intro to angel investing in austin

Intro to Angel Investing

in Austin

by @joshuaBaer

Joshua BaerFounder of Capital FactoryUniversity of Texas at AustinCarnegie Mellon University

What I look for• Any tech startup in Austin

• Any email startup anywhere

• Local businesses that cashflow

• A product that I can use in my business or personally

• Founders who I like and trust

• A business model I understand

• How I can help besides money

Austin vs. valley

• Lower valuations - $3m average starting point

• No uncapped notes

• Growth vs. Revenue

• What else?

Recent Success• Black Locus > Home Depot

• Boundless > Zazzle

• Dachis Group > Spriklr

• Food on the Table > Food Network

• Gazzang > Cloudera

• Mass Relevance > Spredfast

• MapMyFitness > Under Armor

• Ridescout > Car2Go

• Spanning > EMC

Up and coming• DrillingInfo

• Edgecase

• Eagle Eye Networks

• Impossible Ventures

• Main Street Hub

• Outbound Engine

• PostUp

• Spredfast

• Sparefoot.com

• Spiceworks

• Umbel

• uShip

• WP Engine

800 lB Gorillas• Apple

• Atlassian

• Bazaarvoice

• BigCommerce

• Box

• Dell

• Dropbox

• Facebook

• Google

• HomeAway

• IBM

• Indeed

• Microsoft

• RetailMeNot

• SolarWinds

Bob MetcalfeInventor of EthernetFounder of 3ComProfessor of Innovation

Longhorn Startup SPRING Demo Day

LBJ Library Auditorium University of Texas at Austin Thursday, April 30 5pm-10pm http://lsdemoday.eventbrite.com

Pitch Events• Texas Venture Labs Investment

Competition (February)

• SXSW Accelerator (March)

• Capital Factory Demo Day at SXSW (March)

• Techstars Demo Day (June 2015?)

• Global Venture Labs Investment Competition (May)

• Capital Factory Demo Day at Startup Week (October)

• Innotech Beta Summit (October)

• SKU Demo Day

• ATI Clean Tech & Wireless Forums

• CTAN Presentation Day (5x)

• House of Genius

Accelerators• Austin Technology Incubator (UT affiliated) @ATI_UT

• Bunker (veterans) @TheBunkerAustin

• Capital Factory (tech) @CapitalFactory @JoshuaBaer

• International Accelerator @IntlAccelerator

• Longhorn Startup Lab (UT Austin students) @LonghornStartup

• SKU (consumer packaged goods) @SKUatx (formerly Incubation Station)

• SXSW Accelerator

• Techstars (tech) @Techstars @Seats

• Medical Innovation Labs (medical devices)

• Unltd USA (social good) @UnLtdUSA

Intro to Austin Accelerators 2nd Tuesday of each month at 4pm

Accelerator

• Introductions to angel investors, mentors, customers, strategic partners, employees

• $200,000 in hosting credits at Amazon, Google, Rackspace, Microsoft, Softlayer

• First priority on offices and desks at Capital Factory

• Access to $150,000+ in matching funds from Capital Factory, Silverton, FLOODGATE and our AngelList Syndicate

Revolutionizing the $24 Billion self storage industry

180 employees - $26 million funding insight Partners

wordpress hosting Platform for business

150 employees - $18 million funding Northbridge

$6 Million Funding CHarles River Ventures, A16Z

• One of the most active angel groups in the country

• >100 members

• Not just tech

• Bi-monthly application cycle

• Monthly office hours

• Rick Timmins is the Chairman

• Claire England is the Executive Director

Top Austin Angels• Joshua Baer

• Ross Buhrdorf

• Andrew Busey

• Dan Graham

• Russell Hinds

• Brett Hurt

• Mellie Price

• Rony Kahan

• Jason Seats

• Rob Taylor

• Rick Timmins

• Mikey Trafton

• Joel Trammell

• You?

venture capital

• Austin Ventures Mike Dodd, Tom Ball, Chris Pacitti

• Silverton Partners Jon Bassett, Morgan Flager

• Live Oak Venture Partners Venu Shamapant

• Mercury Fund Aziz Gilani, Ned Hill

• S3 Ventures (enterprise + health) Rajiv Bala

• Sante Ventures (biotech) Kevin Lalande

Startup Lawyers

• KHGR Evan Kastner

• Jones-Spross Brian Spross

• Wilson Sonsini (WSGR) Brian Beard & Paul Tobias

• Andrews-Kurth Matt Lyons

• DLA Piper Paul Hurdlow

• Sprinkle Law Steve Sprinkle (IP)

Blogs• Bryan Menell - Austin Startup

austinstartup.com

• Jason Cohen - ASmartBear asmartbear.com

• Brett Hurt - Lucky7 lucky7.io

• Gordon Daugherty - Shockwaveshockwaveinnovations.com

• Ash Maurya - Running Leanpracticetrumpstheory.com

• Kip McClanahan - ReOverthinkingreoverthinking.com

• Silicon Hills Newssiliconhillsnews.com

• WeAreAustinTechweareaustintech.com

• Silicon Hills Lawsiliconhillslawyer.com

• Joshua Baer - Austinpreneuraustinpreneur.com

FACEBOOK

• Austin Startupshttp://facebook.com/groups/austinstartups

• Austin Angel Investors http://facebook.com/groups/ATXAngelInvestors

• What else?

Twitter

Twitter

reserves

If things go

well

the startup needs more money

If things go

BAD

the startup needs more money

Rick Timmins Chairman

ask me anything• Angel Investors

• Venture Capital

• Incubators/Accelerators

• Coffee Shops

• Coworking Spaces

• Banks

• Lawyers

• Real Estate Reps

• Dev Shops

• Associations

• Hack-a-thons

• Finding a Co-Founder

• Local Tech Reporters

• Meetups

• Blogs

• Hardware

• Women in Tech

• Startup Games

• Capital Factory

• Google

• Dell

• Longhorn Startup

• UT Austin

• St. Edwards University

• Recruiting Firms

• PR Firms

• Crowdfunding

Associations• Austin Chamber Michele Skelding

• Austin Technology Council (ATC) Julie Huls

• Brazos Tech District

• Downtown Austin Alliance (DAA)

• Entrepreneur’s Foundation (EF) Eugene Sepulveda

• Leadership Austin Ashley Phillips

• Rice Alliance Robert McKee

• Texchange

• Young Entrepreur’s Organization (YEO) / Young President’s Organization (YPO)

• Young Men’s / Young Women’s Business League (YMBL)

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