Angel investor: Real Estate Network Directory
An angel investor is known by many other names like angel, business angel, and informal investor in Europe. It provides capital to people who want to start their own business in exchange of convertible debt or ownership equity. There are small group of angel investors who organize themselves and together they are called angel groups or angel networks. They share research and their number is increasing rapidly. They invest their funds unlike any business, Limited Liability Company, and investment fund. They give the funds to their friends and family as the start-up financing.
People in small groups cannot arrange more than few hundred and thousands but angel investment is a common financer for high profit start-ups and accounts which is almost equal to and even more than the venture capital funds.
Network
The network of the angel investors is a trustworthy place to invest your money. The network of the angel investors has national and local groups and they meet formally and informally to discuss business opportunities and business deals. Each network works differently, for example, some charge fees for presentations, some charge fees for applying and some take members after official introduction. You can find list of networks, which are generally divided into Pacific Northwest, southwest, mid-Atlantic, northeast, north central, California, south and mid-west.
The US small business administration’s office of advocacy developed the angel capital electronic network. There is no annual fee and fees depend on the state of the members. Only entrepreneurs who are able to sell security interest in their companies are able to enroll here. Angels with attitude is fully invested and there is no place for new investors. This fund has committed pool of capital, which they named an active angel fund. This fund invests in clean energy, renewal energy, conservation, environmental technology, sustainable transportation, organic foods, natural products and education. They focus on sustainability. It has 25 investors with average investment range of 000 to 0000. Investors circle members review the business, which belongs to one of the interest areas like community development, education, environment, energy, health, women, and minority led business.
Portland area angel network generally hear presentations from companies which are based in Oregon, Clark county and Washington. Here the group meet quarterly and consider 3-4 companies at a time after selection. It is affiliated with Oregon entrepreneur’s forum, which is s non-profit organization to work in providing education and network opportunities. The number of investors is 100 and the average investment range varies from 0000 to 00000.
Alliance of angels were founded in 1997 and it uses online members only website to view plans of businesses which are submitted by new companies based on technology. Here the business plans are discussed with selected companies in a monthly meeting. There are no fees for the submission of business plans. In the pacific north-west, there are Portland area angel networks, Vancouver enterprise forum angel technology network and in southwest, there are Arizona angels and the desert angels. In the mid- Atlantic there are tri-state investment group, womenangels.net and new vantage group. In the northeast there are walnut venture associates, common angels, Vermont investors forum Inc, Maine angels, tri-state private investors network, silicon garden and tech valley. In the north central there are valley angels investment group and in California there are fast angels, angel’s forum, Silicon Valley band of angels, sierra angels and in south there are network for business angels and investors.