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Why I Angel Invest

Angel Capital Association

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. My angel investing hobby was making me a better Founder, CEO, and business leader.

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Angel Capital Association’s Annual Summit is a Goldmine for Black Investors, Founders, and High Growth Startups Raising Capital

Angel Capital Association

This event, heralded as the industry’s flagship, convenes a diverse community of new and experienced angel investors, business leaders, and entrepreneurial minds to explore critical topics and trends in angel investing. Here are a few benefits that can be experienced by attending this dynamic event.

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From EdTech Entrepreneur to Tech Investor: The Journey of Andres Balcazar, Chief of Staff at Lido

Jason Malki

Andres, an Industrial Engineer by training, was previously investing in the B2B vSaaS space and comes from a background of strategy consulting. He is also an angel investor and former EdTech entrepreneur. How did you break into tech investing? That was my path, but there is no standard way to break into tech investing.

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Austin emerges as a city of unicorns and tech giants

TechCrunch

VCs invested over $5.5 billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. While they are not primarily focused on Texas, they are starting to invest locally, as well.”. Notably, S3’s investment thesis is focused on Texas. Comparisons to Silicon Valley.

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Impact Hub Belgrade – 5 years of making, failing and creating impact

Impact Hub

A Demo Day with a star-studded jury and an investor pitch with international business Angel Investors with our Impact Hub Milan partners. One of them are the WE Angels , leaders and mentors who represent the very backbone of our business and support us in goals such as achieving a zero-waste mindset of circular economy.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. Pitch perfect, you might think. But whatever the intent, it would be another two years before the firm eventually had the opportunity to invest in Klarna at what was almost certainly a much higher valuation.

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