Online Event
Becoming an Angel & Finding One: How Angel Investing Works (Workshop + AMA)
Ask the Experts: Top Investors Reveal What It Takes to Get Funded!
Date
Jan 12, 2026
Time
04:00 am - 05:30 am
Address
Online Event
Want to understand how top angel investors build powerful partnerships, attract thousands of LPs, and turn angel investing into a scalable, data-driven business?
Don’t miss this workshop and AMA session, where the workshop explains how angel investing works from first check to exit including deal sourcing, decision making, and what angels look for in startups, followed by a live AMA featuring Jed Ng, who shares the exact systems, decision frameworks, and operating models behind one of the most active angel partnerships globally and what angels are truly looking for from startups today.
This session is designed for LPs who want to become angel investors and founders who want to understand better how to find, evaluate, and engage the right angels with clarity and conviction.
This session is designed for LPs who want to become angel investors and founders who want to understand better how to find, evaluate, and engage the right angels with clarity and conviction.
Featured Speaker
- Jed Ng - Founder of AngelSchool.vc & Angel Investor - Jed is the Founder of AngelSchool.vc and a seasoned angel investor who achieved his first exit in 2018 and backed two seed-stage startups that became Unicorns ($1B+ valuation). He also built the world’s largest API Marketplace with an a16z-backed startup, giving him deep operator experience in platform, product, and GTM execution. He has organically grown his investor network to 1,500+ LPs, scaled his average check size by 10x, and now deploys up to $1M into a single startup.
- AngelSchool.vc combines an Angel Syndicate with an accelerator program for investors. Their global LP base of 1,500+ investors enables them to deploy $5M -$10 MN per year. Their accelerator program trains emerging venture investors- from first-time check writers to syndicate leads. Program fellows join their investment committee to get real deal experience and build their track record in real time.
Moderator
- Erdinc Ekinci - Founder, Investment Lead of Co-capital.vc, Co-Founder, CEO of Openfor.co, Managing Director of Founder Institute Japan/Korea/Taiwan
📌 Who Should Attend
- LPs and aspiring angel investors who want to understand how to start angel investing and build a structured, scalable approach
- Startup founders who want to learn how to find, evaluate, and engage the right angel investors
- Operators and professionals exploring angel investing as part of their long-term investment strategy
- Ecosystem builders and community leaders who want a clear view of how modern angel investing works from both sides of the table
📌 What You Will Learn
- How angel investing works from first check to exit
- How top angels source deals, evaluate startups, and make investment decisions
- What angel investors actually look for before saying yes to a startup
- How syndicates work and how LPs and founders engage with them
- How to approach, position, and build conviction with angel investors
About the Organizers:
- Founder Institute: Founder Institute, which originated in Silicon Valley, is a founder and idea stage accelerator, and with its Founder Capital, backs the best performing FI alumni as early as the angel stage. FI has over 8K+ startup portfolio (Including leading e-learning platform Udemy, IPO in Nasdaq $3,8B) across 200 cities in 100 countries around the world.) We are also the largest mentor network in the world, with over 35,000 mentors, and our alumni have already raised over $2 billion in US dollars and have recently exceeded the 10K mark of investors network as the FI-Venture-Network.
- FI’s sister program, called VC Lab, helps launch aspiring investors into launching VC firms. As an accelerator that allows both sides of the table, 70% of the activities we do are advocacy of entrepreneurship and ecosystem creation, which means we do way more activity than the accelerator to promote entrepreneurship to solve real-world problems with entrepreneurship in an economically feasible way, build a company that grows into a venture-scale.
- Openfor.co: A “Global Partnership Accelerator” originated in Silicon Valley that combined with an online platform and marketplace for learning, building, launching, monetizing, and growing partner ecosystems and a collaborative community around you for achieving effective marketing, sales, community building, GTM, fundraising, and many more.
- Co-Capital: Pre-seed & Seed stage new firm that focuses on hands-on GTM, sales, and partnership support, focusing on English-speaking Asian founders who have global ambitions from day ONE. Domiciled in the USA, with regional appearances in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Utilizes partnerships with the GTM expert network and the venture partner network across 20 major hubs and a network of 35 other VC networks who are willing to co-back our founders!
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