Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Angel Capital Association is excited to announce our partnership with PixelEdge. With more than 20 years of experience investing in startups among the leadership team at PixelEdge, they understand the challenges facing angels in today's evolving landscape. “We too much to be sustainable.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted. ACA membership is available to individual angels, accredited platforms, angel group investors and family offices. Our members are able to stay on top of trending investment approaches, terms and exit strategies.

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 29, 2020

The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem is essential reading for entrepreneurs, community leaders, policymakers, and other key stakeholders looking to entrepreneurship as an engine of innovation and economic growth. Recognize there is more than one type of capital. Think in systems.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 6, 2023

For Immediate Release 2023 Angel Funders Report Released Overland Park, KS (December 6, 2023) – The Angel Capital Association (ACA) has released the Angel Funders Report for 2023. The AFR continues to be the definitive source of angel investing in North America. Visit us online at angelcapitalassociation.org.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Angel Capital Association is excited to announce our newest partnership with Skillcloud Consulting Group - a company that creates customizable HR Managed Services to run your growing payroll, benefits, HR support and talent acquisition.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Steve Baggott is a member and Board Director of Queen City Angels (QCA) in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also deeply involved with the Angel Capital Association, where he has served on the Marketing & Membership and Education Committees. It was in this capacity that Steve first got exposed to angel investing.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 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). Overland Park, KS (November 16, 2022).

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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

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. More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened, and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

The ACA and angel investing community are thrilled to welcome Dr. Charu Ramanathan as a keynote speaker to the Summit of Angel Investing in Columbus, OH. Dr. Ramanathan 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 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. Kwame is an honors graduate of Stanford University.

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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. ACA will continue to follow and support the angel community and communicate as appropriate as changes occur.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

K&L Gates is proud to continue its sponsorship of the ACA, in support and collaboration of its mission to catalyze angel investing resources and drive thought leadership in the early-stage capital ecosystem.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

With great innovation comes big change, or even better, disruption, to systems that have been in place for years. This unprecedented growth provides a wealth of new opportunity for the investment community. The prominent bottleneck all studios face is their access to human and financial capital.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Angel investors are outstanding examples of investors putting "skin in the game" to support the next generation of founders and technological innovation. Angel communities are collective investing networks that operate direct investments, syndicates and Angel Funds.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

The future of our economies and our communities is at stake. More than ever, we need innovation. We need angels. Angels are nimble, identifying and supporting entrepreneurs with desperately needed new technologies and innovations. “The best way to predict the future is to create it,” as Abraham Lincoln once said.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 13, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Earlier this week the Clean Energy Venture Group (CEVG) and E8 Angels announced a partnership for national climate tech angel investing with the goal to achieve greater efficiencies and impact. Interested investors are welcome to contact CEVG and/or E8 to get involved.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Young company awarded prestigious Luis Villalobos Award, Life Sciences category, from Angel Capital Association “Where words fail, music speaks.” What kind of response has MedRhythms received from the medical and scientific community so far?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

According to Diana Schwartz, Executive Director at River District Association, economic and societal shifts were having an enormous impact on the community’s economy, “For over 100 years, Danville, Virginia , has been a textile and tobacco powerhouse, and that is what the local economy depended on heavily for the majority of that time.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 2, 2010

” I’m all for more entrepreneurship, but I think it’s a slippery slope to tie together funding an increased number of companies with a better innovation landscape or even a better economic. That’s what makes venture capital such a risky investment. Help doesn’t necessarily mean an angel round sized check.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 17, 2023

ACA has been the driving force behind the legislation because it serves as a catalyst for investment and innovation within the Angel community. The legislation, HR 3937 , has passed through the Ways and Means Committee and is awaiting debate on the House floor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

There are more family-owned companies, and individual and institutional investors, and they have also invested capital. BIGBAN, a private nonprofit angel investor network based in Valencia, is building and developing one of the most dynamic and active investor communities in Spain. One of the most innovative in Europe.

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Onevest

APRIL 1, 2015

No city stands out as a leader across cleantech, green, community, and bottom billion targeted startups, and as such, entrepreneurs are not flocking to any one city to find talent or funding. Luni will be a panelist on Onevest’s upcoming webinar with the Angel Capital Association on Impact Investing on Wednesday, April 8th.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

Angela sits on the boards of the Angel Capital Association, Crowd Supply and TIE Oregon. Event Vice Chair Marcia Dawood, Mindshift Capital As a passionate board member of ACA and a venture partner within Mindshift Capital, Marcia evaluates and mentors startup companies with a clear emphasis on women-led businesses.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. The simple fact of the matter is that most startups seeking angel or vc capital just don’t receive it—and that’s just anywhere. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that! I was there, too.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Edi Bianco , Chief Design Officer, Amplifi Labs As designers living in this fast-paced world of technology where innovation reigns supreme and information overload has saturated our receptors and shortened people’s attention span to a few seconds, we may get stuck focusing on the functionalities of a product, thinking it’s the best we can do.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Jackson Grant (2017) founded Clevver Cup and is now working as CUA’s Innovation Co-ordinator while finishing his studies. Graham Fellows went on the Startup Community Leaders Mission which featured Boulder, Denver, and San Francisco. He took pictures of every community space he went into. in the space that we’ve got?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. I’ve outlined some of the changes in the following posts: 1.

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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

APRIL 15, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Investors and entrepreneurs from the Pacific Northwest and around the world will reunite in Portland and online May 4-6 for ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing! This annual event is about collaborating to bring angels and entrepreneurs together.”.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

s innovative potential come to life. DAOs enable collective management more control and governance of resources in online communities and decentralized networks, often involving significant financial decisions. Investors seeking to capitalize on the convergence of AI and Web3 might ask, “How can we potentially benefit from this fusion?”

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ACA has continued its efforts to push legislation to help the entire Angel community. ACA continues to foster good lines of communication with the SEC and good relationships at the SBA. House and Senate staff turned to ACA to understand the impact of changing the definition on the angel community.

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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. The Angel community warmly welcomes this new rule.

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