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Why I Angel Invest

Angel Capital Association

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?”

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Are SAFE’s Truly Everywhere? The Role of SAFEs in Angel-Stage Deals

Angel Capital Association

Y Combinator, a leading incubator, invented the original (pre-money) SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) in 2013 to provide an easy, fast and cheap way to fund the dozens of startups comprising a Y/C batch. SAFEs remain prevalent for incubator and earliest stage startup hub deals, stages typically prior to major angel investing.

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Startup Investing: The New Trend in Alternative Assets

Onevest

In a report on startup investing and “How the Rich Invest” Forbes notes that the Angel Capital Association counted more than 330 active angel groups in North America as of 2013. There were over 200 as of 2006.”

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The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021 Part 2 • 2022 From a Startup Equity Seller’s to an Equity Buyer’s Market

Angel Capital Association

As in previous bubble deflations, the malaise began with public market declines—a sharp Q1’22 fall in the S&P 500 -- and successively impacted unicorns and other pre-IPO companies, then late/growth stage and finally early-stage and seed-stage/angel investing. By Q4, for every dollar of available capital there were 1.4x

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