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.
Other angel investors on the platform include MA Ravi Kumar, former CEO, American India Foundation; Venkat Srinivasan, a serial entrepreneur based in Boston; and Vivek Sharma, CEO of a pharma services company based in Boston.
Kretchmer went to work on the product, social media software for publishers and brands, and when Kalanick thought it had progressed enough, he made 45 introductions to
other angel investors in less than a week and agreed to invest in the company himself.
While he received initial funding through Defy,
other angel investors filled out a $ 100,000 funding round so he could build out the physical space for his gym.
In July, last year the fintech scored $ 4 million which it calls as pre-series A round from Gobi partners - the investment manager of Chinese e-commerce Alibaba and a group
of other angel investors.
Canaan Partners, Amino Capital, Neuron.VC, Krishna Bharat (ex-head of Google News), Amit Singhal (ex-head of Google Search), Luc Vincent (VP of Engineering at Lyft), Red Bear Angels (a Cornell angel network), and
several other angel investors.
Silicon Valley - based big data startup Innovaccer Inc has raised $ 15.6 million in a Series A round of funding led by Westbridge Capital Partners, with participation
by other angel investors.
Here is my list, based on my own experience as a startup advisor, talking to
other angel investors, and derived from the lean startup principles of venture advisor and entrepreneur Eric Ries:
I asked if he's doing better than
other angel investors, and he said: «We have a much different model — we have a larger volume most angels can't match, and we are also willing to do follow on [investments.]
TreeRing, a San Mateo, Calif. - based company that brings social networking into the creation of school yearbooks, has raised $ 3.6 million in Series A funding from Flipboard CEO and co-founder Mike McCue, Second Ave Partners, Cedar Grove Investments and
other angel investors.
It's backed by seed funding from DreamIt Ventures, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, and
other angel investors.
But the team has enough runway to give it a shot, thanks to a larger - than - planned (but still undisclosed) seed round from NEA, Felix Capital, Partech, and
other angel investors.
The round was led by New Markets Venture Partners and Two Sigma Ventures, and included
other angel investors.
Citizen is backed by $ 3 million in seed funding from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund (via FF Angel), Slow Ventures, RRE Ventures, Kapor Capital (via Ben Jealous, a former CEO of the NAACP) and
other angel investors.