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4 Angel Investing Lessons from an Angel Group Veteran
Want to be an angel? These angel investing lessons will help you make the right (and polite) approach with entrepreneurs. Read More
Successful Startups are ‘Investable’ Startups: Must-Have Traits and Helpful Practices
A good idea is not enough to attract investors. Does your startup have these 4 traits that successful and “investable” startups all share? Read More
A Few Minutes With… Holland & Knight Partner Robert Labate
The AIMkts editors recently caught up with Holland & Knight partner Robert Labate, co-chair of Holland & Knight’s Sports and Entertainment practice. Robert represents entertainment, media and advertising clients across the country that produce, license, acquire, use and invest in film, television, theater, music and digital content for worldwide distribution. Holland & Knight has a global presence – with 21 offices across the U.S. as well as Bogotá and Mexico City – and provides legal services in almost every aspect of intellectual property, business, real estate, governmental law and litigation. Read More
A Few Minutes with Marty Coyne, Chief Technology Officer of Connected Investors
Marty Coyne is CTO of Connected Investors, the real estate investor’s marketplace + Community. They have over 250,000 members and a unique Marketplace where investors can buy pieces of deals (crowdfunding) single deals (Typical commercial & residential investment properties) and packages of deals (Bulk property / note purchases). Read More
A Few Minutes With… Kate Westfall, Senior Director of Content, Global AgInvesting & Event Director, GAI AgTech Week
Shortly after the financial crisis in 2009, investors were beginning to turn to real assets for portfolio stability. HighQuest Partners, a strategy consulting firm in the global food, agribusiness and biofuels sectors, began receiving many requests from institutional investors for help to understand the agricultural asset class. This influx of interest encouraged the firm to produce the first-ever Global AgInvesting conference in New York, which attracted about 150 people in its first year. Read More
A Few Minutes With… Sam Hodges, Co-Founder and U.S. Managing Director of Funding Circle
Funding Circle is the leading global marketplace for small business loans. We connect creditworthy small businesses who want to borrow with accredited investors and institutions who want to lend. Using technology to cut out the middleman, we can connect supply directly with demand for a fraction of the cost, creating a transparent marketplace that gives small businesses access to fast and affordable financing and investors the opportunity to invest in a new fixed income product. Since launching in 2010, Funding Circle has helped 35,000 investors lend almost $1 billion to 8,000 small businesses globally. Read More
A Few Minutes with… Propel(x) CEO Swati Chaturvedi
Propel(x) is an online angel investing platform focused on the niche of “deep technology” startups – that is, startups that are founded on a true technological innovation or scientific discovery. Prior to starting Propel(x), Swati Chaturvedi, its co-founder and CEO, previously worked in management consulting and investing, most recently at Exigen Capital and before that at Siemens Venture Capital. Swati is also the co-founder and coordinator of an angel investors group for MIT alumni in the SF Bay Area. Read More
A few minutes with … Alex Mittal, CEO and Co-founder of FundersClub
FundersClub is a new type of venture capital platform, built around a unique online marketplace that allows accredited investors to become equity holders in FundersClub-managed venture funds – which then fund pre-screened, private companies. AIMkts spoke with CEO Alex Mittal about all things FundersClub to get some insight into why they’re industry wave makers right out of the gate, among other things. Read More
A few minutes with… Ryan Caldbeck, CEO, CircleUp
CircleUp is an equity crowdfunding platform, presently open only to accredited investors, which primarily features existing U.S. consumer products companies. Ryan Caldbeck, CircleUp’s CEO spoke with AIMkts about raising capital, their focus retail and consumer goods and CircleUp’s presence as an investment platform. Read More