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Kickstarter [another early angel investment] became the vanguard of crowdfunding.

They saw what we were doing and gave us angel investment checks.

Can the new funding tricks stack up to VC and angel investment?

However, I suspect that angel investment will move toward token investment over time.

I guess my very first angel investment outside of PayPal was probably 22017.

Perell said that the typical angel investment is anywhere from $25,000 to $150,000.

Instead of going the V.C. route, Ms. Dalzon has opted for angel investment.

Africa Future Limited, a Lagos based angel investment fund, also contributed to the round.

Angel investment, for its part, also continues to occupy a meaningful portion of private investment.

Previously, he co-founded home improvement store TreeHouse and national angel investment group Wedgwood Circle.

Alfred Lin, a partner in Sequoia, also made an angel investment at the seed stage.

The company also revealed a previous undisclosed $4.1 million angel investment, making the total $15.1 million.

They are not looking for hundreds of millions of angel investment or a Series A funding.

The startup raised its first angel investment from names such as The Abraaj Group and Salesforce CTO Steven Tamm.

He made a $500,000 angel investment for about 10% of the company, and joined the board, according to Reuters.

The company, once kept alive by 50-to-500-yuan donations, received its first angel investment of roughly $480,000 in 2013.

Commentary by Alicia Syrett, the founder and CEO of Pantegrion Capital, an angel-investment vehicle focused on seed and early-stage investments.

The fund is an extension of C2 Ventures, Cunningham's 5-year-old angel investment firm that uses his experience to help startups.

Rose runs Gust, a digital platform for early-stage entrepreneurs and investors, and Rose Tech Ventures, an angel investment fund and incubator.

He recommends finding a firm that specializes in early-stage investing or an angel investment group, like his own, that understands the industry.

Anjos do Brasil (the Brazilian Angel Association) also reported a 20173 percent increase in angel investment in 2017, with deals representing almost $250 million.

Specifically, Tecco told CNBC they made an angel investment in the Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust, a vehicle for accredited investors to invest in cryptocurrency.

Hanan Abdel Meguid, a woman with sleek, curly black hair and a friendly smile, founded Kamelizer, an angel investment fund focused on technology startups.

The startup was founded by Steve Murphy and Assaf Einat, who met at Stanford where they founded the company with a angel investment from Mark Pincus.

I sent some names of candidates that had not yet received institutional capital nor angel investment and could benefit from the exposure — at their own risk.

Estonia-based Deekit has now closed a seed round of €400,000 in angel investment from investors around Europe, with Spring Capital from Estonia being the lead investor.

Jungle Ventures started out as an angel investment firm in 2012, but it moved into Series A and Series B financing with its new fund last year.

From intrapreneurship to mentorship and angel investment, people who managed to come to a certain level should share their experience, know-how and resources with young entrepreneurial minds.

Institutional investor Crosslink Capital, and both Maiden Lane Ventures and CSC Upshot (the American and Chinese venture funds affiliated with the angel investment site, AngelList) participated as well.

At this time, Ploom investors included Japan Tobacco, the maker of Winston and Salem cigarettes, along with the software company Originate and the angel investment group Sand Hill.

The market for growth industries through venture capital and angel investment is huge, and these windfalls can be invested in the start-ups and industries of the future.

What do you get when you mash together half a stalk of grapes, a handful of angel investment principles, a sprinkling of crowdfunding and a well-oiled marketing machine?

While CSO, he oversaw the acquisition of CurseMedia and ClipMine and developed a personal angel investment portfolio of over 30 startups (including Cruise, which GM acquired for over $1B).

Andy's angel investment portfolio includes innovative B2B products like Pipedrive, Intercom, Apiary (acquired by Oracle), Buffer and Bugsnag, as well as consumer services including Postmates, Secret Escapes, HER, and Calm.

Workana's Tomas O'Farrell stated seed-stage and angel investment on the ground is improving for Latin American startups, but if they want to accelerate quickly, be open-minded and look abroad.

To get big faster, younger unicorns start buying startups sooner Although some colleges may offer a major program in business or entrepreneurship, there isn't exactly a major in venture capital or angel investment.

Venture capital and angel investment for U.S. start-ups with China connections -- through teams combining U.S. and Chinese talents, R&D operations in both countries, and experience in both markets – has been hit.

It follows an earlier angel investment in September last year, including from the former head of Google Wallet in Europe who, I'm told, wanted something akin to Railsbank when he was running Google Wallet.

"Based on these results, we call upon the entire investor community to redouble its efforts to change this dynamic and abuse of power in the VC/angel investment community," Y Combinator said in a release.

That&aposs according to data in the latest "Space Investment Quarterly" report, which was published this week by Space Angels, a venture capital and angel-investment firm that focuses on private space companies like SpaceX.

As Halle Tecco, co-founder of the venture firm Rock Health points out, technology start-ups in other fields often get angel investment from senior executives in their space, who already made their money through exits.

In 2010, she raised an angel investment fund to make one-off investments in companies like Birchbox, a cosmetics subscription service, and Warby Parker, an eyeglasses retailer, while she studied how to raise a venture fund.

In the U.K., the second-largest European startup hub after Berlin, male entrepreneurs are 86 percent (almost always) more likely to receive VC funding than their female counterparts and 56 percent more likely to secure angel investment.

"I started saying, 'If you send me a deal and I invest $500,000, you're going to earn yourself the upside equivalent of a $20,000 angel investment and you're going to earn carry throughout that process,'" he says.

Dr. Johnny Hon is founder and Chairman of Global Group, an international venture capital and angel investment business, Executive Chairman of Gate Ventures Plc, an investment company specialising in the media and entertainment sectors, and a Director of Infinity Creative Media.

Loco0003 raised a further £670k in angel investment back in July 2015, although its funding levels are far more modest than others in the space — with only around £1 million in seed funding raised from business angels prior to its last raise.

Read more: Top VCs reveal what they want to hear in a startup pitch — and what you should avoid sayingDavid Rose runs Gust, a digital platform for early-stage entrepreneurs and investors, and Rose Tech Ventures, an angel investment fund and incubator.

