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Follow on Google News | Trellis Social Enterprise Wins $130,000 Grand Prize at OKGN Angel SummitThe OKGN Angel Summit is an experiential program to help new Angel Investors learn about how to be effective and successful investors, and is modelled after what John Sechrest started in the Seattle Angel Conference.
By: Trellis Social Enterprise 44 local startups participated in an exhaustive 11-week series of structured meetings consisting of founder pitches, company reviews, and due diligence. Last night provided a final opportunity for the five remaining companies to compete for the Summit's grand prize before a sold-out audience of investors and tech leaders. Founded in 2018, the Trellis platform makes charity fundraising easy, powering events like the Kelowna Jaycees' Rene Bourgault Legacy Golf Tournament (https://trellis.org/ The funding Trellis received will be used for new team hires, product development and scalable market growth to meet both long and short term company goals. 27 investors from across the Okanagan came together, individually investing $5,000 and creating a venture capital fund worth upwards of $125,000. Richard Takai, Lead Investor at OKGN Angel Summit, is delighted by this increasing awareness about angel investing saying, "There is just an incredible level of enthusiasm for this whole process." As Trellis CEO Justin Goodhew puts it, "Working with the angels who are promoting growth has been a humbling and exhilarating experience. As the Okanagan's leading investors and fund groups support us with their wealth of knowledge, expertise and networks, it's phenomenal having our community champion us and believe in the work we are doing to promote events for good across Canada and beyond." "We knew this Summit would be an amazing opportunity to connect local investors with local startups," says Thuy Tran, Summit Director and Programs Manager at Accelerate Okanagan. The OKGN Angel Summit is an experiential program to help new Angel Investors learn about how to be effective and successful investors. Modelled after what John Sechrest started in the Seattle Angel Conference, Sechrest sees this as an opportunity (https://okanaganedge.net/ As investment opportunities like the OKGN Angel Summit provide new openings for Trellis and other local companies, only good things will come for the communities of the Okanagan. When equipped with the right tools, people can be profound forces for change. End
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