Who are the top angel investors right now?

QUESTION:

I have a startup and I need to get angel funding ASAP. Who are the top angel investors right now? If you can give me a comprehensive list, that would be really helpful.

ANSWER:

According to YouNoodle & BusinessWeek, the top angels are Chris Dixon, Ron Conway (no surprise), Reid Hoffman, Esther Dyson, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Jeff Bezos (surprise).

2010 Rank	Investor	Number of Angel Investments	Percent of Companies Operating, Acquired, or Public (not dead)	Number of Employees	Amount of Funding Received (in Millions)	Best Financial Performance (Rank)

1	Chris Dixon	23	100	3,283	1,071.8	1
2	Ron Conway	190	97	29,703	3,407.0	2
3	Reid Hoffman	49	96	69,796	2,270.9	4
4	Esther Dyson	60	98	5,357	480.5	3
5	Peter Thiel	26	92	69,499	1,577.4	8
6	Marc Andreessen	53	100	3,835	1,157.6	6
7	Jeff Bezos	18	100	21,028	482.9	5
8	Chris Sacca	31	94	593	296.4	16
9	Mike Maples	39	97	3,377	522.6	13
10	Andy Bechtolsheim	49	100	31,184	954.8	12
11	Paul Graham	129	84	606	84.4	7
12	Max Levchin	7	100	491	277.5	21
13	Aydin Senkut	65	95	933	316.8	9
14	Bill Joy	24	100	5,275	551.1	20
15	Kevin Rose	12	100	369	229.4	14
16	Dave Duffield	18	89	2,271	219.9	10
17	Andrea Zurek	26	92	1,767	77.8	15
18	Marc Benioff	9	100	74,891	133.4	17
19	Jeff Clavier	52	92	911	276.2	22
20	Caterina Fake	6	83	77	35.7	24
21	Martin Varsavsky	28	96	2,078	302.5	23
22	Naval Ravikant	21	90	308	187.3	18
23	Joe Kraus	5	100	680	160.0	11
24	Eric Schmidt	9	100	129	97.4	19
25	Lauren Flanagan	23	96	257	50.5	25