This Cornerstones Workshop looked at the two parties of a startup transaction: the investor and entrepreneurs. Raising capital for most startup founders is a tricky, potentially stressful undertaking. Knowing some common practices – and insider’s tips – can make the journey much less painful.
We will give a brief overview of how angel investing works.
On the entrepreneurs side, we will discuss key strategies for obtaining angel investments and developing positive relationships with angel investors.
On the investor side, we’ll go inside the angel investors' mind to highlight what they commonly look for when investing in startups and how angels can improve their odds of having successful outcomes.
Jeremy Bauman is Managing Partner of New Dominion Angels, a Washington DC based investors group that has invested ~$12M into 25+ early stage tech startups. He is also a Lead Consultant in the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Practice at the World Bank Group, where his work focuses on developing early stage capital markets. In addition to his local investing, he has worked with entrepreneurs and investors in the Caribbean, Central/Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Peter Dolch is a member of the New York Angels and MIT Alumni Angels. He is the President and co-Founder of Thaumaturgix, Inc. (Tgix), a pioneering web development and infrastructure company, which was twice ranked in the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies list. He is also the Founder and Managing Partner at AEON Foundry — an early-stage venture fund and advisory services company — and more recently the Founder and ex-CTO of Biospectal, a Swiss-basedMedtech company. He has more than 25 years of experience in both enterprise technology and in launching and guiding technology-based startups across the worlds of Media & Entertainment, Fintech, Medtech, eCommerce, Social Media, and more. An M.I.T. graduate with a degree in Management Information Systems and additional academic experience at Harvard, Peter is no stranger to the hard work, innovation, and outside-of-the-box-thinking that it takes to turn ‘ideas on a napkin’ into industry-leading, globally recognized companies, both public and private. He put the 1st US Stock Exchange on the web (AMEX) and has been integral in the development of eCommerce solutions for some of the most globally recognized brands like B&H Photo. He has worked closely with AWS from the very start and has managed global application development for various Fortune-level companies, including building a Global Information Warehouse for Hewlett Packard, a Global Pricing & Reimbursement System for Pfizer, and a Content Management and Publishing System for AT&T Research Labs. His strategy, advisory and operational work with numerous startups (over 30) has led to successful exits including sales and IPOs.
