I have been part of Seattle Angel Conference for the last few years. It’s been a rewarding experience to learn about Angel Investing. The goal of the program is to train new Angel Investors. Please take a look if you are interested in starting your Angel journey.
Please see the full message from John Sechrest, founder of Seattle Angel Conference below:
We are starting the process for Seattle Angel Conference XVIII (18). For several years, we have been working to build a population-representative demographic mix to both our investors group and our startup founders. It is inordinately hard work. In this time of new activation and awareness that Black Lives Matter, it is important not to just post a note, but to take actions. We continue our efforts to build a population-representative engagement in the Angel Investing process.
We need your help.
In each cycle of the Seattle Angel Conference, we run a series of workshops to bring investors and startup founders together around important topics. Our next season is starting next week with:
“Women in Investing” on June 16th at 6:00pm – https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Angel/events/271107238/
This cycle, we will have a whole series each tuesday night and most Thursday noon.
We will be announcing the events on http://meetup.com/Seattle-Angel
Here is the current list of workshops:
6/16 Women in Investing
6/18 Startups, Libraries and Resources – Oh My!
6/23 Revenue Based Financing for Startups
6/30 Pitch Deconstruction: Getting Clarity on your company by pitching
7/7 Angel Investing 101 w/ Erick Watson
7/14 Cashflow and Financial Modeling w/ Carlee Price
7/21 Angel Groups AMA
7/28 Pitch Deconstruction: Diving into your Startup
8/4 Getting Ready for Startup Investment w/ Steve Hord
8/11 Startup Termsheets Impact Angel Investing w/ Geoff Harris
8/18 Due Diligence for early stage Angel Investments w/ Kurt Bilafer
8/25 Ignite Angel
Each of these workshops has information that will be useful for the new Angel Investor as well as the early stage Startup Founder.
We have a new program called “Ignite Angel”, which we are building for August 25th, which will be an Angel Pitch event using the Ignite Seattle format. We expect that to be both interesting and exciting. Getting founders to participate in the pitch deconstruction events at the end of June and the end of July will help them be prepared for the Ignite Angel program. It will also help them to be prepared with their Angel Pitches to any investor.
We would love to have your help to go out of your way to invite people who are not normally part of the Angel Investing conversation. We have worked hard to move our Gender mix from 23% female to 45% female in some of our investor cohorts. We would love help to expand our engagement with African Americans and Hispanic Americans who would like to learn more and benefit from the Angel Investing process.
Our Deadline for Company applications will be September 3rd. Our investor cohort will start with preparation work on September 1st. This summer session of workshops helps to set the foundation for this next cohort.
Because this cycle will be completely virtual with video based sessions, we are also reaching out to groups that are further away from Seattle than normal. Investors and startups that are more than an hour drive away can participate via video on an equal footing with everyone in this round. While we are still focused on Pacific Northwest companies, we welcome a wider area of investors and startups in this cycle.
With your help to make specific personal invitations and introductions to folks who are outside our normal communication channels, we can make this round of the Seattle Angel Conference much more population-representative for both the investors and the startup founders cohorts.
You help would be most appreciated.
Please feel free to send me a note if there is anything we can do that will improve the process of Angel Investing in the Pacific Northwest.
John Sechrest
Founder
Seattle Angel Conference
http://seattleangelconference.com
PS. We have helped to seed similar Angel Conferences in San Diego, Kelowna and Alaska.
