ACA is pleased to work with sponsors who add value and thought leadership to the angel investment field. They include:  Foley Hoag, LLP provides comprehensive legal services to clients throughout the United States and around the world. We serve a wide range of industries including technology, life sciences, healthcare, energy and renewables, venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds. With 225 lawyers located in Boston, Washington DC, and the Emerging Enterprise Center in Waltham MA, we provide corporate, private equity, securities, intellectual property, employment and real
estate services to numerous leading angel organizations. Visit us at www.foleyhoag.com.
 Silicon Valley Bank provides a comprehensive suite of financing solutions, treasury management, corporate investment and international banking services to its clients worldwide. Through its focus on specialized markets and extensive knowledge of the people and business issues driving them, Silicon Valley Bank provides a level of service and partnership that measurably impacts its clients' success. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., the company serves clients around the world through 26 U.S. offices and international operations in China, India, Israel and the United Kingdom. Silicon Valley Bank is a member of global financial services firm SVB Financial Group (Nasdaq: SIVB), with SVB Analytics, SVB Capital, SVB Global and SVB Private Client Services. More information on the company can be found at www.svb.com.  AngelAssure is a new program of insurance for angel investors and their portfolio companies. Mason & Mason serves as insurance broker to many of world's most innovative companies, helping them efficiently manage complicated and often high stakes risks, complete strategic transactions, and address crucial regulatory matters. Our technology and life science industry practices have been long regarded as among the best in the insurance industry, with a record of
supporting clients from start-up to billion-dollar multinationals. Our venture capital practice serves many of the nation's leading VC firms and offers a suite of exclusive insurance products and services recognized by industry associations as being among the finest available. www.masoninsure.com.
The Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Texas at Austin is responsible for the efficient transfer of university discoveries to the marketplace for the benefit of society. To support the university's mission, OTC:
The Texas A&M University System's Office of Technology Commercialization is industry's connection to the technologies developed by A&M System Members, providing the link between research programs where new discoveries and developments are being made and the industry partners that will take those discoveries forward. The OTC brings the depth and breadth of the A&M System Member's $772+ million in annual research expenditures, robust
multi-disciplinary intellectual capital, and state-of-the-art labs and facilities together with industry partners, capital funding relationships and business leadership. These activities are managed currently under four divisions of the OTC: Business Development, Industry Alliances, Licensing & Intellectual Property and New Ventures. www.otc.tamu.edu.
 Dell Inc. As the visionary outcome of a true entrepreneur, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is committed to help power the success of entrepreneurs by developing technology solutions that help their businesses increase productivity and grow. Through the Entrepreneur in Residence program, Dell supports and nurtures the community of entrepreneurs by helping provide access to knowledge, networks, and capital. Learn more at www.dell.com/eir.  Gust is ACA's official software for administering angel investment groups. Gust's software provides a secure system to manage angel group deal flow and syndication with other angel groups and smart investors. The platform allows angel groups to capture deals, process them through a customizable work-flow process and collaborate with other investors. As the official platform of the world's leading angel and venture associations, Gust is the industry
standard. For entrepreneurs, Gust provides the complete tool set for professional investor relations from pitch to exit. www.gust.com.
 IBM's vision of a smarter planet is to bring a new level of intelligence to how the world works - how every person, business, organization, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts. Let's build a smarter planet together. Visit ibm.com/smarterplanet 
Home to more than 14,000 students, Lamar University is one of the fastest growing universities in Texas and is a member of The Texas State University System. LU offers more than 100 programs of study leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. The 270-acre campus in Beaumont is about 90 miles east of Houston and about 25 miles west of Louisiana. www.lamar.edu.
 Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps software startups succeed by giving them access to Microsoft software development tools, connecting them with key industry players, including investors, and providing marketing visibility to help entrepreneurs starting a business. www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ 
The mission of the Office of Commercialization and Industry Relations at Texas State University is to coordinate the university's commercialization and industrial activities, to enhance and promote its applied research and development activities, assist in the capture of commercial research and development funding, to enhance the University's entrepreneurial platform, and to provide resources for the support and enhancement of 'education with
relevance'. www.txstate.edu/ocir/  Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) are world-class markets that provide access to financing for small- to mid-cap companies. TSX offers a dynamic market to raise capital and enhance liquidity, and is known for its standards of transparency and fairness, and innovative approaches to trading. TSXV is a public venture capital marketplace for emerging companies, providing a fair marketplace where growth companies can raise capital to develop
and market their properties. www.tsx.com  At Transaction Commons, we're passionate about streamlining the deal process. Developed by a team of experienced transaction attorneys and executives, Transaction Commons is the neutral and secure site where authorized individuals can access, review, and negotiate all the key documents for their specific investment deal - from due diligence through the final term sheet. Transaction Commons is the secure and easy to use tool for all types of sensitive
multi-party financial transactions, including: angel investments, private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture agreements and credit agreements. For more information, visit our website at www.transactioncommons.com.
 Winstead is among the largest business law firms in Texas. Our attorneys and consultants serve as trusted advisors to mid-market and large businesses, providing a core range of legal services that are critical to their operation and success. From its well-known reputation in real estate and financial services to its corporate and high-stakes litigation practice, Winstead uses solid legal experience to deliver innovative solutions on your terms. www.winstead.com.
 Angel eXchange is a SaaS angel group administration system. System functionality includes, member portfolio reporting, membership management, group activity statistics, one click "Halo" data submission, Special purpose LLC management tools and deal closing workflow tools. www.angelexchange.net 
The Houston Consulate is a trade office and satellite of the Canadian Consulate General in Dallas, Texas. Our role is to advocate Canadian economic, political and commercial interests and to develop innovative strategies for the identification and implementation of business opportunities in our territory of Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.
We are Resonate, and we are building the dotMe lifestyle by bringing together professionals in the mobile technology, marketing, sales, and business operations disciplines under a common goal: Creating a company to lead the interactive mobile marketing services industry. www.resonate.me.
 VentureDocs provides a unique, turnkey online platform that dramatically helps improve accuracy and reduce time and expenses associated with startup company and early-stage investing legal preparation. VentureDocs is geared to help startup companies, angel and institutional investors, and the attorneys that serve them. Our platform helps streamline and customize the legal document preparation process. www.venturedocs.com.
 VenturePLUS Capital Group provides a unique, proprietary Investment Capital Protection Platform ("V+ Platform") to start-up through mid-stage companies and their investors. The V+ Platform consists of specially designed financial and insurance contracts combined with a uniquely designed Asset Protection Trust. Through proprietary securitization techniques, the V+ Platform provides protection for investor capital from the risks normally associated with
investments in start-up to mid-stage companies. In essence, the V+ Platform provides a "hedge" or "backstop" protection against the loss of investor capital without foregoing the huge upside benefit sometimes enjoyed by investors in these early to mid-stage growth opportunities.
www.venturepluscapital.com  The Frank Peters Show podcasts startup stories in angel investing and venture capital, including a number of ACA member group angels. It's all about education; entrepreneurs listed to learn from those who have successfully navigated the funding process. Frank's fellow angels listen to learn from the venture capital guests. Visit http://frankpetersshow.com for the best advice on angel investing.
The IC² Institute is a globally recognized "think and do" component of The University of Texas at Austin whose mission is to engage in cutting-edge research to enhance the solving of unstructured problems related to market economies, wealth creation, growth, and prosperity through entrepreneurial
activity and the commercialization of technological innovation. The Institute carries out this mission through its primary applied research laboratory at the Austin Technology Incubator as well as through the Bureau of Business Research, the Global Commercialization Group, the IC² Fellows Network, and Visiting Scholars Program. www.ic2.utexas.edu. |
