Announcing: AngelList Stack
Effortlessly create a fundraising-ready startup.
We’ve already made it simple to start & manage a fund.
Now, we are doing the same for startups.
Includes: Incorporation, Banking, Equity Management, Fundraising, and Hiring.
QSBS is an important law that helps small businesses create new jobs.
The BBB bill that the House passed has essentially eliminated it.
We’ve reached out to the U.S. Senate to try and preserve it.
Can you help?
"If you’re going to get into the startup world, you have to like to feel the pressure. I like to feel the fire." —
@Maisie_Williams
on launching
@daisie
1 Say no
2 Proprietary dealflow matters
3 Valuation matters
4 Investing takes years to learn
5 Back $0B companies
6 Judgment is important/overrated
7 Invest in tech
8 No opinions
9 Incentives make for bad advice
10 Play fantasy 🏈
11 Power beats contracts
Introducing Funders & Founders:
Work at AngelList Venture and access $100k to invest in startups & $100k if you start your own business when you leave.
Announcing Deal Partners: Flexible partnerships for modern funds
Funds can now share carry on individual deals with anyone, for identifying great companies & securing an allocation.
It’s a flexible way to add partners to a fund, on a deal-by-deal basis.
We analyzed thousands of deals syndicated by AngelList over the past seven years to test assumptions about the nature of venture capital returns. We’re presenting these findings in a first-of-its-kind report out today.
It’s been 14 years since AngelList founders
@naval
and
@nivi
launched Venture Hacks: Advice for Startups, but the ideas shared remain as relevant as ever.
We picked a few of our favorites and republished them on our blog.
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Announcing: No-Fee RUVs for Startups
300 startups like Pipe have already used Roll Up Vehicles to collect small checks from high-value angels in one line on their cap table.
Now we're waiving all of our fees—startups just pay state filing costs (~$1K).
"Rolling Funds is a step to a decentralized fundraising process that’s good for everybody" -
@shl
. Learn more about Sahil's new Rolling Fund and more in our interview with him.
We're giving founders $200k to start angel investing
@HelloSpearhead
Applications are open until Monday.
DM us names of female founders who should have check writing authority and their own fund.
Our purpose is to increase the rate of innovation in the world.
With that in mind, we raised $100M at a $4B pre-money from Tiger Global, Accomplice, and others in late February.
Announcing: Wishlist
Line up to invest in your favorite startups
Add a company to your Wishlist, and we’ll notify you if an opportunity becomes available through our network
Investors have already added companies like FTX & OpenSea to their Wishlist
From a humble seed round on AngelList in 2010,
@Uber
is now poised to IPO. On Friday it joins the ranks of public super companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. Congratulations, UberCab.
If you're a startup working on a response to Coronavirus, and AngelList can help with your recruiting or finding investors, please email coronavirus-response
@angel
.co. We can set you up with free seats on AngelList Talent, and our team is on stand-by to help.
Introducing: AngelList Treasury
Centralized capital mgmt for all VC funds, with any back office provider.
-Protect LP capital w/ FDIC & GSIB accts
-Peace of mind w/ automated bank redundancy
-Optimize IRR w/ MMF & credit lines
-Integrated in one dashboard for all your funds
2021 was the best year ever for startups on AngelList.
- Average seed valuations rose 34%
- Web3 captured the largest share of deployed capital
- The highest annualized markup rate ever observed in AngelList history
Read our report with
@SVB_Financial
:
2020 was truly a breakout year for AngelList Venture. Some highlights:
- Rolling Funds 🚀
- $2.5B+ in assets under management
- 77 unicorns backed by AngelList Funds & Syndicates
- 51% of all top-tier U.S. VC deals in our portfolio
Introducing Recurring Transfers, a new way for private companies to offer recurring liquidity as a way to attract and retain great talent. We built the product to provide maximum control on who gets to sell how much and when.
Announcing: $500K Rolling Funds for Founders
LPs include Spearhead, Bain Capital, Foundation, Village Global, Craft Ventures & Sriram (A16Z).
Join founders like
@shl
,
@m_franceschetti
,
@immad
&
@judegomila
and start your rolling fund.
Apply by Aug 16.
September: Crypto job listings have nearly doubled in the last 6 months!
Today: More people are interested in bitcoin than anticipated.
How to get a job in crypto:
AngelList Stack provides:
- A Delaware C Corporation with founder-friendly docs
- An interest-bearing checking account with free wires
- Physical and virtual debit cards
- An automatically updating cap table
- Single link fundraising (direct & RUV)
“Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself.” –
@Naval
Announcing
Using market data from thousands of recent investments on AngelList, founders can now see what terms similar companies have used and create SAFEs quickly.
Introducing: AngelList Projector
Make smarter investments and visualize projected fund performance with portfolio scenario modeling.
- AngelList market data
- Projected returns, DPI, IRR, & MOIC
- Follow-on planner
- Connect your investment data
- Save time with AngelList AI
An analysis of over 3,700 AngelList seed deals revealed that seed-stage startups have a 50% chance of making it to Series A—regardless of whether or not they have a top VC involved in their seed round.
Hiring Advice for Founders:
– Spend more time on it
– Have people audition
– Be generous with equity
– Fire fast
– Always be recruiting
More tips from
@sama
's in today's AngelList Weekly:
1/ Introducing the AngelList Venture Education Center, a resource where emerging and veteran investors alike can learn more about the intricacies of venture capital
Proud to be part of
@FastCompany
’s 2021 Most Innovative Companies for giving VCs their own agile platform to raise funds continuously and publicly.
We're building the future of venture capital and
#rollingfunds
was just the beginning.
Join us!
Announcing: AngelList + Stripe Atlas
Founders starting on AngelList now get Stripe Atlas incorporation + AngelList cap table, fundraising, and banking—all in one sign-up.
Over 65,000 companies have started with AngelList or Stripe Atlas. Now founders can easily use both.
In this week's Talent Newsletter:
📈 Crypto jobs are booming!
💰 Go work
@Coinbase
🚀 Launch of the week
📊
@Buffer
's new salary calculator
🔥 Hot Companies Hiring
✌️ P.S. We're hiring analysts