Leverage your Resources and Relationships to Drive Local Growth  

Are you looking to make a meaningful impact in your community while building personal wealth? Have you ever wondered how you can support local entrepreneurs, even if you don't consider yourself a traditional "wealthy" investor? Then Main Street Angels is the answer for you.

Main Street Angels is a financial education and experiential learning program designed to provide insight into the world of angel investing. Through a mix of expert-led training sessions and relationship-building opportunities, you will learn the step-by-step process of finding, evaluating, and funding businesses in your local community. You will meet local entrepreneurs, evaluate real pitches, and decide how you can help open doors and unlock capital for businesses in your community. Ultimately, Main Street Angels empowers you to support the entrepreneurs you care about while fostering a more inclusive and resilient local economy.

 

By participating in Main Street Angels, you’ll gain a clearer understanding of:  

Who Can Be an Angel: We will shatter the myth that angel investing is only for the ultra-rich and explain the rules for accredited and non-accredited investors.  

The Role of a Personal Investment Thesis: We outline how to define your investment goals and use your thesis to guide investment decisions.  

Deal Evaluation: Learn the critical steps for sourcing deals, rapidly screening opportunities, and identifying the criteria to consider when conducting due diligence.

How Local Investing Drives Economic Growth: Serve as a stabilizing force for emerging entrepreneurs, keeping your community's economic engine running and fueling local job creation.

Business Funding Mechanics: Gain clarity on the entrepreneur's capital journey, the differences between debt and equity, and how standard investment instruments like SAFEs work.

  

In addition, you’ll be able to expand your own professional network while connecting with a powerful community of entrepreneurs, professionals, and seasoned and new angel investors.

Have you heard enough? Complete our form to reserve your spot for an upcoming session!

About Capital Circles

Capital Circles is a place-based model designed to address the long-standing problem of unequal access to capital. The initiative brings urgent, focused attention to both the supply and demand sides of the capital access challenge by creating scalable, relationship-based funding pathways.    

We are committed to building a "Circle of Support" around our local entrepreneurs that includes mentorship, strategic guidance, and crucially, access to check-writers. This opportunity is designed to create connections between local entrepreneurs and business professionals who are committed to supporting the local ecosystem.  Our goal is for members of the community to gain the knowledge and confidence they need to support and invest in local businesses as they grow to the next level.

Main Street Angels is a program of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Right to Revoke or Deny Registration: The Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership and its programs reserve the right to deny or revoke registration for any participant whose identity or provided information cannot be verified to the organization’s satisfaction. This policy is intended to ensure the integrity and security of our programs, events, and community.

Notice of Nondiscrimination: The Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status in any of its activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, the application to any programs, hiring and firing of staff or contractors, selection of volunteers, selection of vendors, and providing of services.

  

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