Tag: Angel Capital Association

Investor survey: Angels plan to keep capital flowing to startups, but amounts likely to decline

By Tommy Felts / May 18, 2020

Editor’s note: The following is part of Startland News’ ongoing coverage of the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Kansas City’s entrepreneur community, as well as how innovation is helping to drive a new normal in the ecosystem. Click here to follow related stories as they develop. COVID-19 won’t stop most angel investors — though they likely will rethink…

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New investor report: Women-led startups more likely to get angel support than VC backing

By Tommy Felts / October 30, 2018

Angel investors support 10-times more women-led companies than venture capital-backed investors, revealed a first-of-its-kind report by the Kansas City-based Angel Capital Association. “It didn’t shock us,” said Marianne Hudson, executive director of the ACA, the world’s largest cohort of angel investors. Hudson cited previous ACA research that indicated 21 percent of angel investors had been…

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Darcy Howe, American angel

Study: Women angel investors more likely to give back to female-led startups

By Tommy Felts / December 8, 2017

Women support women, a new study of 13,000 North American angel investors says. As more female entrepreneurs have entered the business field in the past few decades, women have begun to reshape the nature of angel investing, according to a report by the Overland Park-based Angel Capital Association. “Being an entrepreneur is one of the…

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