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 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.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

For years there has been a pervasive opinion across the entrepreneurial landscape that the US has a shortage of capital required to startup and grow new ventures. Dr. Carl Schramm, Kauffman CEO , recently said that startup formation is stagnant or even decreasing in the US in the second half of 2011.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 14, 2020

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer One of the fundamentals pillars of the Angel Capital Association is protecting and advocating for the rights of angel investors and the entrepreneurs they support. If these startups don’t comply, they face substantial fines and potential jail time.

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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. Response: Ask 100 entrepreneurs seeking funding whether there’s enough money here for startups, and 98 of them are going to tell you that there isn’t enough. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that!

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

The future of our economies and our communities is at stake. Angels are nimble, identifying and supporting entrepreneurs with desperately needed new technologies and innovations. Angels empower growth and solutions, right here, right now – we can exponentially grow economies at a local and regional level. Public Policy.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

While Madrid and Barcelona tend to attract the buzz when it comes to tech startups in Spain, Valencia is slowly and surely making a name for itself as a growing tech ecosystem. So to find out what the startup scene in Valencia looks like, we spoke with eight local investors, executives and founders. What are you most excited by?

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies The SEC announced a series of amendments (likely to be effective early next year) to the rules governing private offering exemptions – by far the most frequent path for venture fundraising.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing: Say Hello to Your Programming Team. Event Chair Angela Jackson, Portland Seed Fund Angela has 15 years of experience as a venture capitalist, angel investor, and as an advisor to startups in the technology, consumer products, cleantech, and mobile service industries.

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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. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. And on and on.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. It made sense because a common playbook for consumer-facing startups was to build the product, prove PMF, raise capital from investors, and then deploy some/much/most of that capital in paid media to grow quickly.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 1, 2020

By: Dan Rosen, Alliance of Angels To: The Angel Community After publishing my companion piece, “ How Startups Survive the COVID-19 Economic Crisis ,” I have received a number of comments about how this impacts angels and angel investing. Our decisions to support a startup are totally our own.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Many argued then that it was the best thing that could have happened to Plaid, since fintech essentially exploded after that deal was first announced and the data-focused fintech API startup ended up being valued at $13.4 Recipients included the following fintech startups: CashEx, a currency exchange platform that leverages AI to help U.S.

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