The Angels Forum 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, The Angels Forum and this sector of the private capital market has been formalizing in response to both growing demands and complexity.
The Angels Forum - Invests in companies based in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area. Portfolio companies have come from a wide variety of industries, including consumer products, enterprise software, industrial products, Internet and E-commerce, medical devices and services, networking technologies, pharmaceutical, semiconductors, telecommunications, and wireless. Most start-up companies come to the group prescreened through professional contacts in the banking, investment, and legal fields.
Contact: PO Box 1605
Los Altos CA 94023-1605 650-857-0700
CA Angel Networks are as unique as the private investors that make them up. The Angels Forum 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 The Angels Forum, 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 The Angels Forum, is consistent when compared to other angel investment groups. Specific organizational and legal structures, however, remain varied. Most groups, including The Angels Forum (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.
The Angels Forum (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 The Angels Forum 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.
