Early -
stage investors focus a lot more on the team and market.
Not exact matches
According to Ed Quattlebaum, founding partner at Polaris - Crux Group, a strategic advisement firm that
focuses on helping early -
stage innovation companies with capital raising and commercial scaling, one of the most effective strategies to better position you and your startup during negotiation is to acknowledge and address one anxiety that all
investors loathe: risk.
If I had known in our early growth
stages what I know now, I would have
focused more on the factors that
investors look for during that early
stage, rather than try to accomplish everything at once.
You can check out which industries and regions these
investors focus on as well as their top early -
stage investments of 2014.
Another local seed -
stage investor is CincyTech, which
focuses on startups in IT, biosciences and advanced manufacturing.
By expanding the
focus of the SBIC program, the initiative encouraged
investors to look at early
stage companies and impact investing.
«Startup Garage
focuses on the seed -
stage of funding — getting to the point where you can stand up in front of
investors and ask them for $ 250,000 or half a million or maybe a million,» Zenios says.
As you move closer to action, narrow your
focus to two or three prospective
investors and then really dive in to determine which is the very best fit for your business at this
stage.
Life sciences VC and early -
stage investor with
focus and expertise in research tools and synthetic biology.
Fran Hauser is a long - time media executive, startup
investor and author of The Myth of the Nice Girl.Best known for her role building PEOPLE.com — one of the biggest media brands online — Hauser made the leap to early
stage investing in 2014, funding and advising consumer -
focused companies such as HelloGiggles, Mogul, The Wing and Gem & Bolt.
BBG Ventures, MergeLane, the Female Founders Fund, Rivet Ventures, Halogen Ventures, Scale
Investors, Fierce Capital and The Perkins fund are all early -
stage funds
focused on female - founded companies.
A venture
investor and former SaaS executive with broad technology, sales and business development expertise, Mr. Jacobsohn will work from Norwest's Palo Alto and San Francisco offices with a
focus on early to late
stage investment opportunities in business cloud, including SaaS, industry cloud, healthcare IT, mobile business applications, and B2B marketplaces.
John Mannes is an
investor at Basis Set Ventures, a $ 136 million early
stage venture capital fund
focused on supporting startups using machine learning to address big problems across industries.
BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital
investor in Canada, active at every
stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a
focus on innovative technology - based Canadian companies that have high growth potential, offer unique products or services and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets.
An active early
stage investor, Ms. Barnett serves on the Investment Committee of Castor Ventures, an early
stage venture fund
focused on investments affiliated with her alma mater, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Chris Golden § Chris Golden is Chairman of the Boynton Angels, a private
investor group
focused on early
stage companies.
Space Angels is a global network of angel
investors focused exclusively on early -
stage commercial space ventures.
He is an active angel
investor focusing on early
stage companies in the smart grid, retail automation, data security, Internet platforms, and medical technology markets.
Kristian is an active angel
investor and co-founder of Gravity Ventures, a seed -
stage venture fund that invests in tech -
focused startups.
Pieter is a seasoned advisor,
investor, and mentor is President & CEO of Redpeaks Management Inc., a consulting firm
focused on advising early -
stage technology companies on finance and investment, corporate development, legal structure, and overall business strategies.
Generally, early -
stage venture capital funds
focus more on sector and / or geography while later -
stage investors take a broader approach.
Because many traditional venture funds have ballooned and expanded to late -
stage and international companies, there was a need for new, smaller
investors who were
focused on financing early -
stage companies.
The program is
focused on early -
stage startups and includes mentorship from entrepreneurs, tech leaders and
investors.
Les Trachtman is currently the CEO of The Trachtman Group —
focused on helping companies grow and scale, as well as managing director (and majority
investor) of Purview, an early
stage company
focused on disrupting the medical imaging business.
This book
focuses more heavily on big projects, like apartment complexes, though the information could be helpful for an
investor at any
stage in their investing.
By listing your startup, Index can match you to primed
investors with the right investment size,
stage target, and geographical
focus.
The novice
investor focuses all of his or her energy on one
stage at a time.
Being both an advisor and angel
investor to early -
stage startups
focusing on real tech and fintech, Shelli frequently writes and speaks on the intersection of real estate, finance and tech and has been profiling the rise of real estate crowdfunding since 2012.