Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate co-founded by David Beatty and Paul Grossinger that focuses on LGBTQ+ investors and their allies, co-investing alongside selected venture-capital leads in companies committed to building diverse and inclusive teams. Gaingels's Twitter Score is 5.2 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #154,119 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Gaingels was founded in 2014 as a small angel-investing group that initially directed capital exclusively toward LGBTQ+ founders. It has since grown into a broad syndicate that invests across sectors and stages, from pre-seed through pre-IPO, without leading rounds itself. As of January 2026, the community had deployed more than $1 billion across more than 2,600 investment rounds, according to the syndicate's own reported figures.
Gaingels is also a founding co-signer of the Diversity Term Sheet Rider Initiative, a commitment to embedding diversity and inclusion standards directly into investment terms. Its portfolio spans crypto and blockchain companies, including Worldcoin (Tools for Humanity), Blockstream, and Dapper Labs, alongside holdings across many other sectors.
Gaingels's portfolio includes Unstoppable.ai, BAM Trading Services, Bitwage, Lucid Sight, Wonderschool, Fable, Runner 2.0 and Maximus. Gaingels has published 143 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 29 accounts, with 56 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Gaingels include 31 founders, 13 angel investors, 3 influencers and 6 VCs. Among them are Antonio Garca Martnez agm.eth, Alexia Bonatsos, Dave McClure, Unstoppable.ai, Paul Kohlhaas Bioacc and Gracy Chen Bitget.