Ruby Thompson

To call our Angel Fund program hands-on is an understatement: students are embedded as active investing members in Angel investment groups throughout the Pacific Northwest, California, Park City, and Denver evaluating deal flow, performing due diligence, and making investment decisions. We also work on cutting edge research in the fields of angel investing, venture investing, entrepreneurship, and economic development. Each of us does the research. Each of us sits side-by-side with executives, business leaders, and investors as full members in regional angel groups and at angel conferences. And collectively, we all work together to analyze hundreds of potential investment opportunities. And we invest real dollars towards actual early-stage companies. The Willamette Angel Fund is run I conjunction with an elective class in the Atkinson Graduate School of Management called Venture Investing. The class is one to which you must apply and be selected in order to join.

The Park City Angels are a group of 50+ accredited investors located in Park City, Utah. We look to invest in promising opportunities that can produce significant shareholder return. The active lifestyle of Park City has attracted many dynamic and successful business leaders that have deep experience in building world class businesses. We facilitate unique, high-caliber networking and development forums for angel investors and mentors involved in early-stage investment. Mission Our mission is to promote best practice in order to reduce risk in early-stage investments for the benefit of entrepreneurs, investors and the community. Team Our members are drawn from private groups, including investors and mentors who are interested in supporting and/or financing early-stage ventures. Our members have in common a strong desire, willingness, and capability to support ventures. We invest in areas where we believe our group can be a true value-added investor. Within our group is an environment where self help and camaraderie predominate, and where members can develop confidence in their early-stage investment skills. Focus PCA typically invests in companies with pre-money valuations in the range of $5M - $50M, but we occasionally consider opportunities that are outside this range. We welcome and encourage all applicants which meet our criteria to apply.