Local Fund 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, Local Fund and this sector of the private capital market has been formalizing in response to both growing demands and complexity.
Local Fund - LocalFund provides an Internet-based platform for local entrepreneur-investor networks.
Our Mission
LocalFund's mission is to provide private and public organizations with innovative solutions for matching local entrepreneurs with private "angel" investors.
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Angel Networks are as unique as the private investors that make them up. Local Fund 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 Local Fund, 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 Local Fund, is consistent when compared to other angel investment groups. Specific organizational and legal structures, however, remain varied. Most groups, including Local Fund ( ) 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 .
Local Fund (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 Local Fund 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.
