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Re: Where to find angel funding in Boston

robchogo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:48:06 -0000

Tom, that's great to hear. I didn't realize that those folks were involved. What a great set of angel investors! Keep up the good work with Genotrope.

Re: Where to find angel funding in Boston

Tom Summit — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:56:15 -0000

Rob, great list and a valuable resource. They might be one off investments but I believe Jeremy Allaire CEO of Brightcove, Sheila Marcelo CEO of Care.com and Nick Beim of Matrix Partners, all made angel investments in Flipkey.
http://blog.bos.genotrope.c...

Re: Where to find angel funding in Boston

robchogo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:58:44 -0000

Thanks! Glad to be considered in the same comment as Don Dodge. I think we'll be hearing a lot more from him now that he is no longer at MSFT.

Re: Where to find angel funding in Boston

Kevin Vogelsang — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:12:06 -0000

Good stuff, Rob. Posts like this and Don Dodge's post on events and people in the Boston community are very helpful. I always learn a thing or two about the Boston ecosystem.

Re: Where to find angel funding in Boston

leehower — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:58:40 -0000

Fair distinction then. In addition to both the time commitment you note, both Joe and John are very hands-on as "mentors" or "accelerators" or however you want to describe.

Re: Where to find angel funding in Boston

robchogo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:51:13 -0000

True, but I want to keep them in the "professional" group because my impression is that they spend a lot of time trying to make angel investments. Maybe I'm wrong. I think it's less a distinction of where the $ comes from and more about how much time and effort they are putting into seed stage investing.

Re: Where to find angel funding in Boston

leehower — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:48:01 -0000

Good summary, also good overall point about active seed stage investors (either funds managing other people's money or individuals investing their own capital) with interest in consumer stuff.

Bantam and Lead Dog arguably fit better into the individual bucket, as they're basically the personal investing and advising vehicles of Joe Caruso and John Landry respectively. Both guys are active "professional" investors but perhaps distinct from the funds.

Re: Where to find angel funding in Boston

Alex Bain — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:33:24 -0000

That's the kind of info good entrepreneurs would track down anyway, so
I can't imagine you're harming anyone.

Re: Where to find angel funding in Boston

robchogo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:23:25 -0000

Who knows if they will be happy about it or not :)

Re: Where to find angel funding in Boston

Alex Bain — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:21:56 -0000

Wow, great post. Where was this kind of succinct summary 18 months ago?

Should be a banner day for the inboxes of the folks you listed above, too :-)