we launched the Impossible™ Burger: meat made from plants, for people who love to eat meat. Founded in 2011 by Pat Brown MD, PhD (Stanford Professor Emeritus) and backed by top-tier VCs and visionaries, we’re looking for the very best scientists, engineers, food developers, and business professionals in the world to join our creative, diverse, multi-talented and mission-driven team. We’re here to secure a sustainable future (and have fun while doing it). Come work with us to change the course of history.