The Angel Next Door

On this episode of The Angel Next Door, Marcia introduces listeners to Alisha Griffey, the founder of Daintree Capital. After spending years as an operations leader in the startup world, Alisha grew frustrated with the traditional funding process. She noticed that very few companies run by women or people of color receive the funding they need. That’s when, about 3 years ago, Alisha moved to the i...

On this week’s episode of The Angel Next Door, listeners get a taste of what it takes to build a brand and raise capital as Marcia sits down with angel investor-turned-entrepreneur Jake Whitman. After a successful career with Procter & Gamble and working for SoFi in the SF Bay Area, Jake decided to head to Cincinnati with the objective of buying a company. There he joined Queen City Angels as an a...

On this week’s episode, Marcia Dawood dives into the real data behind outcomes and exits with John Harbison. In addition to being an ACA Board Member with Marcia, John is a member and Chairman Emeritus of Tech Coast Angels, one of the largest angel investment groups in the country, where he has invested in 60 companies.   John tells us how he started out launching startups for security tech compan...

In this episode, Marcia sits down with Dr. Lyndsey Harper, a physician/OB-GYN who founded Rosy, a subscription-based women’s health app that delivers direct-to-consumer education and community in the women’s sexual health world, while providing anonymity to the user.   Lyndsey discusses her background as a private practice OB-GYN, where she noticed a commonality in patient’s sexual health problems...

In this episode we discuss some important tax codes that most investors and entrepreneurs don’t know about and could save millions!   Marcia Dawood interviews former Chair of the Angel Capital Association, Tony Shipley. Marcia and Tony worked together as ACA board members for over 7 years! Tony is also Chairman and Co-founder of Queen City Angels, Cincinnati’s first group of experienced, accredite...

The Angel Next Door is back with all new episodes!!  We will start off with demystifying equity crowdfunding.  Marcia Dawood sits down with Howard Marks, CEO and cofounder of the crowdfunding platform StartEngine.  StartEngine is an equity crowdfunding platform that recently acquired SeedInvest, bringing the total amount raised between the platforms to over $1 billion. Howard discusses how he star...

The Angel Next Door is back this week for a BONUS episode with US Congressman Byron Donalds. Byron serves as the US representative for Florida’s 19th congressional district which covers most of southwest Florida.   In this episode our host Marcia Dawood talks with congressman Donalds about why angel investing plays a crucial role in giving everyone an equal shot at building wealth.   They also dis...

This week Marcia Dawood is bringing you a very brief episode of The Angel Next Door to share some powerful statistics delivered by Dr. Ronald Weissman at the ACA Summit in May. Marcia shares stats on the current economic decline we are experiencing in public markets, IPOs, valuations, seed funding, mergers and acquisitions, exits and more after studying the data from Q1 2022 compared to last year....

This week on the Angel Next Door, Marcia Dawood interviews Liz Sigety, expert lawyer in everything startup, partner for Fox Rothschild Law Firm and co-founder of Delaware Crossing Angel Group in Philadelphia. This episode is great for both entrepreneurs and investors as we discuss both sides of the angel investing process.   Fox Rothschild offers a great program called the Fox Launch Pad, a virtua...

The Angel Next Door is back this week with a new episode! Marcia Dawood sits down to interview Kingsley Advani the CEO and founder of Allocations, a private markets platform with a vision to create more economic freedom for the world.   Allocations scaled to $1B in assets in less than 3 years! Kingsley is also an Angel Investor who in 2017 founded and scaled Allocation Angels to over 1,000 investo...

This week on The Angel Next Door, Marcia Dawood interviews fellow ACA board member, Elaine Bolle! Elaine is very active in the angel community and acts as an advisor to early stage companies after the many years she spent being a CEO and senior executive. She has quite the track record leading domestic and global organizations from venture-backed start-ups to $750M+ enterprises. In addition she is...

This week Ann & Bill Payne are joining Marcia.  Bill Payne has been a pioneering angel investor for over 3 decades and he is a huge part of the Angel Capital Association's history.   Ann, Bill and Marcia have a great conversation about how Bill got involved in ‘angel investing; before it was an actual term.  In addition to investing, he has been a founder and board member of many successful angel...

