Angel Capital Association

JULY 10, 2023

Hans Severiens winners Tony Shipley, left, of Queen City Angels and Dan Rosen , right, of the Aliance of Angels. The Hans Severiens Award recognizes personal impact on the advancement of angel investing globally and highlights the special relationship that angels and entrepreneurs build to innovate, create jobs, and drive the economy.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

The sharp reversal in 2022 from bubble to sober economics is well illustrated by Pitchbook’s index(1) of how founder or investor friendly the investing climate is. By mid-2022 the index had quickly reversed from a founder to investor friendly investing climate. In another reversal from 2021, capital demand was 1.5x

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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

JANUARY 8, 2024

Incredible Organizational Change, Growth and Advocacy: a Look at the ACA Success and Goals For 2024 Despite the volatility brought about by the pandemic, economic uncertainty, market fluctuation, bank failures and a myriad of other difficulties, the ACA has powered through to continue to be the voice for the art and science of angel investing.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer Looking back over the past few years of uncertainty and effort, The Angel Capital Association has made it through stronger than ever because of the work of our dedicated members, volunteers and professional staff. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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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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

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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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 26, 2020

High-growth startups have two basic sources of investment capital — angel investors (individuals, groups, or funds) and institutional investors like i2E. Angels invest their own money and are in the business of high risk/high return. They tend to invest very early in a startup’s life, even pre-revenue.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Instead, as TC+ editor Alex Wilhelm reported , UBS “invested $69.7 The pitches range from building the Square for micro-merchants in Latin America to creating a way to angel invest in your favorite athlete.” billion was scrapped. million in the company at a valuation that Wealthfront described as $1.4

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