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"Investors' Circle is more than a place to find deals and partners. It is a community of venture investors willing to share knowledge and experience."
— Chuck Lacy
President, The Barred Rock Fund
Former President, Ben & Jerry's
MEMBER BENEFITS
Deal Flow
Every month, IC staff screen scores of investment opportunities and
select the best of these for inclusion in our database. Members are
notified of new opportunities via e-mail on a monthly basis. At any
time, members can access our online, searchable database of companies
seeking venture financing via angelsoft.net. IC is widely recognized by socially
responsible entrepreneurs as an innovative, mission-driven network of
investors. We offer our members access to an efficiently organized
stream of attractive deals, while protecting their anonymity.
As
is typical of most angel groups, our deal flow tends to be smaller and
earlier stage than that of most professional venture capital firms.
Checks written by IC members have ranged in size from $10,000 to $5
million. Typically, a few IC members co-invest an aggregate of a few
hundred thousand dollars in a round of financing. Companies that come
to IC are typically seeking funding of between $500,000 and $5 million.
Membership Directory This confidential
directory is available only to IC members and includes member
biographies, as well as profiles of member investment interests.
Member Retreats
Members gather to enjoy intimate forums, in-depth discussions, and
unparalleled opportunities for networking and community building each
year. Past retreats have been held in in Martha's Vineyard, MA and Sundance Village, UT, just before the opening of the
Sundance Film Festival.
Preferential Rates Members receive discounted event registration for IC conferences and venture fairs. We also negotiate discounts at other conferences and events in the sector.
The IC Letter This newsletter
includes updates on investments made by our network, profiles of
companies and member investors, industry news and research, and other
updates from Investors' Circle.
The Patient Capital Collaborative (PCC) IC members are invited to participate in the PCC, a small venture fund that invests in companies that apply for financing through Investors' Circle. This is a separate legal entity from IC managed by Sustainable Resource Ventures.
Privacy and Confidentiality
Our services are designed to give the investor control over his/her
relationship with entrepreneurs. You initiate all contact with
companies when you are ready. We never publish our members' contact
information outside the network and we never sell our mailing list.
What we do NOT do:
- We do not participate in deal negotiations;
- We do not recommend particular investments;
- We do not perform professional due diligence on companies. Our venture fair selection committees, comprised of IC member volunteers, ensure that applicant companies meet certain requirements to qualify for presentation to our membership. Members of this committee do make some calls to screen applicants, but we do not promise that IC has verified all information presented by a company; and,
- We do not take a “cut” of any investments made by our members. The only fees we charge are annual membership fees and event registrations; although, through the IC Foundation, members may choose to increase their support, through charitable contributions.