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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. The Angel Funders Report is based on direct investment data solicited from all ACA member groups.

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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. 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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Investing in Capacity Building: The Overhead Pledge

EntreWorks Consulting

Folks in the business of community building know the story when it comes to outside funders. They can raise money for specific projects, but can’t invest in their people or in building up their organizations. Let’s hope that other foundations and other funders embrace this message as well. They fund projects, not organizations.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community. There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year.

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A Future Worth Creating: Fiscal Year Recap and Vision for Tomorrow

Angel Capital Association

Our investor community drives holistic wealth creation, leveraging dollars invested with the significant time and expertise that we commit to our budding ventures. We’ve become the most active public policy supporter for early and seed stage investing in the United States. Education & Smart Practices. Public Policy.

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

We asked the 40+ Unsung Heroes of Ecosystem Building which skills they would invest in to become even better at what they do. I would like to know how to best measure and track entrepreneurship and economic development in a non-traditional way. Denisse Rodriguez. Mara Hardy. How to measure the impact of people collaborating.

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VC meets the land of opportunity

TechCrunch

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). Monique Villa. Contributor. Share on Twitter. and Canada.