Angel Capital Association

JULY 17, 2023

Left to right: Representative Richard Neal , ACA Board Member, Managing Director and Found of North Coast Ventures Clay Rankin , ACA CEO Pat Gouhin , Rich Palmer , Managing Director, Launchpad Venture Group. ACA represents our members, but we invite investors to lend their efforts - a combined voice matters.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

ALSP’s Executive Vice President and Automera board member, Alice Chen, expressed ALSP’s collaboration with the Singapore biotech community to enhance the technological advancements and programs being developed by Automera.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Paytm has raised $1.104 billion in India’s largest-ever anchor round as part of its initial public offering, which is also shaping up to be the nation’s largest, as the poster child of the Indian startup ecosystem moves closer to listing in the public markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

The large financing round in Byju’s comes at a time when the Indian startup ecosystem is reeling from a funding crunch amid weakening global economy. Byju’s has received the approval from its board of directors to go ahead with the IPO of Aakash, and it’s gearing up to file the paper work.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

More posts by this contributor Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosystem Fraser Gillies Contributor Fraser Gillies is a principal at Publicize, a PR firm for growth-stage startups and technology firms.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Ronald Weissman, Chair of the Angel Capital Association Board of Directors. The ACA Summit provides a forum for angel investors to share best practices, discuss the impact of regulatory changes, and, above all, become better angels that improve outcomes for all stakeholders of startup ecosystems everywhere.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The funding winter for the startup ecosystem may continue for another 12 to 18 months and the industry might have to grapple with a “lot of turmoil and volatility,” e-commerce giant Flipkart chief executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy has warned executives. This is going to be tough next year. Walmart-owned Flipkart, last valued at $37.6

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Green, who has collected a series of accolades, including being honored in Time’s 100 Most Influential People and named a Top 20 Venture Capitalists by The New York Times, currently serves as a board member on several portfolio companies, including Glossier, Faire, Hims-Hers, Curated, Ritual and Modern Fertility.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 23, 2023

January 20, 2023 - ACA Leadership met with Commissioner Hester Peirce of the SEC to talk about the accredited investor definition, QSBS, and what success looks like in a thriving startup ecosystem. Commissioner Peirce was in Research Triangle Park, NC and took time out of her busy schedule for a two-hour meeting with our team.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Indeed, our tour is a key part of our investment strategy, as it provides us with the opportunity to really understand the dynamics of a particular startup ecosystem. We launched our jobs board a year ago with more than 1,500 jobs featured in cities outside of Silicon Valley. (A: Tell us more!).” and Puerto Rico.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

For black investors and founders, these sessions are a goldmine of information, offering insights into the latest trends, strategies for successful investing, and guidance on navigating the complexities of the startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 28, 2023

The impact of this startup ecosystem goes well beyond the jobs created at each company. Author: John Harbison , Chairman Emeritus of Tech Coast Angels and ACA Board Member. Without them our economy would be a third smaller. For instance, Apple now has 164,000 employees but the total number of jobs created in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

East Ventures co-founder and managing partner Willson Cuaca will join Qapita’s board. Qapita currently serves clients in Indonesia, Singapore and India, focusing on startups. Its goal is to create more liquidity and re-investment in the Indian and Southeast Asian startup ecosystems by making it easier to issue equity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support. We spoke with the Gener8tor founders about why they are passionate about thinking about the startup ecosystem a little differently.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Michael is an experienced high-tech leader, board chairman and software industry analyst. Currently Michael is the Founder, CEO and Chief Analyst at Arion Research, a global cloud advisory firm; an advisor to G2 and Board Chairman at LocatorX. market fit to messaging and thought leadership content development.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It’s a different kind of milestone for me as an investor: 10 years ago I led the company’s Seed round and joined the board, where I served until the Series C. And the most enduring lesson of all is how long it takes to build anything of real value, whether it’s a company, a venture firm, or a startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

What I typically see in the startup ecosystem are that most VCs prefer investing in a C corporation created in Delaware (Delaware C-corp). That’s primarily because Delaware laws protect investors, and Delaware C-corps can distribute two or more classes of stock and stock options to employees, investors, and board members.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week sent ripples in startup ecosystems around the world, and it is emerging that millions of dollars held by African startups and venture capital funds at the bank were at stake, until the U.S. Federal Reserve acted to save the day.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 1, 2021

