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Three New Types of AngelList Syndicates I Hope to See

Hunter Walker

So far most of the top funded AngelList Syndicates look, well, not surprising. Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

We never seek any rights to give Amex preferential treatment at the time of a potential acquisition. There is a possibility that Amex may explore acquisitions within the Amex Ventures portfolio, but those discussions will be on market terms similar to those with other potential acquirers.”. They invest alongside financial VCs.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Later stage investors are using for sourcing private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Step 11: Exit”. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Its thesame with acquisitions. Angels and even VC firms occasionally do this, but they alsoinvest at later stages. The problems are different in the early stages. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time. In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels.