Angels Live

This interview includes a discussion on how Scott Gale and Halliburton Labs are working to accelerate the growth of innovative, early-stage companies by providing access to their facilities, technical expertise, and business network.

The focus is on startups working on disruptive, tangible-tech solutions in our targeted challenge areas.

Scott Gale is the Executive Director for Halliburton Labs, and his focus is on Investments and External Engagements.

Halliburton Labs is an open, collaborative environment where early stage companies are advancing cleaner, affordable energy. They provide access to a unique industrial setting catered to the specific needs of 'tangible tech' startups who are changing the face of clean energy today and for the future.

Timothy McLoughlin has quite an interesting perspective on how he contributes to the Angel Investing world. He has raised two funds as a co-founder of Cofounders Capital, a seed stage venture capital fund focused on B2B software companies, primarily in North Carolina.

In this interview, you get to learn how his role working with Angels and Entrepreneurs is unique and how his funds save a significant amount of funding for follow on investing once a company has grown. The team at Cofounders Capital are scrappy, hands-on, create-the-value, show-me-the-money startup veterans at the top of their game.

Listen in to learn more about what Tim is doing to impact investors and entrepreneurs in a big way.

In this episode you will hear how Heath Butler has been making a big urban impact in Houston. Heath co-founded the Urban Capital Network where he helps new angels learn more about how to get in the game and help underrepresented founders through early-stage investing. Heath is also a Managing Director of the Mercury Fund. Mercury Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm. With over $300 million under management, Mercury focuses on entrepreneurs and technology innovation originating in the U.S. Mid-continent. Their investment themes target SaaS, Cloud, and Data Science/AI platforms that make the industrial ecosystems of Middle America more competitive and efficient.

Martha Carlin's Angel career led her to meet an entrepreneur that was leveraging ProBiotics to change the health of (all things) HORSES!

Interestingly, this "knowing" would ultimately trigger her to explore how and what could be done in the world of Probiotics - for her husband...who was diagnosed with Parkinsons. What she learned, and ultimately witnessed - led her to launch BiotiQuest

When it comes to "Women Led Companies" in the southeast...The JumpFund is a group that's mission is to help as many female founders as possible. Meet Kristina Montague, who is an Angel Investor and Venture Capital fund managing partner.

Kristina's mission is to increase the number of women participating in early stage investments and expand access to capital for female entrepreneurs.

In this episode, we talk about angel investing, the diversity in backgrounds that you find in angel groups, and a bit about Kristina's philosophy to invest in the changes you want to see in the world.

Sevetri Wilson's company, "Resilia" was listed on the Forbes Cloud 100 List for 2021, she's an accomplished author of the book "Resilient How to Overcome Anything & Build a Million Dollar Business with or without Capital", and has overcome many obstacles to launch her Tech Platform that is helping change the world for the better. In addition to writing 2 books, she has her own podcast also on the topic of Resilience!

Resilia can handle everything from starting a non-profit without an attorney to running (and governing) that non-profit as well as making the process of writing and FINDING grants easy.

She will also tell us about what happened as we went into Covid lockdown and how she manages to always be RESILIENT!

When leading a start up, and during what some consider the very delicate phase of "ramping up"...Colette Courtion and the JoyLux Executive team had to dig DEEP to ensure their company would prosper in what would be quite a tumultuous obstacle.

In this interview, Marcia and Warren talk to Colette about the adjustments made and the adaptations she led to succeed during the 2020 shutdowns of all healthcare facilities which was a big part of JoyLux's business model and pivot from a B2B model to B2C.

Learning about the joys of angel investing, and how angel groups are structured is shared in this easy to understand interview with Steve Baggott.

In this episode, we draw from Steve's experience as an angel investor, while simultaneously leveraging his ability to answer some of the most common questions we all have about angel groups, their structure, and how they work.

Steve Baggott discovered becoming an angel investor fuels his passion for helping entrepreneurs, contributing to the community, and allows him to impact fellow angels as well.

In addition to being a very informative interview, Steve's willingness to share how angel investing can be couple's sport...allowing for great conversations about deals over dinner with your loved ones.

Listen in, and Enjoy...The Joys of Angel Investing.

Listen in as we discover Beth's path of becoming an angel investor and REAL examples of how her life in angel investing drives learning and mentorship, while it fulfills her passion for helping women and start-ups.

It's a quick interview, but, we dive into how being in a group early on led to Beth discovering her angel investing strengths...and also what areas she would look to fellow angels for feedback.

Beth talks about her role at The Next Wave Impact Fund. Beth is an investor at the fund and shares her story of becoming an angel. We hear of her attending her first Angel Capital Association Event and how it helped her.

We talk a bit about how Beth's entrepreneurial spirt and passion for venture capitol leads her to impact female founders and helping women become angel investors.

First ever episode of Angels Live.

Marcia and Warren are joined by Juliana Garaizar and Eli Velasquez (Both Angels and Board Members of the Angel Capital Association).

Listen in as they discuss Diversity and UnderRepresented Founders in the Angel Investing World.

Meet the Start-up? In this Episode you also meet Patricia Vega, Founder of Quantum New Energy...as well as, Brenda Stoner, Founder of PICK UP.