About 40% of our clients are early-stage companies that have either received some kind of angel investment or are pre-series A. Sometimes, founders come to us when they don't even have a name yet, but they have a great idea and a core MVP.

Led by COFIDE, FOMIN and UTEC, the two-day conference focused on creating community, corporate innovation, angel investment and venture capital in the country — but perhaps more notably, it aimed to bring together all the key players in the ecosystem to foster collaboration and build momentum.

Of course, this environment does not exactly replicate the angel investing environment (and we take great pains to empirically analyze the differences), yet it provides a variety of remarkably substantial benefits, particularly since systematic data from angel investment and venture capital deals is almost impossible to access.

Entrepreneurship score:82.41Startup density:9.9%Percentage of firms receiving venture capital investment:0.7%Percentage of self-employed workers:9.9%Reason for starting business isn't lack of work:80.0%The Arizona Commerce Authority offers startups the Angel Investment Tax Credit, which amounts to a total of $2.5 million every year.

The current industry model of esports is dynamic: it is responsive to a burgeoning influx of angel investment, steadily accumulates hundred of millions of viewers through Twitch and traditional TV platforms, and is rapidly growing due to a constant injection of entrepreneurial activity bolstered by increasing marketing awareness of the potential consumer power captured by the esports fan base of tech literate digital natives.

I haven't been able to stop thinking about these spots as my safe havens since earlier this week when I read Fast Company's profile of two ex-Google employees' supposedly ingenious venture (as validated by funding from First Round Capital, Forerunner Ventures, and Homebrew, as well as angel investment from senior executives at Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, and Google) called Bodega -- essentially a fancy vending machine with facial recognition technology.

"If women and underrepresented minorities aren't in those roles in the company, or they are not represented in the cap table, they don't participate as meaningfully in the wealth creation of our industry," Verrilli, who was most recently vice president of corporate development and strategy at Twitter, tells CNBC Make It. Currently, the #Angel investment collective does not publish the diversity of the cap tables of the companies in which its members invest.

UK VC funds have historically high reserves of "dry powder" and worriers should be heartened too that the European Investment Fund says there will be no immediate change in its activities in the UK. It is too soon to assess the impact on angel investment, but there are reasons for optimism, in particular that a weaker pound and a search for uncorrelated assets may make early stage UK companies an attractive asset class for US investors (two well-known US angels emailed me to this effect over the weekend).

Zwilling has been a member of two angel investment groups: Arizona AngelsArizona Angels Angel Investment Group. and the Arizona Technology Investor Forum (ATIF).Arizona Technology Investor Forum (ATIF) Angel Investment Group. He is a board member at Callaman Ventures,Callaman Ventures Callaman Firm.

In 2018, Peter Cowley authored a book on angel investment titled The Invested Investor.

In 2013 he made an undisclosed angel investment in an Indian social networking service, LocalCircles.

In 2011 Dunn cofounded the angel investment firm, Red Swan, which is focused on investing in consumer retail and consumer internet companies.

Zanran Ltd is based in London, UK. It was financed by the founders prior to a private angel investment round in March 2010.

He later revealed in an interview that around 25% of the companies he invested in would succeed, higher than the industry average of angel investment.

HitFix received its first funding from Golden Seeds, the fourth largest angel investment group in the United States, in 2009. Since then, HitFix has twice benefited from investment from the Tech Coast Angels, one of the largest angel investment networks in Southern California. The first such investment came in February 2009 in the amount of $850,000. In June 2010, the Angels added to their commitment investing an additional $1,600,000.

8% in 2009), industrial/energy (8% vs. 17% in 2009), retail (5% vs. 8% in 2009) and IT services (5%). While more readily available than venture financing, angel investment is still extremely difficult to raise.

The Chennai Angels (TCA) is an angel investment group based in Chennai, India. They have funded companies such as Popxo, Metroplots, Traveling Spoon, HitWicket, Brigge, Cloud Cherry, Syona Cosmetics, Velvet Case, Fourth Partner amongst others.

LundXY Global Ventures is an angel investment and startup catalyst headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, founded by serial entrepreneur Morten Lund in 2007. By 2013 parts of the operation had been superseded by Lund's new OnlyXO network.

However some new models are developing that are trying to make this easier. Much like other forms of private equity, the angel investment decision-making has been shown to suffer from cognitive biases such as illusion of control and overconfidence.

In September 2015, Rahul announced his new venture Intelligent Interfaces. The company had secured angel investment from co-founders of Flipkart, Paytm, YouWeCan and Micromax. Intelligent Interfaces is reportedly a data analytics company and visualisation company catering to e-commerce companies.

Sanguinetti led a bipartisan effort to revive the Angel Investment Tax Credit in Illinois which helps small minority owned businesses. Sanguinetti, who chaired the Governor's Rural Affairs Council, worked with several state legislators on this bill, including Sen. Chuck Weaver (R-37), Sen. Dale Fowler (R-59), Sen.

MedCity is actively encouraging and enabling entrepreneurialism by understanding and addressing entrepreneurial barriers as well as supporting entrepreneurial activities. These include business plan competitions, angel investment workshops, pitching events for early stage funding of startups and work with various capital groups to attract funding into the greater south east.

Emon Shakoor is the sole founder &. CEO. of Blossom Accelerator, Saudi Arabia’s first tech-inclusion and female focused accelerator. The company provides founders access to community, network, educational resources as well as curating investment opportunities. Emon also serves as an Advisory Board Member at OQAL Angel Investment Network.

In late 2014 Tulchinsky founded WorldQuant Ventures. Organized separately from WorldQuant as Tulchinsky's own angel investment fund, the firm's focus is on data and finance companies in "everything from artificial intelligence to water management." 2016 investments included Cycle Computing, Benzinga, and untapt, while 2017 investments included the Canadian research company Canalyst.

