AngelDeals Angel Investor Network
Angel investing has long been an important source of financial support and mentoring for new and growing businesses bridging the gap between individual (friends and family) and institutional venture capital rounds of financing. Over the past several years, AngelDeals and this sector of the private capital market has been formalizing in response to both growing demands and complexity.
AngelDeals - AngelDeals.com is an outgrowth of the Venture-Preneurs TM Network, which served the northeastern USA business community by providing face-to-face networking meetings in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded by Dr. Michael Gordon in 1994, the Venture-Preneurs Network had four missions:
To assist in the funding of emerging ventures.
To present pre-screened deals to capital providers.
To educate entrepreneurs on the investor mentality.
To provide a vigorous meeting forum for all business professionals.
Today, the Venture-Preneurs Network has evolved into AngelDeals.com, a virtual global network for the business community of Entrepreneurs seeking funding and growth, Investors seeking deal flow, Business Professionals seeking visibility and Job Seekers / Employers.
This unique virtual network serves as a learning environment, a connection engine and a meeting place wherein our members can post free Listings to find the right "door openers".
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Angel Networks are as unique as the private investors that make them up. AngelDeals is a group of accredited investors (sophisticated investors) who get together to review companies for potential investment. The investments can be made by accredited individuals belonging to the network or by the network itself as a limited partnership.
Some angel networks charge a fee to the entrepreneur for the business plan to be reviewed, or for an in-person presentation to be made to the "angels" group and other angel networks don't.
Learn about as many angel networks / groups in your area as possible.
Like AngelDeals, the number of organized angel groups / networks has grown in response to several factors:
- A widening “capital gap” between individual and institutional venture capital investors that has created a need and an opportunity for pooled investments
- The legal and economic complexity of these investments.
As a result, angel investment screening by AngelDeals, is consistent when compared to other angel investment groups. Specific organizational and legal structures, however, remain varied. Most groups, including AngelDeals ( ) develop their own organizational structures and processes independently. For entrepreneurs and other angel investors, the net results of this change are mostly positive. Although the models of business angel groups continue to evolve, these groups are generally better financed than ad hoc groups of individual / private investors in .
AngelDeals (Angel Investment Network) provides an extended network that benefits both funded companies and private co-investors / other angels by providing greater due diligence, operational support and domain expertise. Business angel groups, such as AngelDeals and other groups () can also provide a key source of qualified deal flow for venture firms - - as well as provide intermediate capital for companies with financing requirement levels between individual / private investors and institutional venture capital.
