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How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

Fund investing, like adulting, is boring. That’s the first thing anyone trying to raise a fund needs to understand, as well as anyone thinking about investing in one. Fund investing can be additive to your angel investing and there are two main arguments for it: Getting indirect benefits from being invested in one or more funds.

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5 Tips on Angel Investing from Veterans in this Space

Angel Capital Association

More than ever, angel investors play an important role in solving some of the world’s greatest challenges, and they level the playing field in ways that support socioeconomic situations and diversity. For investors themselves, angel investing is a mix of exhilaration and caution. Investors invest together.

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Open banking startup Finverse wants to build the Asia-Pacific region’s Plaid

TechCrunch

The most prominent examples include Plaid in the United States and Tink and Truelayer in Europe (Finverse’s seed funding included angel investment from Truelayer employees). Lesaffre said that Finverse’s early adopters are mostly fintech startups, including a mix of SME lending providers and buy now, pay later services.

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Ghost Financial whips up new capital into finance tools for ghost kitchens

TechCrunch

So instead, Meyer, founder and CEO, created Ghost Financial to initially do two things: provide what he touts as “the first cash-back credit card for food and beverage inventory” and use data and technology to underwrite restaurant expansion loans and credit limits for the card. Ghost Financial card app. Image Credits: Ghost Financial. “I

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7 Ways to Find Startup Funding

StartupNation

Will you take investment from others? If your business sells a unique product, consider using a crowdfunding site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise funds. Pitching to an angel investor is a great way to validate your business, and there are many angel investor groups across the world. Consider crowdfunding.

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What’s the Real Deal with AngelList?

Both Sides of the Table

I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. Not an investment philosophy “ I understand the sentiment of this post and it’s how I view AngelList (like email), but I feel like it loses a nuance about AngelList. My personal use. So why I am writing it then? A few reasons.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

Use discount code BELFAST to save 25% off an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. The tech investment scene was characterized as being strong in software and life sciences, but sometimes too conservative or risk-averse. markets gives us advantages that we would be foolish to waste.”. What’s their focus? What does it lack?

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