Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Small Business Administration and the Department of Defense announced a major policy initiative aimed to incentive private capital investment in U.S. small businesses developing critical technologies. As part of the initiative, the U.S. national security interests.

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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. Steve Baggott has been a member of Queen City Angels for the past eight years.

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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 18, 2020

The CNG technology concept needed to be fully developed and commercialized to build out the necessary storage and refueling infrastructure to make it widely accessible to consumers. The company was nominated by Golden Seeds, an angel funding group that met Onboard Dynamics at the annual ACA Summit in 2018.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 22, 2023

As an important source of financing for startups and small businesses, it's critical for current and emerging angel investors to understand the shifts occurring in the industry. Here are some of the most notable dynamics impacting angel capital today. However, they require angels to adapt and leverage technology more fully.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 21, 2020

I am very pleased to have the opportunity to represent the Angel Capital Association and the voice of all early stage investors as part of the vital work of the Investor Advisory Committee. Congratulations to Christopher on behalf of ACA, angel investors and the start-up ecosystem!

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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

MAY 6, 2021

Keenly aware of the need to build, support and professionalize angel investing, they devoted their partnership energies over the last decade to writing books and articles about angel investing, as well as speaking, developing courses and teaching. After graduating, Ham became an active member of the Boston entrepreneurial community.

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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. We raised angel capital,” Learned said. “I I didn’t know the word for it.

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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. Technology/Solution’s Ability to Address Market Need. Target Market Attractiveness (Need/Size).

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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. In addition to joining ACA’s Board of Directors, Clay is a board member of University Circle Inc.

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Startup Catalyst

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The third day started with a session from DLA Piper on legals in the US, followed by a meeting with VC firm Accel, then a private chat with famous angel investors Jason Calacanis and Jay Adelson, before a combined networking event with the River City Labs Accelerator and muru-d Melbourne teams who were in town on their own mission.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

We are thrilled to share the news that Golden Seeds company Onboard Dynamics recently won the prestigious 2020 Luis Villalobos Award in the technology, services, and consumer category. Each year, the Luis Villalobos Award recognizes outstanding ingenuity, creativity and innovation among startups backed by Angel Capital Association members.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff speaks with Marsha Dawood, chair of the Angel Capital Association Board of Directors, regarding the advantages of angel funding to finance and launch a business. Marsha, we believe at the Business Beat that angel funding is the most important type of funding for the earliest stages.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Back to top The History of the ACA's Public Policy Efforts The Angel Capital Association was a nascent organization in 2009-2010 when Congress developed the bipartisan Dodd-Frank Act in response to the fallout of the great recession.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

Look for a group that connects angel investors with promising early-stage companies and that provides the education and information for both groups to lead to a healthy pipeline of deal flow. There are angel networks and funds everywhere these days. The Angel Capital Association keeps a list and has some great resources.

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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.” How does MedRhythms’ technology work? The company is now advancing its hardware and software solution through the FDA approval process. “As

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This legislation, which includes authority for Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, universal Pre-K, expanded family leave, historic investments in green technology and other so-called human infrastructure investments, is scheduled for a vote on the House floor the week of November 15.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 11, 2024

However, resilience was still evident in certain sectors, particularly technology and healthcare sectors, where strategic acquisitions were made, albeit more cautiously. Regulatory Scrutiny: This year also saw heighted regulatory oversight, particularly in technology and healthcare sectors.

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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

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. We are also face-to-face with unprecedented opportunities to harness technology, advances, and ingenuity. We need angels. More than ever, we need innovation.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

QSBS is treated favorably for capital gains purposes if both the investor and the company meet certain requirements. Companies in the technology, retail, wholesale and manufacturing sectors are eligible as QSBs, but those in hospitality, personal services, the financial sector, farming and mining are not eligible.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 2, 2010

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. Engineers don’t usually spend a ton of time predicting future business viability—they just want to work on interesting technology problems.

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propel(x)

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

There are several reasons angel investors may consider adding deep technology to their investment portfolio. If you’d like to learn even more, you can subscribe to the Propel(x) blog , which features tons of info geared towards angels like you. However, it is also a potentially risky endeavor.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Smith, CPA, Managing Principal/Technology Industry, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP. Founding Partner Robert Weber is a member of Minnesota-based Gopher Angels, PropTech Angel Group, and the Angel Capital Association. Yet, despite this fact, many tax advisers outside of Silicon Valley are not familiar with Section 1202.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

Ramanathan is the Founding Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Black Star Fund , an early-stage venture capital fund. Dr. Ramanathan is a serial entrepreneur driven by a passion for leveraging technology to advance health equity and access.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 26, 2020

Angels invest their own money and are in the business of high risk/high return. Over half the deals and total investments reported in the Angel Capital Association’s most recent Angel Funders Report were made in pre-seed and seed rounds. They tend to invest very early in a startup’s life, even pre-revenue.

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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. By Scott Meacham. Results have been mixed.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

s nature is blockchain technology. dApps, utilizing this technology, provide diverse services – from financial transactions to gaming, without intermediaries. Expanding into VR and AR for Immersive Experiences: Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies are being integrated into Web 3.0 s functionality.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

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

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies. Based on recent data provided by the National Venture Capital Association in partnership with Aumni, the market for venture capital deal terms seem to be that kind of store.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We consider other capital sources such as credit cards, friends/family capital and angel investors to generally be our competition, although we believe the structure of our terms makes more sense for all parties involved. Q: What are your unmet technology needs? If so, what are you doing to move that forward?

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 8, 2024

Vital Start is a health care technology company that treats perinatal mood and anxiety disorders with the assistance of virtual and augmented reality technology. “There is a lot of new information coming at you when you start a business,” Kirthika Parmeswaran, CEO of Vital Start Health, recently told me.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

It’s just bagged $1M in seed funding led by Angels Capital, a European VC fund owned by Juan Roig (aka Spain’s richest grocer and second wealthiest billionaire), and Miami-based The Venture City. It had previously raised around half a million dollars via a token sale to help fund early development. .”

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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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