There are approximately 30 organisations located at Blk71 that provide a range of funding and in-kind support, including angel investment, seed funding, series A, B and beyond. These include NUS Enterprise (which manages Plug-In@Blk71 as well as has additional incubation space on levels 1 and 3), and JFDI.Asia.

An April 2007 Regulation D filing showed that Automattic raised approximately $1.1 million.Company Information: AUTOMATTIC INC Investors were Polaris Ventures, True Ventures, Radar Partners, and CNET. Mullenweg runs an angel investment firm Audrey Capital, which has backed nearly 30 companies since 2008. In 2011 he backed Y Combinator startup Earbits.

In 2012, Zameen.com received an angel investment from Gilles Blanchard, the founder of Seloger.com, a French property website. In May 2014, the company struck an investment deal with Frontier Digital Ventures and Catcha Group, after which Shaun Di Gregorio and Patrick Grove, the CEOs of these two enterprises joined Zameen.

He is also a partner at venture capital firm Rainmaking. Knak-Nielsen previously worked with Vardup as chief technology officer at GreenWire. The Fashion received $400,000 in angel investment from Rainmaking and angel investor Kristian Byrge in 2013. The site officially launched in the United Kingdom, United States, and Denmark in May 2014.

The gap between the top earners and those worst-off grew during the Katainen Cabinet.Finnish income gap creeps wider 1.11.2013 The government made many decisions that favored the richest citizens such as the removal of business angel investment taxation. Many tax allowances favored the rich, for example, the household renovation reduction and private retirement funds.

Chandni Jafri is a new media evangelist, advisor, mentor, business head and theater producer and actor. She was the CEO of Mumbai Angels – India's leading Angel Investment Network. She is also the founder and executive director of Sound and Light Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd. (SLSV), a strategic consulting group with special focus on corporate social responsibility in India.

Blottr monetized by selling licensing to its crowdsourced news platform, called NewsPoint, starting in June 2011. The site secured an angel investment in May 2011 worth up to £1 million to expand its operations. The investor was Mark Pearson, founder of MyVoucherCodes.co.uk. Contributors participated in a revenue-sharing scheme in which they received ₤1 for every thousand page views.

In spring 2014, the company was started in Istanbul with seed funding and angel investment, and started development work. In October 2014, Fitwell was launched in Turkey, available only in Turkish and on iOS. The Android version was launched in November 2014. The launch version allowed its users to follow a personal fitness plan generated by the app’s algorithm.

Gun Media Holdings, Inc. (stylized as Gun.) is an American video game publisher based in Lexington, Kentucky founded on November 9, 2011, by Wesley Adam "Wes" Keltner. The company was founded in 2011 and started operations in 2012. After foundation, Gun Media received in startup fund, both Robert Bowling and Drew Curtis's angel investment, and in annual revenue.

Mike and Brad went to visit "Y Combinator", the influential startup incubator, where they met with Michael Seibel, cofounder of Justin.tv and a partner at YC. Seibel spent much of his time giving Shinoda and co. a crash course in startup investing 101: equity vs. convertible notes, the average size of an angel investment, what he calls the "norms".

They often struggle to maintain their pro-rata investment through subsequent venture capital rounds. Others with more capital to invest fare better but still lack significant leverage. Only the "super angels" can truly leverage their investment and they often lack the time to manage the investment effectively. One solution for angels is to belong to angel investment groups.

In 2015, Ben co-founded a project management company called ProductionNext. ProductionNext is a cloud-based project management system specifically designed for independent film. Ben has served periodically as an adviser and organizer for several angel investment groups targeted at the arts. Previously, Ben served as executive director for Producer Foundry, a community organization and business school for independent film.

The company was launched in 2012 by Serge Lukianov, Dmytro Voloshyn, and Kirill Bigai (current CEO). Back then, Preply was chosen as one of the most promising startup companies in Ukraine following an initial angel investment round of $180,000 from Semyon Dukach, Borya Shakhnovich, Vadim Yasinovsky, Dan Pasko, Torben Majgaard, and Vostok Ventures. The website, preply.com, was launched in November 2012.

The company's CEO and co-founder is Lucien Zeigler, a media consultant and economist. Zeigler has said that Outlit was founded in response to declining revenues for publishers and the prevalence of advertising in news media, as well as the "inefficiency of the subscription business model" for readers. Outlit is backed by an undisclosed angel investment secured in March 2015.

The first international location was opened in Uppsala, Sweden in August 2017. The company offers freelancers, consultants and entrepreneurs access to flexible workspace in a productive environment. Mentoring and educational programming is offered on a daily and weekly basis. Members have access to publicly funded programs through Hera Labs and angel investment capital through events like the Hera Venture Summit.

After their initial seed round in 2008, VOKLE began raising Angel funds. In April 2010, Co-Founder Edward Dekeratry confirmed that VOKLE had secured a small round that allowed the company to pay for basic engineering.Giang Biscan, As Able, April 26, 2010. In August 2010, Tech Coast Angels, Southern California's largest angel investment group, confirmed they had invested in Vokle.

The first iteration of Sunrise launched in 2012 and was a daily email digest of appointments, events and birthdays. Sunrise was launched initially as an iPhone application on February 19, 2013. In June 2013, Sunrise raised $2.2 million in venture funding from Resolute.vc, NextView Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, SV Angel, and other angel investment firms like Loïc Le Meur, Dave Morin, Fabrice Grinda.

Rajkumar has interests in social media, gaming, hard technology, and sports betting and invests heavily in these verticals. His angel investment firm, Fikir Ventures, invests in teams that are "obsessively motivated about what they're working on and mission driven." His public investments include Metric Gaming, Compose Labs, and MSI. The firm partners with entrepreneurs at the earliest stage, often when they are just at the idea stage.

On January 1, 2012, Snyder formed Disruptor Capital, an angel investment company. Headquartered in Alexandria, VA, it invests in and advises startup companies in the technology, media, and public affairs industries. In May, 2012, Snyder was named to Smart CEO Magazine's "Leaders We Admire" list, citing his return "to his roots as a start-up entrepreneur with a passion for disruptive products".Washington DC. SmartCEO.

