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Many of us might like the idea of talking to an angel, but for startup entrepreneurs looking for some seed funding, it's a more hard-and-fast type of aspiration.

Many of us might like the idea of talking to an angel, but for startup entrepreneurs looking for some seed funding, it's a more hard-and-fast type of aspiration.

That's "angel" as in angel investor, a philanthropic funder that is willing to take a risk on a young company and usually provide some mentorship along the way. In Canada, there's been a recent hike in angel investor actvity thanks in part to government programs that match dollars invested by those early funders. Organizations in Canada such as the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) are also helping to focus fundraising in what used to be a more ad-hoc system.

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