Venture Capital: Firm matches investors with entrepreneurs
Venture Capital: Firm matches investors with entrepreneurs
Paladin Partners' Janis Machala -- the queen of Seattle's startup scene -- has quietly expanded her 10-year-old consulting business to include a new matchmaking service that connects entrepreneurs with angel investors, venture capitalists and private equity firms.
The new business unit, which has been in development for the past year and operates under the name Capital Advisory Services, is really an extension of the entrepreneurial soirées that Machala occasionally hosts at her Kirkland home.
But Machala said this takes the idea a step further, formalizing and strengthening the tricky process of connecting entrepreneurs and investors. "You can only hit so many people at an event like that," said Machala, who will continue to host parties in which entrepreneurs pitch their business plans to investors.
With the climate for venture capital and angel investing improving and an abundance of stealth startups popping up all over Seattle, Machala said it was a good time to create a group that helps early-stage businesses attract qualified investors.
Machala is not alone in her thinking. At least two other new angel investment groups are forming in Seattle -- signaling a potential rebound for those high-net-worth investors who lost their shirts on Internet investments in the late '90s.
"Angel investing has not come back to where it was," admits M. Todd Dean, president of the newly formed Seattle chapter of the Keiretsu Forum, a nationwide angel investment network that will host its inaugural event in downtown Seattle next month. "But it has picked up drastically in the last year."
Read more here.
Paladin Partners' Janis Machala -- the queen of Seattle's startup scene -- has quietly expanded her 10-year-old consulting business to include a new matchmaking service that connects entrepreneurs with angel investors, venture capitalists and private equity firms.
The new business unit, which has been in development for the past year and operates under the name Capital Advisory Services, is really an extension of the entrepreneurial soirées that Machala occasionally hosts at her Kirkland home.
But Machala said this takes the idea a step further, formalizing and strengthening the tricky process of connecting entrepreneurs and investors. "You can only hit so many people at an event like that," said Machala, who will continue to host parties in which entrepreneurs pitch their business plans to investors.
With the climate for venture capital and angel investing improving and an abundance of stealth startups popping up all over Seattle, Machala said it was a good time to create a group that helps early-stage businesses attract qualified investors.
Machala is not alone in her thinking. At least two other new angel investment groups are forming in Seattle -- signaling a potential rebound for those high-net-worth investors who lost their shirts on Internet investments in the late '90s.
"Angel investing has not come back to where it was," admits M. Todd Dean, president of the newly formed Seattle chapter of the Keiretsu Forum, a nationwide angel investment network that will host its inaugural event in downtown Seattle next month. "But it has picked up drastically in the last year."
Read more here.
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