Sponsoring ACA

The Angel Capital Association offers excellent opportunities to build your firms relationship with many of the top angel groups in North America and also to connect with high potential entrepreneurs.

Since 2005 ACA has been the trade association of leading angel investment groups in North America - providing professional development, best practices, networking and collaboration opportunities for angel investors who belong to member angel groups. The organization also serves as the public policy voice of the angel community.

With a membership including the leading angel groups from the United States and Canada, ACA offers the opportunity for firms that serve investors and innovative entrepreneurs to strengthen their relationship with the community. In 2009, we discovered that a significant number of our Web site users were entrepreneurs more than 10,000 and that some were asking for recommendations on legal, accounting and other professional experts.

ACA offers a wide range of sponsorship opportunities, from annual partnerships that connect firms throughout the year to ACA member organizations to specific events to Web site profiles to publications and more.

To learn more about these opportunities, please contact Marianne Hudson at 913-894-4700 or via email.

Information about the Angel Capital Association and ACA Member Groups

ACA's mission is to support the growth, financial stability, and investment success of member angel groups. ACA is the trade association of leading angel investment groups in North America. ACA's mission is accomplished by providing professional development, best practices, networking and collaboration opportunities for angel investors who belong to member angel groups. The organization also serves as the public policy voice of the angel community and is focused on advancing policies at the state and federal level that support and promote angel investing.

As of January, 2010, ACA has 160 member angel groups and 20 affiliate organizations throughout North America. These angel groups:

• Fund approximately 800 new companies per year that will need professional services, and have an on-going portfolio of more than 5,000 entrepreneurial companies throughout the U.S. and Canada.
• Have as their members just over 7,000 high-net-worth individuals, all of whom are high-net-worth individuals and have their own professional and personal needs and requirements. Specifically, they are accredited investors under SEC guidelines, having a net worth of at least $1 million, an annual income of at least $200,000, or both. Most have a net worth many times that minimum requirement.
• These individuals also serve on thousands of other public and private boards, including audit committees (for example, one group in the northeast, CommonAngels, has 67 members who currently serve on the board of directors of over 160 companies, including 19 public, 77 private and 65 non-profit companies; in the past, they have served on over 400 boards, including 58 public, 217 private and 134 non-profit).
• ACA member groups are based in 44 American states and 6 Canadian provinces.