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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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

JULY 10, 2023

Hans Severiens winners Tony Shipley, left, of Queen City Angels and Dan Rosen , right, of the Aliance of Angels. The Hans Severiens Award recognizes personal impact on the advancement of angel investing globally and highlights the special relationship that angels and entrepreneurs build to innovate, create jobs, and drive the economy.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2021

Chiara Renella-Brooks, ACA Partnership Director Incredible Companies Built by Women Highlighted During the Innovation Funders Showcase Deeper Dive This year’s ninth Annual ACA Summit Innovation Funders Showcase opened ACA Summit week with many exciting new twists!

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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. In 2023: 160+ individuals earned the Basics of Angel Investing certificate. 40+ individuals earned the Advanced Angel Investing certificate. 500 individuals took at least one Angel University course.

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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

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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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 30, 2023

In February Sandy Wollman, Marty Isaac, and myself worked with the Angel Capital Association to evolve New England & New York’s syndication process to work for more angel groups. Angels from New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania came together to test out our new approach to syndicating deals.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Paynes and hundreds of other donors have generously supported AIF's Seed the Future Campaign, which was set up to invest in initiatives that fuel job growth, innovation and economic prosperity for all communities. About the Angel Investor Foundation (AIF) and Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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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. Results have been mixed.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

The percentage of angel groups having an angel group Director fell sharply when products entered the market, falling to 40% by expansion stage. 2 All data in this note are drawn from the 2022 Angel Funder’s Report database (tracking CY 2022 transactions).

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Paul G. Silva

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If your angel group is interested in participating, let me know. My thanks to all the angel leaders, and the Angel Capital Association , for their hard work! A non-exhaustive list includes: James Geshwiler for getting the angel leader of New England to start talking about this nearly 20 years ago!

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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

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. More than ever, we need innovation. We need angels.

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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

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. More than ever, we need innovation. We need angels. We need you!

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2021

By: Matt McMahon, Director – SEED (Small business Education and Entrepreneurial Development), National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is proud to be an Angel Capital Association Platinum Partner. Sales and Marketing Strategy. Management Team. Strategic Partners. Financial Plan. Potential Exit Path.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

With a prolific portfolio holding over 25 patents, Dr. Ramanathan continues to shape the landscape of healthcare innovation with her visionary leadership and unwavering dedication to improving lives worldwide. Previously, Dr. Ramanathan founded CardioInsight, a pioneering company specializing in noninvasive cardiac imaging systems.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

Each year, the Luis Villalobos Award recognizes outstanding ingenuity, creativity and innovation among startups backed by Angel Capital Association members. Award winners have a strong track record of innovation and growth. Congratulations to Rita and her team! KP and CA: Tell us about your experience with Golden Seeds.

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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.” Millions of people suffer from neurologic injury and disease each year.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 27, 2020

ACA has supported the SEC’s incremental expansion of the accredited investor pool and other proposals to expand startup access to angel capital. I am also pleased that we have expanded and updated the list of entities, including tribal governments and other organizations, that may qualify to participate in certain private offerings.”

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

More than ever, we need innovation. We need angels. 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. We need ingenuity.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 8, 2024

Kwame serves on the Board of Regents for North Central University, on the board of directors for Actively Black, CEEK Metaverse, Bandwagon, The MOST, Vurple and on the Advisory Board for the Carlsen Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Sacramento State University. Go online to join Kwame and the angel community in May!

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

“K&L Gates has been a thought leader in the start-up ecosystem for a long time with their expertise, dedication and passion toward solving the pain points of entrepreneurs and investors alike with innovation and creativity.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This raises a serious concern about how many currently active Angel Investors would no longer qualify to make investments in early-stage companies, and what that will do to stifle innovation and slow our economy. If implemented, this would stifle innovation and slow our economy.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 26, 2020

Mentoring is one of the most valuable venture services i2E provides to Oklahoma’s innovators and entrepreneurs. Angels invest their own money and are in the business of high risk/high return. Angels — whether they invest as individuals, in groups, or through funds — are often a startup’s first equity investors.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Lucio Arbix , Business Development Director, Amplifi Labs AI-Strategy The transformative potential of AI extends beyond individual startups, reshaping their entire ecosystem and driving innovation across industries. The AI-Strategy is your roadmap to innovation and growth. Start by clarifying why AI is vital.

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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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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.

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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. ” Fred Wilson seconded that opinion , citing that “We need more entrepreneurship, not less.”

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Onevest

APRIL 1, 2015

Luni will be a panelist on Onevest’s upcoming webinar with the Angel Capital Association on Impact Investing on Wednesday, April 8th. This post was originally published on the blog of Michael “Luni” Libes. Read the original post here. Register Here. Luni is a 20+ year serial entrepreneur, (co)founder of six companies.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

NVCA Venture Capital University. Wharton Executive Education Venture Capital program. IFF: The Mechanics of Venture Capital. Modeling for Venture Capital. Coursera, e.g., Innovative Finance. Angel Investing Workshops by Golden Seeds. Angel Investing 101 Workshop by HBS Alumni Angels NY.

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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. As the studio capital structure innovates and disrupts traditional investing, it is important to remember what makes studios a capital-efficient model. Y-Combinator: 2,000+ Exit: Idealab: 35%.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

House Committee on Financial Services: “Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named as receiver. Look for future analysis of these points as more information becomes available. From the U.S.

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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. Sarah Biber, OSHU Invent-a-thon Founder and Team Lead Dr. Biber leads the Surgical Innovation Program at Oregon Health and Science University. in Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon.

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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. This typically means financial investment, and specifically, venture or angel capital.

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