Sentences with phrase «few angel investors»

This might make more sense with a crowdfunded venture, as that replaces a few angel investors with many individuals.

If I had such a technology, I would grow it myself, with no help from others, or maybe with the aid of a few angel investors.

With a small stock market where institutional investors have been in short supply since the nationalisation of pension funds in 2008, and few angel investors or venture capital funds, the traditional source of seed capital is what is known as FFF: friends, family and fools.

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On the other hand, only the richest angel investor will be able to provide more than a few hundred thousand dollars, if that.

Some early Google employees have gone on to become entrepreneurs, while others are now angel investors, and a lucky few have gone on to become top executives at other tech companies.

Joining a big firm is a better life for an angel investor because, well, you do fewer deals at larger dollar amounts.

Huffington isn't blaming the startup culture for this, though, referring to the debate that has raged over the past few years about venture capitalists and angel investors being biased against women entrepreneurs.

Ironically, the trend of companies raising less capital actually enhances the importance of the initial round buy - in (both because that initial buy - in becomes less diluted meaning the first round price was that much more important and because even if an angel wants to buy up more in later rounds they'll have less of a chance to do so; I also believe that along with the trend of companies raising less capital we're also seeing earlier and somewhat smaller average exits — also enhancing the value of initial round buy - ins as fewer investors are truly swinging for the proverbial fence).

Existing investors Ankur Capital, Ennovent Capital, Beyond Capital, and a few undisclosed angel investors also participated in this round, the statement added.

On the same lines Mumbai - based digital and social media agency SocioSquare, a division of AKG Technologies Inc., had raised $ 325,000 (Rs 2.2 crore) in angel funding from Dr. David Bell, a Wharton School professor and seed investor, along with a few unnamed angel investors from the US, the UK and Turkey.

That, for example, is why few folks are willing to criticize their colleagues or former companies: 1 today's former co-worker or former manager is tomorrow's angel investor or job reference, and memories are long and reputations longer.2 That holds particularly true for venture capitalists: as Marc Andreessen told Barry Ritholtz on a recent podcast, «We make our money on the [startups] that work and we make our reputation on the ones that don't.»

Social media agency SocioSquare has raised $ 325,000 (Rs 2.2 crore) in angel funding from Dr. David Bell, a Wharton School professor and seed investor along with few other unnamed investors

Mumbai - based digital and social media agency SocioSquare, a division of AKG Technologies Inc., has raised $ 325,000 (Rs 2.2 crore) in angel funding from Dr. David Bell, a Wharton School professor and seed investor, along with a few unnamed angel investors from the US, the UK and Turkey, reports TechCircle.

Mumbai - based social media marketing startup SocioSquare, a division of AKG Technologies Inc., has raised $ 325,000 (Rs 2.2 crore) in angel funding from David Bell, a Wharton School professor and seed investor, along with a few unnamed angel investors from the US, the UK and Turkey.

These usually involve a handful of angel investors, and a few entrepreneurs, who all want to build the very best term sheet for their exciting nascent enterprise.

Fifty crowd investors raised 155,000 euros, together with a few business angels, so the concept could be further developed.

Already, a growing number of angel investors have been bringing an additional $ 1 billion to $ 2 billion into the VC market in the last few years, and international investors from the Middle East and Russia, especially, have also joined the fray.

Fratus warns as well that today's private investors, including individual «angel» investors and venture capitalists (VCs) who represent investment funds, are more cautious than they were a few years ago.

Late in 1994, Kremen secured $ 1.5 M in funding from angel investors and a few venture - capital firms.

So I had some loose connections with some startup investors (VCs, angels, etc.), but very few would be considered «household names».

We also have startups where if you want to be an angel investor in something you believe has legs you can put a few hundred thousand in while its market cap is insanely low and watch it appreciate at 2500 % a year.

I have dodged more than a few bullets myself from investors posing as «angels».

Lexoo has been through a few rounds of investment, from early stage VC funds to the Mayor of London's Co-Investment Fund and a number of angel investors.

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The capital also comes from a few undisclosed angel investors.