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Mark Walsh describes how angel funding, together with SBA Small Business Innovation Research funds can help startups attract venture and private equity capital and eventually go public. (FedScoop/Wyatt Kash)

Silicon Valley may seem like the capital for tech startups and angel investing. But for Mark Walsh, who has made a career of piloting and funding tech startups, nothing quite matches the opportunities he’s seeing now at his offices a few blocks away from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Walsh has had a knack for getting in on the ground floor and building technology and media businesses, starting at Home Box Office in the early days of pay-TV

Image: Mark Walsh describes how angel funding, together with SBA Small Business Innovation Research funds can help startups attract venture and private equity capital and eventually go public. (FedScoop/Wyatt Kash)