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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

Either downside scenario requires angel deals to be funded further. This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists against the VC industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. We’re back in the “feel good angel&# phase.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

Either scenario requires angel deals to be funded further. This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists agains the industry. In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly. So where are we now?

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012. I have a special relationship with Etsy, because I was at Union Square Ventures, the VC firm that backed the company, back in 2006. via Brownstoner. Drop me a line at charlie@brooklynbridgeventures.com.

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This fintech-focused VC firm just closed a $75 million debut fund; backers “came out of the woodwork”

TechCrunch

Mohnot sold a company, FeeFinders, to Groupon 2012]. I’ve invested in 90 companies as an angel investor and I think we’ve probably deployed more than $40 million between the two of us over the last five years leading up to BTV, including SPVs on top of angel investments. And all we do is fintech.

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The Venture Capital Diversity Gap and Why It Matters

StartupNation

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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Foreign investors have a bigger role to play in growing Latin America’s startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

Most Latin American companies reaching unicorn status and going public now were started around 2012. The amount of VC capital being funneled into Latin American startups has surged since 2017, with angel investment close behind. However, much of this investment comes from local and regional investors.