Angela’s Bio

Angela Benton is a senior technology executive, Board Director, Investor, and Founder. Ms. Benton has received numerous accolades for her pioneering work in the technology industry over the past 20 years, some of which include Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business and their Most Influential Women In Technology, Business Insiders’ 25 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology, and many more.  She has been featured in numerous national and international media outlets including CNN’s award winning documentary series Black in America: The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley, MSNBC, Bloomberg, Inc, Forbes, Good Morning America, and the Wall Street Journal where she was a featured essayist for the paper’s 125th Anniversary edition on The Future of Entrepreneurship. To date,  Ms. Benton has helped raise over $50MM across various ventures. As a breast cancer survivor she is passionate about personal wellbeing and how it can be integrated into daily life in a sustainable way.

Currently, she is Managing Director at her venture studio, Fruit Ventures, where she invests in and advises startups and Founder of Well Living Farms, her 10-acre permaculture family farm located in Southwest Florida, is both an incubator and sanctuary for her forward-thinking concepts.