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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 850 accredited investor members throughout twenty one chapters on three continents. New England Investment Network. This is a series of templated websites for matching angel investors seeking investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking capital.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

Investor profiles on the platform are created by the investors themselves, and tell you exactly who the group’s leaders are, and what they are looking for. There’s no use banging your head against a VC’s door with a social network venture if they only invest in biotech companies.

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Where To Find The Most Angels To Fund Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. New England Investment Network. Angel Capital Association (ACA). Keiretsu Forum. Marty Zwilling.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. It’s a cliche that one of the most important benefits of attending an elite university is the network.

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Start Here if You are Looking for Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed. New England Investment Network. Angel Capital Association (ACA). Keiretsu Forum. Marty Zwilling.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . A major angel group uses Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G.

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What are some ways you can keep track of startups you are evaluating/diligencing/investing in?

Gust

At the moment, Gust for individual angels is only available to Accredited Investors who either (a) belong to an official angel group, venture fund or other organization that provides verification of their investor status, or (b) have already invested in (or been invited by) a startup using Gust for its investor relations communications.