We launched our angel group final month and held our first AMA. Now we need to set out slightly extra about how we see the group working and how one can get entangled. Should you’re an lively angel that hasn’t registered, click on right here.

Our imaginative and prescient for the Playfair Angel Group is to be a spot the place angels can share funding alternatives, be taught from their friends (and us), and spend time attending to know one another at our common social occasions.

You may learn extra about our ‘Entry For All Angels’ philosophy right here.

So how precisely is it going to work in observe?

What am I going to get out of it?

How do I contribute?

We’ve tried to reply these prime degree questions and people requested at our first AMA under. When you’ve got any others, please contact us: angels@playfair.vc

Entry to curated alternatives

We’ll share direct funding alternatives through e mail now and again that match the standards you submitted when your registered with us.

There will probably be two forms of alternative:

Playfair is investing and (co-)main the spherical

We’ll share with the founder a listing of angels which might be a match for the spherical based mostly in your earlier expertise, sector experience and areas of curiosity. The founder will evaluate and, based mostly on their particular person strategy, we are going to then make direct introductions so that you can communicate with the founder.

We solely make 6–8 investments per yr so you need to count on a low quantity of nicely focused firms. You may learn extra about our strategy right here.

We intention to order 10% of our allocation for angels in each spherical.

Playfair shouldn’t be investing, however it may very well be enticing

We’ll share through e mail a small numbers of firms every year that we aren’t investing in, however nonetheless may very well be enticing for an angel.

There are various causes an funding shouldn’t be for us (portfolio battle/ overlap, issues about final exit potential, and so forth.), however may very well be a very good match for an angel and different funds. In case you are eager to search out out extra concerning the firm, reply to our e mail and we are going to join you with the founder.

Should you haven’t but achieved it, please add your angel expertise to your LinkedIn profile and guarantee it’s up to date. This ensures that after we share your profile with founders they’re seeing the very best on-line model of you.

If you wish to share alternatives (pitch decks) with us, you are able to do this straight through angels@playfair.vc which is all the time monitored by the workforce 🙏

Market updates and different instructional occasions

We’ll maintain common AMA classes with the Playfair workforce (just like the one we held earlier this month) in addition to peer to look classes the place you’ll be able to be taught from different angels within the ecosystem.

That is an space we wish to construct out over the approaching months, so you probably have concepts for occasions that might be helpful for you, please do share.

Invites to our social occasions

Being an angel might be fairly a lonely expertise so we need to use our social occasions to convey you collectively along with your friends. No agenda. Solely the shortest of welcome feedback. And a relaxed setting open to all people in our group. The primary one is in Central London on 21 November and we’re wanting ahead to seeing lots of you there. Invitations to comply with.