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Angels Confront the Apocalypse: How Angels Reacted to the Great Market Inversion of 2022

Angel Capital Association

The great bull market of 2010 – 2021, fueled by cheap capital, caused a nearly unprecedented rise in the valuations of speculative assets, from real estate to angel and venture equity. By 2021 investors were paying 2x the “normal” price of early-stage deals, 4x for growth deals and 7x for late-stage deals. Did we do fewer deals?

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Are SAFE’s Truly Everywhere? The Role of SAFEs in Angel-Stage Deals

Angel Capital Association

But what about angels? To answer this question, let’s first identify the stage at which angels most commonly invest. Whomever is doing the bulk of those pre-seed deals examined by CARTA, it is probably not America’s leading professional angel groups. So, what about Seed Stage, the angel’s most frequent investing stage?

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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

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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Celebrating 2022 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

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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Current State of Angels and Boards of Directors

Angel Capital Association

Angels often make their first real impact post-investment by helping a portfolio company develop a “real” Board, by insisting on documented processes, key metrics and measures and a more rigorous approach to corporate oversight and accountability. The median number of Director seats held by angel groups for their 2022 investments was 4.5,

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New York Angels’ Tech Stack

David Teten VC

I asked Liz Lindsey , Executive Director of New York Angels , and Jon Zaikowski , Assistant Director, to share some details on New York Angels’ tech stack and use of analytics. HBS Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) and New York Angels are the two biggest angel groups on the East Coast, to my knowledge.

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Regulators appear to be growing increasingly wary of banks and fintech startups getting too cozy

TechCrunch

Instead, as TC+ editor Alex Wilhelm reported , UBS “invested $69.7 billion were also scrapped in January 2021 after running into a regulatory wall. YC Demo Day(s) happened this past week , and fellow fintech reporter and Equity Podcast co-host Natasha Mascarenhas brilliantly led editorial coverage of the event. bank regulator.

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