Band of Angels (investors)

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| location_city = 535 Middlefield Road Suite 190, Menlo Park, CA 94025

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| key_people = Glen McLaughlin,{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=766905&privcapId=3044956&previousCapId=257568&previousTitle=CALIFORNIA+WATER+SERVICE+GRP|title=Glen McLaughlin: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg|website=investing.businessweek.com|date=26 June 2023 }}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Ian Sobieski, J. C. Hans Severiens, Wayne Tamarelli,{{cite web|url=http://www.njtechweekly.com/art/1486-angel-investor-tamarelli-tells-startups-fail-early-and-fail-fast/|title=Angel Investor Tamarelli Tells Startups: Fail Early and Fail Fast|website=www.njtechweekly.com|date=January 2012 }} Matthew Le Merle{{Cite web |url=http://fifthera.com/matthew-le-merle/ |title=Fifth Era |access-date=2013-09-18 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130918164329/http://fifthera.com/matthew-le-merle/ |archive-date=2013-09-18 |url-status=dead }}

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The Band of Angels was the first high technology specific angel investment group in the United States. Today the group remains very active with more than 160 members who invest their time and money into high tech startup companies. Band members have founded companies such as Cirrus Logic, Symantec, SunPower, National Semiconductor and Logitech, and have been senior executive officers at top Silicon Valley companies including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Intel, 3Com and Intuit.Band of Angels Website{{Full citation needed|date=April 2018}} Numerous articles have been written about the Band, appearing in periodicals such as The New York Times,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/23/business/pools-of-angels-make-the-money-hunt-easier.html|title=Pools of Angels Make the Money Hunt Easier|first=Anne|last=Field|work=The New York Times |date=23 June 2005|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com}} The Washington Post,{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/washtech/longterm/techinvest/stories/angel.htm|title=Washingtonpost.com: WashTech|website=www.washingtonpost.com}} The Wall Street Journal, Upside, Red Herring,{{citation needed|date=March 2025}} Der Spiegel,{{cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,614828-2,00.html|title=Kapitalkrise: Ideenschwund im Silicon Valley|first1=Stefan|last1=Schultz|first2=San|last2=Francisco|newspaper=Der Spiegel |date=25 March 2009|publisher=|via=Spiegel Online}} U.S. News & World Report,{{Cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/971013/archive_008026.htm |title=Angels of Capitalism - U.S. News & World Report |access-date=2017-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013072711/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/971013/archive_008026.htm |archive-date=2012-10-13 |url-status=dead }} and Forbes.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2008/04/04/mitra-venture-capital-tech-intel-cx_sm_0404mitra.html|title=The Real VCs Of Silicon Valley|first=Sramana|last=Mitra|website=Forbes |publisher=}} The Band has also been featured in two Harvard Business School case studies.{{cite web|url=http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/case_studies.jsp |title=The Domain You Requested Has Been Misconfigured |publisher=Harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu |date= |accessdate=2018-04-26}}