AngelRoot was designed to become a global repository, complete with sophisticated tools for investors to discover, source, quantitatively screen, collaborate, refer and curate deals.
Startups, if you're seeking to be discovered and gauge investor interest, you can subscribe to the AngelRoot networks that are aligned with your business.
Then, you can listen in as investors collaborate by anonymously rating and making comments.

If you're an entrepreneur, when you publish your startup profile and subscribe to aligned networks, you'll be riding with your classmates and colleagues. So, chances are they’ll take the time to listen.
But, if that doesn’t work, try pressing the buttons for all the floors.

If, for example, you went to Stanford you’re welcome to subscribe to our Stanford university network for free and then hear what your investor-classmates think about your business.
But, if you also want feedback from UCal-Berkeley alumni-investors, you’ll need to pay a small guest fee.
We’re sharing those fees with nonprofits that the members of our UCal network vote for.
It's our idea of paying it sideways.
Network by network, we share the guest fees we collect with universities and nonprofits that empower entrepreneurs.
So, it seems it’s all getting paid forward.

We’re not a funding portal.
Instead, we are a portal for funding portals and the startups and investors that use them. Investors get to use heretofore unavailable tools to discover, source, screen, analyze, collaborate and refer.
The platform also facilitates credentialed collaboration through affinity networks.
We've also elevated the process used to curate deals for our member’s firms, funds, syndicates, clubs, groups and so on.
We call these organizations Ambassadors.

Are you sure you're ready for a funding portal, or angel group, or seed accelerator? Or for that matter, your relatives?
AngelRoot is where you can test-pitch investors. We set it up so that you can be a fly on the wall while investors tell each other what they think about your business.
You'll know what's being said, but not who's saying it.
The idea is simple. Investor feedback can help you make your business more investment worthy.
After all, AngelRoot is "where startups start up"™.

Recognizing that WAN needed an on-line platform, a group of us undertook to independently design and build one. That is to say, a platform that provided...

• A global repository of deals logically organized for all types of early-stage investors
• A system to present sweat-equity opportunities to mentors
• An opportunity to help members who were investment intermediaries, facilitators, fiduciaries and professional service providers feature their firms
• Elegant tools to help classmates and colleagues collaborate
• A standardized methodology for judges (screening committee members) to confidentially rate and comment
• A fully integrated application management system including analytics for committee members to then pick meritorious companies to be showcased
• And perhaps most importantly, a feedback mechanism in which investor reviews, ratings and comments could anonymously be shared with entrepreneurs. After all, our ultimate mission was to help startups advance their businesses