Angel Capital Association

MAY 7, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The prestigious Luis Villalobos Award, recognizing the most ingenious and innovative ideas recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association, was recently awarded to two ACA member-funded companies disrupting their fields.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2023

The Angel Capital Association recently published a study contributed to by several of my friends quoting that seventy percent of investments made by angel investors to date return less than the amount invested – upon a sale or closing of the business – the great majority of these outright losses as businesses die.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 2, 2010

First off all, not every company is right for equity financing—and many other companies would be better off starting without it. I can’t tell you how many companies I’ve run into where the inability to get financing, or the lack of interest in it, led them to building better companies.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 28, 2023

Had the US Treasury and Federal Reserve Bank not intervened quickly, many companies would have lost their hard-won deposits and the market collapse would have made it extremely difficult for them to access new financing. That has generated enormous wealth and taxes through capital gains.

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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. 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

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.” The company is now advancing its hardware and software solution through the FDA approval process. “As

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 23, 2020

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies If your venture is confronting a down round, you should not wear it as a badge of shame. Even in normal times, few ventures make an uninterrupted march up and to the right on the valuation curve.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

My mantra of investing, as any regular reader of this column knows, is capital begets capital. That’s why Oklahoma’s unique, pre-seed capital fund, Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP), is so critical to Oklahoma’s innovation economy. Building sustainable companies isn’t all about capital.).

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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. It is suggested that companies cannot find the cash necessary to start new and exciting ventures.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

The conference also includes multiple networking opportunities each day for you to meet and engage with these influential leaders, so be sure to register and mark your calendar for the angel event of the year. ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing: Say Hello to Your Programming Team. He received his Ph.D.

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Paul G. Silva

JULY 11, 2018

Marianne Hudson, executive director of the Angel Capital Association (the trade association for angel investors in the US) wrote an article on this topic. One of the biggest debates in the angel industry is how much due diligence investors should do before they invest. Do they feel good about forming a relationship?

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2019

Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. Sooner or later you may need to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment. What VC’s can and cannot do.

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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. My background is finance, investments and operations. Q: What’s your background?

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

This is Part II of a two-part series on Revenue-Financed Capital (RFC) for angels. In Part I addressed the question of when RFC might be appropriate to meet some of the capital needs of angel portfolio companies. This post discusses why RFC may be appropriate for angel portfolios.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

Angels empower growth and solutions, right here, right now – we can exponentially grow economies at a local and regional level. Our investor community drives holistic wealth creation, leveraging dollars invested with the significant time and expertise that we commit to our budding ventures. Help us create the future. Now is the time!

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. I was there, too.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2012

Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. Sooner or later these businesses will have to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. Angel groups invest from $250,000 to $1,000,000 or more in qualified investments. How many angel groups are there? Individual super angel investors. Venture farms. Then there is venture capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Startup Valencia, BIGBAN, Lanzadera, Plug and Play, GoHub, Angels Capital, Demium, Tbig Advisory, KM Zero, BioHub and Draper B1. Most investors are business angels and early-stage investors. Draper B1, Angels Capital, Zriser, and Keith VC. Expats and digital nomads prefer moving to Valencia. What’s their focus?

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 11, 2020

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies Focusing on Anything but Your Runway. No venture has ever died of excess dilution. Also remember, if a venture shuts down, directors and officers can be personally liable for failure to pay taxes and wages.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 21, 2020

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies My firm, Rimon Law , is a "virtual" law firm with attorneys in 31 locations in 9 countries. The company has been virtual since its foundation about 10 years ago. Dror Futter is a partner in the Rimon, PC law firm.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

By: Russ Krajec, CEO of BlueIron Due diligence is essential for any business deal, and IP due diligence is shockingly left out of the equation for most angel investors and venture capital investors. Angel groups tend to over-value IP, as if there is some magic in having a patent. Read our article on patent valuation here.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2015

Dave’s note: John Huston is founder and past manager of the 300+ member Ohio TechAngel Funds and a past Chairman of both the Angel Capital Association and the Angel Resource Institute. . By John Huston. Many large companies have a preferred template from which their deal teams rarely stray.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

We’ve spoken of financing a young company through friends and family, known as “inside angels.” First, angel investment groups come in all sizes from a few organized angels to large groups of three hundred or more. Angel groups invest from $250,000 to $1,000,000 or more in qualified investments. Raising money'

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Editor’s Note – This story originally appeared in the Idaho Business Review by Sharon Fisher and reposted with permission by the Angel Capital Association. To many Idaho companies, Kevin Learned isn’t just an icon, he’s ang angel. Many of the students I had at Venture I’m still close to.” I didn’t know the word for it.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 11, 2024

With the cost of debt financing climbing, businesses were more circumspect about relying heavily on borrowed funds for acquisitions. Collaborations between fintech firms and traditional financial institutions may lead to a variety of joint ventures, acquisitions, or other forms of collaboration.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This transformation has already led to an increased number of startup failures, a growing venture capital reset2 and 210,000 tech sector layoffs since the start of 2022. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? For the near future, investors in venture funds will likely see fewer and less valuable exits.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

At the end of last week, venture-backed robo-adviser Wealthfront snuck in an announcement that the deal in which it was to be acquired by Swiss banking giant UBS for $1.4 The company is mostly bootstrapped, having raised about $2 million from family offices, angels, Capital Factory and its own management team. “We

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 16, 2024

If they are going cash flow positive within the timeframe of the investment, does that signal they are growing at a rate to provide venture returns? If they require additional capital, is the next investment in a reasonable timeframe after the investment.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 14, 2020

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies In January 2019, Alementary Brewing Co. Dror’s practice focuses on representing startup companies in their financing and merger and acquisition transactions and their intellectual property, IT and internet agreements.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Investing in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Decentralized finance, commonly known as DeFi, is transforming the landscape of financial transactions by harnessing the potential of smart contracts within a peer-to-peer framework. Utilizing Industry Expertise: Point out the value of insights from industry leaders and venture capital firms.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

By: Robert Weber, Managing Partner of Great North Labs , an Upper Midwest Venture Fund Angel investors and advisors, have you checked in with your tax advisor lately? Banking, insurance, financing, leasing, investing, or similar businesses. This 100% exclusion, unlike many other tax breaks, is permanent.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These public comments could be very important because the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance is considering recommending that the SEC propose amendments to Regulation D , including updates to the accredited investor definition, and to Form D, that would improve protections for investors. In particular, it helps venture-backed startups.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For Angel Capital Association members, the provision in Build Back Better that we are focused on is a potential “pay-for” that would limit the use of the 100% capital gains exclusion on qualified small business stocks (Section 1202) for people who have an adjusted gross income over $400,000. Timeline for Senate Action.

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