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

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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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. Building an AI-powered startup begins with an AI-Strategy, guided by a business analyst.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

That’s why Oklahoma’s unique, pre-seed capital fund, Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP), is so critical to Oklahoma’s innovation economy. TBFP deploys state funding to provide equity-free capital for startups at such an early stage that there are virtually no other sources of capital available.

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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. That’s the thing—startups in the initial stages need advice, feedback, and guidence a lot more than they need money upfront.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

Overall, 40% of financing rounds had an angel representative of some sort (Director or Observer) at the close of the round and 70% of angel groups had at least one Board or Observer seat among their portfolios of 2022 deals. 2 All data in this note are drawn from the 2022 Angel Funder’s Report database (tracking CY 2022 transactions).

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2022

Fox Rothschild understands the unique struggles startups face. The program includes: Startup Package - The legal advice and documents necessary to get a company up and running, all for a discounted flat rate. They provide leaders of startups, emerging companies and other lean organizations the guidance they need on a daily basis.

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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. Recognize there is more than one type of capital.

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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. Our mentoring covers a wide range of topics and situations based on the leadership team’s experience, the stage of the startup, and the market the company is working to serve. By Scott Meacham.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

National Science NSF helps companies move innovative technology out of the lab Supporting the most innovative ideas in science and engineering, the U.S. America’s Seed Fund, powered by NSF, is a program that funds small businesses and startups to create the next game-changing technologies. billion budget.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

"Every investor and entrepreneur knows there is something scary about the current startup economy. There is an enormous amount of angel capital available, while at the same time there is a small amount of Series A and a large and concentrated amount of late stage capital.

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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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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

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

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

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! How has the Golden Seeds network been helpful to you?

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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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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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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. ACA also applauds the new ways to become an accredited investor that are not related to income or net worth.

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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. Look for future analysis of these points as more information becomes available. From the U.S.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 21, 2021

Eligible startups may qualify for tax credits as part of the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) Startup Recovery provision. The ERTC is a refundable tax credit that encourages businesses to keep employees on their payroll by innovating new products or services. Qualified wages are capped at $10,000 per employee per quarter.

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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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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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Paul G. Silva

JULY 11, 2018

Due diligence (AKA “doing your homework” on a startup to see if investing is the right call) should clearly take time… but how much? Marianne Hudson, executive director of the Angel Capital Association (the trade association for angel investors in the US) wrote an article on this topic.

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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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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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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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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. 500 Startups’ VC Unlocked. Deal Camp/ VC Unlocked (500 Startups + UC Berkeley). PrivCapAcademy.

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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

MAY 11, 2022

It’s about giving back and cultivating thriving ecosystems and pockets of innovation across the country, “ Gouhin said. The inherent high risk of new management teams, technology still in development and often brand new markets, creates big success but can also result in high rates of failure inherent in startups.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 28, 2023

We all collectively dodged a bullet after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank which threatened to destroy a whole generation of startups. The impact of this startup ecosystem goes well beyond the jobs created at each company. Without them our economy would be a third smaller.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 25, 2021

The Global Business Angels Network (GBAN) Annual Meeting will take place as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Congress – this is anticipated as the first post-COVID-19 live global gatherings of entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policymakers and other startup champions from around the world.

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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 then the world changed.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

By: Warren Spiwak, IBTX Partner ACA Affinity Partner IBTX recognizes the risk that angels and startups face. Q: Warren, what are some of the risks that create increasing exposure for Angel Groups in the next decade compared to the past? What should Angel Groups be doing proactively to mitigate those risks?

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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

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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