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Pitch Night – What is it all about?
The purpose of Pitch Night is to introduce investment ready businesses to our membership as prospective investment opportunities. These early-stage companies could be existing Enterprise Angels portfolio companies returning for further investment, or new opportunities...
What is a nominee holding company?
Both angel groups and Venture Capital (VC) funds use nominee companies. Angel groups use them for most investments and VCs sometimes use them for co-investment opportunities for Limited Partners. Nominees provide a great deal of value to both investors and investee...
Angel Awards 2021
Recently Enterprise Angels celebrated its Annual Angel Awards; an opportunity to acknowledge members who have made a significant contribution to the network in terms of time, capital, and assistance during the 2020/21 financial year. Angel investing is more than just...
Investor Reps: Want to really help an early stage company?
Angel Members have the opportunity to put their experience, skills and connections to work by taking on the role of an Investor Director or Investor Representative in one of the companies they invest in. Being an Investor Rep is a fantastic role which aims to maximise...
Employer of Choice
The world of work is changing rapidly, and attracting people with the right skills and experience is proving a challenge in our region and beyond. Therefore, it's never been more important for businesses to stand out as an ‘employer of choice’ to attract and retain...
Key tips for Founders starting on their journey
Since we began back in 2008 we have met many entrepreneurs with different ideas, products and concepts, some have gone on to succeed and others not, but all have learnt valuable lessons on the way. Below are some tips Jake Hoffart our Investment Associate has for...
FY2021: The year that was virtually unique and uniquely virtual
The end of the financial year is a good time to take stock and consider how far we have come. I reflected on my last annual wrap-up at the end of 2019 and had a laugh about the title ‘Goodbye 2019, here’s to an awesome 2020’. To be fair, it was awesome for a lot...
Focus on New Zealand Start-Ups
Enterprise Angels third investment fund, EA Fund 3, raised $3m and commenced investing in August 2019. So far it has deployed $680k into a range of innovative, high-growth New Zealand start-ups covering everything from AI Edtech to Healthtech to Nanotech to Consumer...
The human piece of the celestial investment landscape
So many screens and faces but how much human connection is really going on? When New Zealand moved into lock down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, like many other organisations we held our events and meetings online and continued to do this until there was minimal risk...
Growing strongly and widening scope to impact investing
Enterprise Angels has been a key component of the Bay of Plenty’s entrepreneurial ecosystem since its launch in 2008. The brainchild of Bill Murphy, Enterprise Angels has continued to expand to over 200 members, three well-supported early stage funds, and now -...