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.