Sentences with phrase «first angel investment»

So how exactly did she come to make her first angel investment?

He is a member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey's first angel investment network.

Even the more egregious miscalculations have turned out all right (such as the time the wire for our first angel investment reached our bank account exactly 19 minutes before our payroll withdrawal hit, just covering the difference).

Not exact matches

There were 20 deals worth nearly $ 1 billion in the space industry in the first quarter, according to investment firm Space Angels — though $ 500 million of that was a single deal: A big investment from Fidelity Investments in Elon Musk's SpaceX to develop its constellation of 4,425 broadband satellites.

This naturally pushes early stage investing to smaller investment sources; angels and government sources like SBIR's, economic development funds, and state focused specific funds for a start - up's first round of investment.

Spurred on by that angel investment, ShopLocket went on to raise a $ 1 - million seed round in its first six months.

But Ross Finlay, co-founder and director of the First Angel Network Association in Halifax and a longtime angel investor, says that amount can be reached with a single good investment, so it's not much of an incentive.

Instead of hiring the first one who shows up, do your homework, advises David Moore, an angel investor and president of City Rewards Network in Charlotte, N.C. «A lot of investment bankers are going to call you and say «We can take your small company public for $ 50,000.»

The number of angel investment deals for U.S. startups increased 33 percent in the first quarter of 2010, compared with the same period last year, Giga Om reports.

U.S. angel investment deal flow was up 33 percent year - over-year in the first quarter of 2010, according to CB Insights.

«When I first started doing this I was the only ex-Google angel, and today there are anywhere between 20 and 40, and that's just Google,» said Senkut, whose Felicis Ventures has about 50 active investments.

Pay the mortgage on a $ 10m mansion as well as a $ 5m summer place in the Hamptons, put four kids through Ivy League colleges, fly first class anywhere you'd like, make half a dozen angel investments at $ 250K each, eat out every night at three star restaurants, vacation on the Riviera, and have a full - time cook, butler, nanny and chauffeur.

Homejoy raised $ 40 million from Y Combinator, PayPal founder Max Levchin and a handful of angel investors, as well as startup investment firms First Round Capital, Redpoint Ventures and Google Ventures.

«It isn't unusual for an angel investor to expect a rate of return that equals 10 times their original investment inside the first 5 — 7 years,» states Murray Newlands with Startup Grind.

Born in the 1970s, Cai made his name and first fortune by investing in domain names during the internet bubble and expanded his investment portfolio over the next decade as an angel investor.

Lead Angels are India's first privately owned angel network founded by a team of three, originally from IIT Bombay in 2014 with the aim of improving early - stage investment outcomes.

Speaking further, Sahil said, «We are proud to be backed by people like Roger Ver (who has single handedly funded the seed rounds for the entire first generation of Bitcoin businesses), Amit Bhardwaj (who is leading the march for Bitcoin Adoption in India), Michael Terpin (he co-founded BitAngels, the first angel network for investments in bitcoin / digital currency companies) and more Bitcoin Pioneers.

The hardest part for most companies is getting your first 1 - 2 investments as there is a strong herd mentality from angels.

When we were going through our first round of angel investment, those are very private conversations.

Other companies participating in the latest round of capital investments are Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, FLOODGATE and SV Angels.

The VanEck Vectors Global Fallen Angel High Yield Bond UCITS ETF is the first UCITS - compliant ETF to realise the fallen angels investment concept with a global investment horizon without excluding any individual regions or countries.

Rob also invests in and advises early stage businesses in the legal industry, and was an early member of Law Angels, the first and only angel investment group focused on legal.

With angel investments from NEO Nixin and other partners, HPB is the first third - party blockchain to support NeoVM (NEO virtual machine).