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Follow on Google News |  Third Annual Angel Capital Expo (ACE) Just Days Away – Event Guest Speaker AnnouncedKeiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic Proud to Welcome Wade Brooks, MBA from Willamette University Among Other Speakers
By: Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic The Angel Capital Expo has long been famous for the quantity and quality of its panels and discussions and the upcoming 2015 event is certainly no exception. Wade Brooks, MBA from Willamette University, will be presenting "Angel Funding in North America." Along with his partner Robert Wiltbank, PhD, they're also responsible for producing the HALO Report that tracks and documents angel investing activity happening around the world in association with the Angel Capital Association (ACA), a trade association for angel groups. Mr. Brooks' presentation is sure to shed a wide range of valuable new insights on activities happening not just in North America, but all over the planet. The most recently released HALO Report published a wide range of studies designed to track the type of investments, where they were being made and more, all of which painted a very vivid picture on the state of angel investment today. According to the report, the median seed stage valuations have risen to $3.95 million dollars, which is up 30% over the same valuations from this time in 2014. The state of California also gained an astounding 19.6% share of the total deals that were conducted over the past five years. Another interesting discovery from the HALO Report is that, when a person parses angel investing activity by groups like "east and west" or "north and south," it is essentially evenly distributed across the United States at approximately 50% by 50%, respectively. K4-MA has had its own share of headlines lately in the run up to the Angel Capital Expo, most notably for its sizeable investment in Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. (ITI). ITI is a company responsible for the development of a series of next generation vaccines that are based on the LAMP-vax platform. The return on investment, which was the first portfolio company liquidity event of its kind, was initiated by a $300 million payment from Astellas, a Japanese pharma company to ITI in October, 2015. This will result in a return to Keiretsu Forum investors of about 10 times the original investment. Interested parties looking for additional information about both the public speakers that will be present at the Third Annual East Coast Angel Capital Expo and the wide range of other events that will be taking place over the course of the event are encouraged to visit its official website at http://K4MidAtlanticAngelCapitalExpo2015.eventbrite.com. To learn more about K4-MA in general, please visit its official website at http://www.KeiretsuForum- ### ABOUT KEIRESTU FORUM Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 1500 accredited investor members throughout 39 chapters on three continents. Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic (www.KeiretsuForum- The Mid-Atlantic Region presents approximately five deals a month, 60 a year, to its members and accredited investor guests. Slightly more than 20 percent get funded, which is significantly 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. About 10 are then vetted by members at monthly screening meetings where they participate in a highly structured presentation- Keiretsu Contact Howard Lubert Cell: 917-749-1797 HLubert@KeiretsuForum.net *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. End
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