Our Mission

  • Stimulate Seed Stage Capital Formation in the Research Triangle Park region:
    • Conduct a process that improves the quality of deal flow
    • Elevate investor due diligence efforts to a higher, more meaningful, execution driven, revenue centric focus
    • Utilize our Individual and collective member experiences, contacts and connections to assist entrepreneurs
    • Work with less experienced investor members and entrepreneurs to foster greater awareness and knowledge of both angel investing and entrepreneurship
    • Foster additional capital formation
    • Identifying additional funding sources outside our region, through syndication, strategic partnering, corporate investor(s), and individual accredited investor contacts known by our members.
  • Function as a proactive group of members striving to foster positive liquidity events:
    • Apply a thorough and methodical approach to our due diligence efforts
    • Drive milestone achievements
    • Providing creative approaches to overcome adversities
    • Provide value and risk mitigation techniques
    • Take active leadership roles in management and/or on the Board of Directors of the companies in which we invest
    • Aggressively seek appropriate strategic exit partners