Angel Insights Blog
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Look at the Amazing Things ACA Members are Doing
By: Marianne Hudson, ACA Executive Director
The Angel Capital Association has some wonderful member angels and organizations and I’m glad so many of them actively share their knowledge and deals with other ACA members. If you haven’t taken a tour of media coverage of ACA members this year, it is worth your time. About 60 media stories about ACA members were published in the first ten weeks of 2017, and here are a few of my favorites:
Exits
- Cowtown Angels score big with $465 million sale of Encore Vision
- Portland’s Little Bird sold to Sprinklr (Oregon Angel Fund)
Investments in Interesting Companies
- ‘Robots for restaurants’ startup Chowbotics raises $5 million from Techstars Ventures, Foundry Group, others (Central Texas Angel Network)
- For the Blind, an Actual-Reality Headset (Boston Harbor Angels)
- Mission Bio Receives Investment from Life Science Angels
Features and Awards
- AngelList Founder Naval Ravikant Recognized as Angel Investor of the Year
- A New Angel Investing Platform Connects Deep Technology And Science Startups With Capital (Propel(x))
- Angel investor has built up portfolio by investing in start-ups (Mike Volker)
- Geek of the Week: Susan Preston on what makes a great angel investor and the future of clean tech (Seattle Angel Fund and Element 8)
Record Years
- 757 Angels soaring as second anniversary approaches
- Angel network pumped $4 million into startups across the Southeast in 2016 (Matt Dunbar)
- Element 8 angel group sets record with $6.1M in cleantech investments for 2016
- Mid-America Angels invested $3.6M in record-breaking 2016
Economic Impact – and in New Places
- Tech Coast Angels ACE Fund II Unlocks Investment Opportunities in Flyover States
- Angel Investing Club Spurs Economic Development In Colorado (Rockies Venture Club)
In these and other member stories are gems of successful angel investing – with financial results, but also with a focus on supporting the kinds of companies that will make a real difference for our world. Clearly innovation and growing jobs and ecosystems are important for many ACA members. Claire England’s tweet about a follow-on investment in Chowbotics says it all:
Talk with these angels and organizations to help build your angel investing.
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