Angel Investing — A Toolkit 🧰
Part 1 — Education
This toolkit is designed for sophisticated investors with previous investment experience in public companies and/or a couple of existing angel investments looking to learn more. Hobby investors (like me) will likely get the most value out of it, but I’m hoping some professional Angels will also use it. Please add any suggestions or questions in the comments or add me on twitter to suggest ideas for Part 2- Deal flow. If you’re interested in hearing more from me on Angel Investing or operating startups add yourself to my email list at the bottom.
Background
I am a Founder first and foremost of a Series C stage company: Velocity Black.
I have been investing as a hobby for the past 6 years on weekends and had my first successful exit in 2019 when one of my first investments, Syft, was acquired by Indeed, returning >20x in a four year period (and changing my life in the process). I started investing as I am truly fascinated by business and wanted to learn more about other early stage technology companies, to help me grow my own business.
Over those 6 years I have built up a list of educational tools, deal flow networks and models for analysing businesses. The startup and investor eco-system has been very generous to me. A small way for me to return that…