After doing research on student incentives, the two of them found that students were heavily motivated by food-related discounts. This led them to their current model: Rewarding students with discounted items at local businesses surrounding each campus. The iOS version of app launched at California State University, Chico in September 2014. After an angel investment, the company expanded to an additional eleven schools in spring 2015.

In December 1998, Knowledge Revolution was acquired by MSC Software, a simulation software company based in Newport Beach, California, for $20 million. Baszucki was named vice president and general manager of MSC Software from 2000 – 2002, but he left to establish Baszucki & Associates, an angel investment firm. Baszucki led Baszucki and Associates from 2003 to 2004. While an investor, he provided seed funding to Friendster, a social networking service.

Retrieved on 2013-10-23. His areas of focus at Greylock include consumer and services, enterprise software, consumer Internet, enterprise 2.0, mobile, social gaming, online marketplaces, payments, and social networks. According to David Kirkpatrick's book The Facebook Effect, Hoffman arranged the first meeting between Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel, which led to Thiel's initial $500,000 angel investment in Facebook. Hoffman invested alongside Thiel in Facebook's first financing round.

M.R. (Madhavan) Rangaswami is a software executive, investor, entrepreneur, corporate eco-strategy expert, community builder and philanthropist. Recognized as a software business expert, he participated in the rapid expansion of the Silicon Valley software industry during his tenure as an executive at both large and small software companies. In 1997, he co-founded Sand Hill Group, one of the earliest “angel” investment firms, and in 2007, founded Corporate Eco Forum.

The site's co-founder and current CEO Divya Narendra came up with the idea for SumZero in April 2007, while working for the hedge fund Sowood Capital in Boston. Narendra and college friend Aalap Mahadevia subsequently launched SumZero in March 2008. In June 2012, Winklevoss Capital made an angel investment of $1.05 million into SumZero. SumZero CEO Divya Narendra and Winklevoss twins featured in The Wall Street Journal.

Initial funding came from a variety of sources including Shakil Khan, Barry Silbert, Jimmy Furland, Roger Ver and Trace Mayer. In January 2013, the company announced US $510,000 in angel investment, its first external capital after being internally bootstrapped. The investment coincided with the company relocating their headquarters to Atlanta, Georgia. It was stated at the time that the funding would be used to help advance Bitcoin processing.

Storage Made Easy was set up in 2009 by Ian Osborne and Jim Liddle who bootstrapped the initial operations and later went for an angel investment of $2.5 million. In 2015, it earned 140% growth in revenues with a quarterly projected growth of 30% for 2015-16. It achieved profitability by quarter 4 in 2010. The product roots in synchronization and sharing which was initially built to support Amazon Web Services.

Businesses often need more capital than owners are able to provide. Hence, they source financing from external investors: angel investment, venture capital, as well as with less prevalent crowdfunding, hedge funds, and alternative asset management. While owning equity in a private company may be generally grouped under the term private equity, this term is often used to describe growth, buyout or turnaround investments in traditional sectors and industries.

A business angel is a private investor that invests part of his or her own wealth and time in early-stage innovative companies. It is estimated that angel investment amounts to three times venture capital. Its beginnings can be traced to Frederick Terman, widely credited to be the "Father of Silicon Valley" (together with William Shockley), who invested $500 to help starting up the venture of Bill Hewlett and Fred Packard.

LeWa's team started developing ROMs for Android devices since August 2009, before the LeWa company was established. Soon after LeWa's technology was established in Shanghai at April 2011, it had received 20 million Reminbi angel investment from Green Pine Capital Partners (also the Round A investor of fanfou.com, coship and some other companies) by June 2011. The company released the first official release of LeWa OS in October 2011.

Spokeo was founded in 2006 by four graduates from Stanford University—Mike Daly, Harrison Tang, Ray Chen, and Eric Liang. The original idea of aggregating social media results came from Tang. The four founders developed the idea in early 2006, using Tang's parents’ basement. On November 5, 2006, the site officially launched, after attracting an initial round of angel investment in the "low hundreds of thousands" according to co- founder Ray Chen.

In 2016, Böszörményi-Nagy and his team was appointed to prepare the country's startup strategy, a legislative package to stimulate the local innovation ecosystem by incentives for entrepreneurial education, business incubation and angel investment. Following an extensive restructuring in the Hungarian public administration, Design Terminal made a transition to the private sector as a social enterprise, and expanded its operations to a regional scale while relying on public grants and business revenues.

Nick Gatfield is a British music industry executive, entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder of Twin Music Inc, providing angel investment for music and entrepreneurial talent and is co-founder and/or investor in a number of businesses including interactive video platform, Synchronized. Gatfield was previously chairman & CEO of Sony Music UK and has held President positions at EMI (North America and UK), Island Records UK and Polydor Records/Polygram Music Publishing USA.

Zacconi and Rowland joined with Thomas Hartwig, Sebastian Knutsson, Lars Markgren and Patrik Stymne, all whom had worked previously with Zacconi at the failed dot-com web portal Spray, to create a new company with angel investment provided by Morris, who became the company's chairman. The company was initially based out of Stockholm, Sweden, and started with the development of browser-based video games. The site, Midasplayer.com, was then launched in August of that year.

In 2013 Dubber raised $6M in Angel investment, which allowed for development and release first iterations of Call Recording cloud services. 2015 marked the year where Dubber became public on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) under the code DUB. In May 2015, Dubber passed a series of interoperability tests with Unified Communications, BroadSoft. This combined solution allows users to deploy call recording on top of their BroadSoft network without the need of any additional hardware.

The company closed a seed funding round at the end of May, raising $3.35 million from investors, including an angel investment from Sun Microsystems cofounder Andreas Bechtolsheim. In 2014 the Fyuse team consisted of 13 employees, mostly engineers and designers, recruited from around the globe. In March 2015 the team displayed their app at Katy Perry's premiere for the movie "Prismatic World Tour on Epix" where Perry also took Fyuse for a test run.

