Angel Insights Blog

By: Marianne Hudson, ACA Executive Director

As we celebrate the beginning of 2018, the Angel Capital Association celebrates a good 2017 for many of our member angels, groups, and platforms.  Many of you had awesome exits, which is always something to celebrate!  Media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Xconomy, and Forbes covered your milestones, great years, and recommendations to investors for great best practices or to entrepreneurs on raising equity capital.  And with #MeToo making big news in 2017, we especially appreciate our many members who provided true action to bring more women and people of color to angel investing.  Here are just some of our favorite articles about and by ACA members last year:

• Angel Investing by the Numbers: Valuation, Capitalization, Portfolio Construction and Startup Economics, paperback (Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile)
• Angel Investment Tax Credit: Too much of a good thing isn’t nearly enough (Russ Yelton)
• Angel investors want to make a difference (Tri-State Angel Investment Group)
• Angels Go Above And Beyond To Support Puerto Rico Startups -- And The Economy (Randy Thompson, VA Angels)
• ‘Badasses’ at Women’s Capital Connection double dollars invested since 2015
• Cowtown Angels score big with $465 million sale of Encore Vision
• Editor's Notebook: College angel networks serve a bigger purpose (Duke Angel Network)
• For the Blind, an Actual-Reality Headset (Boston Harbor Angels)
• Gender Lens Investing Gains Ground — But Can It Conquer Wall Street? News (Sharon Vosmek, Astia Angels)
• Golden Seeds Exceeds $100 Million In Total Investments In Women-Led Companies
• Interview with Jim Connor of Game Changers Silicon Valley
• Johnson & Johnson acquires subscription-based contact lens startup Sightbox (Irish Angels and Portland Seed Fund)
• Meet The Men Who Invest In Women Entrepreneurs (Adam Quinton)
• More Women, Minorities Join Angel Investor Group, Austin’s CTAN Says (Central Texas Angel Network and San Antonio Angel Network)
• NACO Report Says Canadian Startups Received $157.2 Million From Angel Groups In 2016
• North Texas Angel Network Announces Portfolio Company Savara’s Transition to the Public Market
• Pipeline celebrates funding boost from Kauffman Foundation (Pipeline Entrepreneurial Ventures)
• Portland's Little Bird sold to Sprinklr (Oregon Angel Fund)
• ‘Robots for restaurants’ startup Chowbotics raises $5 million from Techstars Ventures, Foundry Group, others (Central Texas Angel Network)
• Seattle education technology company Ravenna Solutions acquired by Education Brands (Alliance of Angels)
• Space Angels counts $519 million in satellite equity investment so far in 2017
• Study: Women angel investors more likely to give back to female-led startups (Lauren Flanagan, Jean Hammond, Women's Capital Connection, and Golden Seeds)
• Tech Coast Angels ACE Fund II Unlocks Investment Opportunities in Flyover States
• Tucson Tech: Calimmune deal is latest in string of tech startup buyouts (Desert Angels)
• Under Silicon Valley’s Rough Turf, Tunnels of Women’s Networks Spread (Golden Seeds, Astia Angels, Pipeline Angels, Sofia Fund)
• Wanted: More Startups And More Savvy Angel Investors (New York Angels, Astia Angels, Next Wave Ventures, AngelList, SeedInvest, Portfolia, Golden Seeds, Plum Alley, and Pipeline Angels)
• Women Are Hacking Venture Capital — Do They See it Coming? (Trish Costello)