Ariel Savannah Angel Partners
Ariel Savannah Angel Partners (ASAP) is a member-driven organization composed of experienced business, medical, legal and educational professionals from a wide range of industries working together to review, analyze, and invest in early-stage high-growth potential companies. ASAP members are accredited individual investors who actively participate in reviewing investment opportunities and work on member teams to conduct thorough due diligence on selected opportunities. Our objectives are to improve member investment portfolios and financial returns relative to what an individual could accomplish working alone, to promote regional economic development in Georgia, South Carolina and the Southeast region, and to provide a satisfying professional, personal, and social experience.
Bluegrass Angels
Bluegrass Angels seeks to encourage the development of start-up companies and to support new businesses in the region by providing the region’s entrepreneurs with seed capital and management guidance from experienced industry and entrepreneurial veterans. An important, although no exclusive, focus of the BGA is to develop start-up companies through the commercialization of the on-going research of the University of Kentucky.
Charleston Angel Partners
Charleston Angel Partners (CHAP) is a member-driven organization composed of a group of Charleston area business professionals who work together to help support high growth economic development in the region. We screen and evaluate qualified start-ups looking for seed capital. Membership is open to area men and women who are qualified individual investors, and have business or professional experience which can be employed in the group’s research. Members work collectively to gain the benefits of a group experience, but act individually in every investment decision. CHAP members share the common objectives of: a) supporting economic development in the Charleston area and surrounding region, particularly in growth oriented early-stage companies with solid business plans and a good management team; b) improving their individual investment returns by working together, leveraging their collective and diverse experience and expertise; and, c) sustaining and nurturing CHAP as a community leadership organization for committed and energetic professional men and women, both active and retired.
Huntsville Angel Network
The Huntsville Angel Network was established in 2005 by a group of Huntsville, Alabama area active angel investors, teamed with the area’s leading professional services firms and BizTech, Huntsville’s technology-focused business incubator. The group has approximately 40 members and meets monthly to hear presentations from entrepreneurs seeking capital of $250,000 to $750,000. The group’s strengths are in information technology, biotechnology and energy, but opportunities are considered in any area where the membership of the HAN has some domain expertise.
Nashville Capital Network
The Nashville Capital Network (“NCN”) is a collaborative initiative of Vanderbilt University, the Nashville Technology Council, Nashville Health Care Council, local investors as well as local business and professional leaders. The NCN strives to promote entrepreneurial education and economic growth by becoming the hub for early stage capital formation in middle Tennessee.
Piedmont Angel Network
The Piedmont Angel Network is a member-managed angel venture investing capital fund designed to take advantage of growth in entrepreneurial activity and early-stage venture financing within a three-hour drive of Greensboro, North Carolina. The fund will invest between $250,000 and $1,000,000 in high-growth life science and technology companies.
Wilmington Investor Network
The Wilmington Investor Network (WIN) is a private equity fund of angel investors located in Wilmington, North Carolina, that provides capital to early-stage companies in eastern North and South Carolina. Membership is comprised of investors from all areas of business who are interested in high-growth companies‘ investment return potential.
WIN’s investors focus on technology, biotechnology, and medical device companies, but will consider other business ventures with high-return potential. WIN is looking for companies with a strong management team in place, a clear business plan, an engaging product or prototype, and the potential of high reward for the risk involved. WIN works with other angel investment groups in the area to leverage its expertise, experience, and financial power to help emerging companies.
