Angel Capital Education Foundation 
The Angel Capital Education Foundation (ACEF), founded by the Kauffman Foundation, is a charitable organization devoted to education of angel investors and to collecting and disseminating data and information on angel investors and angel investing groups.
Angel Capital Education Foundation Becomes Independent Organization
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Angel Capital Education Foundation (ACEF) jointly announced today that ACEF will become an independent, charitable education and research organization focused on the growing field of angel investing.
Angel Groups Growing, Says Angel Capital Education Foundation Analysis
Individual angel investors continued to form organized investor groups with the number of angel groups increasing by nearly 60 percent in the past three years, from an estimated 150 in 2002 to 250 last year, according to an analysis by the Angel Capital Education Foundation (ACEF) and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Angel Investing in Need of a Woman’s Perspective
Differences in gender perspectives can be valuable when it comes to evaluating the products, markets, and management teams of new companies, according to a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation report on women angel investing.
Angel Investing Needs More Than Just a Few Good Women
Despite increased financial power and wealth, high net worth women
represent a largely untapped source of capital for start-up
entrepreneurs, according to a new report released today by the Ewing
Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Angel Investment Groups, Networks and Funds: A Guidebook to Developing the Right Angel Organization for Your Community
This Guidebook has been developed to help in the establishment of angel
groups most appropriate for prospective member investors and related
community. It is designed to provide practical suggestions, tools, and
best practices in starting and operating an angel group.
Angel Investors in Groups Achieve Investment Returns In Line with Other Types of Equity Deals
The largest study on the financial returns of angel investors in North America, released in a new report today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Angel Capital Education Foundation, shows that angel investors participating in organized angel groups achieved an average 27 percent internal rate of return on their investments.
Angel Organization Summits Lead to Best Practice Papers
Gatherings of angel investing group representatives are leading to information on improving their operations. The newest paper resulting from an "Angel Organization Summit" is Angel Investing Group Best Practices - Managing Members, Guiding Presentations and Finding the Right Deals.
Angels Shine Brightly for Start-up Entrepreneurs
William H. Payne Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneur-in-Residence, sheds light on angel investors who provide 90 percent of the seed and
start-up capital in this country and fill a critical niche left void by venture capitalists.
Business Angel Investing Groups Growing in North America
Highlighting best practices of angel investing, this report provides insights for both entrepreneurs looking for financing and for venture capitalists who typically get involved in follow-on rounds of financing.
Entrepreneur Guru Brad Feld Illustrates How to Build a Startup Community in New Kauffman Sketchbook Video
Founder-turned-venture capitalist Brad Feld boils down 20 years of experience working with entrepreneurs and building a vibrant startup ecosystem into four essentials that will work anywhere in the world in his new book, "Startup Communities."
Finding Business Idols
While some pundits may be declaring the demise of the early stage VCs, some VCs and
angel investors are already displaying interest in a new form of contest-based
accelerator model of picking and grooming the next wave of potentially high growth
start-ups.
Kauffman Foundation Highlights Entrepreneurial 'Accelerators' as Uncovering Next Innovative Business ‘Idols’
Just as the "American Idol" television series is stirring up the music
business, a group of entrepreneurs is quietly adopting a similar format
to change the face of the venture capital and angel investing industry,
according to an analysis on venture financing by the Ewing Marion
Kauffman Foundation.
NGA Issue Brief Highlights State Strategies for Supporting Entrepreneurship
The National Governors Association (NGA) has released an Issue Brief that explores the benefits of early-stage investments by "angels"?wealthy individuals or groups of individuals that provide entrepreneurs with capital, connections and guidance.
Proposed Bill's Provisions Introduce Road Blocks for Angel Investors
Just say no to Section 926 of the comprehensive financial reform bill outlined by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Senator Dodd, says Kauffman Foundation Vice President Robert Litan.
Returns of Angel Investors in Groups
The largest study on the financial returns of angel investors in North America, released in a new report today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Angel Capital Education Foundation, shows that angel investors participating in organized angel groups achieved an average 27 percent internal rate of return on their investments.
Why Entrepreneurs Need Angels — and How Angels Are Improving
The Kauffman
Foundation has been helping to advance angel investing — notably through the
founding of the Angel Capital Education Foundation. Marianne Hudson,
who directs the Kauffman Foundation’s activity in this area, talks
about the opportunities and challenges of helping angel investors.
Women and Angel Investing: An Untapped Pool of Equity for Entrepreneurs
Despite increased financial power and wealth, high net worth women represent a largely untapped source of capital for start-up entrepreneurs, according to a report released at the Kauffman Foundation-sponsored North American Summit of the Angel Capital Education Foundation (ACEF).