Monica came back from a morning coffee with one of her Board members, Albert. Corporate Innovation people are useful to startups because they contextualize the company needs to the startup ecosystem, and they contextualize the startup ecosystem back to the company. Joe, I had an interesting talk with Albert.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

On August 3rd, we boarded our new “home”: a 25 foot Jayco RV. Slowing of the brain drain is critical for cities looking to accelerate the growth of a robust startup ecosystem. We’re proud to be backing Understory, a weather analytics startup that was founded here. Learned a lot. Progress since then has been impressive.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

” Joyce Sidopoulos is a co-founder of MassRobotics, a community and advocacy group for the sector’s startup ecosystem. But when you actually go to manufacturing, the manufacturer will say, we can’t put that board on top of that, we can’t assemble it that way.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

” Lixandru’s portfolio includes leading the Series A for white-boarding and visual collaboration startup Miro (before she moved to Sequoia). “We think that great founders come from everywhere [and] we want to give these opportunities to founders everywhere.”

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

That was the moment when the idea for the Sacramento Startup Ecosystem Subway Map was born. A subway map visual metaphor isn’t necessarily the best way to represent your ecosystem. Their Stakeholder mapping tool works well to depict entrepreneurial ecosystems. There are a lot of other ways. Don’t go it alone.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Advising and investing in hundreds of startups, primarily in B2B SaaS, Kyle is a board member for several portfolio companies. Shortly after that we endured a global pandemic, a tech cooling-off period, banking woes and so many other changes that have impacted the startup ecosystem.

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

It’s incredible to look back at how far our startup ecosystem has come in that time. It has been 10 years since we created Founders’ Co-op to provide first-check support to the best founding teams in the Pacific Northwest, and this month I started recruiting for the 10th Techstars Seattle class (that program will kick off in 1Q19).

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Feedough

APRIL 14, 2021

Investors not getting an equal share of the company’s net worth is one of the controversial issues in the startup ecosystem. Thus, before striking off an acquihire contract, buyers should consider these factors: They must seek legal advice and approval from the board and stockholders.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

Good luck doing it if you're not already tied into that world--which is a different world than just the startup ecosystem. I'm a believer that someone needs to lead a round, sit on a board, and go to sleep at night thinking about how they can help the companies they're invested in. Call me old fashioned.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem. “We received three term sheets and were able to put together an all-star investment group.” Eternava takes a very emotional and difficult and helps people walk through their journey in a trusted way that I don’t think anyone else can come close to,” Cuban added.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Current Board service includes: First Fidelity Bank, REES Architects, Oklahoma City University, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, United Way of Central Oklahoma, the Civic Center Foundation, the Oklahoma School of Science and Math Foundation, i2e (Innovation to Enterprise) and the Arts Council of Oklahoma City. How can a decade have flown by!

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

They provide mentoring, advice, and board of directors participation. Oklahoma’s problem with a low level of startup investment is not really a capital problem but a low deal flow problem. That is the way healthy startup ecosystems function. Good deals get funded and bad deals do not.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

As an influential figure in Nigeria’s tech ecosystem, Soyombo has access to almost any important deal in the market. I’ve built that network within the startup ecosystem and reputation as an angel always ready to help. Often, his deal flows are filled with startups seeking six-figure pre-seed to seed investments.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Despite the pandemic’s economic impact, Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem has proven to be very resilient. Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem was not immune, and had less exits, but it still did relatively well, with $8.2 billion invested in 2020, according to a report by Cento Ventures and Tech In Asia.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

IBTX Partner Warren Spiwak recently sat down with ACA to discuss what angels need to be aware of and what the IBTX team of dedicated risk management professionals can do to create innovative solutions to fit the unique needs of the startup ecosystem. What should Angel Groups be doing proactively to mitigate those risks?

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

For your weekend pleasure When It’s Over & Helpful Boards [Jared Hecht/GroupMe, Fundera] – Two more great posts from one of my favorite founder bloggers right now. ‘Helpful Boards’ is self-descriptive, and contains many of his own personal experiences with Board members who helped him be a better CEO.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem. The startup community must defend merit-based immigration. Once talent has come on board, inclusive culture and retention become key metrics of DEI progress. More posts by this contributor. Assessing inclusion remains a challenge.

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