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Top Angel Investors (Acc. To BusinessWeek)

Businessweek.com published its ranking yesterday of the top angel investors in tech.

1.

Chris Dixon, 38 Co-founder, Hunch Chris Dixon’s blog

# of angel investments: 23 Companies funded (a sampling): Skype, Postini, Milo.com, Knewton, DailyBooth

2.

Ron Conway Investor

# of Angel Investments: 190 Companies funded (a sampling): Google, Facebook, bit.ly, Digg, Mint.com, Twitter

3.

Reid Hoffman, 42 Chairman, co-founder, LinkedIn Reid Hoffman’s LinkedIn profile

# of Angel Investments: 49 Companies funded (a sampling): Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Ning, Zynga

4.

Esther Dyson, 58 Investor

# of Angel Investments: 60 Companies funded (a sampling): 23andMe, GridPoint, del.icio.us, Flickr, Meetup

5.

Peter Thiel, 42 Founder, President, Clarium Capital Management

# of Angel Investments: 26 Companies funded (a sampling): Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zynga

6.

Marc Andreessen, 38 Investor

# of Angel Investments: 53 Companies funded (a sampling): Business Insider, Digg, LinkedIn, Qik, Scribd, Twitter

7.

Jeff Bezos, 46 Chairman, founder, Amazon.com

# of Angel Investments: 18 Companies funded (a sampling): 37signals, Google, Linden Lab, Social Gaming Network, Twitter

8.

Chris Sacca, 34 Managing Director, Lowercase Capital

# of Angel Investments: 32 Companies funded (a sampling): bit.ly, FanBridge, Gowalla, Posterous, SimpleGeo, Twitter

9.

Mike Maples, 42 Investor

# of Angel Investments: 39 Companies funded (a sampling): Circle of Moms, Digg, Kongregate, Odeo, Twitter, Weebly

10.

Andy Bechtolsheim, 54 Founder, Chairman, Chief Development Officer, Astra Networks

# of Angel Investments: 49 Companies funded (a sampling): Brightmail, Google, Granite Systems, Nvidia, Tapulous

11.

Paul Graham, 45 Co-founder, Y Combinator

# of Angel Investments: 129 Companies funded (a sampling): Bump Technologies, FanChatter, Heyzap, Justin.tv, Scribd

12.

Max Levchin, 34 Founder, Chief Executive, Slide

# of Angel Investments: 7 Companies funded (a sampling): Evernote, MixPanel, Raptr, Slide, Yelp

13.

Aydin Senkut, 40 Founder, Felicis Ventures

# of Angel Investments: 65 Companies funded (a sampling): Foodzie, Mixer Labs, Rapleaf, The Auteurs, TwitVid

14.

Bill Joy, 55 Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

# of Angel Investments: 24 Companies funded (a sampling): Blazent, NeoPath Networks, Dantz

15.

Kevin Rose, 33 Founder, Digg Kevin’s blog

# of Angel Investments: 12 Companies funded (a sampling): Twitter, 3Crowd Technologies, Foursquare, SimpleGeo

16.

Dave Duffield, 69 Founder, Chief Executive, Workday

# of Angel Investments: 18 Companies funded (a sampling): Acta Technology, Bridgestream, Netcentives

17.

Andrea Zurek, 39 Founding partner, XG Ventures

# of Angel Investments: 26 Companies funded (a sampling): Lotus Vodka, Facebook, Red Mango, and Vaxart

18.

Marc Benioff, 44 Founder, Chief Executive, Salesforce.com

# of Angel Investments: 9 Companies funded (a sampling): Mashery, Qik, Tapulous, Zuora

19.

Jeff Clavier, 42 Founder, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC Blog: Jeff Clavier’s blog, Software Only

# of Angel Investments: 52 Companies funded (a sampling): bit.ly, Circle of Moms, DNAnexus, Mint.com

20.

Caterina Fake, 36 Co-founder Hunch Caterina’s blog

# of Angel Investments: 6 Companies funded (a sampling): Etsy, Maya’s Mom

21.

Martin Varsavsky, 49 Founder, Chief Executive, Fon Martin Varsavsky’s blog

# of Angel Investments: 28 Companies funded (a sampling): 23andMe, Dopplr, Eolia, Joost, Plazes, Tumblr, Wikio

22.

Naval Ravikant, 36 Founder, Chairman, Vast.com Blog: Startup Boy

# of Angel Investments: 21 Companies funded (a sampling): Chatterous, DotSpots, Fluther, Twitter, Vidly

23.

Joe Kraus, 38 Partner, Google Ventures

# of Angel Investments: 5 Companies funded (a sampling): InfraSearch, Linkedin, Napster, Odeo

24.

Eric Schmidt, 54 Chairman, Chief Executive, Google

# of Angel Investments: 9 Companies funded (a sampling): Citizen Effect, CX, iShake, PublishOne, Sendmail

25.

Lauren Flanagan, 55 Co-founder, Managing Director, Phenomenelle Angels Fund

# of Angel Investments: 23 Companies funded (a sampling): Alice.com, Stealth Therapeutics, U.S. Trailmaps

You can find the article here, a table of its top-ranked angel investors here, and an explanation of the methodologies used to rank them here.