By popular demand, Angelsoft held its first User Group meeting on May 7th as part of the Angel Capital Association annual conference in San Diego.

There were over 50 people at the standing-room only event, with groups coming from as far as Central America, Maine, Canada, and New Zealand.

The feedback had been that our users really wanted to hear from other users, so we let them do the talking. Our CEO, David S Rose, kicked off the user group meeting with an introduction and very energetic presentation of the Angelsoft vision. After that the users took over.

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Evan Bartlett :: May.15.2008 :: Angel Group Manager, Angel Investor, Angelsoft Company, Events :: Comments

Women2.0 held their annual event this past weekend at Stanford and over 300 attendees came to watch 5 tech companies with over 50% female ownership pitch. Here are some pictures from the event.

Congratulations to the Koolage, who won the main prize, and to Gaiagy, who won the People's Choice award for the event. Koolage took home a prize of over $15,000 in business services and a private meeting with Esther Dyson, CEO of EDventure and serial angel investor (member of the NY Angels). Included in the package was a free submission to Open Deals!

The event definitely drew a lot of attention from the startup community and even got some coverage on TechCrunch, the Guidewire blog, and the local news. Judges included Chris Shipley (Guidewire Group), Anurag Nigam (Sandhill Angels), Katherine Barr (Mohr Davidow Ventures), and Patricia Roller (Angels' forum). Great to see so many familiar faces!

I had the chance to meet with Shaherose and Aihui yesterday, so I want to say congratulations to them for such a successful event.

Angelsoft was the software sponsor and really enjoyed the opportunity to help support the Women 2.0 community.

Evan Bartlett :: May.13.2008 :: Entrepreneur, Events, Investors :: Comments

In the first part of last week I attended the first ever Southwest Regional Angle Summit organized by Bob Morrison, the Executive Director of the Desert Angels. The event brought together several local angel investors along with representation from the Desert Angels, New Mexico Angels, ATIF, Tech Coast Angels, and some VC funds.

Though this was a regional even, I dropped in from NYC, and Frank Peters of the Tech Coast Angels made the trip in from southern California. I think we were both quite impressed with what was going on!

Since this was the first year, Bob simply established a suggested agenda, and the conversation was pretty free form. We discussed everything from improving communication among angel networks for sharing deals to marketing angel groups online, and capitalizing on tech transfer opportunities.

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Evan Bartlett :: Mar.31.2008 :: Angel Group Manager, Angel Investor, Events :: Comments

The Angelsoft team made several appearances over the past couple weeks on the West coast.

Some highlights include:

1) Evan Bartlett attended the Keiretsu Forum Expo in Palm Desert on January 28th. The event was co-hosted by Steve Weiss, and the Coachella Valley Angel Network.

The winner of the Most Valued Company Competition was a fun wine oriented company called Bottlenotes.  They describe themselves as "a personalized sommelier service delivering wine tailored to their members’ personal tastes using proprietary matching technology." 

2) Mark LaRosa and Evan Bartlett then went to meet with Sue Preston in the new offices of the California Clean Energy Fund I . The early stage fund will be closed soon, and when they start taking in deals, they will be using Angelsoft to manage their deal flow!

Evan Bartlett :: Feb.13.2008 :: Events, Uncategorized :: Comments

Mark LaRosa and Ryan Pipkin headed out to Utah last Wednesday to attend the Wayne Brown Institute's 24th Annual Investor’s Choice® Venture Capital Conference. 23 domestic companies pitched their opportunity to more than 200 investors and equity capital providers at this year's conference.

Wayne Brown partnered with us last fall when the Institute launched Angelsoft to serve as the platform for both Investor’s Choice® and The Deal Forum. Five Utah-based angel groups, moderated by USTAR, sat down together for a panel entitled "FINDING YOUR FIRST DOLLAR - Trends in Angel Investing in Utah." Olympus Angels, Salt Lake Life Science Angels, Park City Angels, Utah Angels, and Southern Utah Dixie Angels discussed what they look for, and how to get in front of them for consideration. All five groups on the panel use Angelsoft.

And then we got to ski with THIS GUY!!! Dean Cummings, an Olympic skier, former member of the U.S. Ski Team, the World Extreme Skiing Champion of 1995, and owner of H2O Guides, a heli-ski business in Alaska, volunteered his time at the Investor Ski Day following the conference to take some of us on the slopes and teach us a thing or two. Mark and I couldn't pass it up. Skiing with him was ... in a word ... awesome!

Evan Bartlett :: Feb.12.2008 :: Events :: Comments

I recently attended the first ever ACA Northwest conference held in Bellevue, WA. Here's the agenda:
ACA Pacific Northwest Regional Meeting Agenda 2007
About 40 angels and group managers who represent about 20 groups in the U.S. and Canada were there. The two themes of conversation that dominated: Metrics and Co-investment.

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Ryan Janssen :: Apr.25.2007 :: Events :: Comments

Recently, a number of angel networks and seed fund managers in the state of New York came together to form a New York angel network to facilitate co-investment in New York State. Groups from NYC, Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, Ithaca and other parts of the state were in attendance

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Ryan Pipkin :: Apr.25.2007 :: Events :: Comments

Here are some stats concerning Angel Investing from UNH Media Relations on Infectious Greed.

Evan Bartlett :: Oct.05.2006 :: Events, Industry Stats :: Comments

MOMENTUM Growth Conference, September 27 - 28, 2006

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The Line-Up

Accel Partners | Kevin Efrusy | General Partner
Amazon | Peter Krawiec | VP | Corporate Development
AOL | Toby Trevarthen | VP
Barrons | Eric Savitz | West Coast Editor
Blinkx | Suranga Chandratillake | CTO & Founder
CafePress | Fred Durham | CEO
Cellfire | Brent Dusing | CEO
CNET | Martin Green | SVP
........Link to discount registration

Evan Bartlett :: Sep.27.2006 :: Angel Investor, Entrepreneur, Events, Resources :: Comments