Angel Insights | Your guide to angel investing
88 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAngel Insights takes you deep into the world of angel investing and what makes some of the most successful angel investors tick. Join our host Tom Britton in conversations with the world's most successful investors, and some of their portfolio company entrepreneurs, to understand their investment strategy, approach to due diligence, and tips that can dramatically improve your own approach to investing.
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What Working At Skype Taught Me About Angel Investing With Ruzbeh Bacha, Founder & CEO @ CityFalcon
March 09, 2016 10:35 - 21 minutes - 16.9 MBRuzbeh Bacha is the CEO and Founder @ CityFalcon and has worked in finance and strategy roles at KPMG, Nokia, Skype and Microsoft and With more than 15 years of investing and trading experience, he looks for parallels when investing in start-ups, and has invested in more than 10 start-ups since 2013. He also runs London Value Investing Club where members discuss stock investment opportunities and share their investing views and theses. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Ruzbeh made ...
What To Look For In Early Stage Consumer Startups with Sara Thomas, Principal @ Maven Ventures
March 02, 2016 10:36 - 19 minutes - 15.8 MBSara is a seed-stage investor in consumer startups at Maven, where she works with 20+ companies in the Maven portfolio and manages the Maven mentor network. Prior to joining Maven, Sara ran early-stage startup programming at The Idea Village, an entrepreneurship engine in New Orleans. While at The Idea Village, she built and managed a team of over 40 employees, contractors, and mentors to deliver direct services to over 1,200 companies. An enthusiastic supporter of entrepreneurs, Sara launche...
How Angels Can Optimise The Accelerator Process with Max Kelly @ Techstars London
February 24, 2016 04:55 - 23 minutes - 19.1 MBMax Kelly is Managing Director of Techstars London for those of you that are not so familiar with Techstars, Techstars is the leading global ecosystem for entrepreneurs to bring new technologies to market helping to create the next generation of amazing startups and prior to joining Techstars, Max had a long background running innovation and entrepreneurship at Virgin. While there, he was responsible for the strategy of the group and for starting several companies which eventually exited for ...
How Investors Should Approach Accelerator Alumni With Sean Black, Founding Team @ Trulia
February 18, 2016 06:18 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBSean was on the Founding team at Trulia (acq Zillow for $2.5bn), Sean was also the founder and CEO at Sequoia funded, Crunched (acquired by ClearSlide). On the investing side he is an investor at Correlation Ventures and a prominent angel investor in several marketplace companies including SeatGeek, NerdWallet, Zeel, Paintzen, Peach and the home improvement app Smith. In Today's Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Sean made his start angel investing in startups? 2.)How startups can deal with the...
Being An Angel And A Founder Simultaneously with Edward Lando, Founder @ Horizons
February 11, 2016 08:17 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBEdward Lando is an active angel investor and the founder of Horizons, the coding bootcamp that teaches you to code real products before you graduate. Edward must be considered one of the youngest angels being only 23 years old giving him a unique insight and perspective into the current market. In today’s episode we discuss the pros and cons of having an operator background as an investor, what metrics early stage investors should be honing in on and the commonalities of successful consumer p...
Robin Voogd on Racefully
February 10, 2016 15:28 - 11 minutes - 15.2 MBRobin Voogd talks about his decision to invest in Racefully. As always, you can learn more about SyndicateRoom here: www.syndicateroom.com
Angel Insights with Chris Schultz of LaunchPad
February 03, 2016 10:08 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBChris is an active angel and tech entrepreneur as the founder of Voodoo Ventures, a platform that invests in companies and builds out their own products he has invested in several companies across a range of sectors at the very early stage. Furthering this, in 2009 Chris co-founded Launch Pad, a community that provides workspace, mentor network, and educational events to develop the talent in the New Orleans ecosystem. Prior to LaunchPad, Chris also co-founded Flatstack, a software developmen...
