Attention Aspiring Venture Capitalist: K4-MA to Showcase a Dozen Deals at 15th Angel Capital Expo

PHILADELPHIA - Oct. 13, 2014 - PRLog -- PHILADELPHIA – Miami has been major incubator of new businesses and has been called the most entrepreneurial city in the U.S. The city has a very diverse population, and connections to Latin America make it both a highly appealing place to start a business. Now, non-Florida early-stage venture capitalists are regularly coming to Miami, requesting to see the best tech startups. Miami Herald editor, Nancy Dahlberg, asked Keiretsu Forum’s Miami chapter president John Iman for his insight in an recent article Dahlberg wrote about the emerging trend. “Keiretsu Forum members around the globe typically provide capital in the $250,000 to $2 million range in early-stage companies. Members collaborate in the due-diligence, but make their own investment decisions. South Florida’s members come from a variety of industries, including tech,” Inman said.

The AngelCapital Expo^sm is Keiretsu Forum’s signature event bringing together investors and entrepreneurs looking for funding. The Mid-Atlantic Region of Keiretsu Forum (K4-MA) – is hosting its second East Coast AngelCapital Expo at Drexel University on October 23 from 7:15 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Drexel University's Bassone Building, 32nd and Market Street, Philadelphia, PA. This year’s Expo will be bundled with a series of outstanding entrepreneur and angel investor training sessions. Details are available on the event website (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-k4-mid-atlantic-angel-c...).

“The Angel Capital Expo provides access to a dozen investment opportunities that have been vetted by a trusted source, opportunities to invest across diverse sectors, and entrée to other investors with comparable interests,” said Howard Lubert, founder of Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic Region.

The companies presenting at this year’s Expo will include 12 early-stage companies from a variety of hot sectors including internet-SaaS-cloud technology, healthcare-life sciences-medical devices, consumer products, cleantech/energy solutions, software-security-telecommunications technologies, and real estate.

Attendees of the Expo will include approximately 100 accredited angel investors from K4, area angel groups, independent angel investors, VCs, and family wealth management professionals.

Those who are interested in registering for the Angel Capital Expo can go to https://k4-ma-ace2014.eventbrite.com/ email contact Chuck Carter, VP of Entrepreneur Services, at CCarter@KeiretsuForum-MidAtlantic.com or call +1 (215) 233-0342.

About Keiretsu Forum

Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 1100 accredited investor members throughout 34 chapters on three continents. Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic (www.KeiretsuForum-MidAtlantic.com) consists of four chapters that function as a single entity – Philadelphia, DC, Pittsburgh and New York. Keiretsu is a Japanese term for a group of organizations with interlocking business relationships, and Keiretsu Forum is a group of accredited investors with interlocking investment interests. Each chapter or region meets monthly to present rigorously screened candidates for investments. Keiretsu Forum’s mission is “Great Association with Quality Deal Flow.”

The Mid-Atlantic Region presents approximately five deals a month, 60 a year, to its members and accredited investor guests. Slightly more than 10 percent get funded, which is higher than the industry average. Approximately 36 funding applications are submitted each month to the K4-MA DealRoom website, www.K4-DealRoom.com and vetted by industry specialists. Members at monthly screening meetings then vet about 10 where they participate in a highly structured presentation-and-feedback-learning session. Three to four of the screened companies are then invited to present at subsequent monthly Forum meetings. Entrepreneurs invited to move forward to the Forum meetings must participate in mandatory professional coaching sessions to optimize the delivery of their presentations and also agree to participate in the road show to all four cities in the region, with exposure to approximately 100 investors. Subsequently, all 900+ members post information about their companies on the organization’s online global deal room for reference. For global information visit: www.KeiretsuForum.com.

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