Thursday, December 12, 2019

Report: Angel Investors Gain From Investing In Every Deal

A new report, from AngelList, says that angel investors at the see stage would increase their expected return by broadly indexing into every credible deal they see. AngelList claimed in its report, Startup Growth and Venture Returns, that someone who "blindly invests in every credible deal" would do better than an angel investor who happened to miss "the best-performing seed investment". AngelList's service is aimed at promoting seed investment. The company said that its research was in part driven by stories of investors with an "infinite amount of regret"--quoting Los Angeles venture capitalist Mark Suster, who passed on an investment in Uber's seed round with a massive amount of regret. AngelList said it ran its numbers against the thousands of deals syndicated on its platform over the past seven years.