Building An Angel Network from Scratch with David Ford, Angel Investor
January 27, 2016 11:45 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBDavid Ford has been an active investor in the public markets. However, in the past 12 months David has been gaining experience angel investing in a variety of startups from the £2m-£10m valuation range. Prior to becoming a full time angel investor, David worked for a leading global leveraged finance investor, backing a variety of LBOs and investing across a range of asset classes, including Senior Debt, High Yield bonds, and PIK securities. He was latterly Head of Credit Research for Europe, ...
Having A 'Be Helpful First' Mindset As An Investor with Jacob Gibson
January 20, 2016 13:39 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBJake Gibson is a prolific angel investor in SF whose investments include the likes of Datafox, Meadow, the new on demand delivery service for marijuana and TripleByte, the amazing recruitment platform for engineers co-founded by YC’s own Harj Taggar. Prior to his transition into investing Jake co-founded NerdWallet, a startup focused on offering price-comparison tools for financial products where he is to this day an advisor and if that was not enough he is also a mentor with our good friends...
The Benefits Of Investor Specialisation with Ben Wiener @ Jumpspeed
January 13, 2016 10:24 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBBen Wiener is the Managing Partner @ Jumpspeed Ventures, self proclaimed to have raised one of the smallest first funds ever with a first fund of $251,000. Due to the immense success of Ben’s first fund he has gone on to raise a further fund 10X the size of the 1st fund. Today is a super interesting interview with Ben in revealing the benefits of having a very tailored and niche approach to investing and choosing one particular segment of the market and nailing it and Ben has clearly done tha...
The 5 Success Principles For Aspiring Entrepreneurs with Keith Wallace @ Investors Club
January 06, 2016 12:20 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBKeith Wallace is a Partner @ The Investors Club, Keith is a Scotsman with a passion for Europe. After graduation he started his first consulting company and ended up in the heyday the DotCom. When the Internet bubble burst , he moved to New York with a new mission: to help fellow-entrepreneurs avoid the “burn-rate” trap he himself had fallen victim to. Together with friends, Keith started investing and soon became a part of one of the Netherlands largest networks of informal investors, leadin...
'We Provide The Toolkit To Scale The Startups' with Alexandre Covello, Founder @ AngelsCube
December 30, 2015 14:11 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBI am delighted to welcome Alexandre Covello to the show today. Alexandre is an active tech investor and startup mentor. He is the Founder and CEO of AngelsCube, an innovative investment platform dedicated to institutional investors focused on technology investments. He is a Member of the Board of the Harvard Business School Angels Club of London where he co-chairs the screening committee. Prior to founding AngelsCube, and for the past 15 years, Alexandre advised institutional investors on the...
Investing in Hailo and Going With Your Gut with Julian Ranger, Founder @ Digi.me
December 23, 2015 09:39 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBJulian Ranger has been an Angel Investor since 2007 and an entrepreneur since he formed his first business, STASYS in 1986. Which he sold to Lockheed Martin in 2005. Julian was responsible for the growth of STASYS to a £17M+ business with 230 staff, with subsidiaries in USA, Germany, Australia and Malaysia prior to sale to Lockheed Martin. Julian Left Lockheed Martin in June 2007, and has been an angel investor in many businesses, mainly technical in focus, including such successful busines...
It Is Time For The Democratisation Of Funding with Paul Dowling @ Dreamstake
December 16, 2015 10:48 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBPaul Dowling is the Founder and CEO at Dreamstake, which is a major funding platform for tech startups their vision is to democratise the whole tech startup process by harnessing the web to link entrepreneurs with the support and funding they need. Dreamstake provides startup education through the free Dreamstake Academy and funding through syndication on the platform. They are advocates of The Lean Startup methodology and believe in supporting startups as they go through the various stages. ...
'Funding Is Never The End, It Is Always The Start' with James Routledge @ Potential
December 09, 2015 15:06 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBJames Routledge is most definitely a founder at heart having founded MatchChat and Seedcamp incubated NowNative. However, he has made the move into the investing world and is now Partner at one of the UK’s largest AngelList Syndicate’s, the famous Doug Scott’s potential syndicate, who invest in extremely early stage companies. In the episode we discuss their investing thesis, their DD process, why startups now need 2 seed rounds and much more. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How James...
