Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic Announces March 2015 Meeting Schedule

PHILADELPHIA - March 18, 2015 - PRLog -- Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic has recently announced its full meeting schedule for March 2015. These meetings are designed to invoke discussion on a wide range of different topics including the culture of entrepreneurs and more.

The Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic New York chapter will hold its meeting on Tuesday, March 24 from 8:30AM to 12:30PM at 345 Park Avenue in New York City. The meeting will be held at the Loeb & Loeb location and will be open to members, guests, sponsors, partners and all presenting entrepreneurs.

The Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic Philadelphia chapter will have its forum meeting on Wednesday, March 25 from 8:00AM to 12:00PM on the 12th floor of the Cira Center at 2929 Arch Street.

The Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic Washington, DC chapter will have its meeting on Thursday, March 26 from 9:00AM to 1:00PM at 1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW.

The Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic Pittsburgh chapter will have its meeting on Friday, March 27 from 8:30AM to 12:30PM on the 27th floor of 5th Avenue Place.

Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic is actively looking for female investors, as they are beginning to take a more active role in angel investing. Only a decade ago, women made up less than 10 percent of angel investors. Now that number is closer to 20 percent, according to a recent Bloomberg article. Women are said to control 80 percent of all consumer spending and, as a result, are now moving into a much more powerful position with regards to investing as well. In 2014 alone, angel investors participated in over 67,000 deals for a total of $23 billion dollars.

Additionally, it's important to note that there are only a few days left to take advantage of the Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic "Founding Member" status. The status will disappear from all area chapters forever as of March 31, 2015. In exchange for a significant time commitment that includes leading one Due Diligence project each year while working on two others, every "Founding Member" will pay only half of the full member amount that they normally would. These "Founding Member" positions are already gone from the Philadelphia and Pittsburg chapters, though New York and Washington, DC still have positions available.

In addition to the aforementioned responsibilities, "Founding Members" will also need to bring qualified, accredited investor guests to the types of meetings that Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic are having on a monthly basis across the United States - including the ones that are taking place in March.

To find out additional information about the Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic March 2015 meeting schedule, or about the limited opportunity to obtain "Founding Member" status in a particular chapter, visit the organization's official website at www.KeiretsuForum-MidAtlantic.com.

About Keiretsu Forum

Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 1400 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. Of the 36 funding applications submitted, about 10 are then vetted by members at monthly screening meetings. There, 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 1400+ members post information about their companies on the organization’s online global deal room for reference. For global information visit: www.KeiretsuForum.com.

K4-MA Contact
Howard Lubert
Mid-Atlantic Region Co-Founder and Area President
Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic
HLubert@KeiretsuForum.net

Media Contact
Kosi Harris
Percepture
kosi@percepture.com

*Due to the new SEC 506(c) ruling made in September 2013, Keiretsu Forum cannot disclose the names of the companies that will be presented at these events until after funding is received.