Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

By Tony Shipley, Seed the Future Campaign Chair, and Katelynne Staehnke, Director of Development, on behalf of the Angel Investor Foundation. We sincerely appreciate the many contributions our Angel Capital Association (ACA) members, Angel Groups and other donors have made and continue to make to the Seed the Future (STF) Campaign.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ACA has continued its efforts to push legislation to help the entire Angel community. Through ACA’s strong and experienced public policy leadership team, ACA has been able to gain more diverse voices as both investors and entrepreneurs.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer Looking back over the past few years of uncertainty and effort, The Angel Capital Association has made it through stronger than ever because of the work of our dedicated members, volunteers and professional staff.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 4, 2024

On February 27 and 28, the ACA Public Policy Team convened in Washington, D.C., Chief among these priorities is continuing to advocate for the accredited investor definition, QSBS and Section 1202 , funding caps and continuing to build out the Ann & Bill Payne ACA Angel University. The team met with staff for Rep.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Angel Capital Association is moving into a confident, secure future, because of the successes we’ve had and the way we’ve navigated the last two years. ACA’s angel groups made more investments in more companies despite the pandemic –continuing to risk personal capital to jumpstart businesses and ignite economies.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The programming team for ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing is full of experienced, respected angel investors and ecosystem providers, and they are hard at work creating a virtual experience that will change the way you think about angel investing.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 28, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director 10. Relax in your own home while you soak up the latest insights about the dynamic, changing landscape for angels around the globe. Relax in your own home while you soak up the latest insights about the dynamic, changing landscape for angels around the globe.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 14, 2023

The ACA holds a simple belief: educated investors are more successful investors. A core pillar of ACA’s mission is to provide our members the tools and resources necessary to successfully navigate the ever-evolving investment space in 2023 and beyond. Whether a new or seasoned investor, Linqto Learn sessions are for you.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 22, 2020

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager Three new board members were elected at the ACA Annual Members’ Meeting during ACA 2020 – The Summit of Angel Investing held virtually May 12-14, 2020. The ACA board terms coincide with the fiscal year, which begins July 1st.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

We need angels. Angels are nimble, identifying and supporting entrepreneurs with desperately needed new technologies and innovations. Angels empower growth and solutions, right here, right now – we can exponentially grow economies at a local and regional level. Over the past 15 years, ACA has grown membership by more than 600%.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

There are surprisingly few such conferences, for the very good reason that there are actually relatively few such people (venture capitalists and ‘professional’ angel investors) to attend them! But that said, here are the biggest (i.e., “only” events of their type): Business Angels. NACO National Angel Summit.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 12, 2023

We all know that the success in angel investing involves many factors. Examples of these factors include valuations, due diligence, building a portfolio of companies, business sectors, angel engagement and others. Several monthly ACA Data Insights have been published on these items and others. versus a 1.3x

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 17, 2021

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager As an entrepreneur and seasoned angel investor, Bill Payne understands the critical importance of education to make well-informed decisions that determine the success or failure of a startup. In your opinion, what are the most important takeaways from ACA Angel University’s Valuation Workshop?

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Boston-Area Angels Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile Receive Hans Severiens Award for Individual Impact in Advancing the Field of Angel Investing. Ham and Christopher met in the busy Boston angel investing community where they both started and operated angel networks.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

This is Part II of a two-part series on Revenue-Financed Capital (RFC) for angels. In Part I addressed the question of when RFC might be appropriate to meet some of the capital needs of angel portfolio companies. This post discusses why RFC may be appropriate for angel portfolios.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

In 2012, Dr. Chris Hagen was working in the engineering group at Oregon State University and received a seedling award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy (DOE). In addition to investments from ACA groups like Golden Seeds, how has the company attracted funding?

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 27, 2020

ACA has supported the SEC’s incremental expansion of the accredited investor pool and other proposals to expand startup access to angel capital. ACA also applauds the new ways to become an accredited investor that are not related to income or net worth.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With less than two months remaining in 2021, Congress is again facing a number of deadlines that will impact the angel investing community. Of note for ACA members, the bipartisan infrastructure bill set an expiration date of September 30, 2021 for the employee retention tax credit created by earlier coronavirus relief bills.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 7, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The prestigious Luis Villalobos Award, recognizing the most ingenious and innovative ideas recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association, was recently awarded to two ACA member-funded companies disrupting their fields.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

No-cost accelerators: Afore Capital Angel to Fund Manager (AFM), Founder Institute VC Lab , Recast Capital Enablement Program – Accelerators with tuition: Oper8r , OnConduit ‘s Emerging Fund Managers Initiative. NVCA Venture Capital University. Spearhead – $1m to back your angel investing. ANGEL EDUCATION.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 13, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Earlier this week the Clean Energy Venture Group (CEVG) and E8 Angels announced a partnership for national climate tech angel investing with the goal to achieve greater efficiencies and impact. Can you elaborate on the unique relationship between angel groups on opposite coasts?

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 7, 2020

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager We can’t wait to welcome Martha Miller, Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to ACA 2020 – The Summit of Angel Investing ! Don’t miss this special event at ACA 2020 on Thursday, May 14!

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 26, 2023

By Christopher Mirabile , ACA Chair Emeritus & Launchpad Venture Group Executive Chair Every experienced angel knows how important the quality of the founding team is when selecting investments. Experienced angels also instinctively know that CEO swaps are very risky and potentially costly. And so forth. “An And so forth.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

For Part 1 on The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021, click here to access the ACA Data Insights Archive. For Part 1 on The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021, click here to access the ACA Data Insights Archive. This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. to 18.2x.

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