Epic Angels

Flávia and Érica met in 2021, during an online meeting for angel investors. The two soon discovered that they had many affinities and also a common discomfort: the lack of representation and diversity in the world of angel investing. The environments of both startups and investors were dominated by white men. One cause could be because only 13% of angel investors were women according to data from the Brazilian angel survey. And with this realization came the idea: “Why don't we create an angel investment group just for women?” This is how Sororitê was born. At first, they created a group on WhatsApp and promoted virtual meetings with other investors. The group grew quickly, organically. One participant went, liked it and invited another. It went from virtual to real and today Sororitê has a physical headquarter in São Paulo, has a team of supporters, holds face-to-face meetings, monthly talks and events for networking and knowledge exchange. It is a safe space of empathy and acceptance. It has become a very powerful network with more than 100 angel investors and hundreds of startups, founded by women, evaluated. Jaana joined Flávia and Erica, in 2022. They are founding partners of the largest investors community in Latin America whose main objective is to fight gender disparities in their environment.

We are Nevada’s statewide startup accelerator & incubator. We enable entrepreneurs to develop and scale ideas from MVP to revenue-producing businesses, invest our own capital, then connect founders to additional growth capital. Get Help Funding Your Startup You have an amazing idea, and you’ve researched it and are positive there’s a market out there that’s waiting for this product or service. The only trouble is that you have no funding to get from Point A to Point B. You may not even know how to begin looking for investment sources. That’s okay because our accelerator makes an initial investment, then gives you the sales, marketing, development, and other tools to position yourself with early stage investors to raise additional capital. As you progress, we connect you with our network of angel investors and other capital sources. Become A Nevada Investor An idea paired with the right investor and mentor can become the next big industry disruptor. You’ve heard the stories, but you’ve never had the chance to do it yourself. You can change that by learning what it takes to successfully invest in business startups. Angel investing is riskier than other types of investments, but done properly, the rewards of making a great return while impacting our community makes it worthwhile. StartUpNV’s mission is to educate individuals on what it takes to be a good angel investor and make smart, successful investments. We’re establishing the angel investing ecosystem in Nevada, and you can be part of this bigger movement. Be The Good In The World. Ready To Invest While Making A Difference?

Women have less investment knowledge and are less confident about investing than men. We are team of committed women convinced that it’s the time to change this statement. Women have to be part of the technology revolution which takes place right under their nose. Tech with Purpose, where impact is at the core of the business model, is our Club’s investment thesis. The current growth-at-all-costs Unicorn model doesn’t fit the reality anymore. Instead, we are looking for the Camel model, as they show valuable lessons on how to survive through crisis, and to sustain and grow in adverse conditions. If your solution tackles essential problems that human beings face, we are a match.

The Bangladesh Women Investors’ Network (BWIN), started as a sister chapter of Bangladesh Angels Network (BAN), is the pioneering network of women business angels in the country. Why We ExistIn 2020, globally only 9% of all funds deployed to technology startups went to founding teams that included at least one woman. Solo woman founders and all-women teams raised just 2% of all VC dollars, according to Tech Crunch. Venture capital targeting women-owned businesses is virtually nonexistent in South Asia, including Bangladesh, according to a 2018 report by the Asian Development Bank and the Asia Foundation. There is a business case for supporting and investing in more women-led startups; research shows that investment in women-founded startups performs 63% better than exclusively male-founded startups. Bangladesh bottom-ranked among 58 economies in the MasterCard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE) 2020, meaning it is one of the toughest places for women entrepreneurs The Bottom Line There is a business case to having more women founders and women investors within an ecosystem and applying a gender-lens approach to investment decisions. When women become business angels they invest in sectors that have often been overlooked by male business angels, and they tend to invest in women-led ventures. The result? A more diverse equity investor pool that helps to ensure great ideas get the funding they deserve. Our Approach With an aim to fill the early-stage financing gap and provide advisory support to women-led and women-focused startups, the network engages in multiple activities towards this end. Our members include a blend of individual investors, family offices, corporate and global investors. The network looks to invest in deals between the range of $50,000 to $250,000 across all sectors. In addition to funding, the network will also provide high-quality mentoring and access to networks and strategic support to its portfolio and pipeline companies. Investors Invest in some of the most promising enterprises in Bangladesh and get in at the ground floor of their growth Access to highly curated deal-flow across sector Invest alongside industry leaders Post investment portfolio monitoring support Curated curriculum to master the black box of startup investing and other asset classes Entrepreneurs We help women-led and women-focused startups & rising enterprises accelerate their growth with our decades of experience Customized pre-investment support before you pitch to investors Connect to local & global investors Mentorship and market development

January Ventures is a VC fund focused on angel/pre-seed in the US & Europe. We are replacing the friends & family round and re-writing the networks in venture. We believe the founders of the next decade will look fundamentally different: more female, more diverse and more distributed. We back founders based on their tenacity and ambition, not their pedigrees or who they know. Our vision is an equal opportunity tech ecosystem. Our firm is built on the principles of transparency and access, and we back founders based on their tenacity and ambition, not their pedigrees or who they know.

South East Angels is an award-winning community for angel investors. We operate the most active angel syndicate in the region which currently invests £2M+ yearly into early-stage tech startups. We’re on a mission to make angel investing a more successful and impactful endeavour for both investors and founders.