Neal Richter

Active Investor

Angel Investor

Salt Lake City, Utah

Neal Richter, Angel Investor is an active investor based in Salt Lake City, Utah. This profile covers what Neal Richter backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Neal Richter serves as Chairman at IAB Tech Lab. Dr. Neal Richter is an Angel investor. He serves as Technical Advisor at Spaceback. He served as Chief Scientist at SpotX. He served as Chief Technology Officer at Rakuten Marketing. He served as Chief Scientific Officer at The Rubicon Project. He oversees the ad serving, auction, and optimization algorithms at Rubicon Project. He joined Rubicon Project in 2009 via the acquisition of the audience optimization company, Others Online, where he worked on audience analytics and analysis code. Prior to Others Online, Neal worked at RightNow Technologies on the self-learning search engine for CRM. He has 15 years of industry experience implementing software ranging from advanced data mining algorithms, web serving at scale to low-level hardware drivers. He loves taking ideas from vague descriptions of customer difficulties through to shipped production software. Neal grew up in a log cabin in Montana and has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Montana State University. He is an Angel Investor.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Invests in: SaaS & Enterprise
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Typical check: $500K
Past investments: 2

Notable investments

CognitivSpaceback

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