American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2025

The round was led by Innovation Endeavors , with participation from Y Combinator, Homebrew, Character, and a roster of high-profile angel investors including Scott Belsky (former CSO at Adobe) and Guillermo Rauch (CEO of Vercel).

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

I’m also a Sanzo angel investor. As for Sanzo, we’ve been fortunate to have the support early on of incredible angel investors (like Hunter Walk!) I’m a Sanzo drinker. The order is important because I fell in love with the product before I even knew about the company, and the hustle of its founder/CEO Sandro Roco.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Traditional approach: A small group of judges decides winners by consensus. Our innovation: Each judge got their own pool of money to invest however they wanted.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Equally important is knowing sources of capital such as bootstrapping, prospective investors such as angel investors, or venture capital if necessary, that can be tapped into at the various stages of a startups growth. Create a financial plan, and regularly monitor your revenue, expenses, and profit margins.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Alkami , Oklahoma’s first unicorn, was valued at $3.1 billion at its IPO in April 2021.The The $100 million milestone was made possible through collaboration with numerous partners and stakeholders.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

Angel Investors An angel investor invests in a business using their own money. Angel investors can be accredited, meaning they must have a net worth of at least $1 million and an annual income of at least $200,000. Like angel investors, venture capitalists take an equity stake in the company.

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

As a result, we received more engagement and funding offers from investors who appreciated our transparency and preparedness.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2025

In a major boost for the artificial intelligence startup ecosystem, Seven Stars, a new venture capital firm founded by former SV Angel Partner Steven Lee, has officially launched its $40 million inaugural fund to support early-stage AI startups. The newly launched fund will focus on pre-seed and seed stage startups developing AI applications.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Iteration #2: The Standing Monthly Meeting Next, we modeled our program after an angel investor group meeting. It required a huge commitment from mentors , limiting our pool. The result? It wasn’t scalable. We had to find a better way. Startups pitched for 10 minutes each. A room full of mentors provided feedback.

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StartupNation

JUNE 14, 2025

However, if you don’t mind taking a chance if it means quicker returns, then angel investing could be the best option for you. If you’re risk averse and don’t mind waiting for longer to see profits, index funds like the S&P 500 offer the safest way to grow your wealth over time.

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StartupNation

JULY 17, 2025

Angel Investors vs. Seed Funding Angel investors are often more willing to take risks in exchange for equity. Venture Capital (VC) If rapid scaling is one of your financial goals, venture capital might be the right choice. Seed funding usually comes with more defined growth expectations and timelines.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

And we’ve kind of moved to a virtual event because, for us, we have a great relationship with VC’s in the market, and with angel investors in the market. I’d rather put the money into the program themselves than supporting the founders.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 1, 2025

The NJEDA hosts the semiannual NJ Founders and Funders events, which help facilitate warm introductions between innovative emerging companies and sophisticated angel and institutional investors. All users will be able to view curated funding and incentive resources and learn about the latest industry news.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Angel investors joining the round include Chris Grove, Partner Emeritus at Eilers & Krejcik, LLC, and Josh Hannah, co-founder of Flutter Entertainment. They are also introducing a first-of-its-kind feature that allows consumers to play alongside their favorite streamers.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 6, 2025

Real-World Applications Recently, while preparing for my inaugural AP Catalyst event (which connected angel investors, portfolio companies, and private equity firms), I consulted my virtual board about maximizing the event’s impact.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 29, 2025

When we simplified the angel syndication process I described in our simplicity post , we first tested small changes (bullets) before implementing them across our entire investor network (cannonballs). This clarity enabled us to focus our actions on what mattered mostcreating a mentor network that could genuinely accelerate startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 7, 2025

StackOne, the London-based AI-powered integration platform, has secured $20 million in Series A funding led by Google Ventures (GV) that also included Workday Ventures, XTX Ventures, Episode 1, Playfair, and angel investors from leading technology companies such as OpenAI, DeepMind, Microsoft, and Mulesoft.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2025

Funding to Bring Innovation to Patients Surgicure Technologies recently secured $1.785 million in seed funding, with major backing from Launchpad Venture Group and contributions from investors such as Gurtin Ventures, BakerBridge Capital, TiE Angels, and others.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 31, 2025

The Orange Collective team have collectively angel invested in 200+ Y Combinator companies, including unicorn outcomes like Ironclad, Vanta, Replit, Moonvalley, and Snapdocs. Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day.

