Walnut Venture Associates 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, Walnut Venture Associates and this sector of the private capital market has been formalizing in response to both growing demands and complexity.

Walnut Venture Associates - Walnut Venture Associates is a Boston-based group that focuses on information-technology companies. Group members have been the founders of 20 companies and the CEOs of more than 20 companies, have invested in more than 225 private companies, and have been members of the boards of directors of more than 125 companies.
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Angel Networks are as unique as the private investors that make them up. Walnut Venture Associates 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 Walnut Venture Associates, 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 volume of deal flow.



As a result, angel investment screening by Walnut Venture Associates, is consistent when compared to other angel investment groups. Specific organizational and legal structures, however, remain varied. Most groups, including Walnut Venture Associates ( ) 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 . Walnut Venture Associates (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 Walnut Venture Associates 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.