Why Story Telling Is So Important For Startups with Heather Cabot @ Geek Girl Rising
December 02, 2015 11:52 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBHeather Cabot is Co-Founder of GeekGirl Rising, which aims to unleash the power of women in tech, she is also an active angel investor and a former ABC News correspondent and anchor with more than twenty years of experience as an on-air reporter. Since 2007, she has served as a digital trends expert for Yahoo!, appearing regularly on TV including, "Today", CNN, MSNBC. If that was not enough Heather is also a Professor at Columbia Journalism School and you can find her writing at www.heatherca...
Angel of the Year 2014: Peter Cowley on Whether Angels Have A Moral Obligation To Follow On
November 25, 2015 12:38 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBPeter Cowley is an entrepreneur and very active angel investor with a degree in Engineering/Computing from Cambridge University, Peter has founded and run technology and construction businesses for 35+ years and, since then, has angel invested in over 45 start-ups in Cambridge and London. He is a non-executive director of five of those. Peter is also a board member of the Cambridge Angels, and has mentored countless entrepreneurs. He setup and now runs the Martlet start-up investment fund ...
What Will It Take For Crowdfunding To Reach The Masses with Ron Petersen @ Longbow
November 18, 2015 09:34 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBRon Petersen is the Co-Founder and Investment Partner @ Longbow Capital where he provides management assistance to portfolio companies, while reviewing new business opportunities and investment portfolios. With more than 4 decades of industrial management experience and 20 years managing global businesses, one would be hard pushed to find someone with more knowledge or experience than Ron. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Ron made his way into the investing world? 2.) How can ange...
Making Angel Fintech Investments with Paul Townsend @ Vitesse PSP @ Saxo Bank
November 11, 2015 09:20 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBPaul Townsend is currently Managing director at Vitesse PSP and a Non Executive Director with Saxo Bank, following over 20 years’ experience in mainstream banking with Warburgs and Bank of New York, plus 15 years in electronic payments with Earthport plc, Neteller, Envoy and Worldpay. Before co-founding Vitesse, Paul was Founder and COO of Envoy Services Ltd. He is also a prolific angel investor with investments in the likes of Kwanji, veridu, proxama and many more. In Today's Episode You W...
The Ups And Downs of Founding A Startup with Clifford Dennett, Founder @ Soshi Games
November 04, 2015 09:51 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBClifford Dennett was the Founder & CEO at SoshiGames, where he secured commercial deals with the band Queen, Universal Music and Sony, led a team to create online and mobile experiences with over 1.3m users, raised £1.3m in funding, tripled revenues per paying user and built a strong pipeline of future business. Despite these many successes, with the ever increasing competition in the gaming market and significant changes to Facebook and social media algorithms, Soshi Games went into liquidat...
Learning From 23 Of The World's Best Investors with Josh Maher, President @ Seattle Angel
October 21, 2015 10:24 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBJosh Maher is the president of Seattle Angel, with 20 years of experience investing, building and growing technology startups. Recently, Josh has released his new book, Startup Wealth: How The Best Angels Make Money In Startups (http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Wealth-Angel-Investors-Startups-ebook/dp/B0149G02NA), where Josh interviews 23 of the world's best investors including the likes of Brad Feld and Mark Suster, in order to find out their tactics, tips and investing strategies. More of Josh...
What Makes A Great Lead Investor with Modwenna Rees-Mogg, Co-Founder @ CrowdRating
October 14, 2015 09:42 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBModwenna Rees Mogg is an experienced corporate financier turned entrepreneur, as the founder of www.angelnews.co.uk, the leading private investor news service with the goal of improving transparency and accountability in the early stage investment market to enable it to grow and create win:win situations for all concerned. Modwenna has also recently Co-Founded CrowdRating, the ratings agency for equity crowdfunding. In today’ episode we delve into why now is the best time to be an angel inves...
How To Invest At Seed Stage With Limited Metrics with Ben Luntz @ Indicator Ventures
October 07, 2015 09:40 - 23 minutes - 22 MBFor a chance to win a signed copy of Brad Feld incredible best-selling book Venture Deals all you have to do is click the link below and tweet, for your chance to be entered into the competition. http://ctt.ec/KtRDd Ben Luntz (https://angel.co/ben-luntz) has really experienced it all on both sides of the table having been an incredibly successful entrepreneur with the acquisition of his company Apex Exposure, Ben started making angel investments and born was his passion in investing and wor...
