Angels With Attitude 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, Angels With Attitude and this sector of the private capital market has been formalizing in response to both growing demands and complexity.
Angels With Attitude - Angels With Attitude has a committed pool of capital that they call an "active angel fund." They invest in geographic areas where they have members. That includes primarily the West Coast from Vancouver, BC, to San Diego and the East Coast from Boston to Washington, DC. Angels with Attitude invests in clean and renewable energy and conservation, environmental technology, clean and sustainable transportation, healthy and organic foods and natural products, and education -- all things that contribute to sustainability.
Contact: 6541 36th Ave SW
Seattle WA 98126 206-932-3850
WA Angel Networks are as unique as the private investors that make them up. Angels With Attitude 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 WA 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 Angels With Attitude, the number of organized angel groups / networks has grown in response to several factors:
- A desire to attract better deals and generate higher returns than angels acting alone
- A large increase in the number of self-made, high net worth individuals who want to be more involved in their alternative asset management.
As a result, angel investment screening by Angels With Attitude, is consistent when compared to other angel investment groups. Specific organizational and legal structures, however, remain varied. Most groups, including Angels With Attitude (Seattle WA) develop their own organizational structures and processes independently. For entrepreneurs and other WA 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 Seattle WA.
Angels With Attitude (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 Angels With Attitude and other groups (WA) can also provide a key source of qualified deal flow for venture firms - WA - as well as provide intermediate capital for companies with financing requirement levels between individual / private investors and institutional venture capital.
