Gathering of Angels 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, Gathering of Angels and this sector of the private capital market has been formalizing in response to both growing demands and complexity.
Gathering of Angels - Established in October 1996. A monthly meeting of private, high-net-worth investors that provide seed-level financing to start-up and early-stage firms. Since October 1996, the group has had more than 130 entrepreneurial companies present in Santa Fe alone, in front of a group that averages 30 to 50 per evening. Twenty-nine companies have received some level of funding, two firms have done up-mergers into a public shell, and three have received venture-capital funding.
Contact: 4 Hawthorne Circle
Santa Fe NM 87506 505-982-3050
NM Angel Networks are as unique as the private investors that make them up. Gathering of Angels 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 NM 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 Gathering of Angels, 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
- Social camaraderie among investors.
As a result, angel investment screening by Gathering of Angels, is consistent when compared to other angel investment groups. Specific organizational and legal structures, however, remain varied. Most groups, including Gathering of Angels (Santa Fe NM) develop their own organizational structures and processes independently. For entrepreneurs and other NM 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 Santa Fe NM.
Gathering of Angels (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 Gathering of Angels and other groups (NM) can also provide a key source of qualified deal flow for venture firms - NM - as well as provide intermediate capital for companies with financing requirement levels between individual / private investors and institutional venture capital.
