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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

ACA members and groups enjoy unprecedented education and networking opportunities, brought to them by the trusted authority in angel investing. For brand new angels, ACA launched the first-ever New Angel Cohort. The Angel Funders Report is based on direct investment data solicited from all ACA member groups.

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

Angel Capital Association

To answer this question, let’s first identify the stage at which angels most commonly invest. 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 indicates that pre-seed deals accounted for only 4% to 5% of all ACA angel group rounds.

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Post-Pandemic Changes in Investor Sentiment

Angel Capital Association

This historical or look back perspective is based on a survey conducted by the Angel Capital Association in Q1 and Q2 of 2021 compared to the same survey conduct two years later in 2023. Figure 1: How Have Your Portfolio Companies Changed in the Past 12 Months?

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

Aurient InvestmentsAngel investment group with a diverse investment portfolio. I believe we will see the strongest seed-stage companies from 2017-2020 becoming established companies within our tech scene to match the influx of FDI companies from further afield. INI is a big support and funder.

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He Believes in Angels: The Story of a Company Backed by 400 Angel Investors

Angel Capital Association

Rob’s personal philosophy and growth strategy involves leveraging the expertise, relationships, and capital of angels around the world. Fast forward several years, and Rob leveraged his success with Evity to start Savara, using his own money and $1M from 10 angels. Every round of funding was oversubscribed.

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

Secondly, I had to learn to share my prior achievements, including building this company from being the remaining solo founder in 2020 to being a 30-people team now. That’s why women founders are encouraged to transition into angel or VC investing to increase the number of women-led startups that get investments.

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