Why You Should Move Your Angel Group Online

Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.

As the world moves online, so you should move your angel network online as well.

This includes your screening process, presentation meetings, diligence process, and education sessions. 

The screening process can be made more efficient by capturing 1-3 minute pitch videos from those applying to pitch to your group.

These videos can be viewed individually or as a group, such as your screening committee.

Investor members can join an online meeting to discuss and vote, or they could vote individually.

You can source deals from a wider network as you’re no longer limited to those in your geographic area.

Move your presentation online so more members can access them live or by recording.

Investors can use online tools for formulating their questions.

The online format can also facilitate investors sharing their thoughts, concerns, and questions about the deals with other investors in the group.

For diligence, you can use tools such as a Slack channel for your group to share information and follow the diligence process.  

Through Slack, you can capture questions and feedback. You can create a separate channel for communications with the startup raising funding. 

Online tools can help run a standardized process for diligence.

Use recorded calls to capture the results and make them available to others.

Online tools can facilitate education courses about angel investing you can provide your members.   

You can create a library of content for your members, both present and future.  An online education format lets you source content from other groups.  

Online meetings can augment your group rather than replace the physical meetings entirely.  Social and networking events can continue for members to meet each other.


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On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Matteo Scarabelli, Director of Insight at L Marks.

Headquartered in London, England, and founded in 2014, L Marks is an investment and innovation advisory firm, specialising in applied corporate innovation. Working with some of the worlds’ best-known brands, including, BMW Group, Lloyd's of London, Arsenal FC, and EDF Energy, L Marks identifies challenges and opportunities and creates bridges to access technological innovations from start-ups and scale-ups from around the world. Having created 70 innovation labs across a variety of sectors, L Marks is the UK's largest operator of corporate accelerators and has exported its methodology into Europe, Japan, and the U.S.

Matteo has 10 years of experience working with and investing in early-stage B2B and B2B2C digital businesses. He has broad experience as an operator in small scaling organisations, in portfolio companies’ management at board level, helping with strategy skillset, and a broad network in the European investment ecosystem.

As Director of Insight, Matteo currently leads the investment and intelligence work at L Marks. He manages both the Scouting team, as well as the Insights team, interacting and gaining insights from external mentors, investors, and startup support partners. Previously as Head of Investment at L Marks, Matteo ensured the smartest investments across all the programmes and also supported the startup portfolio in their growth, where he leveraged his broad experience of the startup world, drawing on past operational roles at VC-backed startups, and support for numerous startups from due diligence to further investment.

Matteo discusses how he helps startup and growth companies, some of the challenges they face, and what their focus should be. He speaks about under and over investing, and more.

You can visit L Marks at www.lmarks.com, via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/l-marks/, and via Twitter at www.twitter.com/lmarks.  

Matteo can be contacted via email at matteo@lmarks.com, and via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/matteoscarabelli.
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