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Why I Angel Invest

Angel Capital Association

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019.

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The New Age of Angel Investing: Leveraging Community for Sourcing, Portfolio Development, and Investment Success

Angel Capital Association

Venture Capital (VC) funding has declined across the board due to macroeconomic factors, with 2023 marking the lowest level of venture investment activity since 2019. Angel investors have the opportunity to capitalize on this situation by leveraging the illiquidity of traditional larger venture funds.

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One of Nigeria’s high profile angel investors is launching a fund for African startups

TechCrunch

Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. ” Early-stage investing needs more work.

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Mr Eazi, Black Coffee and Ajebutter22: The African music artists backing startups

TechCrunch

While Mr Eazi learned the ropes of starting a company and scaling products during his time at Phonetrader, he also got to understand investment dynamics from Chika Nwobi, the founder of L5Lab and current chief executive of Decagon , an engineering talent recruitment platform, after attending several investor meetings. .

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

Making angel investments, raising small seed funds. We know that relationships with these creators is of tantamount importance — look at how influential an accelerator like Y Combinator is on its batch members, not just during the batch but years after. You wait the longest for liquidity. It is where most people start out.

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The Venture Capital Diversity Gap and Why It Matters

StartupNation

In providing and unlocking funding opportunities for these demographics, I’ve invested in diverse talent in order to better help propel women and minority entrepreneurs to develop their innovations to help underserved communities and foster long-term social and economic success.

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October's Foundation Volunteer of the Month: Steve Baggott

Angel Capital Association

He is also deeply involved with the Angel Capital Association, where he has served on the Marketing & Membership and Education Committees. As part of this, he is a trainer for the Ann & Bill Payne’s ACA Angel University, including the Fundamentals of Angel Investing and Risks courses.