Onevest

APRIL 1, 2015

By Michael "Luni" Libes In the traditional world of early stage, Angel and VC investing, money is local. Studies show that over 80% of funding at Angel groups and Series A VCs goes to businesses in the same city/region as the funders. Luni is a 20+ year serial entrepreneur, (co)founder of six companies.

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Gust

JANUARY 15, 2014

What Gust does is to greatly simplify the whole investment process, ensuring that investors have all the information they need to make smart decisions, and providing an integrated suite of powerful tools for collaboration, syndication, communication and diligence connecting entrepreneurs and investors.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 10, 2020

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer The Angel Capital Association and the broader angel investor community were represented during the recent committee meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission to discuss vital issues that impact capital funding. Gender has a major effect on access to start-up capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Each has a process in place to accept applications or recommendations for investment into new companies, and to review these and make decisions based upon their exploration, previous experience in the field, knowledge of the company or industry, or about individual entrepreneurs. How many angel groups are there?

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

New Company Formation – According to the Kauffman Foundation, entrepreneurs start about 700,000 companies per year in the US. We have no measure of the changes in available capital resources from entrepreneurs and their friends and family, but we have no reason to believe they have changed radically over the past few years.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This was directed to entrepreneurs and encouraged them to focus not just on valuation, but on other deal terms that could impact economics. Dror was the co-founding chair of the PLI VC Law program and hosted their first blockchain legal program. He is a frequent speaker and writer on blockchain legal topics.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

What gets frustrating is that I tend to hear the same arguments over and over again from new entrepreneurs, and many of them are just completely unfunded. Unfortunately, they tend to resonate really well with frustrated entrepreneurs and a lot of dust gets kicked up over them. If only VCs were smart, they’d fund me.”

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Gust

JANUARY 15, 2014

What Gust does is to greatly simplify the whole investment process, ensuring that investors have all the information they need to make smart decisions, and providing an integrated suite of powerful tools for collaboration, syndication, communication and diligence connecting entrepreneurs and investors.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? Smaller VC fundraises? VC resets are often short-lived.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Just as an additional disclosure, these are my thoughts, not that of First Round Capital, my employer. Every investor and entrepreneur knows there is something scary about the current startup economy. More entrepreneurs get to try out their ideas with smaller amounts of capital, but the bar remains the same to get to the bigger rounds.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

By: Daren Cotter, Tech Entrepreneur & Investor, Member of Gopher Angels I’ve been asked this question many times over the past 8 years. I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! As my portfolio has grown, so has my answer to this question.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 13, 2020

This physical presence adds tremendous value in terms of knowledge of the local entrepreneurs, technical experts, strategic partners, local support systems etc. CEVG and E8 have collaborative cultures and are of course open to collaboration and syndication with groups located in other regions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

The company is mostly bootstrapped, having raised about $2 million from family offices, angels, Capital Factory and its own management team. “We Recipients included the following fintech startups: CashEx, a currency exchange platform that leverages AI to help U.S.-based We can do very well by doing good,” Latham said.

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