Join us for a conversation with two veteran Angel Investors: Annie Evans of Dream Ventures and Kelley Arena of Golden Hour Ventures, moderated by Abby Sugar, Fractional Executive & Strategic Advisor. We'll hear how they approach and assess startup investment targets and what they consider to be the deciding factors that can really sway their decision to invest. In other words, we're excited to learn what is their "due diligence" approach to investing in startups that usually don't have enough data for a more rigorous process.
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Dream Ventures is a community that connects women to capital through their early stage accelerator and angel syndicates that invest in iconic companies disrupting the status quo. Annie Evans, founder of Dream Ventures has invested & sourced over 25M for women led ventures including Copper, Topicals, WTHN, Brightland, Partake Foods & Another Tomorrow to name a few! Annie has a community of 500+ angel investors (C level executives, content creators, founders, strategic experts & operators) who join her angel syndicates.
Kelley Arena is the founder of Golden Hour Ventures, angel investor, consultant for women-founded business, and advocate for women in finance. She began her career at a professional football franchise (go Eagles!), rotated through various operating companies at Johnson & Johnson, and moved to investment banking at Merrill Lynch, specializing in public finance and healthcare. Kelley founded Golden Hour Ventures, with one mission in mind: to Make Women Rich. The goal is to activate a new class of female angel investors, bring women closer to their finances, realize the power of our collective consumption, and divert the flow of venture capital from 98% male founded companies to…something more equitable. Kelley has consulted with dozens of brands, and loves helping founders find their voice. She has a portfolio of 23 companies, boasting 21 companies founded by women. She is a proud mother of two wild boys, an advocate for students with special needs, and a regular volunteer with mentoring formerly incarcerated people reentering the job force.
Dream Ventures and Golden Hour Ventures co-lead an accelerator for early stage female founders raising their 1st round of capital, 200+ women have graduated since launching January 2022 & gone on to raise 10M+.