Angel investors play a crucial role in any startup ecosystem, by making bets on companies at their earliest stages—to help them develop prototypes, get through beta phases, and attract early customers and the next level of investors. It seems every time a Boston-area company announces it has landed some seed funding, a mysterious crop of angel investors is behind it. So we wanted to take a closer look at some of these key players around town—where their careers have taken them, what sectors they’re keeping an eye on, and how they go about deciding when to write those checks.
We present to you: the top angel investors from around Boston and New England.
Our method for determining which angels made the cut was more holistic than scientific. We started with existing sources, like techie Jon Pierce’s blog post on top Boston angels from a few years back. His readers suggested plenty of additions in the comments, so we took a deeper look at those and also tapped our contacts in the Boston innovation arena (and beyond) to get their take on who the current movers and shakers are. In the end, our criteria consisted of a mix of recommendations from the community and a vigorous track record of recent investing activity. Some of these angels invest primarily or exclusively through an angel fund, and we tried to note where that was the case.
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