Angel Investing Episodes

Phin Upham, the Managing Partner at Haymaker Capital explains what is going on in the fundraising world during coronavirus, what kind of startups can raise money right now and what should early stage founders do when all investors are focusing on later stages.

Rishwie Cauvery, member of Pipeline Angels and a CTO at Time Study in this episode explains how Pipeline Angels work, how she personally invests and how she sources deals. We also cover the current situation on the market and discuss what should early stage founders do to raise money during COVID-19.

Roberto Machado the CEO at BetaBlocks and a member of Tech Coast Angels explains his vision of going through COVID and emerging as a stronger company while many of your competitors die. We also talked about Roberto's view on the pitch decks as he has seen over 4,000 of them and wanted to share his major takeaway from them.

Katelyn Johnson, the Principal at American Family Ventures talks about starting a business in capital-intensive and highly regulated fields like insure-tech. We discuss how these startups should fundraise and where should people, willing to work in those field start.

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Jad Esber, the Co-Founder at Koodos and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard talks about the consumer internet, how fundraising in that space works and what founders in this field focus on.

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Todd Thompson the Co-Founder & CEO Carnot Compression goes over the 3 sources of capital that Carnot used to raise money. In this episode Todd compares Friends and Family, crowdfunding and grants as sources of capital for a startup.

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Jasmine Yu Zhang explained how Venture University works, how do they source deals and how their deal sourcing is different from other firms and individual angels. We also discussed the current situation and talked about fundraising during pandemic.

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Edith Simchi-Levi the VP of operations at Logictools explains how the acquisition by the IBM went and how times are different now. We also discussed where should founders go to get their first funding.New York Angels: http://newyorkangels.com/Leaf Logistics: https://www.leaflogistics.com/

In this episode, Georgia Athanasiou the on-demand CFO and an angel investor at Keiretsu Forum explains what CFO's do, who really needs a CFO and what CFO really does in the company. We also talk about early stage founders and how should they make their financial projections.Article on making financial projections for your startup by Guy Kawasaki: https://guykawasaki.com/how-to-create-an-enchanting-financial-forecast-officeandguyk/Georgia's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgia-athanasiou-508316/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Saeed Zeinali co-founder of Tranqool acquired by HumanaCare and a private investor at Keiretsu Forum explains how Canada is different from the US, how he invests in the US-based startups and how cross-border investing works.Saeed's current company - EdgeCollab: https://www.edgecollab.com/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Preethy Padman an impact investment Partner at SV2 and a member of Portfolia explains who are impact investors, what impact investing even means and who should try to take this route. Preethy also explains how to reach out to the right impact investors and what are the major benefits of working with them. Apply for funding at SV2: https://www.sv2.org/Portfolia: https://www.portfolia.co/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Greg Miaskiewicz the Co-founder and CEO of Capbase explains how he managed to raise money for Capbase, while there is such a large firm (Carta) operating in this field. He also explains how to differentiate your company from large (and small) competitors and sell that to investors.Capbase (simple to use legal and financial foundation for your startup): https://capbase.com/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Kristina Francis Principal at The Marathon Fund and a member of Pipeline angels explains how this angel group works and who should try working with it.Kristina Francis' podcast: Get Found Get Funded https://getfoundgetfunded.com/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Sebastian Zhou Investor at Alpha Square Group explains how family offices act now VS how they act in the "normal" times and also gives recommendations on which investors to approach first during this pandemic.Alpha Square Group's website: https://alphasquaregroup.com/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Gregory Lim, the CEO and co-founder of Persosa explains how they are raising their new round during this pandemic and how is it different from fundraising in the times of "peace". Gregory Lim's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorylim/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, our guest Steve Shwartz provides advice around angel investing, how he does it, and how to receive it! Starting in 2000, Shwartz became an angel investor by joining Tango. He was the leader and board member until promoted to chief technology officer. In 2005, he joined the angel investor forum of Connecticut. And in 2009 he was included within New York’s Angle Investors. Shwartz and his Co-Founder of Device 42 then created a whole new technology company from scratch, eventually gathering their series A investments. Steve Shwartz preaches that there are three risks in which angel investors analyze before funding a company. The financial risk, the market risk, and the execution risk. Once a startup company has minimized these three risks to the best of their ability, Shwartz strongly encourages entrepreneurs to apply into an angel group. Here, you will need to construct a persuading pitch deck that covers the risks mentioned above, as well as the ma…

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Jim Connor the member of Sand Hill Angels and an Executive Producer at Game Changers Silicon Valley, explains how to find the right investors, how to reach out to them and how to give a great pitch (and how to prepare one!)

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Landon Ainge, the Managing Director at Assure Syndicates explains how he helps startups to raise money without charing any fees or even taking any equity. He explains how the syndication process works and what he gets out of it.

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Grant Van Cleve an ex-President at Tech Coast Angels at Orange County and a current member of Board of Governors of Tech Coast Angels as well as an angel investor and a Managing Partner at Hangar 75 explains the current landscape of investment field from the investor's perspective. He also explains where should founders head to get funded.

In this episode of Fundraising Radio the guest speaker is Nathan Beckord, the co-founder and CEO of Foundersuite - the tool that helps founders fundraise. And in this episode Nathan explains the major strategies used to fundraising, how much time should you use making a research on investors, how big should the lists be and much more.

In this episode of Fundraising Radio the guest speaker is Christian Pankovcin, analyst at 13 Ventures and he explains how much more useful a connection to an analyst can be rather than to a managing partner. We also touched onto the deal flow and deal sourcing of 13 Ventures and New York Angels.

Tristan Pollock built and sold two companies - SocialEarth and Storefront and in this episode we focus on this - how to approach fundraising, how to get first contacts, how the life in the accelerator looks like and what happens after the demo day. Because Tristan was also a partner of 500 Startups for a few years, we touched onto that subject as well.

In this episode of Fundraising Radio the guest speaker is Mitzi Krockover, managing director, Co-Chair of the Health Sector Committee and the Founding Member of Golden Seeds' Arizona chapter. And in this episode we are primarily focused on discussing the work of the Golden Seeds - angel group that primarily invests in female-founded startups. We also touched onto the differences between the different chapters of Golden Seeds and about differences in different regions of the US in terms of fundraising for startups.

In this episode of Fundraising Radio our guest speaker is Stacey Feinberg the Founder of 33 Capital and a Managing Director at Golden Seeds. Stacey explains what the major mistakes are that she sees in the pitch decks and during the presentations. She also talked about reaching out to investors and her personal investing preferences.