In August 2004, Thiel made a $500,000 angel investment in Facebook for a 10.2% stake in the company and joined Facebook's board. This was the first outside investment in Facebook, and valued the company at $4.9 million. As a board member, Thiel was not actively involved in Facebook's operations. He provided help with timing the various rounds of funding and Zuckerberg credited Thiel with helping him time Facebook's 2007 Series D, which closed before the 2008 financial crisis.

Business Angel Network of Southeast Asia (BANSEA) is an angel investment network based in Singapore that provides information to potential investors about newly established businesses. The stated goal of BANSEA is to create business opportunities for angel investors, and aid in the development of profitable business networks. BANSEA's core activities include monthly investor meetings, where startups are invited to pitch to BANSEA members. BANSEA focuses on early-stage companies seeking investment ranging from $100,000 to $1,000,000.

QSpy became QuakeSpy and went on to be bundled with its QuakeWorld update - an unprecedented move by a top tier developer and huge validation for QuakeSpy. With the release of the Quake Engine-based game Hexen II, QuakeSpy added this game to its capabilities and was renamed GameSpy3D. In 1997 Mark Surfas licensed GameSpy 3D from Spy Software, and created GameSpy Industries. In 1999, GameSpy received angel investment funding from entrepreneur David Berkus. The company released MP3Spy.

Since the late 2000s, Noble has acted as an advisor to the Australian government, including for the Chief Scientist of Australia, the Australian Information Commissioner and the Government 2.0 Taskforce. In 2013, Noble founded StartupAUS, following on from his experience with the angel investment group SA Angels (2007-2014). In 2014, he appeared in Episode 1 of That Startup Show. In 2014, Noble was appointed as a director of the board of the South Australian Museum.

Horatio Investments is an angel investment company based in Somerset. They invested their own money in early-stage high growth marketing led businesses based in the UK. Their typical investment size is £500,000 into early-stage high growth businesses run by outstanding entrepreneurs. In September 2014 they stopped investing directly into companies and invested in wave energy technologies to help them reach commercialisation, through the company Wavepower Technologies.Wavepower Technologies research and development activity ceased in 2017.

In December 2014, Livspace raised US$4.6 million from investors Helion Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. In July 2015, it was announced that Gokul Rajaram of Square would be taking on a special advisory role in the startup and had made an angel investment as well. In August 2015, the startup raised another $8 million in its Series A extension funding round from existing investors. In August 2016, Livspace raised US$15 million as part of its Series B funding.

Dietrich was invited to pitch The ArcView Group, one of the first and largest cannabis angel investment groups in the country, co-founded by Steve DeAngelo and Troy Dayton in September 2013. At the event, he met Douglas Leighton, co-founder of Dutchess Capital, who invested the first $50,000 of a $150,000 seed round. Over the course of the fall of 2013 and spring 2014, MassRoots used the funds to launch a beta version of its Android application and scale to 100,000 users.

DeAngelo is also Co-Founder of Steep Hill, Inc., the first commercial cannabis lab in the country, and co-founder of Arcview Group, the first cannabis investment firm. Steep Hill has grown to become a world leader in cannabis science and technology with extensive expertise in lab testing, remote testing, genetics, research and development, and intellectual property licensing. Arcview angel investment network now includes more than 600 accredited investors and has raised over $270 million for 200 cannabis-related companies to date.

While at Google, Sacca began investing in companies as an angel investor, investing his own money in startup companies or receiving equity in exchange for advising. He served as a professional advisor to companies for a variety of matters, including strategy, optimizing user experience, raising money, and selling a company. This included Auctomatic (sold to Live Current Media) and Omnisio (sold to Google/YouTube). His first angel investment was in Photobucket, which was then sold to News Corp in 2007.

A Drink With… Darren Rook, London Distilling CompanyTimes online - Clampdown on freelancer rules and angel investment expert, Nick Taylor.The Envestors London Team TLDC was London's first whisky distillery since the Lea Valley distillery closed in 1903.Lea Valley DistilleryThe Londonist - London's first whisky distillery in 100 years to start production The London Distillery Company was one of 24 distilleries in London also producing gin. January 2020, the company went into administration. The British Honey Company purchased the Dodd’s Gin and Rye brands.

The St Andrews Angels, also known as the University of St Andrews Angel Network, or the University of St Andrews Alumni Angel Network is an angel investment network managed by alumni from the University of St Andrews. The network is led by a group of alumni entrepreneurs, financiers and faculty within the United States and United Kingdom who promote Scottish ventures and facilitate deal flow within its network, as well as provide investment capital, strategic advice and mentoring to early-stage ventures.

Throughout his years as serial entrepreneur and mentor in MENA, Ghandour identified gaps he believed were stalling the growth of the region's entrepreneurship ecosystem, namely opening regional markets, financing and mentorship. Ghandour also called on corporates to be further engaged in supporting entrepreneurship in their markets, and has coined the term ‘Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility’. In 2010, he launched MENA Venture Investments (MVI), an angel investment company, to invest in tech-enabled businesses at the seed stage. MVI invested in companies such as Souq.

Campos is also one of the founders of the Next Act Fund. Next Act Fund is an opportunity for women to be involved in the angel investment community with other like-minded women. As a part of Next Act, women are given a seat at the table where the economic growth of the Pittsburgh region is decided, and at the same time heighten the impact of women-owned /led businesses. Next Act Fund works together to create opportunities and jobs for others.

TiE Angels is an early stage Angel investment group formed in 2010 by Charter Members of TiE SV. There are about 100 investors that invest through TiE Angels. There is no TiE SV fund and individuals invest in their personal capacity. TiE Angels was ranked by CB Insights as one of the Top 20 Angel groups in the nation in August 2014. Most of TiE Angels investments are under $1 million, with a focus on enterprise solutions that leverage the technological expertise of TiE members.

Levie and Smith first secured angel investment for Box from Texas billionaire Mark Cuban after a cold e-mail. In 2007, as the consumer cloud storage marketplace was becoming increasingly crowded, Levie and Smith decided to shift Box from a consumer service to one focused on selling to businesses (cloud storage). Box expanded its operations into Europe in 2012, with the opening of its first office in London, England. As of 2014, Box reported that 40% of Fortune 500 companies are paying Box customers.

