United States

Marianne Hudson

Chapter 10 in Angels Without Borders:Trends and Policies Shaping Angel Investment Worldwide, 2015, pp 99-114 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Angel investing has become “serious finance” in the United States. In 2014 an estimated 300,000 angels invested about $24.1 billion in more than 70,000 high-growth companies. For the last two decades, angel investors have invested in hundreds of thousands of promising start-ups in a wide variety of sectors, and particularly in technology, healthcare, and mobile & telecom. It comes as a surprise to many that angels have provided roughly the same amount of capital as venture capitalists during these decades—and the bigger surprise is that angels have supported more than ten times the number of companies…

Keywords: Angel Investing; Angels Cross Border Investing; Entrepreneurial Financing; Startup Financing; Entrepreneurship; Early Stage Investing; Venture Capital; Early Stage Investment Ecosystem; Angels Without Borders; Capital and Entrepreneurship Without Borders; Crowd Funding; Women Angels; Impact Investing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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