About First Check Angels
Making early-stage investing more visible and human.
Making the angel ecosystem more visible, more human, and easier to understand.
Why it exists
Useful context, not another investor list.
Founders can find names, but those lists rarely explain who is actively investing, what they care about, how they think, or where they can help beyond capital.
First Check Angels brings those signals together through verified profiles, conversations and founder-informed discovery.
About the mark
Our mark represents two people moving together: the founder building something new, and the angel choosing to back them early. The open FC form is designed to suggest connection, momentum and a relationship that goes beyond the cheque.
Behind First Check Angels
Sandeep Todi
Chief Evangelist
First Check Angels was founded by Sandeep Todi, a two-time founder and startup operator with experience building fintech and HR-tech products. He now advises early-stage teams and created First Check Angels to make the angel ecosystem more transparent, human and useful for founders.
Across his work as a founder and advisor, Sandeep has operated at the intersection of product, go-to-market, partnerships and founder ecosystems. First Check Angels grew from a simple observation: investor lists are abundant, but useful context about the people behind the cheques is still difficult to find.