Pete Snyder (born August 5, 1972) is an American entrepreneur and marketing executive who is best known as the founder and former chief executive officer of New Media Strategies (NMS), a social media marketing agency that he started in 1999.New Media Strategies Founder & CEO Pete Snyder to Step Down From Executive Duties at End of 2011 – Dec 15, 2011. Meredith.mediaroom.com. Retrieved on 2012-10-09. Snyder stepped down as CEO of NMS in 2011 and founded the angel investment firm Disruptor Capital in 2012.

Clearpath Robotics was founded in 2009 based on a growing demand for environmental monitoring and robotics research equipment. Unlike other robotics startups, they only raised a small amount of angel investment upon founding, and sought to achieve profitability before raising more. In 2012, the Open Source Robotics Foundation was established to ensure that there was continuity in the work being done with ROS, with Clearpath CTO Ryan Gariepy joining the founding board. Not too long after, original ROS creator Willow Garage announced a reduction in formal support.

In 2013, AngelList received a no- action letter from the SEC, allowing the operations of its Syndicates platform. FundersClub also received such a letter in the same period. AngelList Syndicates was noted as one of the most important innovations in the venture capital and angel investment industries, getting momentum with several well-known figures in the tech community creating syndicates, including Jason Calacanis, Scott Banister, Tim Ferriss, Gil Penchina, Scott and Cyan Banister, Fabrice Grinda, Elad Gil and more. In 2017, AngelList had 4,400 investors operating across 165 syndicates.

The National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) is the industry association for angel investors in Canada. Since its founding as National Angel Organization (NAO) in 2002, the NAO has published The Primer for Angel Investment in Canada (2002) and Age of the Angel: Best Practices for Angel Groups and Investors (2007), and A Practical Guide to Angel Investing, 2nd Edition, published in 2017. NAO changed its name from NAO to NACO in 2008. NACO was formed after the second Angel Investor Summit (2002), convened by CHIN UP Fund and chaired by Henry Vehovec.

DeRue is the co-author of a book on leadership development, and has authored or co-authored many articles on leadership and teamwork. He was co-author of a popular blog on leadership for the Washington Post, has written for Harvard Business Review, and published many articles in academic journals such as the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. DeRue is a managing partner of ChiBor Angels, an angel investment firm. He is also a managing partner of Rabun Group, a small private equity firm.

According to literature reviewed by the US Small Business Administration, the number of individuals in the US who made an angel investment between 2001 and 2003 is between 300,000 and 600,000. In the late 1980s, angels started to coalesce into informal groups with the goal of sharing deal flow and due diligence work, and pooling their funds to make larger investments. Angel groups are generally local organizations made up of 10 to 150 accredited investors interested in early-stage investing. In 1996 there were about 10 angel groups in the United States.

After investments in several Chinese funds (including the other two of the founders of New Oriental-Xu Xiaoping and Wang Qiang's Zhenfund), Yu Minhong didn’t feel the joys of investment, so in 2014, he decided to set up an angel investment fund together with Sheng Xitai, an old hand in PE industry. The fund was named Hong Tai Fund (or Angel Plus) and focused on the angel and early-stage projects in media, culture, education, entertainment as well as high-tech and mobile Internet industries. It also had plans to invest in Silicon Valley.

In 1999, DriveCam received a grant from the Transportation Research Board (Administered by the National Academies of Sciences) to test the viability and utility of information captured by the DriveCam Video Event Data Recorder (VEDR). Also in 1999, Gary Rayner met Tom Lafleur at an engineering conference, and Lafleur became the lead investor for an angel investment group that made the initial outside investment in DriveCam. Lafleur joined the company as chief technology officer and ultimately served as a board member where he remained until the company's acquisition in 2016.

Mutlaq established her export-import business at the age of eighteen and then entered in the financial industry at the age of 27 covering the regions of Middle East and North Africa. She is currently managing Jordan based Sigma Investments. She directs Ingot Consultation Bahrain which is a financial services provider since 2015 focusing in the MENA region; and enables trading on global currencies and precious metals, and also facilitates clients on reaching foreign exchange markets. She is involved in angel investment encouraging projects which enhance women's creativity and ideas.

In 1986 Mike and Pat Sullivan co-founded Conductor Software built around a product they originally called QuotePro, which was later renamed Margin Maker. Ultimately, Margin Maker failed, and, with only $15,000 remaining from an angel investment of $100,000, they had to come up with another idea or close down the business. This idea was ACT! Released in 1987, ACT! went on to win over 100 awards globally, including numerous PC Magazine Editor’s Choice awards and is still the predominant contact manager tool, with an estimated 10 million users worldwide.

David Lee (born July 7) is an American angel investor. Lee is best known for his former role at angel investment firm SV Angel, where he was the managing partner for several years. Lee's departure from SV Angel in May 2015 was widely reportedDavid Lee Leaves SV Angel and acrimonious, while investor and SV Angel partner, Ron Conway told fund investors that "Lee had breached his trust."Fortune's reporting on the SV Angel breakup Lee was named on Forbes Magazine's Midas list for the years 2014, and 2015.

A screenshot of the high-definition remake of Karateka, which features an updated art style and Quick time event-styled gameplay. Mechner assembled a small independent team at Liquid Entertainment backed by angel investment, to create the remake; this smaller group allowed Mechner to be more hands-on with the game's development. The remake was designed to stay true to core game, described by Mechner as "a compact, pick-up-and-play game that is fluid, atmospheric and beautiful". Certain cinematic elements, such as being void of dialogue, remain in the remake.

Jeremy Friedman, Ryan Hwang and Tim Trinidad founded Schoology while still undergraduates at Washington University in St. Louis. Originally designed for sharing notes, Schoology was released commercially in August 2009. Schoology secured its first institutional round of venture capital funding of $1.25M from Meakem Becker Venture Capital in June 2010, following an angel investment in 2009 from an unnamed investor. As of October 2010 the service had more than 2,400 schools nationwide in its system and had plans to build out interactive content that teachers can use to support course materials and provide more access to parents.

