Investing in startups as an angel investor can be extraordinarily rewarding: Financially (100x or even 1,000x your initial investment), intellectually (you support smart people in various spaces) and for your social capital by improving your network of founders & fellow investors.
However, it’s not easy to be a great angel investor. How to see good deals? How to assess them? How to win deals? How to think about your portfolio? How to efficiently combine it with my full-time operator role? And why am I doing this in the first place? …
It’s no rocket science – you can figure it out on the fly. Yet, this often means wasting time, money and pursuing things you might regret later on. What if there was a way to help you avoid this?
The Operator-Angel Collective (TOAC) is a thoughtfully put-together series of intimate congregations in the heart of Berlin. We want to enable up-and-coming operator-angels to
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“Starting a company is like throwing yourself off a cliff and assembling the aeroplane on the way down.” - Reid Hoffman
Founding a startup is undoubtedly very hard, yet, having the right investors early in the journey can make a huge difference – even for the best founders. We strongly believe that angel investors who are currently building their own company or have done so recently can make a big difference. It’s the smartest money a founder can take. We exist to catalyse more of that.