• Providing capital
• Providing expertise on Boards and through business connections
• Building relationships beneficial to investors and to business growth
• Exchanging knowledge regarding the viability of business opportunities

Who joins Seraph? Smart, successful high net-worth women who want to make private equity investments with superior returns from Pacific Northwest companies. People who relish the camaraderie and wisdom of other women who are also seasoned executives and economic spark plugs.

Seraph members have the resources and business acumen to consider high risk, early stage opportunities. In their work lives they own and/or run companies, manage hedge funds or other investment vehicles; provide professional services (legal, financial, banking, commercial real estate, marketing consulting); hold Board seats; launch companies; or provide strategic advisory services to both emerging and established corporations. Several are serial entrepreneurs and have sold multiple companies. Some have left Wall Street investment banking to come to Seattle; others rode the technology boom.

Seraph members offer unusually diverse domain expertise: consumer packaged goods, retail and multi-channel distribution, digital media and entertainment, high tech products for both enterprises and consumers, telecom, biotech and life sciences, commercial and investment banking, real estate, organic farming, viticulture, and forestry products.

What We Do

Each year Seraph holds five to six luncheons at which entrepreneurs from several early stage firms present their business plan to our members. To ensure high quality deal flow, these business plans have been pre-screened and selected from a larger pool; each company receives coaching on how to present a more effective pitch to the members.

At each investment luncheon, after presenters leave the room, members discuss the relative attractiveness of each potential investment, and identify strengths and weaknesses to probe further. Then the presenters return for Q&A, and get feedback directly from a designated member who has consolidated the group’s comments, compliments and concerns.

Afterwards, for opportunities they consider worthwhile, one or more members will follow up with the companies individually, to perform the required due diligence and discuss the term sheet. From here on, what happens next is up to the individual member and the companies.

Following the meeting, the plans and pitch decks submitted by the presenting companies are posted in the members-only area of our website, for individual review and consideration.

We encourage deal flow from our members, entrepreneurs, and other angel groups.

For more specifics about the Seraph Capital Forum, download our "quick facts" document. Here's our meeting calendar for 2008. And here's our brochure.

Guiding Principles

1. Qualification for Eligibility: Membership is through sponsorship by a current member, but may be revoked if Seraph’s guiding principles are violated. Members must qualify as "accredited investors" as defined under Rule 501 of the SEC regulations which defines the same as: "any natural person whose individual net worth, or joint net worth with that person's spouse, at the time of her purchase exceeds $1,000,000" or "any natural person who had an individual income in excess of $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with that person's spouse in excess of $300,000 in each of those years and who reasonably expects to reach the same income level in the current year."
2. Confidentiality: The Seraph Capital Forum membership register is proprietary and confidential except for its use in relation to Seraph Capital Forum. The use of the membership list for solicitation, distribution, or any other use than Seraph Capital Forum activities is strictly prohibited.
3. Member Responsibilities: Investment decisions rest with each member regarding any potential investment opportunity. We act with integrity, honesty and at all times with the highest degree of ethics.
4. Disclaimer: Seraph Capital Forum is not a fund, an investment bank, a broker dealer nor an investment advisor, but rather a forum in which women may be educated on aspects of investment and business, as well as introduced to and informed of companies for possible investment. The choice to use and manner of utilization of information and knowledge gained through the Forum is each member’s individual and personal choice. No guidance shall be given, nor shall any person affiliated with the Forum be responsible for an individual members use of the information, investment decision or the results of any investment. All investments must be done separately and without involvement by the Forum.

Contact Seraph