An angel investor is a person who invests money into someone else’s business deal. This definition does not include "friends and family”.
For the purposes of membership qualification of the InvestIN forum, angel investors are:
Accredited*
and
Cut checks to invest in private deals – typically early stage growth companies.
* The SEC definition of an accredited investor is someone who earns over $200,000 a year for three years or for two years if they have a reasonable expectation of earning more than $200,000 in the current year
Or someone who has net worth in excess of $1 million. |