How Should Angels Approach Board Seats At The Early Stages with Alicia Syrett of Pantegrion Capital
September 30, 2015 14:19 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBAlicia Syrett is the founder and CEO of Pantegrion Capital (http://www.pantegrion.com), an angel investment firm that focuses on seed and early stage investments. With over 10 years’ experience in the financial industry, Syrett is a member of several angel networks, including Golden Seeds and NY Angels. She presently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of HeTexted, and is also on the Advisory Boards of Beauty Booked and I-ELLA. Before starting Pantegrion Capital, Ms. Syrett was the C...
Is Operator Experience Necessary for Angels To Have with Bjorn Evers
September 23, 2015 11:24 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBBjorn Evers has over 15 years of experience from positions as CEO, board member and investor across multiple online industries such as management consulting, eGaming, online identification, payments, music and dating. Bjorn is the first investor in Jumio and the original inventor of Jumio’s identification product. In addition to this Bjorn built Jumio’s sales team from the start to establish Jumio’s products as the standard for identification online and the billion-dollar business it is today...
Why Now Is The Best Time To Invest In European Entrepreneurs with Andy McLoughlin
September 16, 2015 11:01 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBAndy Mcloughlin was co-founder of London-based Huddle, a leading enterprise content collaboration company. Under Andy’s leadership, Huddle became one of Europe’s most awarded and well-known technology startups, raising over $80M of venture funding. Andy has been a prolific active angel investor since 2010 and has built a portfolio covering 35+ pre-seed / seed stage investments. His companies include innovative SaaS businesses like Tray.io, Buffer and Pipedrive, as well as retail plays inclu...
How To Find Great Startups Through An Investment Network with Alicia Robb
September 09, 2015 11:48 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBDr. Alicia Robb, a Senior Fellow with the Kauffman Foundation. Alicia is also a Visiting Scholar with the University of California and the University of Colorado. She is also a prolific author on the topic of entrepreneurship. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is the co-author of Race and Entrepreneurial Success published by MIT Press and A Rising Tide: Financing Strategies for Women-Owned Businesses by Stanford University Press. She serves on the Board of the...
Creating The Optimal Angel Portfolio with Kelsey Lynn Skinner
September 02, 2015 13:22 - 26 minutes - 24 MBKelsey Lynn Skinner invests in technology startups with thoughtful ambitious people. She works in venture capital at Imperial Innovations in London and has a small (mostly US) angel portfolio in addition to serving on the screening committee of several UK angel groups. Here she discusses some of the similarities and differences in venture and angel investing as well as some of the most important lessons learned from her time in investing. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Kelsey go...
How To Value A Startup with Marty Zwilling
August 26, 2015 12:05 - 21 minutes - 20 MBMarty Zwilling is the Founder and CEO of Startup Professionals, a company that provides services to startup founders around the world. His background includes a 30-year track record as an executive in general management, computer software development and product management. However, Marty is now in what he calls "give-back mode" as a mentor to startup founders, and an Angel investor. His experience with investors includes roles on the selection committee of two local Angel groups, and working...
Find The Right People And Let Them Do What They Do With Peter Shankman
August 19, 2015 15:31 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBPeter is an author, entrepreneur, investor and speaker, Peter is best known for founding Help A Reporter Out, which is currently the largest free source repository in the world and in June of 2010, less than two years after Peter started HARO in his apartment, it was acquired by Vocus, Inc. Additionally, Peter is also the founder and CEO of The Geek Factory, Inc., a boutique Social Media, Marketing and PR Strategy firm located in New York City, with clients worldwide. If that wasn’t enough Pe...
