Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Why does the AngelVineVC website accept business plan submissions?A: One of the goals of AngelVineVC is to facilitate investment in deserving early-stage companies. AngelVineVC has established a screening committee to review companies referred to AngelVineVC by AngelVineVC members and other sources - including this website. The screening committee chooses a small number of those companies to present to the members of AngelVineVC, exposing those companies to the many angel and institutional investors who are AngelVineVC members.
Q: How much of my business plan should I send?A: As much as will give the AngelVineVC screening committee a sense of your company's business, prospects, management team and other pertinent information. Please don't send anything to AngelVineVC that you consider to be a trade secret or that you would otherwise be uncomfortable having professional investors review for potential presentation to AngelVineVC.
For more information on what specific items should be included in your application package,
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Q: Will you sign my non-disclosure agreement?A: No. Most of the members of AngelVineVC are professional investors and will not sign non-disclosure agreements. AngelVineVC will not sign non-disclosure agreements and we will delete any information that is supplied with the requirement that a non-disclosure agreement be signed. Please don't send anything to AngelVineVC that you consider to be a trade secret or that you would otherwise be uncomfortable having professional investors review for potential presentation to AngelVineVC.
Q: How does the AngelVineVC screening committee determine whether to invite a company to present its business plan at a AngelVineVC meeting?A: The AngelVineVC screening committee looks at a variety of factors to determine whether or not to invite a company to present its business plan at a AngelVineVC meeting, including whether the company has been introduced to AngelVineVC by (or received an endorsement from) a AngelVineVC member. The screening committee also applies the following screening criteria when reviewing submitted business plans:
Screening Committee Review Criteria
- Company need not have any revenues.
- Company should have a management team or part of a management team that is credible (i.e., prior sales/operations experience in the same industry).
- Company should have overcome technology risk or be able to make a case for how they will conquer that risk.
- Company should have a differentiated product or service (product need not be produced or even beta yet).
- Company should have a sense of costs and other core needs to bring its offerings to market.
- Company should have a reasonable sense of what the addressable market looks like and what it would take to validate the market.
- Company should have a document -- a short summary or a powerpoint presentation, which document would not require AngelVineVC to sign any sort of confidentiality agreement.
- AngelVineVC will not reject a plan based solely on where the Company is located.
Membership
Q: How can I join AngelVineVC?
A: If you are an angel investor or a VC, and you would like to discuss joining AngelVineVC, please email us at information@angelvinevc.com and provide some information about yourself and your prior investments.
Q: Where is the list of angel investors who belong to AngelVineVC?A: Angel investors prize their privacy. Out of respect for the confidentiality of our angels, we do not provide a list of angel members of AngelVineVC on this website. Typically more than two dozen angels participate in any given AngelVineVC event.