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The Silicon Cape Initiative is a private sector community movement that was founded by two South African high-tech entrepreneurs, Vinny Lingham and Justin Stanford. [1] [2] Both being entrepreneurs and angel investors in the information and communication technologies start-up sector in South Africa, they observed the unique confluence of circumstances emerging in their home country and in ...
David Albert Friedberg (born 1980 [1]) is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and angel investor. [2] He founded and was chief executive of The Climate Corporation, whose $1.1 billion sale to Monsanto in 2013 made it the first unicorn in the emerging agricultural technology space. [3] [4] He is founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB).
David Oliver Sacks (born May 25, 1972) [1] is a South African-American [2] entrepreneur, author, and investor in internet technology firms. He is a general partner of Craft Ventures, a venture capital fund he co-founded in late 2017.
Another solid piece of advice is that this pseudo-angel investor recommended spreading your risk. They advised providing $25,000 to 10 companies instead of dumping $250,000 in just one company.
An angel investor tends to differ from a venture capital firm in that the latter usually invests larger sums of money in an opportunity and often requires a much bigger payout than an angel ...
As an angel investor, he provided the first capital or term sheets for companies including OPower (acquired by Oracle), Media Radar, Volaris (NYSE: VLRS), New Dawn Satellite (acquired by Intelsat), and Context Optional (acquired by Adobe). He was a seed investor in TrialPay (acquired by Visa) and Hunch, founded by Dixon and acquired by eBay.
An angel investor (also known as a business angel, informal investor, angel funder, private investor, or seed investor) is an individual who provides capital to a business or businesses, including startups, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.
The program also publishes research on innovative forms of financing for entrepreneurs in developing economies, including crowdfunding and angel investors. infoDev has published Crowdfunding in Emerging Markets: Lessons from East African Startups [13] and Creating Your Own Angel Investor Group: A Guide for Emerging and Frontier Markets. [14]