OVERVIEW
Seraph Capital provides a forum for matching investors with early-stage opportunities. Members meet regularly to hear relevant speakers and review angel opportunities over lunch. Presenters lunch with Seraph Members and have 10 minutes to present their opportunity during the general membership meeting. Seraph members then determine their interest in the opportunity and then individually schedule follow up meetings for additional information.
Entrepreneurs seeking angel capital and interested in presenting at one of the regular luncheon meetings are invited to submit an Executive Summary of their business plan online. Submissions will be reviewed by a screening committee two weeks prior to each scheduled meeting. Companies selected to present at a Seraph Luncheon must be available for a mandatory coaching session on the Friday prior to the luncheon.
Generally, the group is partial to companies that reside in the Northwest portion of the United States, but broad and diverse set of organizations are of interest.
FUNDED COMPANIES
Companies that have been funded by Seraph members include (partial listing):
- Acadia
- Accium BioScience
- Advent Solar
- Aptilo
- Blazing Saddles
- Dominion Nutrition
- Dry Soda
- eMarket
- GiftCertificate.com
- GreatFood.com
- Halosource
- iClick
- InSpa
- Mach Energy
- Magna Force
- Mobius
- Neah Power
- Netreflector
- Netupdate
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- Nodelogic
- Pacific BioSciences
- Pentium
- Precision Farming
- Ravenna Gardens
- ScaleOut Software
- SeattleBiodiesel
- Second Act Partners
- SimplyFun
- SoilSoup
- Taecom
- TeachFirst
- Terabeam
- TigerStripe
- TraceDetect
- VoteHere.net
- Willows Lodge
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Historically members have not invested in:
- Sole Proprietorships
- Single location businesses
- Entertainment production projects such as screenplays, record labels, and books
- Companies lacking nexus (i.e., substantial operations) within the Western US or British Columbia
KEY DATES FOR PRESENTING COMPANIES IN 2008
Seraph's screening committee will review business plan submissions in January, February, April, June, September and October 2008.
The screening committee begins reviewing submissions two weeks before the next members' meeting. Companies selected to present their plans must meet with their Seraph coaches — generally the Friday before the next members' meeting.
For specific dates and meeting venues, download a copy of Seraph's 2008 calendar.
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Download a copy of Seraph's 2008 calendar.
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