Early Stage Investors in NYC - Angels, Seed and VCs

TLDR; Here's a list of early stage tech investors in NYC: 101 New York Angels, Seed Investors, and Early Stage VCs - EDITABLE

Surprisingly, one of the hard things with raising a round is figuring out who to pitch. Here are a few rules of thumb for the amount of money you should expect to receive frome each investor type:

Angel: $25,000 - 50,000 per investor
Seed: $100,000 - $250,000 per investor
VC (Early Stage): $200,000 - $1mm per investor

On the interwebs, when journalists compile lists of people who have done early stage deals, the important information is missing (are they an angel, seed fund or vc?). You want to talk to the right people for your company. Basically, if you try to raise venture money too early, or when it isn't appropriate for your business, you'll spend time confused.

The goals of each investor type are different. Conversations with the wrong folks may skew your thinking about your business. Angels can be successful with different outcomes than Seed and VC investors. But, when you're ready to go big, VCs are a great way to get you there.

A couple of things to consider:

VCs and most Seed funds value growth over profitability.
VC and seed investments are often not investing their own money.
VC and seed investments often have a time-horizon they expect a return to give profits back to their investors.
Angels may be happy with a $5mm acquisition whereas a VC probably wouldn't.

If you're starting a business that may never IPO and might max out at a healthy $10 - 50mm a year business, many VCs (even early stage VCs) won't be interested. If they are, they'll likely encourage you to pursue something they would consider a larger opportunity.

Now, you want to talk to people about your deal. Here are a list of people I got from Business Insider. I added 1 person to make it 101 New York City Early Stage investors. And supplemented it with information to figure out what type of investor they are.

I'm trying an experiment. So if you want to add new people or additional info about the folks on here, feel free:

101 New York Angels, Seed Investors, and Early Stage VCs - EDITABLE

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