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David
Amis
David
Amis, 34, has
raised or assisted others in raising over $15m from more than
150 individual investors and has invested as an angel in 15
early stage companies.
He previously served as the Managing Director of Venture
Capital Report Ltd, which has matched over 300 entrepreneurs
with angels. He is the founder of StartUpFund One which invests
alongside other angels in early stage investments. His
investments include:
Interelate, FairAir, and Catalyst Medical.
With Professor Howard
Stevenson, he is the co-author of Winning Angels,
published by
Financial Times Prentice Hall in January 2001. David enjoys
speaking to
audiences of both entrepreneurs and angel investors and has done
so throughout
the USA and Europe.
In 1996 he led the buy-out
of Venture Capital Report (VCR), based in the UK, and
became its Managing
Director. VCR brings entrepreneurs and angels together to do
early stage
deals. It is the oldest capital matchmaker on the planet and
screens 2,000
entrepreneurs annually to identify 200 for introduction
to a closed
distribution base of 800 angel investors. During his tenure,
VCR completed
25 early stage transactions including a $400k capital raise
for Coffee
Republic which later went public generating a 10X return for its
angel
investors.
David focused on
entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance at both the
University of
Southern California (1989) and Harvard Business School (1994)
where he
received several honors including the Porter/Freund Business
Plan Award
and the 1993 Harvard Fellowship for entrepreneurship study in
Europe, among
others.
In 1993
he led an award winning field study team on seed capital networks
supervised
by Jeff Timmons and funded by the Kaufman Foundation.
Click
here to contact David Amis
Howard
Stevenson
Howard
Stevenson, who has made over 80 angel investments, headed the
Entrepreneur Management Unit at Harvard Business School for 18
years. He is
generally a reserve force or silent angel but has participated
in virtually every role including that of founder, member of the
management team, and board member. Howard has authored numerous
books, articles, and cases and is a leading thinker in the areas
of entrepreneurship and angel investing.
Some
of the companies which Howard has backed include: PlanetAll,
ZipDirect, Medivation, Advanced Cell Technology, and Road
Rescue. A typical
investment ranges from $25k to $200k and he prefers to stick to
pre-money valuations that are below $5m.
Howard says that “sourcing is evaluation” and he has
found that his ex-students provide a good source of interesting
opportunities.
Howard
developed the Entrepreneurial Management course at Harvard
Business School. He is Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business
Administration – The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in
1982 to provide a continuing base for research and teaching in
the field of entrepreneurship. He has authored, edited or
co-authored six books and 43 articles. He has also authored,
co-authored or supervised 150 cases at Harvard Business School.
His latest popular book is Do Lunch or Be Lunch: The Power of
Predictability in Creating Your Future, published by HBS Press.
He
was a founder and first President of the Baupost Group, Inc,
which manages partnerships investing in liquid securities for
wealthy families. When he resigned from active management,
Baupost assets had grown to over $400 million. He is now
Chairman of the Baupost Fund, a registered investment company.
From 1978 to 1982, Professor Stevenson was Vice President of
Finance and Administration and a Director of Preco Corporation,
a large privately-held manufacturing company. In addition, from
1970 to 1971 he served as Vice President of Simmons Associates,
a small investment banking firm specializing in venture
financing. He is currently a director of Bessemer Securities
Corporation, Camp Dresser & McKee, Landmark Communications,
Sheffield Steel, Market Insight, and The Baupost Group, Inc. as
well as a trustee for several private trusts and foundations.
Howard
received his BS in mathematics, with distinction, from Stanford
and his MBA, with high distinction, and DBA degrees from Harvard
University.
Click
here to contact Howard Stevenson
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