3 Rules To Make Money As An Angel With Michael Blakey, Director @ Avonmore Developments
August 12, 2015 12:08 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBMichael Blakey is a director at Avonmore Developments, one of the leading seed and early stage funds with over 21 investments and several successful exits. Michael is primarily responsible for Avonmore’s deal sourcing and marketing. Prior to Avonmore, Michael was heavily involved with the roll-out of “Sainsbury’s To You” internet shopping and managed several projects including IT re-platforming of all Sainsbury’s HR and payroll systems. Whilst working at Sainsbury’s Michael made a number of e...
How Investors Should Approach Startup Valuations With Philip Wilkinson, Angel Investor
August 05, 2015 11:42 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBPhilip Wilkinson is a Serial Web Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and explorer of new, world-changing ideas. Philip’s entrepreneurial career began when he was 21 years old by building the UK's first ever price comparison site, Shopgenie. After securing £150k ShopGenie merged with the French company Kelkoo in 2000. Kelkoo was sold to Yahoo in 2004 for $540m. Since then Philip has co-founded a venture business that invested in and grew businesses such as BroadbandGenie (broadband and mobile compar...
Sonny Singh - missed opportunities and being an active angel
July 30, 2015 15:12 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBSonny is a seasoned sales and business development executive with 15 years experience in helping grow technology companies. Sonny is currently Chief Commercial Officer at BitPay, the largest processor of bitcoin in the world. Prior to BitPay, Sonny was VP of Sales at Jumio and is currently an advisor at Lumia Capital. If that wasn’t enough Sonny is also a serial investor himself having invested in TubeMogul at the seed stage up until their IPO in 2014, Narrativ, Jumio, Getaround and many more...
The VC That Acts Like An Angel with Alex Dunsdon @ Saatchi Investment
July 27, 2015 08:58 - 22 minutes - 25.8 MBAlex Dunsdon is an entrepreneur and Investment Director, and founder of The Bakery London, an ad-tech accelerator aiding big brands in the integration of technology into marketing strategies. The Bakery has partnered with numerous big brands including BMW, Panasonic and Heinz. Alex is also Investment Director at SaatchInvest, a seed fund in London that backs truly great entrepreneurs solving big human problems. Their portfolio includes the likes of CityMapper, Dojo, Ometria and many more. A...
Why Startups Fail With Samer Karam, Founder At Seeqnce
July 15, 2015 11:06 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBSamer Karam is an angel investor and startup advisor, and founder of StartUp Megaphone, an organization tasked by Banque du Liban to manage the international image of Lebanon’s startup ecosystem. Prior to founding StartUp Megaphone, Karam founded, Seeqnce, whoch started off as a founder collective providing advisory events and organizational workshops, however, due to their immense success, in 2012 Seeqnce opened their accelerator programme and are now the advisors to the central bank of Leba...
Three Things Angel Investors Should Deep Dive On Pre - Investment With Darren Mulvihill
July 08, 2015 11:43 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBI am so excited to welcome Darren Mulvihill to the 3rd episode of Angel Insights where we uncover the tips and tricks of the most prominent angel investors. Today, Darren, previously Head of Seed Investing at Lucey Fund, walks us through the three elements that all angels must deep dive on before making the investment. As always, you can learn more about SyndicateRoom here: www.syndicateroom.com
Investing For The Long Term With Jos Dirkse
June 30, 2015 15:57 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBI am thrilled to welcome Jos Dirkse, to the 2nd instalment of Angel Insights. Jos is an entrepreneur and angel investor, having sold his company he made his move into the world of angel investing. Today, Jos shares his incredible insights into funding startups describing the difficulties for angels to remain in companies for the long run and what can be done to ensure this does not happen to you. As always, you can learn more about SyndicateRoom here: www.syndicateroom.com
The 7 Must Ask Questions To Angel Investing With Elizabeth Kraus
June 30, 2015 15:52 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBIt is with great pleasure that we welcome Elizabeth Kraus as our 1st guest of Angel Insights. Elizabeth is an entrepreneur and angel investor, and founder of the Impact Angel Group. Prior to founding the Impact Angel Group, Kraus ran her own startup, myUsearch.com, and has been founding, working for and consulting for startups for her entire career. She is an active angel investor, startup mentor and advisor, and she has been very active in the state and national effort to improve the entrep...