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Alicia Robb Magnified the Movement to Drive Impact, Diversity, and Inclusion in Early-Stage Investing

Angel Capital Association

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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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. You should seek to get people who are respected by others in your field and who will therefore make it easier to raise the rest of your angel round.&#. Photo credit: D.

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Celebrating 2022 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

Investments made by individual angels and angel groups continued to “fuel the tank” for entrepreneurs and kept investment pipelines flowing for venture capitalists. Fostering these entrepreneurs and the economies they impact is a direct result of ACA’s mission to fuel the success of the angel investor community.

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Standing Room Only: Why RFC is So Hot Right Now Part II

Angel Capital Association

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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Any advice can be worthless, or worse.

Berkonomics

Ever take that advice without question because the person giving it was an investor, a superior in rank, the chairperson of your board? As one illustration among many I can recall, let me tell you the story of the first investment made by a newly organized formal group of angel investors. Ever get bad advice? But I digress.

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Exclusive webinar with ex-President of one of the largest family holding companies

David Teten VC

DC Finance is one of the oldest and largest family office networks. Greg Weyerhaeuser Piasecki will interview David Teten , Founder of Versatile Venture Capital , about his firm’s unique strategy. As a member of the board of Clearwater Management Company, he oversaw the family-sponsored investment vehicles.

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MAGIC Fund raises $30M to scale its global founders-backing-founders fund

TechCrunch

Olubusi, who had built and exited a couple of startups over the years, also dabbled with angel investing for some time. It was there he met more founders like him who were angel investors with impressive portfolios. million and Olubusi says the investments performed 5x over the period of three years.

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