Berkeley Angel Network
Education | Building an investor community | Encouraging entrepreneurship
Welcome
The Berkeley Angel Network is a group of angel investors who are alumni, faculty and former faculty of UC Berkeley. We are an affinity group of the Berkeley Haas Alumni Network. The mission of the Berkeley Angel Network is to build an angel investor community among the alumni and faculty of UC Berkeley, and to improve the collective skills and knowledge of this angel investor community through activities related to angel investing.
As many of us have experience in growing successful companies, investing in successful companies and/or both of the above, we strive to promote entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education within UC Berkeley and the alumni community.
Angels
If you are an angel investor who is a UC Berkeley alum or current or former faculty member with a passion for the UC Berkeley community, you may wish to consider becoming involved with the Berkeley Angel Network.
Membership & Participation
Criteria for Membership & Participation in Pitch Meetings:
- You are a UC Berkeley alumnus/a or current or former faculty member; and
- You are an accredited investor, as defined in SEC Regulation D, Rule 501, and www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm
These are also the criteria for membership in our Linkedin group. When attending pitch meetings, you will be asked to complete and agree to the terms of the Accredited Investor Qualification Questionnaire.
The Berkeley Angel Network reserves the right to require in its discretion other or additional criteria for membership and/or participation in pitch meetings.
All investments in entrepreneurial companies involve a high degree of risk, and investors should be able to bear the risk of complete financial loss. It is important that you understand that you, and not the Berkeley Angel Network or its members, will be responsible for your own investment decisions in connection with any companies introduced through the Berkeley Angel Network.
For questions regarding angel investor membership, please use the form to the right or below.
Membership Inquiry
Entrepreneurs
We generally look for the types of indicia of success expected by venture capital and other investors. For example, we like to see strengths in the team, potential market, technology and business model. We like to see proof of market through sales, customer adoption or a strong case for customer need for the proposed solution.
We like to see capital-efficient proposals that will allow companies in which we invest to achieve growth and success without the need for large amounts of follow-on investment.
The Berkeley Angel Network is particularly interested in seeing companies that are formed by students and/or alumni of UC Berkeley, or that are based on technology from UC Berkeley. However, companies considered for investment are not necessarily limited to such a connection.
Application Process & Guidelines
We are now accepting applications for our July 18, 2023 meeting. Deadline: June 16, 2023.
- Please click here for process and schedule.
- Please click here for suggested content for applications and presentations.
After reading the above information regarding process and schedule and suggested content, click here to submit your application. Be sure to answer all “Additional Questions” in your application; these constitute our custom questionnaire, the answers to which are required for you to be able to hit the “submit button.”
If you still have questions after reading the above information regarding process and schedule and suggested content, you may contact us with the form to the right or below (for general questions, not applications).
Entrepreneur Questions
About Us
The Berkeley Angel Network is a group of angel investors who are alumni, faculty and former faculty of UC Berkeley. The mission of the Berkeley Angel Network is to build an angel investor community among the alumni and faculty of UC Berkeley, and to improve the collective skills and knowledge of this angel investor community through activities related to angel investing.
As many of us have experience in growing successful companies, investing in successful companies and/or both of the above, we strive to promote entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education within UC Berkeley and the alumni community.
Calendar
Upcoming Events:
Pitch meeting, tentatively July 18, 2023 (by invitation)
Pitch meeting, tentatively October 24, 2023 (by invitation)
Ongoing Events:
We host a regular cycle of meetings in which entrepreneurs present to our group. We also host educational and other events.
We anticipate approximately four company pitch meetings per year taking place at locations in the San Francisco Bay area.
Attendance is by invitation only.
Past Events (past pitches listed separately below):
Panel discussion April 27, 2023, “New Venture Finance: Venture Capital & Angel Funding” in-person in Palo Alto
Zoomside Panel Discussion – New Venture Finance, May 26, 2021 (by BerkeleyHaas Silcon Valley Chapter)
Game Night, April 12, 2021, online
Zoomside Panel Discussion – New Venture Finance, May 20, 2020, online
Holiday Party, December 10, 2019, Palo Alto, California
Holiday Party, December 4, 2018, San Francisco, California
Saturday Afternoon Celebration, September 8, 2018, San Francisco
Angel Panel: Berkeley Angel Network, Wharton Alumni Angels, MIT Alumni Angels, June 21, 2018, Berkeley Skydeck
Holiday Party, December 4, 2017
Angel Academy: Deal Diligence with Berkeley Angel Network and Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, October 5, 2017, Palo Alto, California
Entrepreneur Seminar: Alumni Angel Groups with Berkeley Angel Network, Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs and Harvard (HBS) Alumni Angels, August 24, 2017, Palo Alto, CA
Angel Investing Academy: Structuring Financings, February 23 and March 7, 2017, San Francisco and Palo Alto, California
Holiday party, December 13, 2016
Venture Capital Meetup, May 19, 2016, San Mateo, California
Due Diligence Academy, March 16, 2016, Palo Alto, California
Venture Capital Meetup, February 29, 2016, Portola Valley, California
Holiday party, December 2, 2015, San Francisco, California
Movie Night: Something Ventured, May 19, 2015, San Francisco, California
Dinner seminar, April 6, 2015, Palo Alto, California
Syndicate Deals with Online Equity Funding Platforms (multi angel group event), February 27, 2015
Member holiday party, December 7, 2014, San Francisco, California
Term Sheet Academy (Notes), June 10, 2014, Palo Alto, California
Term Sheet Academy (Stock), June 5, 2014, Palo Alto, California
Evening with a Venture Capitalist, May 12, 2014, San Francisco, California
Berkeley Angel Network panel at CITRIS, April 28, 2014, Berkeley, California
Lunch with Volta Ventures from Belgium, March 4, 2014
Kickoff Reception for 2014, January 21, 2014
Professor Robert E. Wiltbank on angel returns, October 15, 2013, Mountain View, California.
Investor Academy: Term Sheet Academy, March 19, 2013
Berkeley Skydeck Practice Pitch Session, October 15, 2012
Investor Academy: Due Diligence in Angel Investing, July 26, 2012
Berkeley Angel Network at Skydeck, “Analyze This: Inside the Mind of the Angel Investor.” June 6, 2012. More about Skydeck
Past pitch events:
April 25, 2023
January 30, 2023
October 18, 2022
May 9, 2022
February 8, 2022
October 26, 2021
May 24, 2021
February 10, 2021
October 6, 2020
February 10, 2020
October 15, 2019
April 30, 2019
February 13, 2019
October 29, 2018
July 31, 2018
April 24, 2018
February 5, 2018
November 1, 2017
July 31, 2017
May 16, 2017
January 31, 2017
October 17, 2016
July 12, 2016
April 26, 2016
January 27, 2016
October 17, 2016
July 12, 2016
April 26, 2016
January 27, 2016
October 13, 2015
July 8, 2015
April 27, 2015
January 28, 2015
November 3, 2014
September 17, 2014
June 23, 2014
March 31, 2014
December 11, 2013
September 19, 2013
June 26, 2013
April 10, 2013
December 5, 2012
September 13, 2012
April 17, 2012
January 31, 2012