Amjad Masad is a Palestinian-Jordanian software engineer, entrepreneur, and angel investor best known as the co-founder and CEO of Replit, the cloud-based development environment that lets developers write, run, and deploy code entirely in a browser. Before founding Replit in 2016, he held developer platform roles at Twitter and Facebook, giving him early exposure to the challenges of building tools for programmers at scale.
As an angel investor, Masad focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, developer tooling, and crypto infrastructure. His investment activity reflects a consistent thesis: software development is being fundamentally restructured by AI, and decentralised networks will play a growing role in how applications are owned and monetised. He is active on X (formerly Twitter), where he regularly engages with founders and signals emerging areas of interest – making his public commentary a reasonable proxy for his investment lens.
Notable investments
Masad has backed a small number of crypto and AI-adjacent projects as an individual angel. His known portfolio count stands at 7 companies. Because he operates as a solo angel rather than through a named fund, portfolio disclosures are limited and many deals are not publicly announced. Crunchbase lists a subset of his investments, though the full picture is not public. He has been publicly associated with projects in the Solana ecosystem and AI-native developer tools, consistent with Replit's own strategic partnerships.
Public information about individual deal terms, check sizes, and the full list of portfolio companies is limited. He does not manage a formal fund and has not disclosed AUM.
Team
Masad invests as an individual. There is no managing partner structure or investment team. His angel activity runs alongside his full-time role as Replit CEO. Co-founder Faris Masad (his brother) and Haya Odeh co-founded Replit but are not publicly identified as co-investors in his angel portfolio.
Recent activity
Through 2024 and into 2025, Masad has been vocal about AI agents writing and deploying code autonomously – a theme central to Replit's product direction and likely influencing where he places angel bets. Replit itself raised a $97.5 million Series B in 2023 at a $1.16 billion valuation, which elevated his profile in the startup ecosystem and broadened his deal flow.
Masad remains one of the more credible operator-angels in the AI and crypto-developer tooling space. His direct experience scaling a developer platform gives him pattern recognition that pure financial investors lack. Given Replit's trajectory and his stated interest in crypto rails for software distribution, further investments at the AI-crypto boundary are likely. That said, he is not a prolific angel by volume, and his portfolio of 7 known deals reflects a selective, conviction-based approach rather than a spray-and-pray strategy.