Afore Capital: The Pre-Seed VC Firm Betting on Founders Before Anyone Else
TL;DR: Afore Capital closed a $185M Fund IV in February 2025, bringing total AUM to $500M across four funds. The San Francisco firm has backed 200+ companies that now carry a combined valuation...
May 30, 2026
Yieldstreet (Now Willow Wealth) Review 2026: $208M in Losses and a Rebrand
Yieldstreet (Now Willow Wealth) Review 2026: $208M in Losses and a Rebrand By Jeff Barnes, MBA | Angel Investors Network | Updated May 2026 TL;DR Yieldstreet rebranded to Willow Wealth on October...
May 30, 2026
ROFR in Venture Capital: How Right of First Refusal Actually Works in Deals
TL;DR: In December 2021, SpaceX exercised its contractual Right of First Refusal on 81% of a fund stake, with Elon Musk personally acquiring those shares to block a Chinese investor from the cap...
May 30, 2026
Private Credit in 2026: $1.5 Trillion Market, FSB Systemic Risk Warning, and What Retail Investors Miss
TL;DR Private credit now sits at $1.5–$2 trillion in global AUM. Preqin projects $4.5 trillion by 2030. Senior secured direct lending yields 9–11% all-in today (SOFR ~3.7% plus 550–650 bps...
May 30, 2026
What Is Wellfound? The Startup Job Platform Formerly Known as AngelList Talent
AngelList split itself in two. The talent side got a new name and a different future. In November 2022, one of the most well-known names in startup infrastructure quietly performed a corporate surgery that most people...
May 29, 2026
7 AngelList Alternatives That Actually Work in 2025: A Platform-by-Platform Breakdown
AngelList changed the game, then got complicated. What started in 2010 as a scrappy investor-founder matching board morphed into a layered ecosystem of syndicates, rolling funds, SPVs, and venture funds—each with...
May 29, 2026
Elephant Energy: The Home Electrification Startup Turning IRA Money Into a Scalable Business
The Inflation Reduction Act put more than $567 billion on the table for household electrification over the next decade , touching everything from heat pumps to EV chargers to induction stoves. That is not a rounding...
May 29, 2026
TZP Group: The Lower-Middle-Market Firm That Sold AtData to Experian and Keeps Getting Invited Back
When Experian acquired AtData in February 2026, the deal closed quietly—no splashy press coverage, no announced purchase price. But for anyone tracking lower-middle-market private equity, the transaction carried a...
May 29, 2026
Gaingels: How an LGBTQ+ Angel Syndicate Built One of Venture's Most Powerful Deal Flow Networks
Most angel investors spend years fighting for allocation in top-tier venture rounds. Gaingels solved that problem differently — by building a 4,800-member network so strategically valuable to founders and lead VCs that...
May 29, 2026
How to Build a Pitch Deck That Actually Gets You Meetings
I've reviewed over 2,000 pitch decks. 90% make the same three mistakes in the first four slides. Before I tell you what those mistakes are, here's the number you need to tattoo on your brain: 3 minutes and 44 seconds ....
May 29, 2026
Management Company vs. Fund Entity: What Every LP Should Understand About the Two Entities Collecting Your Money
Most limited partners sign a subscription agreement, wire their capital commitment, and assume they are writing a check to "the fund." That assumption is technically correct — but it misses half the picture. By the time...
May 29, 2026
SPV Investing: How to Structure, Launch, and Profit from a Special Purpose Vehicle
In the spring of 2021, a fintech founder I know closed a $3 million Series A with a single line on her cap table representing 22 individual angel checks. Those angels weren't wealthy enough to write $100,000 tickets on...
May 29, 2026