The primary mission of the WBAA is to raise global awareness of the importance and practice of business angel investment, stimulate the exchange of best practices in angel investing, and enhance the development of cross-border angel investing. It does this by promoting the professionalization of the angel market through the fostering of angel groups and associations; coordinating research produced on the angel market worldwide; standardizing terminology at an international level regarding angel investing; organizing in-person meetings and conferences for international angel investors; and developing online resources for information about, and access to, local, regional and cross-border angel investing resources.

RFPIO’s first round of funding was secured in 2016 through Portland-based investment firm Elevate Capital and from the angel investment group TiE Oregon. In October 2016, RFPIO received $100,000 at the Bend Venture Conference for the company’s performance in the Growth Stage competition. In December 2016, Stephen Marsh, founder of Smarsh, whose company was an early customer of RFPIO, invested $500,000 in the company through his investment vehicle Archivist Capital. In July 2018, the company secured a $25 million funding round from private equity firm K1 Investment Management to accelerate growth and cashed out some of its early investors.

The Band of Angels is first high technology specific angel investment group in the United States. Today the group remains very active with more than 160 members who invest their time and money into high tech startup companies. Band members have founded companies such as Cirrus Logic, Symantec, SunPower, National Semiconductor and Logitech, and have been senior executive officers at top Silicon Valley companies including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Intel, 3Com and Intuit.Band of Angels Website Numerous articles have been written about the Band, appearing in periodicals such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Upside, Red Herring, Der Spiegel, U.S. News & World Report, and Forbes.

The most famous and successful venture capital firms regularly receive hundreds of business plans each month. From among these, it is not unusual for a VC firm to actually fund only 0.25%–0.5%. Active angel investment groups will typically receive dozens of plans monthly, but because of the much smaller number of plans compared to VCs they tend to fund a somewhat higher percentage (0.5%–1.0%). Once a company makes it through the group's screening process, however and is invited to present to the group's full membership, its chances of getting funded rise to about 18%, according to the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Research.

USA TodaySuccess MagazineJacksonville Business Journal ACA is the official US representative member of the World Business Angels Association. Since ACA was formed with a charitable purpose of education and research in the field of angel investment, chairmembers and leaders of ACA are frequently involved in educational programs such as the Power of Angel Investing Seminars produced by ACA's affiliated foundation, the Angel Capital Education Foundation. While individual angel investors and angel group leaders participate in ACA events, membership in the organization itself is only for organized groups of angel investors that meet ACA's requirements,ACA membership requirements and not for individual investors. ACA's website lists angel groups across the nationForbes.

By May 2010, Lough photography success had gained him a fan base of young photographers. One commentator noted in August 2010 that, at Lough's Wilderness Collections gallery in Sausalito, "the jump-out-at-you colors of the nature photography of Rodney Lough Jr. recalled memories of visits to Point Reyes and Yosemite National Park." In August 2011, Lough's The Lough Road company received US$650, 000 in funding from angel investment company Keiretsu Forum to open a San Francisco, California of the Rodney Lough Jr. Wilderness Collection Gallery. Wilderness Collection Gallery San Francisco, located on One Jefferson Street in San Francisco, features Lough's wilderness landscape.

Along with former teammates Ronnie Lott and Joe Montana, Barton was a Managing Partner of Champion Ventures in 1999, raising $40 million in an original round from professional athletes such as Steve Kerr, Barry Bonds, Wayne Gretzky, Peyton Manning, Keyshawn Johnson and Dan Marino. Champion Ventures, later renamed HRJ, was a fund of funds which invested in private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds and managed $2.4 billion at its peak in May 2008. In April 2009, the fund was taken over by Capital Dynamics in a bid to augment its fund of funds platform and gain a foothold in Silicon Valley. In October 2010, he left Capital Dynamics to start the angel investment firm H. Barton Asset Management.

The company has raised more than $9 million in angel investment with prominent investors including Gina Bianchini, Fran Hauser, Susan Lyne, and Lubna Olayan. Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg, is also an investor in Levo and a personal mentor to Ghosn. As part of Levo's “Office Hours” series, Ghosn has interviewed leading businessmen and women, and influencers, including Warren Buffett, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, actor Kevin Spacey, journalist Soledad O’Brien and designer Nanette Lepore. Ghosn has spoken at a number of international conferences, including the 2014 World Economic Forum, Bloomberg's The Next Big Thing Summit, AMEX's CEO Bootcamp, and Cosmo’s Fun Fearless Life conference with Joanna Coles. Since launching Levo, Ghosn has been named to Fast Company’s list of the Most Creative People in Business in 2013.

Alejandro Ponce (born May 3, 1970, Arequipa) is a Peruvian economist, seasoned global investor, and recognized Latin-American serial entrepreneur. He is one of the founders of Nexus Group (founded 1998), the largest Peruvian private equity firm with total commitments of about 1 billion. For 17 years, Alejandro acted as Managing Partner, and was responsible for creating and sourcing new ventures and investment opportunities, as well as strategic monitoring of the portfolio companies. In 2015 Alejandro decided to leave Nexus Group, expanding his investment scope and founding ToN Ventures, an angel investment fund with 25 minority stake investments in innovative technology ventures, mainly based in Israel and the Silicon Valley. In 2016, after attending Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program, Alejandro founded 01Labs and 01Ventures.

Anderson has been described as “among the best-positioned people on either the investment or the operator side to weigh in on the current and future state of the space startup industry”. Anderson founded Space Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests exclusively in space-based technologies, with Tom Ingersoll and launched its first fund of $16 million in 2017. Since 2012, Anderson has served as CEO of Space Angels, an angel investment and venture capital platform focused on early-stage investments in the space economy. Anderson also serves on several boards, including the Satellite Applications Catapult in the United Kingdom, an innovation and technology company, created to foster growth across the economy through the exploitation of space.

