Ben Sharpe – Startup Investor Profile

Ben Sharpe is a member at Alliance of Angels, the largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest. Alliance of Angels focuses on financing and supporting high-growth startups in technology, hardware, consumer, and the life sciences. They have made seed and early stage investments totaling over $100M in 200+ portfolio companies, with 40+ successful exits. Ben Sharpe and the group prefer companies connected to the Pacific Northwest but also invest across the US and Canada. Their investments range from $500k to $2.5 million for the first investment. They are sector agnostic but have a majority in SAAS, AI, and Life Sciences. The partnership style involves an investment process from introductory meetings to due diligence, with decisions typically made within 6 weeks.

Location: Bellevue, Washington

Country: United States of America

Investment Regions:

Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed

Website: https://www.allianceofangels.com/

AI Reasoning: Found evidence of an investment in Triple Whale (LinkedIn post stating ‘I recently invested in Triple Whale’) with LinkedIn showing that activity around 2024-06/2024-? and a LinkedIn post dated Feb 1, 2025 referencing Alliance events – the most recent explicit investment mention is the Triple Whale investment noted with start_date 2021-06-01 but LinkedIn notes ‘recently invested’ which indicates activity within the past 6 months from the evaluation date. The time difference from the last known investment (Triple Whale / recent investment mention) places Ben Sharpe within the 6 to 3 months window, so classify as active.

Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.

Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.

Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.