The Angel Next Door is back with another episode! Today's guest is Ashley Gautreaux, Director at CreativeCo Capital and investor in early growth software companies. Ashley shares with Marcia Dawood how she got started in the technology and software world, what it was like working at Tesla for 7 years and the reason she wanted to enhance the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Charlotte with the start of...

This week on The Angel Next Door, Marcia Dawood is solo for a quick episode to share her personal experience with buying crypto currency! Not as easy as you would think! Marcia decided to experiment in the crypto market and see what would happen when she bought a few different, not as popular currencies and see how complicated the process would be. Marcia talks about a few of the popular platforms...

We’re back this week with another purposeful episode of The Angel Next Door! This week Marcia Dawood sits down to interview co-founder of Invest for Better and author of “Activate Your Money, Invest to Grow Your Wealth and Build a Better World,” Janine Firpo.   Janine is a social entrepreneur known in the Bay area for impact investing and her many years of working in foreign services. She is also...

This week on The Angel Next Door we are talking all about NFT’s and cryptocurrency! Something that everyone is wanting more information about these days!   Marcia Dawood interviews guest Jason Moralez, a serial entrepreneur who has been active in the cryptocurrency world since 2013. Jason is also a veteran, biochemist, and owner of Nova Jade Cosmetics, a skincare company that aims to provide the h...

Marcia Dawood and “The Angel Next Door” are officially back with new episodes for the Spring Season!   In our first episode of 2022 Marcia interviews Gina Tedesco, an active investor, serial entrepreneur, professor and mentor. With a background in engineering and coming from the pharmaceutical industry, Gina has experienced a lot of male dominated roles both in business and leadership and was dete...

This week’s episode of “The Angel Next Door” features a long time investor and soon to be chairman of the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee, Christopher Mirabile. He and his partner Hambleton Lord are very involved with Launchpad Venture Group and they co-founded a successful portfolio management tool Seraf which investors love! Since Launchpad started, the group has put 140 million dollars to wor...

In this week's episode we are talking all about crowdfunding! Marcia Dawood sits down with CEO of PittMoss, Brian Scott as he tells us the ins and outs of this newer way of raising capital.   "Angel investing for me was that chance to hit a homerun, to find the next Google, Amazon or Tesla." - Brian Scott Brian Scott got his start as an investor through the Blue Tree Allied Angels, founded by Cath...

This week on ‘The Angel Next Door’ we are talking all about SPV’s (Special Purpose Vehicle) and fund of funds! Marcia Dawood sits down with the Co-founder and CEO of Assure, Jeremy Neilson. Assure is the industry leader in structuring SPV’s and the most experienced end-to-end administrator of what many Angels and deal organizers call the fast, affordable SPV. What makes them so special is that the...

This week Marcia Dawood flies solo and tells us all about portfolio construction for investing. Marcia goes over the different types of business industries, stages of a company, and how that affects “de-risking” a company. She also shares a few personal stories about the different companies she has invested in over the years and the lessons that were learned along the way.   Marcia will also go ov...

This week on ‘The Angel Next Door’ we talk with a female investor who is making a huge impact on other female entrepreneurs and investors. Marcia Dawood interviews Dr. Silvia Mah, PhD, MBA who is an accelerator, fellow Angel Investor, and advocate for diverse founders.   Join us as these two female leaders in business discuss why we need more female angel investors today and how women investors in...

In this week’s short but sweet episode your host Marcia Dawood talks all about diversification and its importance to investors and entrepreneurs. She discusses different ways to invest in order to gain exposure to more companies and increase your chances of success, and tells us why she is such a big fan of funds.   Marcia shares some statistics taken from the ACA’s Angel Funders Report showing wh...

This week on ‘The Angel Next Door,’ Marcia Dawood sits down with Rachel ten Brink. Rachel co-founded her company Scentbird and raised $29 million first from angels and then venture funds including Y Combinator.  She has now started her own venture capital company, Red Bike Capital.   In this episode Rachel gives us her best advice on how entrepreneurs can get their first customers and their first...

When one small pebble is dropped into a lake, many much bigger ripples form carrying the energy to the shore - the same thing happens when a community comes together to back the changes they want to see in the world.  The energy and contributions from the originator create lasting impact felt by many. Angels are this energy source!  This phenomenon was measured in a recent economic study conducted...