The success led to additional funding through two rounds of angel investment, including Matthew Le Merle and members of angel group Keiretsu Forum.Telltale Games: Downloadable games lure exuberant investors San Francisco Business Times, March 12, 2006 The studio created a second season for Sam & Max, and found additional niche intellectual property areas, including Wallace & Gromit and Homestar Runner, to continue the episodic adventure game format. When Darrell Rodriguez became CEO of LucasArts in 2008, he wanted to see the old LucasArts adventure properties flourish, leading to a license for Telltale to create a new game in the Monkey Island series, Tales of Monkey Island. Telltale was also able to expand their release platforms beyond personal computers, with releases of these games on various consoles at the time.

As Chairman of The Gramercy Fund, LLP, an angel investment portfolio of early stage companies, Gegax, along with his son, Trent, serves as an investor, director, and advisor to a variety of businesses. As an author, Tom’s Big Book of Small Business: You Don’t Have to Run Your Business by The Seat of Your Pants (HarperCollins, 2007), has gained endorsements by America’s leading business minds, including Ken Blanchard (The One-Minute Manager), Harvey Mackay (Swim with the Sharks), and author of the foreword, Richard Schulze, Founder and Chairman of Best Buy. The first incarnation of the book, entitled By the Seat of Your Pants, was a best seller, with Sam's Club selling 60,000 copies to its small business clients. His co-author on these books was Phil Bolsta.

Revenue-based financing or royalty-based financing (RBF) is a type of financial capital provided to small or growing businesses in which investors inject capital into a business in return for a fixed percentage of ongoing gross revenues, with payment increases and decreases based on business revenues, typically measured as either daily revenue or monthly revenue. Usually the returns to the investor continue until the initial capital amount, plus a multiple (also known as a cap) is repaid. Generally, RBF investors expect the loan to be repaid within 3 to 5 years of the initial investment. RBF is often described as sitting between a bank loan, typically requiring collateral or significant assets, and angel investment or venture capital, which involve selling an equity portion of the business in exchange for the investment.

The Angel Resource Institute (ARI), formerly Angel Capital Education Foundation (ACEF),"About Us", Angel Resource Institute, 2020 is an American nonprofit organization that carries out research and educational activities related to the field of angel investing. It was created in 2005 by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation as a sister charity to the Angel Capital Association (ACA), a non-profit organization that represents angel investment groups in North America that was previously founded by Kauffman. ARI's four primary educational activities are its "Power of Angel Investing" series of educational seminars; co-hosting the annual "Angel Investing Summit" conferences with ACA; publication of printed and online material related to angel investing; and conducting research surveys of angel investing activity in North America. Among other material on its website is a comprehensive list of links to legitimate angel groups in the US and Canada.

Founded with a seed fund by the University of Rochester and the Trillium Group, Smith has successfully brought in $6.5 million in Angel investment and $2.1 million in total federal grant support for OyaGen. In 2005, the company began preclinical trials on a drug that OyaGen believes will protect the body's natural A3G, which functions as an editing enzyme in mutating HIV DNA during its replication in such a way that the virus can no longer code for itself. In 2008, he edited a book for Wiley and Sons on RNA and DNA Editing that brought together the next generation of scientists working in the field to comment on their work and the future of the field. That same year, Smith, through the University of Rochester Medical Center, received a $100 thousand grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to aid in research for curing infectious diseases, such as HIV.

In November 2016, Onyeka, together with his co-founders Ifeanyi Anazodo, Akindele Philips, Christopher Abiodun, and Temitope Omotolani founded Farmcrowdy Limited, an agricultural digital platform connecting small scale farmers to investors with the goal of boosting the food production in Nigeria. Farmcrowdy, took off very fast, receiving its first angel investment of $60,000 a month after launch and in 2017, got a $1 million seed investment at the Techstars Atlanta Accelerators Programme. Today, the company has grown to a team of 55 individuals who have worked with over 25,000 rural farmers across 16 states in Nigeria including Kano, Niger, Nasarrawa, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Edo, Akwa-Ibom, Lagos, Plateau, Kaduna, Adamawa, Niger, Kwara, Abuja, Sokoto, and Benue. Farmcrowdy is described by the Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo as the company creating the new wealth in Agriculture and was later honoured with the National Productivity Order of Merit by President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari.

Angel Capital Association (ACA) is the official industry alliance of over 100 of the largest angel investor groups in the United States. Since its founding in 2004, it has played a significant role in bringing together the previously separate angel and venture capital industries, in order to make networking, practices, and innovation in the field of investment easier. ACA, which grew out of four Angel Organization Summits Kauffman Foundation convened by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 2002 and 2003, sponsors an annual summit meeting in a different city each year at which the leaders of the major organized angel groups, together with government leaders, academics and venture capitalists, share best practices and build new ideas based on this knowledge.Microsoft Startup Zone USA Today ACA has become the nationally recognized voice of the angel investment community in the US, mirroring the role that the National Venture Capital Association plays for the venture community.

In the summer of 2004, venture capitalist Peter Thiel made a $500,000 angel investment in the social network Facebook for 10.2% of the company and joined Facebook's board. This was the first outside investment in Facebook."Shareholder trading values Facebook at more than $33bn" The Guardian—August 25, 2010: This reference does not confirm Thiel's percentage stake, implied to be 5.2% i.e. 33 divided by 1.7. The 5.2% is also independently asserted in the Facebook section of this Wikipedia article, but without citation. The imputed valuation of Facebook has, also, moved up to, 0bn in an early-2011 transaction with Goldman Sachs (Craig, Susanne and Andrew Ross Sorkin, "Goldman Offering Clients a Chance to Invest in Facebook", The New York Times Dealbook, January 2, 2011, 11:31 pm ET.) A 5.2% share of, 0bn would be worth .58bn. For its part, by March 2010, Forbes had actually reduced its estimate of Thiel's net worth to $1.2bn (#828 on list of world's billionaires), though the higher Facebook valuation makes this even more undervalued. Footnote expanded January 11, 2011.