Band of Angels (investors)

Band of Angels

Headquarters|

535 Middlefield Road Suite 190, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Key people

| Glen McLaughlin,[1] Ian Sobieski, J. C. Hans Severiens, Wayne Tamarelli,[2] Matthew Le Merle[3]
Website| www.bandangels.com

The Band of Angels was the first high technology specific angel investment group in the United States. Today the group remains very active with more than 160 members who invest their time and money into high tech startup companies. Band members have founded companies such as Cirrus Logic, Symantec, SunPower, National Semiconductor and Logitech, and have been senior executive officers at top Silicon Valley companies including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Intel, 3Com and Intuit.[4] Numerous articles have been written about the Band, appearing in periodicals such as The New York Times,[5] The Washington Post,[6] The Wall Street Journal, Upside, Red Herring,[citation needed] Der Spiegel,[7] U.S. News & World Report,[8] and Forbes.[9] The Band has also been featured in two Harvard Business School case studies.[10]

## Background

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Band members invest in deals directly; there is no pooling of resources or voting. Since 1994, Band members have invested over $186 million into over 200 startup companies. Thirteen deals that presented to the Band as seed investments became public companies; these alone returned $240M in cash to Band members and 63 other companies in the Band's portfolio have been acquired for a gain.[11]

In 2004 The Angel Capital Association established the Hans Severiens Award[12] to recognize one person each year for outstanding accomplishments in the advancement of angel investing.

## See also

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* Glen McLaughlin

## References

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1. ^ "Glen McLaughlin: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". investing.businessweek.com. 26 June 2023.[dead link]
2. ^ "Angel Investor Tamarelli Tells Startups: Fail Early and Fail Fast". www.njtechweekly.com. January 2012.
3. ^ "Fifth Era". Archived from the original on 2013-09-18. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
4. ^ Band of Angels Website[full citation needed]
5. ^ Field, Anne (23 June 2005). "Pools of Angels Make the Money Hunt Easier". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
6. ^ "Washingtonpost.com: WashTech". www.washingtonpost.com.
7. ^ Schultz, Stefan; Francisco, San (25 March 2009). "Kapitalkrise: Ideenschwund im Silicon Valley". Der Spiegel – via Spiegel Online.
8. ^ "Angels of Capitalism - U.S. News & World Report". Archived from the original on 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
9. ^ Mitra, Sramana. "The Real VCs Of Silicon Valley". Forbes.
10. ^ "The Domain You Requested Has Been Misconfigured". Harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
11. ^ "Two Band of Angels 'Seeded' Companies Acquired in First Quarter of 2009". Archived from the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
12. ^ [1][dead link]

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