Send me an angel, VC or a private equity fund…or all of the above.
| Feb 27th, 2011 | Filed under: Private Equity, Today's Post | By: AAA Staff |
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~The wise man said just walk this way
To the dawn of the light
The wind will blow into your face
As the years pass you by
Hear this voice from deep inside
It’s the call of your heart
Close your eyes and your will find
The passage out of the darkHere I am
Will you send me an angel
Here I am
In the land of the morning star~
So go the lyrics to Scorpions’ 1980s ballad “Send me an Angel”, which appropriately sum up how investors are viewing potential angel investing opportunities, according to a recent survey.
The report, by Pepperdine Private Capital Markets (click here to view) not only indicates that angel investing is increasingly taking on the look and feel of venture capital, but is also broadly developing into its own separate asset class. And angel investing already has specific subsectors and investment stages that high-net-worth investors are gravitating towards in their ongoing search for alpha and portfolio diversification.
Off the bat, angel investing is not what one might consider part of the alternative investment conversation; most who invest in hedge funds don’t write checks in exchange for large ownership stakes and the hope that what they’re investing in will succeed in the same vein as Facebook or Google.
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