Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic Announces 15th Angel Capital Expo Hosted By Drexel University

Sept. 12, 2014 - PRLog -- PHILADELPHIA – Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic Region (K4-MA) – with chapters in Philadelphia, DC, Pittsburgh, and New York and part of the global Keiretsu Forum angel network – announced its second East Coast Angel Capital ExpoSM hosted by Drexel University. This ACE event will be the 15th in the Keiretsu Forum Expo series. The expo is designed to foster collaboration among early-stage companies, angel groups and the larger investment community.

The Angel Capital Expo will take place on Thursday, October 23 from 7:15 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Drexel University's Bassone Building (32nd and Market Street) in Philadelphia. The Angel Capital Expo (ACE) was initiated in San Francisco as the signature event of Keiretsu Forum (K4).

Attendees of the Angel Capital Expo will include approximately 200 to 250 accredited angel investors from the Mid-Atlantic region and elsewhere in K4’s global network of 1100+ investors, accredited investors from other area angel groups, independent angel investors, VCs, and family wealth management professionals.

The featured presenters at the Angel Capital Expo will include 10-12 early-stage companies in Internet-SaaS-Cloud technology, healthcare-life sciences-medical devices, consumer products, clean-tech/energy solutions, software-security-telecommunications technologies, and real estate.

There will also be six early-stage “Fast Pitch” presenters from various K4-MA partner technology transfer offices, college and university business plan/idea competitions, and local seed-stage programs.

“Keiretsu Forum investors have monthly access to a small number of quality investment opportunities,” Lubert says. “The Angel Capital Expo will provide 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.”

Visit http://K4MidAtlanticAngelCapitalExpo2014.eventbrite.com to register for the ACE event. Further event details can be found on the K4-MA website at http://www.KeiretsuForum-MidAtlantic.com/Angel-Capital-Expo or received via email from Chuck Carter, VP of Entrepreneur Services, at CCarter@KeiretsuForum-MidAtlantic.com.

About Keiretsu Forum
Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 900 accredited investor members throughout 27 chapters on three continents. Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic (http://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, http://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-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, information about their companies is posted on the organization’s online global deal room for reference by all 900+ members. For global information visit: http://www.KeiretsuForum.com.

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