C-Cap 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, C-Cap and this sector of the private capital market has been formalizing in response to both growing demands and complexity.
C-Cap - C-Cap is a resource hub designed to link entrepreneurs with angel investors and the other resources they need to create successful growth companies. Our mission is to increase the number of growth companies that receive seed capital funding from Cincinnati area angels.
C-Cap is backed by an existing group of active angels, and by the resources of the Circuit and of Ohio's IT Alliance, Ohio's state-wide information technology association. Several prominent resource providers that assist startup companies, as well as Cincinnati's largest bank, and the region's two largest venture capital firms are generously sponsoring C-Cap.
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OH Angel Networks are as unique as the private investors that make them up. C-Cap 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 OH 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 C-Cap, 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
- Social camaraderie among investors.
As a result, angel investment screening by C-Cap, is consistent when compared to other angel investment groups. Specific organizational and legal structures, however, remain varied. Most groups, including C-Cap (Cincinnati OH) develop their own organizational structures and processes independently. For entrepreneurs and other OH 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 Cincinnati OH.
C-Cap (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 C-Cap and other groups (OH) can also provide a key source of qualified deal flow for venture firms - OH - as well as provide intermediate capital for companies with financing requirement levels between individual / private investors and institutional venture capital.
