Kalamazoo 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, Kalamazoo Angels and this sector of the private capital market has been formalizing in response to both growing demands and complexity.
Kalamazoo Angels - Southwest Michigan First is a privately funded, 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation formed by business and higher education leaders to promote economic development in Kalamazoo and the southwest Michigan region. Our mission is to retain, expand and attract businesses in the region.
We provide a wide range of business development services for any corporate level from entrepreneurs to established companies. Our many resources include access to Venture Capital and angel investors, a business incubator/accelerator - the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center, big pharma and higher education partnerships, and the experience and talent to bring it all together.
Through our collaborations with local government and education officials, we are working to build better companies and a better community.
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MI Angel Networks are as unique as the private investors that make them up. Kalamazoo 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 MI 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 Kalamazoo Angels, the number of organized angel groups / networks has grown in response to several factors:
- The growth of venture capital funds and the attraction of venture investing
- The legal and economic complexity of these investments.
As a result, angel investment screening by Kalamazoo Angels, is consistent when compared to other angel investment groups. Specific organizational and legal structures, however, remain varied. Most groups, including Kalamazoo Angels (Kalamazoo MI) develop their own organizational structures and processes independently. For entrepreneurs and other MI 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 Kalamazoo MI.
Kalamazoo 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 Kalamazoo Angels and other groups (MI) can also provide a key source of qualified deal flow for venture firms - MI - as well as provide intermediate capital for companies with financing requirement levels between individual / private investors and institutional venture capital.
