Page 2 - Angel Investors

We Founder Circle: Creating a platform of angels for early-stage startups

The community the firm has built is India's second largest angel network, with 2,000 founders and strategic investors from 16 countries. It closed its first year with 33 investments worth $20 mn in al

Start-up pay cheques, ESOPs are creating a new breed of angel investors

These high-earning start-up executives generally invest cheque sizes of Rs 2-5 lakh and are drawn to companies in the seed stage

Angels venture where others fear to tread

Points to ponder before you give wing to the angel investor lurking inside you

Blue Tokai raises Rs 17 cr in pre-series B bridge round led by Anicut Angel

The company started out selling its specialty coffee online and via B2B partnerships; then sought to provide the complete coffee experience through cafes

6 start-ups join unicorn club this week; 150 likely by 2025, say experts

The pandemic is expected to accelerate big-ticket venture capital, private equity as well as consolidation related deals in unicorns and soonicorns in the country

IPV and the science, art and psychology of early stage investments

The angel network plans to increase its investor base beyond 5,000; double the number of investee firms and corpus for 2021

Startup Voiro raises $1.8 mn in investment round led by Mela Ventures

This is Mela Ventures' third investment since its first close of the fund in August 2020

In a first, LetsVenture rolls out women-only angel network in India

According to reports, India has about 10,000 angel investors and only a per cent of these are women.

Tips on raising funds from govt agencies and PE firms for your startup

Apart from central and state govt schemes that fund new ideas, you have PE/VC firms, angel investors and incubators to help your business see the light of day; just get your business model right

Health-tech startup BestDoc raises $2.1 mn from Aceel, other investors

BestDoc, supported by Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM), is an Intelligent Patient Relationship Management (PRM) system for hospitals and other healthcare providers in India

Covid-19 opens a new chapter of investment in edtech start-up space

The sector has seen eight investments alone in April from VCs and angel investors

Angel investment group invests $1 million in tea selling retail Chai Kings

Chai Kings, founded in 2016, is the Chennai's largest Chai Retail chain operating with 40 stores

This hearing-impaired entrepreneur is on a mission to empower gig economy

Sanjay Nediyara went through a great deal of hardship before setting up Sieve, a platform for freelancers to work as a team despite separated by locations

Angel investors back Delhi-based heathcare service provider Digilooks

Digilooks, founded by Sushant Sharma, in April 2018, currently has operations in Delhi NCR, Jammu and Meerut

Why the 'angel tax' has left early-stage investors exasperated in India

The revenue authorities have been hounding tiny companies over money raised from investors, claiming their valuations are fraudulent

Angel investors are looking before they leap as exits get tougher

The term 'angel investor' refers to anyone who invests his or her money in an entrepreneurial company (unlike institutional venture capitalists (VCs), where this is investing of other people's money).

No coercive action against start-ups for now to recover tax, says CBDT

The CBDT is expected to come out with a circular to clarify the issues

New angel tax notices spook investors, start-ups; trip fund-raising efforts

Differences over 'fair value' of fledgling firms makes assessment difficult

Angel investors not cheering tax exemption, reluctant to share bank details

Certification process is tedious and will increase costs for start-ups

Angel investors in start-ups get I-T exemption, effective April 11

The commerce and industry ministry had on April 11 said that a start-up can seek tax concession under Section 56 of theI-T Act