Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

How the Accredited Investor Definition Unfairly Limits Investment Access for the Non-wealthy and the Need for Reform * WATCH THE HEARING NOW, BEGINNING AT MIN 10 * Early this morning, the Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled “Sophistication or Discrimination?

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 28, 2023

In terms of profit generation, 56% of profits in the top 100 companies today were from companies founded after the dawn of the era of venture capital and angel investing in the 1970s, and losing companies from any one decade would have wiped out between 6% and 34% of profit in the economy.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

By Tony Shipley, Seed the Future Campaign Chair, and Katelynne Staehnke, Director of Development, on behalf of the Angel Investor Foundation. We sincerely appreciate the many contributions our Angel Capital Association (ACA) members, Angel Groups and other donors have made and continue to make to the Seed the Future (STF) Campaign.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

We have all heard the importance of having one or more of our angel investments noted as a “home run” In terms of a return exit. Generally speaking we can define a home run for an angel investor as a company having a very successful return multiple at the time of their exit, generally with a return multiple of 10.0x

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 11, 2022

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer May 10, 2022 – Seeking to strengthen connection, advocacy and understanding as well as advise those in the SEC and FinHub community, CEO Pat Gouhin was thrilled to represent angel investors and the angel ecosystem at FinHub’s Peer-to-Peer meet-up on capital formation. “It

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Overland Park, KS (November 16, 2022). The Angel Investor Foundation (AIF) is pleased to announce a $300,000 pledge to its Seed the Future capital campaign from the Payne Family, a name synonymous with angel investing. About the Angel Investor Foundation (AIF) and Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Angel Capital Association is moving into a confident, secure future, because of the successes we’ve had and the way we’ve navigated the last two years. ACA’s angel groups made more investments in more companies despite the pandemic –continuing to risk personal capital to jumpstart businesses and ignite economies.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 29, 2023

Early-Stage investing is inherently cyclical, and for the first time in over a decade we are experiencing a downcycle. An important question leaps out: Is it better to invest more or less during a downcycle? To answer this question, we look at data from Tech Coast Angels. But is that conclusion supported by data?

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2023

So, are SAFEs truly dominating early-stage investing? But what about angels? 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.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 8, 2024

The ACA and angel investing community are thrilled to welcome Kwame Anku as a keynote speaker to the Summit of Angel Investing in Columbus, OH. Kwame is the Founding Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Black Star Fund , an early-stage venture capital fund.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

The move should restore confidence and keep startups solvent and their employees employed, but there likely will be some longer-lasting psychological effects relating to capital risk that we should all be on the lookout for. As of December 31, 2022, SVB had about $209 billion in total assets and about $175 billion in total deposits.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This article looks at the experience that TCA Venture Group (formerly Tech Coast Angels) has had on all their 247 outcomes from 1997 – 2022 for insights. Of the 526 companies in TCA’s portfolio at the end of 2022, 279 were active and the remaining 247 outcomes included 141 shutdowns and 106 exits. Back to the analysis.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This raises a serious concern about how many currently active Angel Investors would no longer qualify to make investments in early-stage companies, and what that will do to stifle innovation and slow our economy. The effects would be similarly large in other sophisticated markets and massively amplified in other regions.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

The great bull market of 2010 – 2021, fueled by cheap capital, caused a nearly unprecedented rise in the valuations of speculative assets, from real estate to angel and venture equity. With war, inflation, supply chain disruption, epidemics and the end of nearly free capital, the twelve-year party ended in 2022.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2021

A dedicated pre-event Summit kick-off gave each company more time to present with additional opportunities for Summit attendees to connect with companies during ACA 2021 – The Summit of Angel Investing. It was a highlight of the week and we look forward to welcoming you to New Jersey for the 2022 ACA Summit!

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

Our investor community drives holistic wealth creation, leveraging dollars invested with the significant time and expertise that we commit to our budding ventures. ACA represents more than 250 angel groups and 14,000 angel investors. Over the past 15 years, ACA has grown membership by more than 600%. Public Policy.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 12, 2023

We all know that the success in angel investing involves many factors. Examples of these factors include valuations, due diligence, building a portfolio of companies, business sectors, angel engagement and others. One of the items the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) reviewed was angel engagement with start-up companies.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

According to CB Insights , over 4,670 angel or seed deals, totaling $36.2B were made in 2022. 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. Investors invest together.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2024

Revisiting the M&A Metrics of 2023 M&A activity witnessed a notable slowdown in 2023, coming off the back of unprecedented highs in 2021 and 2022. For perspective, these numbers follow the staggering 41,345 deals in 2022 and a peak of 43,057 deals in 2021. What Caused a Slowdown in M&A Activity in 2023?

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 25, 2023

We all know that investing in startup companies is inherently risky. Over half of early-stage investments typically fail to return any capital, with the top 10% usually returning 85-90% of all the cash proceeds. Two of ACA’s largest angel groups have kept track of IRR (internal rate of return) for all outcomes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Instead, as TC+ editor Alex Wilhelm reported , UBS “invested $69.7 On the fintech front, she and Anita Ramaswamy did a deep dive on the related companies in the cohort, noting that “ one-fifth of the accelerator’s Summer 2022 batch , which spans 240 companies, is working on solving issues in the financial space. billion was scrapped.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Early-stage investments inherently have a higher risk of failing, but these risks also come with potentially higher rewards — getting in at the ground floor of a startup’s journey gives VCs more negotiation clout.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 4, 2024

French Hill (R-AK) to discuss the importance of angel investing. On the Senate side, the ACA team met with staffers from the office of Senate Banking Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to discuss the importance of angel investing. The team met with staff for Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) and Rep.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Qualified Small Business Stock and Section 1202 Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) provides for up to 100% exclusion of Capital Gains taxes. QSBS is treated favorably for capital gains purposes if both the investor and the company meet certain requirements. Darin LaHood (R-IL) did not vote.

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