NM Angels Defy National Trend of Shrinking Funding
As published by the Albuquerque Business First Apr 24, 2013, 12:06pm MDT by Dan Mayfield, Reporter 505.348.8308 | dmayfield@bizjournals.com Nationally, angel investment hasn’t rebounded from the Great Recession. But locally, at least, New Mexico is heading in the right direction, John Chavez, president of the New Mexico Angels, said Wednesday at the Economic Forum of Albuquerque. Nationally, the median angel investment has stayed relatively the same at around $600,000 for the last three years, according to the Angel Resource Institute. The New Mexico Angels —…
ABQ Economic Forum Presentation
The Economic Forum of Albuquerque will be hosting NMA’s John Chavez to speak about Angel Capital investment activity on April 24, 2013. The Forum’s mission is to ” inform leadership from business, government and education for the purpose of improving the quality of jobs, education and the economic welfare of our community”. For more information about the group, please visit their website: http://www.econ-forum.com/index.html
Chavez Keynote Speaker at STC Awards
STC.UNM hosted their 10th Annual Innovation Awards with NMA’s John Chavez as their Keynote Speaker. The awards were given to 45 University of New Mexico inventors and creators for their 2012 issued patents, registered copyrights and issued trademarks. Additionally, the 2013 Innovation Fellow was awarded to Graham Timmins. This years honorees also included Majeed Hayat and Payman Zarkesh-Ha, the founders of Dynamic Photonics, a New Mexico Start-Up Factory company. For a complete list of the honorees, visit: https://stc.unm.edu/news/news.php?newsid=429.
NMA Attends TVC Deal Stream Summit
ABQ Journal: TVC Deal Stream Summit draws hundreds from across the country The New Mexico Angels attended the TVC Deal Stream Summit to find funding opportunities from a group of per-screened entrepreneurs. The event brought together high-tech start-up companies and investors from across the country. Read the full article by Kevin Robinson-Avila of the Albuquerque Journal. Presenters sought from $350,000 to $7.5 million to further develop their technologies or launch sales and marketing campaigns. Typically, one out of every three technologies gets funding after presenting…
ABQ Journal: Investors finance Vibrant’s growth
Kevin Robinson-Avila at the Albuquerque Journal wrote an article Saturday regarding our recent funding of Lem Hunter’s Vibrant Corporation. An excerpt of the article is below: “Albuquerque-based Vibrant Corp. has raised $680,000 from local investors to help manage rapidly expanding demand for its aircraft-component testing services. The Verge Fund, the New Mexico Angels and other individual investors contributed to Vibrant’s latest capital raise, which brings the company’s total private equity since launching in 2007 to more than $3 million. The new investment provides Vibrant –…
Feature Article in Inc Magazine
John Chavez and the New Mexico Angels were featured in an article by Inc Magazine today. The article “Finding Innovation in the Rough” by Julie Goonewardene outlines how Chavez utilizes university technologies to create start-up companies. An excerpt from the article below. “John Chavez is always on the hunt for the next big idea. Literally. The president of the New Mexico Angels and tax secretary to former governor Gary Johnson spends hours each month trolling the research labs of the University of New Mexico, visiting…
Women’s Entrepreneurial Workshop – Success!
The Angels held a workshop teaching female entrepreneurs in Santa Fe how to grow their companies and prepare for angel funding. Sponsored by WESST and hosted by the Santa Fe Business Incubator, women from different parts of northern New Mexico came out to learn how to: Define their strategic advantage Build a financial team Choose the right business structure for their company Pitch to investors The workshop was a great success, in both presentations and the interactivity from the audience. Thank you to everyone who…
ABQ Journal: Idea Incubator
By Kevin Robinson-Avila / Journal Staff Writer on Mon, Dec 31, 2012 Four new University of New Mexico technologies may be headed for a novel assembly line. Not a product assembly line, but a company-forming incubator where the New Mexico Angels will build the initial foundations to create new businesses that take UNM technologies to market. “We’re in the process of forming the ‘New Mexico Startup Factory LLC,’” said Angels President John Chavez. “It’s a holding company where we’ll take options to license new technologies…
John Chavez Honored as a Top CEO
New Mexico Angels’ President was chosen as one of twenty Top Performing CEO’s by the New Mexico Business Weekly:
N.M. Angels Help Businesswomen Grow Wings – ABQ Journal
In preparation for our Women’s Event on September 18, the Albuquerque Journal profiled the program. The program seeks to educate female entrepreneurs on how to grow their companies. Below is the full article. By Kevin Robinson-Avila / Journal Staff Writer on Fri, Sep 7, 2012 NMA Business Development Advisor, Dorian McKenzie (above) works with start-up companies to establish operations and marketing procedures, as well as creating new companies in New Mexico. The New Mexico Angels are looking for not just a few, but a lot…
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