River Valley Investors 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, River Valley Investors and this sector of the private capital market has been formalizing in response to both growing demands and complexity.
River Valley Investors - River Valley Investors is a Western Massachusetts-based group of individual investors seeking investment opportunities in both early stage companies with significant growth potential as well as later stage companies.
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Springfield MA
MA Angel Networks are as unique as the private investors that make them up. River Valley Investors 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 MA 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 River Valley Investors, 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
- The legal and economic complexity of these investments.
As a result, angel investment screening by River Valley Investors, is consistent when compared to other angel investment groups. Specific organizational and legal structures, however, remain varied. Most groups, including River Valley Investors (Springfield MA) develop their own organizational structures and processes independently. For entrepreneurs and other MA 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 Springfield MA.
River Valley Investors (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 River Valley Investors and other groups (MA) can also provide a key source of qualified deal flow for venture firms - MA - as well as provide intermediate capital for companies with financing requirement levels between individual / private investors and institutional venture capital.
