Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

This event, heralded as the industry’s flagship, convenes a diverse community of new and experienced angel investors, business leaders, and entrepreneurial minds to explore critical topics and trends in angel investing. Here are a few benefits that can be experienced by attending this dynamic event.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In 2021, when Syed Haizam Jamalullail launched The Hive Southeast Asia, I saw opportunities in learning and collaborating from such an esteemed group from Silicon Valley, hence I joined the company back in 2021. Aside from The Hive, I have a family office with my other half, and we do several angel investments here and there.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Run a Company With Two 10-Minute Weekly Meetings and Post-It Notes Barry Raber (EO Portland), a serial entrepreneur and CEO of real estate investment firm Business Property Trust , shared his insights on how to keep team meetings short and sweet with an effective system that fosters collaboration and engagement.

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

But the data shows a rapidly growing trend in accredited investors investing together. This is something that we have experience at 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors. This is in contrast to going it alone in direct investments or publicly traded REITs and stocks.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 9, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Karen Sheffield, the Founder & Managing Partner of Pachamama Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in US early-stage climate tech companies. How did you break into tech investing? I was already investing in public stocks, bonds, and preparing to make my 1st home purchase.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

He bootstrapped the company before getting angel investment. For example, this year, companies like PreciTaste , Bear Robotics and Lunchbox all received investments for their approaches to streamline restaurant operations. We want to actually capture that opportunity.”. Fudo’s table mockup for restaurants.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

More than ever, angel investors play an important role in solving some of the world’s greatest challenges, and they level the playing field in ways that support socioeconomic situations and diversity. For investors themselves, angel investing is a mix of exhilaration and caution. Investors invest together.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

However , some venture firms have taken this up a notch by bringing founders to create a fund and invest together. Since the firm’s first fund launched in 2017, MAGIC has invested in 70 companies at pre-seed and seed stages across these emerging markets. Each founder wanted to invest in other companies during YC’s Demo Day.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Run a Company With Two 10-Minute Weekly Meetings and Post-It Notes Barry Raber (EO Portland), a serial entrepreneur and CEO of real estate investment firm Business Property Trust , shared his insights on how to keep team meetings short and sweet with an effective system that fosters collaboration and engagement.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding. You’ll be up against other brilliant ideas, but it’s an excellent opportunity to win financing. Check out this list of pitching competitions. Since accelerators are essentially investing in your business, they have a mutual interest in your success.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. Some business angels like Frédéric Montagnon and Florian Douetteau were quite instrumental in shaping Clustree’s trajectory, so de Raphélis Soissan started investing after exiting her startup.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2021

Fresh for 2021, the Innovation Funders Showcase Company Flipbook provided a sneak peek of all the companies presenting, along with critical information such as market strategy, opportunities and more. The pitch prep work from our sponsors at NIH were helpful in crafting the message from experts in their field.

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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

So even if my own mother asked me to meet with you, and you were pitching me a biotech opportunity for a $10 million investment at a $90 million valuation, I might take the meeting, but it wouldn’t be particularly useful for either of us. In this case, it’s not a lack of interest, just a lack of time and efficiency.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 4, 2021

For investors, capital raises provide an opportunity to invest in a company’s ambitions. However, as with all investments, there’s a risk to reward trade-off. In the early days, investors invest in you more than your business, so relationship-building should take precedence. Time to get pitching.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

On this morning’s WJR Business beat, Jeff discusses grant and contest opportunities available to entrepreneurs in the state of Michigan who are looking for funding. Tune in below to learn more about these grant and contest opportunities! Don’t qualify for angel or venture investment? for the WJR Business Beat.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 3, 2022

Going back & forth between keeping the project as a side thing or seeking investment to take it to the next level left me pondering a big question. Does your product really need investment? most side projects don’t need investments. Sit down and understand why you need investment. This isn’t uncommon?—?most

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

“[With Gapps,] co-founder Antero Hanhirova and I saw a big opportunity to help enterprise companies in the Nordics with their cloud transformation,” Ojansuu told TechCrunch in a recent interview. The year 2021 proved to be a record year for HR tech vendors, with around $14 billion invested across over 300 deals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Now, she wants to invest in those who show that same scrappiness with her next, and literal, venture: Phenomenal Ventures. The duo met as early employees at Facebook, where they became close friends and eventually tech operators who shared notes on everything from grad school to angel investing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

