Angel Capital Association

JULY 10, 2023

Hans Severiens winners Tony Shipley, left, of Queen City Angels and Dan Rosen , right, of the Aliance of Angels. The Hans Severiens Award recognizes personal impact on the advancement of angel investing globally and highlights the special relationship that angels and entrepreneurs build to innovate, create jobs, and drive the economy.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2024

This historical or look back perspective is based on a survey conducted by the Angel Capital Association in Q1 and Q2 of 2021 compared to the same survey conduct two years later in 2023. As a result, we are able to understand and contrast the sentiments of angel groups in 2023 compared to 2021.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 17, 2024

The landscape of early-stage startup investment has undergone significant transformation in recent years. 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. This is an issue that warrants further discussion.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

Angels often make their first real impact post-investment by helping a portfolio company develop a “real” Board, by insisting on documented processes, key metrics and measures and a more rigorous approach to corporate oversight and accountability. This is the third consecutive yearly decline in angel Directorships.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

The sharp reversal in 2022 from bubble to sober economics is well illustrated by Pitchbook’s index(1) of how founder or investor friendly the investing climate is. By mid-2022 the index had quickly reversed from a founder to investor friendly investing climate. In another reversal from 2021, capital demand was 1.5x

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For Immediate Release Alexandria, VA (October 4, 2023) – The Angel Capital Association (ACA) has received an $123k award from the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIPs) designed to catalyze private investment in the Deep Tech Sector. Margaret Bacheler, Ed.d.,

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 28, 2023

In terms of profit generation, 56% of profits in the top 100 companies today were from companies founded after the dawn of the era of venture capital and angel investing in the 1970s, and losing companies from any one decade would have wiped out between 6% and 34% of profit in the economy.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 27, 2024

In that year 18% of valuations of TCA funded companies were in the $1-3 million range, but by 2023 this dropped to only 3%. Also in 2016, valuations in the $3-6 million range comprised 42% of funding, yet by 2023 that has dropped to 10%.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

By Tony Shipley, Seed the Future Campaign Chair, and Katelynne Staehnke, Director of Development, on behalf of the Angel Investor Foundation. We sincerely appreciate the many contributions our Angel Capital Association (ACA) members, Angel Groups and other donors have made and continue to make to the Seed the Future (STF) Campaign.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

We all know that investing in early-stage companies is a very risky proposition, and the majority of investments will either fail completely or fail to return the capital invested. Not withstanding the high overall failure rate, a sufficiently diversified portfolio of early-stage investments can yield attractive returns.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

February 8, 2023 - Sophistication or Discrimination? How the Accredited Investor Definition Unfairly Limits Investment Access for the Non-wealthy and the Need for Reform * WATCH THE HEARING NOW, BEGINNING AT MIN 10 * Early this morning, the Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled “Sophistication or Discrimination?

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 3, 2023

Angel Capital Association (ACA) CEO Pat Gouhin and North Coast Ventures Founder and ACA member Clay Rankin were in Washington D.C. from March 27 to March 29, 2023.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 3, 2024

But the importance of patents goes beyond the likelihood of an exit. While it is certainly possible to achieve an attractive exit without patents, the odds of doing so are less.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer Looking back over the past few years of uncertainty and effort, The Angel Capital Association has made it through stronger than ever because of the work of our dedicated members, volunteers and professional staff. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this article, we’ll review the key M&A activity trends from 2023 and examine the economic factors , geopolitical influences, and industry developments that could shape the M&A landscape in 2024. What Caused a Slowdown in M&A Activity in 2023? Here’s a snapshot of those deals that shaped the 2023 M&A landscape: 1.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 23, 2023

For Immediate Release (1/23/2023) The Angel Capital Association (ACA), the world’s leading professional association for angel investors and startup entrepreneurs, has announced a partnership with Series Code, a leading technology support company for startup entrepreneurs.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 31, 2023

This is Part I of a two-part series on Revenue-Financed Capital (RFC) for angels. Part II will address the question of whether angels should include RFC in their investment portfolio. ACA member Sage Growth Capital hosted a meet-up of attendees who were interested in RFC at the recent ACA Summit in Las Vegas.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This raises a serious concern about how many currently active Angel Investors would no longer qualify to make investments in early-stage companies, and what that will do to stifle innovation and slow our economy. That diversity is critical to attracting and investing in more diverse founders. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Early-stage investments inherently have a higher risk of failing, but these risks also come with potentially higher rewards — getting in at the ground floor of a startup’s journey gives VCs more negotiation clout. But we tend to invest where there’s very little in the way of traction.”

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Key Takeaways: On September 29, 2023, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Department of Defense announced a major policy initiative aimed to incentive private capital investment in U.S. On September 29, 2023, the U.S. By Jennifer V. Audeh , Partner, and Robert G. Sawyer , Partner, Foley Hoag.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A shift from late-stage pre-IPO investing to renewed emphasis on early stage. From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? But this will be especially hard to deal with for early-stage investors, given that we expect most of our investments to fail to return capital.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 23, 2023

January 20, 2023 - ACA Leadership met with Commissioner Hester Peirce of the SEC to talk about the accredited investor definition, QSBS, and what success looks like in a thriving startup ecosystem. ACA believes in the impact and benefits of angel investing to entrepreneurs, job growth and the economy.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 3, 2024

defining the termsheet, the capital staging strategy, the post money) and establishing the approach to proper governance. To see what our data told us, we looked at 105 portfolio companies that had been with us for at least 18 months from our initial investment, including both active companies and exited portfolio companies.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 25, 2023

We all know that investing in startup companies is inherently risky. Over half of early-stage investments typically fail to return any capital, with the top 10% usually returning 85-90% of all the cash proceeds. Two of ACA’s largest angel groups have kept track of IRR (internal rate of return) for all outcomes.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By Mark Heine and Gary Kocher – K&L Gates LLP On August 23, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC ”) adopted a number of new rules (the “ New Rules ”) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “ Advisers Act ”).

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 25, 2023

How is it possible that with Q2 of 2023 being the slowest quarter for funding in AngelLists history since they started recordkeeping in 2013, are people still interested in even playing the game? These assets are often owned by employees who were issued equity, VC funds that invested when a company was private, shareholder stakes, etc.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sage launched its first fund in 2019 and has actively evangelized for the RFC model of investment in many gatherings across the country since then. We have witnessed a steady increase in individuals and angel groups who are interested, but the appetite seems to have finally taken hold. Many investments will return less than invested.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

QSBS is treated favorably for capital gains purposes if both the investor and the company meet certain requirements. Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue code allows individuals to invest in small businesses. Section 1202 allows capital gains from QSBSs to be excluded from federal taxes. Darin LaHood (R-IL) did not vote.

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