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HPA

JANUARY 8, 2025

Chicago, IL – January 8, 2025 – Hyde Park Angels ( HPA ), a premier early-stage venture capital group specializing in investing through its unique People First model, is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, Simple Mills , has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Flowers Foods , Inc.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 27, 2025

He is a 4x exit tech entrepreneur and angel investor with over 20 investments, specializing in conceptualizing, ideating, developing, and launching market-leading products.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 27, 2025

The financing round includes backing from top-tier investors like Greylock Partners , SignalFire, Maverick, SV Angel, Yahoo! Mandolin, an innovative AI healthcare startup, has secured $40 million in funding to transform how patients gain access to life-saving specialty therapies. co-founder Jerry Yang, and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To grow your business to a size that will be attractive to a VC or angel making an investment now, you’ve got to show that the business will be large enough at the time of the investor’s liquidity event (cashing out) to make the investment attractive at all. Careful about “hockey stick” forecasts. How much money can you get?

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

[Email readers, continue here…] Years ago, confronted with the same conundrum, in the middle 1990’s I came up with a method of assessing the value of critical elements of a startup without having to analyze the projected financials, except to the extent that the investor believes in the potential of a company to reach over $20 million in revenues (..)

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. Sooner or later, you may need to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Angel investors tend to be much more understanding, and usually resort to coaching rather than replacing the CEO during bad times. Are angels and friends a better bet? So, the combination of bad news and VC or professional investors on the Board can be volatile for the founders or management.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 8, 2025

The Rise of On-Demand Child Care Bumo’s child care booking platform operates across nearly 200 cities, including Los Angeles, Orange County, and the Bay Area, providing over 17,000 searchable child care programs, including enrichment classes, seasonal camps, and microschools for kids ages 0–17.

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StartupNation

JULY 11, 2025

10 Questions a Seasoned Business Angel Asks Startup Founders Room to Grow Beyond the Current Results Investors aren’t only interested in what your business is today. Be honest about where the risks are and have a plan for how you would handle them. No investor expects perfection. They’re looking into what it could be in a few years.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 21, 2025

Angels and seed investors are better off thinking of themselves as common with a 1x preference once tens and hundreds of millions of dollars have been raised by a company.

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Startup Catalyst Brief Submitted Articles

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, angels are telling founders to scrutinize their sales forecasts, hiring plans, costs and every other assumption about their business. Upheaval can also create opportunities, as changing markets and obstacles create new challenges to solve and ways for startups to scale

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Startup Catalyst Brief Submitted Articles

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

AL : Rebecca and I are founders and angel investors in the AI Voice space. So much of what Regal focuses on, and what we invest in as angels focuses on role-specific or industry specific workflow tools for generative AI to solve problems that LLMs alone cannot.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 7, 2025

A2D Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Thailand specializing in Southeast Asian startups, has expanded into India through a strategic alliance with We Founder Circle (WFC), a prominent angel […]

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 22, 2024

His experience at Flexport; his pay-it-forward nature; and his friendly user interface, made his a desirable angel/advisor for startups. HW: I know from experiences within the Homebrew portfolio that you were doing some angel investing already, as well being very generous with your time as a formal/informal advisor to founders.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2025

Accepting venture capital or angel money is to create a contract between the investors and the entrepreneur that the business will someday be sold or even go public to create an exit for the investors. Is your business one that may be sold for profit someday?

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Visit academy They invested via Leapfunder " The Leapfunder Note is a sensible and attractive way to place capital in start-ups in the Netherlands " " Diversification is important in angel investing. Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor?

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