While Campuswire’s pitch was set to boom overnight, the founder instead saw a bigger challenge approaching: more competition. Campuswire courses kick off with an angel investing class taught by Charles Hudson, the founder and general partner of Precursor Ventures. The strategy, for the most part, has worked.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

2021 was a year like no other when it came to venture investment, and this year is poised to tread a similar path, writes 500 Global’s CEO and co-founder, Christine Tsai. All signs point to a continued abundance of opportunities for startup founders and investors in the year ahead.”. Financial technology concept.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VCs invested over $5.5 billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. While they are not primarily focused on Texas, they are starting to invest locally, as well.”. Notably, S3’s investment thesis is focused on Texas. Comparisons to Silicon Valley.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Will you take investment from others? SBA Local Assistance : Provides you with a list of local Small Business Development Centers that you can contact to find grant opportunities. Obtain funding from an angel investor. Angel investors are wealthy individuals looking to put seed money into a venture. Angelpad.org.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

Based on the definition of an accredited angel of a net worth of $1 million or more, the potential number of angel investors could be up to four million. This arrangement makes use of the special purpose vehicle (SPV), or sidecar, to pool funds from multiple investors, with minimum investments around $250.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

But that’s not something the kinds of folks who do most angel investing understand. One pitched investor whispered “don’t we have better things to do with our time?”). So, spreadsheets, inside knowledge, and examples notwithstanding, the entrepreneurs couldn’t convince professional investors of the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

This includes fostering developer relations, such as asking them to join a community or inviting them to contribute to an open source project; requesting their expertise for a specific problem; and even to help developer tool companies pitch their wares. “This week we’re launching Prog.ai Analyze that So how does Prog.ai

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

Yet many would-be entrepreneurs feel that they don’t have enough access to investors and that the opportunity to present to a group will help them short circuit the fund raising process. Jason plans to set up Open Angel chapters in many US cities and eventually internationally. And that’s really what you want.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

The goal was to share our experiences in the realm of angel investing with an array of global audiences, by participating in various lectures, discussions and workshops. In all four countries we met passionate entrepreneurs who were eager to discuss their exciting startups, as well as angel investors looking to support them.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A typical VC might see 500 opportunities cross his or her desk every year; for larger, more prominent ones it could be 2,000. A wonderful resource for startups in fundraising mode that most people don’t know about is the Frank Peters Show , the only weekly podcast that is all about (and only about) the world of angel investing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That’s the opportunity a new fintech startup called Luxus , co-founded by two women with experience in both finance and luxury fashion, is hoping to bring to investors. Many of these collectibles have been unlocked in the past few years, but one major market has remained difficult for tech startups to crack — luxury gems.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 13, 2020

The space and the opportunities we offer are what we are most proud of and the collaborative atmosphere is the first thing that strikes a visitor who steps foot into Impact Hub Belgrade. The opportunities we have been providing are an entrance point to becoming part of a community that enables you to create new economic models.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 16, 2013

And when guys start pitching to women for capital, that's when you really get behavior change. Don't you think guys would be a little more thoughtful about a slate of bros on their team page if they were pitching in front of a partner meeting of all women? The problem is that so few women pitch. That's kind of more of the same.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. But if you invest smartly, and spread your risk over a large portfolio, the winners will pay for all the losers and return a nice overall profit.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 22, 2023

The Search: Finding Your Angel Collaboration Platform The Angel Capital Association, in concert with Jeffrey Lang of the Desert Angels and ACA’s proud partner Dealum , has published this informative interview on one of 2023’s most important topics in the angel investment space: angel group collaboration.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 23, 2020

Or, do you have additional advice for founders who pitch to your group? I answer more questions and provide more coaching about investor pitches than anything else. Once you decide that you need investment to grow your company, your task as a founder is to convince investors to give it to you. When do you need more investment?

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 15, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Investors and entrepreneurs from the Pacific Northwest and around the world will reunite in Portland and online May 4-6 for ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing! Whether someone is just starting or advanced in their investing acumen, there will be something for everyone,” said Jackson.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

What I’d like to do is tell you the story of how the investment came to be, what my thesis is / was and share some thoughts on macro trends. I’m also on record as saying I invest in lines & not dots. He quit the MRF and quietly amassed nearly $100,000 in angel investment to build a company. I still do.

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Gust

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Disruptive technologies and grand new solutions can ultimately change the world, and create a large opportunity, but they are not exciting to early-stage investors for the following reasons: Fundamental changes take a long time to happen. These are usually called ‘disruptive’ technologies.

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