Just how active are “angel” groups—the associations often made up of wealthy individuals who want to fund very young start-ups—these days? They haven’t been shy, according to a new report that is set to be released Thursday at the Angel Capital Association Summit in Austin, Texas.
The report—the first one to be compiled by the Angel Resource Institute, Silicon Valley Bank and CB Insights–looked at 573 start-up deals nationwide in 2011 where $873.3 million was invested by angel groups, often along with individual angel investors and other institutional investors. The report found that angel groups bumped up the median size of their fundings over the past year to $700,000, up 40% from the median $500,000 round size in 2010.
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