Silicom Ventures 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, Silicom Ventures and this sector of the private capital market has been formalizing in response to both growing demands and complexity.
Silicom Ventures - Silicom Ventures provides a conduit for technological innovation linking qualified, experienced investors with entrepreneurs from around the globe. Our 165 members include a diverse group of high tech Angel and Venture capital investors specializing in early round financing.
Beyond funding, Silicom Ventures adds value to companies by providing contacts with potential customers, potential partners, help with recruiting and consulting on technical
and business issues. The group invested over $16M in more than 20 companies, among them WebAppoint (acquired by Microsoft), InterVideo (second best IPO in 2003), BindKey Technologies (acquired by DuPont Photomasks) and Sparta Systems acquired by AIG Healthcare Partners, L.P.
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Los Altos CA
CA Angel Networks are as unique as the private investors that make them up. Silicom Ventures 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 CA 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 Silicom Ventures, 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 Silicom Ventures, is consistent when compared to other angel investment groups. Specific organizational and legal structures, however, remain varied. Most groups, including Silicom Ventures (Los Altos CA) develop their own organizational structures and processes independently. For entrepreneurs and other CA 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 Los Altos CA.
Silicom Ventures (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 Silicom Ventures and other groups (CA) can also provide a key source of qualified deal flow for venture firms - CA - as well as provide intermediate capital for companies with financing requirement levels between individual / private investors and institutional venture capital.
