Overview

Gender

female

Investor Stage

Early stage Venture,Seed

Angel Gambino is a WIRED Top 100 executive who has built companies on three continents. She's also an urban regeneration pioneer, a visionary investor, and a passionate environmental lawyer. The technology phase of her career has included co-founding investment partnership Prehype Partners, senior roles at the BBC and MTV Networks, and leading the pioneering UK social network Bebo. She has also played pro soccer, and she ran logistics for the USWNT at the Olympics.

Raised in Detroit, she recently returned to San Francisco as founder-CEO of a social artificial intelligence startup called Sensai. Sensai gives people and businesses the technology tools they need to be successful at social media marketing.

Angel is a founding partner of Prehype, a venture development firm, co-creating startups with the world's top corporations and entrepreneurs, and which has spawned several companies with substantial exits.

She currently holds a number of directorships and is on the boards or advises several companies and organizations, including Stationhead, Global
Goals World Cup, and Techstars.

Angel is also CEO of Alchemists Collective, a venture development holding company which owns and operates companies in the US, UK and Latin America, focusing on startup innovation around real estate hubs.

During her London era, Angel held the position of Global VP, Music & Content at social networking giant Bebo, where she was responsible for global music strategy, product and partnerships.

Previously she had been VP, Commercial, Strategy & Digital Media for MTV Networks where she oversaw MTVN strategy & P&L across the company 11- channel portfolio of MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and Paramount Comedy brands. Angel also served as Controller, Business Development & Emerging Platforms at the BBC where she had responsibility for extending the company four television and nine radio brands across mobile, broadband and on-demand platforms, including development of the iPlayer. Angel was also Director of Broadband at gameplay, and has consulted to a number of Fortune 500 companies on issues of online commerce.

Earlier in her career she served as Director of Legal and Business Affairs for several NGOs protecting wildlife and their habitat.