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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. THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019.

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San Diego Angel Conference Opens 2024 SDAC VI Fund to Angel Investors, Applications for Founders Seeking Funding Closes on Dec. 19th

American Entrepreneurship

Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M in 17 startups since 2019. By providing a low initial investment and robust deal flow, SDAC enables accredited investors from across the U.S. To learn more, visit www.thesdangels.com. We ‘get to yes!’

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October's Foundation Volunteer of the Month: Steve Baggott

Angel Capital Association

He is also deeply involved with the Angel Capital Association, where he has served on the Marketing & Membership and Education Committees. As part of this, he is a trainer for the Ann & Bill Payne’s ACA Angel University, including the Fundamentals of Angel Investing and Risks courses.

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

Angel Capital Association

Whomever is doing the bulk of those pre-seed deals examined by CARTA, it is probably not America’s leading professional angel groups. FIGURE 2, drawn from the ACA’s Angel Funders’ Report database, examines the funding rounds in which angel groups participated between 2019 (the year after the Post-Money SAFE was introduced) and 2021.

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Investing in Innovation: Timothy Chen’s Approach to Finding the ‘Right Deals

Jason Malki

Essence started in 2019 and backed amazing companies like Motherduck, Modal, Warp.dev, Sardine.ai How did you break into tech investing? After exiting Hyperpilot to Cloudera, like many other exited founders I started to angel invest into other founders I already know or met during my own founder journey. and Jasper.ai.

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The Search: Finding Your Angel Collaboration Platform

Angel Capital Association

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

TechCrunch

He sold that business to WeWork in 2019 for $220 million and joined the company to lead global corporate development and ventures following the acquisition. With a venture capital firm, you are pitching on an investment thesis, what he called “a mystery bag of companies that you haven’t invested in yet.” and Ribbon Homes.