Venture Capital Firm

The ‘Damsels Den’ event is an afternoon of role reversal where “high net worth individuals” who invest in start-up companies, known as “angel” investors, open themselves up for entrepreneurs to judge, prod and question, reversing the traditional investor/entrepreneur relationship. The audience wasn’t shy about grilling these investors either. Questions gravitated toward putting the angels on [...]

At Silicon Valley Bank-hosted CEO Accelerator, a one-day summit for innovation economy CEOs held in May 2010, Matt Marshall, editor and CEO of Venture Beat interviewed one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups, Jeff Clavier, founder and managing partner of SoftTech VC, about building a successful Web business.

The current economy has changed the rules for small business financing. Banks and other institutional sources are essentially no longer players in the business of providing capital to entrepreneurs and growth companies. Yet, viable options remain through offerings to private investors. The Pacific Venture Club (www.pacificventureclub.com) has been in the business of facilitating entrepreneurs and [...]

Software marketing executive April Dunford explains what angel investors are and how they’re helping small businesses.