Registration Now Open

Tickets are now available for the Seattle Angel Conference:

Apply for presenting at the conference by buying a ticket

or

Buy an Early Bird Attendence ticket

The date of the conference is Thursday May 31st, 2012. 

Oregon's Angel Business Plan Competition Model: Coming to Seattle?

A very interesting article by Sabrina Parsons has been posted at Forbes website about the Oregon Angel conferences. It is worth a quick read. Take a quick look at the following link:

Forbes Article about Oregon Angel Conferences

Angel Investing with Bill Bryant

March 19th, 2012 6:00

at The Easy - 511 N Boren 

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Come join us for a conversation about Angel investing with Bill Bryant. As we explore the Angel Investing, we want to expand the opportunity for leaning how to be an effective investor in startup companies. Come with your questions about how to be an effective Angel Investor in Seattle.

Bill Bryant is a Venture Partner with DFJ. He is an active member of the Seattle Angel community. He has had early and instrumental involvement in over twenty five leading software, Internet, mobile and digital media companies, as a founder, senior executive, investor and Board Member.  He has had founding roles with Visio (now part of Microsoft), Netbot (acquired by Excite), Qpass (acquired by Amdocs), Medio Systems, Mixxer and Airworks.  In these founding capacities, Bill drove definition of the core product and market strategy; raised >$150M in venture capital; recruited senior management teams; and built customer, partner and channel relationships in launching software products, Internet and mobile services.

Bill was the first investor in Isilon Systems (now part of EMC) and an early investor in Loudeye (Nokia), AEI Music (DMX/Liberty Media), Viafone (Extended Systems), Teamplate (Captaris), Exstatic Software (Xchange Applications), Throw (Excite), Singing Fish (Thomson/AOL); NearMe (Hands On Mobile); WebRelevance (Medio) and Mpire (comScore).

Bill represents DFJ on the Boards of Z2Live, Opscode, Varolii and Ping Identity.  In addition to his DFJ investments, he is an active angel investor with investments in Swype, Winshuttle, LiquidPlanner, Bonanza, Socrata, Vizify, Banyan Branch and Clipboard.

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Exploring an Angel Conference in Seattle

We are exploring the idea of putting together an Angel Conference in Seattle. This would be an Oregon-style Angel conference, where an LLC was formed of new and experienced Angel Investors, and the winner of the event would walk away with an investment of something on the order of $200,000.

This would be good for the Seattle  Startup Ecosystem because:

• New angels would have a chance to engage in investing
• Entrepreneurs get some meaningful due diligence
• The ecosystem gets more attention and focus
• We increase the number of investors.
• We increase the number of deals
• We increase the quality of deals
• We reduce the risk of investment failure - (with due diligence)
• We amplify the existing startup ecosystem
• We make progress on getting the 100 new companies funded goal (posted on Seattle Tech Startups)

We are talking to various people, exploring who is interested in participating. So far reception has been generally positive. 

We are interested in hearing from you. If you could take a moment to let us know your interest in an Angel Conference in Seattle in 2012, that would be very much appreciated