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What happens when you take 12 investors to Silicon Valley?

Startup Catalyst

In November 2017 we delivered our first Investor Mission, heading to San Francisco for an intensive week meeting with angels, VCs, corporate venture programs, accelerators, startups, pitch events, and dinners. The program kicked off with a full one-day angel investor education program delivered by Angel Labs. Who we took.

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of audiovisual startup Chroma

TechCrunch

In 2017, Stone publicly announced he was returning to Twitter to lead strategic vision, brand, and culture, where he remained until 2021. The two hit it off and began to have monthly calls after Stone’s angel investment. However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups. Chroma did.

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Zoom acquires Ireland-based employee communications platform Workvivo

TechCrunch

Founded out of Cork in 2017, Workvivo has amassed a fairly impressive roster of customers too, including Amazon, RyanAir and Bupa. Interestingly, it also received an angel investment from Zoom founder, chairman and CEO Eric Yuan back in 2019 , making today’s announcement perhaps a little less surprising.

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MAGIC Fund raises $30M to scale its global founders-backing-founders fund

TechCrunch

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. Olubusi, who had built and exited a couple of startups over the years, also dabbled with angel investing for some time. MAGIC Fund has 12 founders who act as general partners.

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Dan Teran shares Gutter Capital’s challenge of closing its first fund

TechCrunch

In 2017, they began investing some of Gettinger’s gambling winnings, and then later Teran’s Managed by Q proceeds, building a portfolio of over 100 angel investments, which included Bowery Farming, Electric.ai They also had to prove that they could translate their angel investing experience into leading rounds. “It’s

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Microcredentials for the effective VC or private equity investor

David Teten VC

Spearhead – $1m to back your angel investing. Venture University Angel Immersion Track. Angel Investing Workshops by Golden Seeds. Angel Investing 101 Workshop by HBS Alumni Angels NY. April 5 NYC Family Office Investment Conference on Tech/Life Sciences Companies. Breakinto.VC.

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Talking product-market fit with Sean Lane, whose company tore through 28 products to become a unicorn

TechCrunch

Air Force and National Security Administration intelligence officer, was angel investing, co-running a tech incubator and had co-founded a company called CrossChx to link fingerprints to electronic medical records. Lane, who was once a U.S. As with many growing startups that veer in a new direction, there were painful layoffs.