Referred to as “mentor financing”, business angels continue to make great contributions to startups. Last week, I talked with some of them in Washington, DC, about the latest trends in angel investor pools outside the United States. Encouraged by improving policy frameworks, I found that they are now spreading their wisdom and seed capital to new parts of the world.
I was the final speaker at the closing lunch for the world's largest gathering of angel investors for the 2014 Angel Capital Association Summit in Washington, DC. This offered me the chance to have the last word before the group spread their wings and went back to work. Participating in the Summit also offered me the chance to learn about the changing environment for this sector, as well as angel investors’ power to rapidly boost entrepreneurship ecosystems in two vital ways – funding and mentorship.
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