They mainly specialize in the tech industry, but you can
find angel investors looking for a wide range of business opportunities.
Find an angel investor before you need one.
Every entrepreneur's dream is to
find their angel investor — someone who appreciates their vision and is willing and able to bring to bear the financial resources necessary to make it happen.
Not exact matches
An
angel investor in roughly 75 startups, including Square and Pinterest, Lanman previously
founded recommendation app Livestar and spent nine years as a corporate strategy executive at Microsoft.
The majority of startups are
founded without capital injection from venture capitalists or
angel investors.
Hosted by a community called Xoogler.co, the event featured 24 startups
founded by former Googlers, with an audience of 118
angel or early - stage
investors, many of whom were current employees or alumni themselves.
DWNLD was
founded by
angel investor Fritz Lanman and Alexandra Keating.
Foxtrot, which was
founded by two brothers from MIT and Tufts University, is currently halfway through its seed round of $ 500,000, with
angel investors such as the founder of Google Shopping Express.
Those restrictions, which are the subject of an op - ed in today's Journal and a blog post last month by Fred Wilson, would raise the net worth requirements for becoming an «accredited
investor,» which could make it harder for start - ups to
find willing
angel investors.
Robb and Coleman reported
findings from a 2014 survey that women founders prefer to rely on personal sources of financing and are three times less likely to approach
angel investors or venture capitalists for equity financing.
Angel
Investors In previous columns, I've provided some advice about how to
find and pitch to business
angels who are typically wealthy individuals without an urgent need for a quick payback.
Greene
founded VMware and is known as a major
angel investor in the Valley.
DreamIt, a start - up incubator
founded in Philadelphia hosted a demo day in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday for about 250 attendees, many of them venture capitalists and
angel investors looking for the next Dropbox or Scvngr.
In order of preference,
find a venture capitalist, an
angel investor, a friend or family member who has enough assets to put some at risk, or a banker who will make a loan to the business without a personal guarantee from you.
In his study on informal finances, he
found that there is three times more «love money» than capital from
angel investors being invested annually, most of it going into the manufacturing and retail sectors.
The
founding partners of the new Seattle - based venture firm Flying Fish met as
angel investors deploying capital in the talent - heavy, cash - light region around Amazon and Microsoft's corporate headquarters.
Also participating in the round are an illustrious mix of
angel investors including Cowboy Ventures, Crunchfund (which, for disclosure's sake, was
founded by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington,) Yahoo chairman Maynard Webb, Facebook exec Mike Schroepfer, former Apple and J.C. Penney exec Ron Johnson, actors Jonah Hill, Lawrence Bender, and Jamie Kennedy, and rapper and
investor Snoop Dogg.
And while some businesses are able to
find equity investment from an
angel investor or venture capitalist, many small businesses rely on borrowed money...
So you need to
find anchor tenants who have authority in your field and who are respected by other
angel investors in order to maximize the benefits of social proof.
And if a startup has
found the right kind of
angel investor that might add value to the business, founders will engage those
angels willingly.
A key note speaker, and
angel investor Marnie holds an ICD.D Board certification, teaches Entrepreneurship at the Schulich School of Business and is a
Founding Board Member of Maple Leaf
Angels investment group
«It's reached epidemic proportions in Silicon Valley, and there's so much more that needs to be done,» said San Francisco - based
angel investor Karen Bairley Kruger, who
founded Wingpact to support female entrepreneurs and
investors.
Tech executive, board member, and
angel investor Dr. Patti Fletcher recognizes those rules and then showcases the women who have
found success by breaking them.
At a recent networking event aimed to help entrepreneurs
find co-founders, a VC and an
angel investor were on panel discussing why they usually avoid single founder companies.
«Be diplomatic about how you receive an
angel's advice, adopting the tips on more «timeless» matters — such as how to
find a good salesperson or how to launch a product — and politely ignoring the advice on matters specific to the
investor's previous forays into business.»
Stephen Fleming, a
Founding Member of Space
Angels Network and an
investor in PR, agrees.
The
founding principles embedded in AngelBlog are based on a passion for entrepreneurship and a belief that alignment, governance and fairness are critically important ingredients for
angel investor and entrepreneurial success.
As the
investor group was seriously interested a solution was
found by way of a convertible loan and while that did not solve the facility and friends issue, it did protect the new
investor group that consisted of some larger
angel investors from across Canada.
All of the value in my shares, my
founding partners» shares and my
angel investors» shares would be wiped out by my VC
investor.
ACA was
founded by
angel investment groups located in the United States and Canada to help maximize the success of group based
angel investors.
Founded by
angel and venture
investor Russ Shaw, Tech London Advocates (TLA) is an advocacy group that aims to support technology start - ups in
finding new investment, new talent and achieving high growth.
«I have been fortunate to
find tremendous
angel investors who really understand the tech industry,» he says.
This culminates in the «
Investor Day» when you could
find yourself presenting to a room full of venture capitalists, business
angels, senior financial services executives, and national and international media.
Founded in 2009, the Willamette
Angel Conference (WAC) is an investment conference, connecting early stage and seed startups with
angel and venture
investors.
Wine App Delectable Raises $ 3M Series A Delectable, an iOS app that lets you
find and share wine recommendations, has announced a $ 3 million Series A round from
angel investors including Ron Conway, Max Levchin, David Sacks (the founder of Yammer), and Deep Fork Capital...
The principals behind the fund will act as
angel investors to indie projects they
find deserving, funding their development out of their own pockets in the hopes of making their money back once the projects are released and drawing revenue.
Goat Ventures was
founded by
angel investors and exited technology entrepreneurs in New Zealand.
W Media Ventures (
founded by Boris Wertz, who was also the founder of AbeBooks), Golden Venture Partners and existing
angel investors also participated in the round.
He also says Bain hopes to convince «great
angel investors who we already know and will
find in the future to get set up as microfunds on AngelList.»
You can
find all of Disrupt Africa's coverage here, but major takeaways include that African
angel investors should «hunt in packs»,
investors should focus on «gazelles» rather than «unicorns», and that African startup ecosystems will not be built overnight.
He is also the
founding CEO of AngelList, a resource for entrepreneurs and
angel investors to
find each other and make deals.
Businesses like Bitcoin Pride are taking advantage of the same opportunity, allowing them to crowd - fund tens of thousands of dollars of capital when doing so before would have required
finding a single
angel investor and giving them a considerable degree of control over ones business.
Joining Crowd Genie as its BlockChain and Fintech investment advisor, Petter Sehlin is a
Founding Partner of global
angel fund True Global Ventures and an active ICO - advisor and
investor in fintech ventures since 2008.
New York, NY About Blog Joanne Wilson is an
angel investor who bets on companies
founded and run by women.