Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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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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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

How they managed to rally other ecosystem stakeholders into supporting these efforts. Alexis Ehrhardt, President & CEO at Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce, explains “For two years, Danville Regional Foundation provided a fellow to support the development of the ecosystem. Eva talks about the early days.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 2, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10/01/2023 10/01/2023 - The Angel Capital Association (ACA), the world’s largest association of angel investors, has announced that Columbus, Ohio will host its 2024 Summit of Angel Investing. For more information, visit www.rev1ventures.com.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 12, 2023

We all know that the success in angel investing involves many factors. We continue to understand this as we develop more analysis to support this belief. Examples of these factors include valuations, due diligence, building a portfolio of companies, business sectors, angel engagement and others. versus a 1.3x versus a 1.3x

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Angel Capital Association is moving into a confident, secure future, because of the successes we’ve had and the way we’ve navigated the last two years. ACA’s angel groups made more investments in more companies despite the pandemic –continuing to risk personal capital to jumpstart businesses and ignite economies.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This is the time of year when ACA reaches out to our angel community seeking nominations for both the Angel Capital Association’s FY 2025 Board of Directors and committee volunteers to help ACA continue to grow and support our work on angel investing.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

We have helped many portfolio companies referred by angel investors and groups. By the way, one of our favorite products provides personal D&O coverage for individual angel investors that can follow them for any board they sit on. Making a difference for every member, every group…and the entrepreneurs they support.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Incredible Organizational Change, Growth and Advocacy: a Look at the ACA Success and Goals For 2024 Despite the volatility brought about by the pandemic, economic uncertainty, market fluctuation, bank failures and a myriad of other difficulties, the ACA has powered through to continue to be the voice for the art and science of angel investing.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

Angela sits on the boards of the Angel Capital Association, Crowd Supply and TIE Oregon. Event Vice Chair Marcia Dawood, Mindshift Capital As a passionate board member of ACA and a venture partner within Mindshift Capital, Marcia evaluates and mentors startup companies with a clear emphasis on women-led businesses.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 6, 2023

For Immediate Release 2023 Angel Funders Report Released Overland Park, KS (December 6, 2023) – The Angel Capital Association (ACA) has released the Angel Funders Report for 2023. It’s supported in large part by the Angel Investor Foundation. Visit us online at angelcapitalassociation.org.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As such, Neil provides both guidance and counsel as well as direct support to startups and entrepreneurs, knowing this combination is a more natural and dynamic approach to empowering the entrepreneurial community. Neil Bagchi, founder of Bagchi Law, PLLC, is a leader in this entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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. Since launching publicly in 2022, the Angel Investor Foundation (AIF) has raised over $1.4M towards the set $2.3M

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

As friends, they quickly sensed the potential for partnership, and in 2010 joined forces and merged their groups to build what is now a nationally-recognized angel network, Launchpad Venture Group. In 2018, they granted the Angel Capital Association a no-fee license to their entire library of training materials to help found ACA University.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

Venture funding fled to safety, often to less capital-intensive stages, deals less sensitive to quarterly fluctuations, notably to early stage and away from Series B and later deals supporting existing companies. Data from the recently published 2023 Angel Capital Association Angel Funders Report can provide answers to these questions.

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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

JUNE 3, 2024

We tend to only do it where we feel we can anchor the round with enough support to be a good lead. Diligence and leading rounds are not exactly what is meant by angel “human capital.” The pathway we found was to focus on board service. That was interesting data, but did not really address our central question.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 17, 2023

Left to right: Representative Richard Neal , ACA Board Member, Managing Director and Found of North Coast Ventures Clay Rankin , ACA CEO Pat Gouhin , Rich Palmer , Managing Director, Launchpad Venture Group. ACA represents our members, but we invite investors to lend their efforts - a combined voice matters.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

Each year, the Luis Villalobos Award recognizes outstanding ingenuity, creativity and innovation among startups backed by Angel Capital Association members. We look forward to supporting Onboard Dynamics’ ongoing efforts to lower fuel costs and carbon emissions. “In RNG is an ultra-clean and ultra low-carbon gas alternative.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 8, 2024

In May, Kwame will join the ACA Summit, three days of quality content, interactive discussions and vibrant networking to elevate your angel investing experience. Kwame is an honors graduate of Stanford University.

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 29, 2020

This article originally published on the Center for American Entrepreneurship Ideas Blog My new book with CAE Advisory Board member Brad Feld published yesterday. Here are five suggestions for policymakers in Washington to consider to better support high potential entrepreneurship in communities throughout the country.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

We need angels. Angels are nimble, identifying and supporting entrepreneurs with desperately needed new technologies and innovations. Angels empower growth and solutions, right here, right now – we can exponentially grow economies at a local and regional level. More than ever, we need innovation. We need ingenuity.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

Concurrently, Dr. Ramanathan holds the role of co-founder and Chairman of the Board at Lokyata Inc. In May, Dr. Ramanathan will join the ACA Summit of Angel Investing , three days of quality content, interactive discussions and vibrant networking to elevate your angel investing experience.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 1, 2020

Unlike VCs, who have a fund to invest and collect a management fee for investing their fund, Angel Investors invest their own money and are under no pressure to invest in any company or at any time. Our decisions to support a startup are totally our own. Here are my rules for Angels during this downturn: Stay in the Game.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 28, 2023

Additionally, new analysis from the Progressive Policy Institute found the iOS app economy now supports more than 4.8 Author: John Harbison , Chairman Emeritus of Tech Coast Angels and ACA Board Member. And beyond Apple’s $385 billion in annual revenue, the Apple App Store ecosystem facilitated $1.1 million jobs across the U.S.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 23, 2023

Joining the ACA Chair and CEO were past and present leadership of RTP Capital Associates, The Launch Place and First Flight Venture Center. The team spoke about some of the most important pieces of policy, both legislative and regulatory, that are critical to seed-stage investors and the entrepreneurs they support.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2021

For example: at SCORE, our vision is that every person has the support they need to thrive as a small business owner. A SCORE Mentor Can Help: Whether your business is well established or just starting up, clearly defined mission and vision statements will help your company reach its goals, gain support, and thrive.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Greater governance role for limited partner Boards of Advisors. On the one hand, there will be more investors to write follow-on checks for our deals; on the other hand, top-tier VCs are launching $400M – $500M seed funds accompanied by larger value-added portfolio support staff, providing more deal competition.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

This complexity means RFC investments are probably best made by angels who can support some professional staff to maintain the records. This means a diligence strategy focused on the downside rather than the upside, which is different from traditional angel investing.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 21, 2020

Bulk Up IT Support - Even the employees of tech companies have a wide range of tech savviness. Make sure that support is a call or email away during extended work hours, preferably through the use of tools that allow the support personnel to remotely view the user desktop. Dror can be reached at dror.futter@rimonlaw.com.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Young company awarded prestigious Luis Villalobos Award, Life Sciences category, from Angel Capital Association “Where words fail, music speaks.” The company is now advancing its hardware and software solution through the FDA approval process. “As

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 17, 2024

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. Founders are now prioritizing investors who bring not only capital but also specific expertise and valuable networks.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Back to top The History of the ACA's Public Policy Efforts The Angel Capital Association was a nascent organization in 2009-2010 when Congress developed the bipartisan Dodd-Frank Act in response to the fallout of the great recession. This letter emphasized how important patents are to startup companies.

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