Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This is the time of year when ACA reaches out to our angel community seeking nominations for both the Angel Capital Association’s FY 2025 Board of Directors and committee volunteers to help ACA continue to grow and support our work on angel investing.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

The National Science Foundation Awarded a major grant to connect early stage capital to DeepTech innovations. This project is designed to better educate the early stage investor community on the benefits of Deep Tech investments with the intention of increasing the amount of private capital available for deployment in the Deep Tech sector.

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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

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. To learn more, go online here!

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Investors can be called upon during almost any stage in the life of a startup. However, there is a limit to how many of these individuals can invest in startups because of legal limitations, Legal Zoom explains. Related: Why Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors Look at Teams, Not Ideas. 5 types of investors. Updated Nov.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 2, 2010

That’s the thing—startups in the initial stages need advice, feedback, and guidence a lot more than they need money upfront. Getting key strategy advice early on, or getting introduced to a new market can make or break a company in ways that no amount of angel capital can help. This is a good thing.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 23, 2023

For Immediate Release (1/23/2023) The Angel Capital Association (ACA), the world’s leading professional association for angel investors and startup entrepreneurs, has announced a partnership with Series Code, a leading technology support company for startup entrepreneurs.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

With their shared dedication to professionalize angel investing, commitment to educate the angel community and decades long friendship, it is easy to understand why Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile have been so successful at changing the face of angel investing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Mack Kolarich is the VP of analytics at Assure and has extensive expertise in private capital and startup investing. Not all angel investors, and not all angel groups, are created equal. Beyond making a financial return, many angels have a second or third motivator driving them to invest in startups.

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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. Fostering these entrepreneurs and the economies they impact is a direct result of ACA’s mission to fuel the success of angel investor community.

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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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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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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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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

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 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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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 22, 2020

The Board of Directors focuses on supporting the success of angel investors through industry voice, professional development and public policy advocacy while maintaining the mission and values of the Angel Capital Association. Thank you!

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 1, 2020

None of what I am sharing would be possible without the contributions of the staff of the Angel Capital Association (ACA) and the participation of so many angel investors. Put the work in the hands of the people motivated to get it done – You’ll note in the prior step almost all the work is done by the startup CEOs.

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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

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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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. More than ever, public policy issues are having a big impact on angel investing, the startup companies we support and the startup ecosystem.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

By: Nick Zasowski, Director at Global Startup Studio Network Startup studios are gaining steam across the angel investing landscape. As the Global Startup Studio Network (GSSN) researched last year, the early signs of studio data are just the beginning for the growing expectations.

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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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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Why QUT and Startup Catalyst have stayed friends. QUT has been a supporter of Startup Catalyst for four years. It was just quite extraordinary to give students the opportunity to go to Silicon Valley, see what’s happening in firms, and to do a startup weekend in the middle. It’s not all startups! Where are they now?

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer The Angel Capital Association’s continued advocacy toward harmonizing and simplifying the existing framework to improve capital raising pathways and expand investment opportunities has yielded successful results for U.S.

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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

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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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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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

In 2021, SDAC is running its third conference, in spite of COVID, and continuing to attract new accredited angel investors. Reflecting on the early success of SDAC, to today being one of the largest angel conferences and startup pitch competitions in the country, following are five tips for activating new angel investors.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

With war, inflation, supply chain disruption, epidemics and the end of nearly free capital, the twelve-year party ended in 2022. What some have called “startup apocalypse,” began with a decline in the S&P 500 (losing 20% of its value by Q4) and similar declines in other public markets. And did we see lower returns in 2022?

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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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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 7, 2020

By: Elaine Bolle, RTP Capital Associates Rob Neville is a serial entrepreneur, and his story is a powerful testimonial about the importance of angel funding. Savara Pharmaceuticals, Rob’s 4th startup, is an orphan lung disease company working on inhaled investigational therapies.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. These may indicate room for Versatile VC to build or invest in a startup addressing that need.

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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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