Dear Angels,
Are you waiting for revenue and traction to build your conviction? You might be accidentally killing your upside. By the time the data looks good, institutional capital arrives, the round reprices, and you’re stuck taking early-stage risks at late-stage valuations.
Dear Founders,
Do you know how to build high investor conviction before you have the metrics to prove it?
The Session:
Join us for a practitioner-led discussion on timing, access, and whether today's angel investing standards are fundamentally broken. We will explore:
- Timing vs. Signals: Why when you enter a cap table matters?
- The Valuation Trap: How evolving diligence norms are quietly forcing angels into late-seed economics with pre-seed risk?
- Mastering Pre-Traction Conviction: How elite investors make high-conviction bets before the traditional metrics exist?
- Decoding Founder Potential: How top-tier founders signal high potential before they have revenue, and what that means for your access to capital?
If revenue thresholds has become your primary traction filter, you're losing the best angel deals.
Let's talk about how to fix it.
Discussion led by Sahab Aslam. She's an angel investor with over five years of experience and four portfolio M&As under her belt, Sahab invests in and advises early-stage companies at the intersection of AI, healthcare, and underserved markets.
She leads the AI and Women's Health sectors at Harvard Business School Alumni Angels and serves as an advisor at Creative Destruction Lab (CDL-Wisconsin Madison) and Berkeley SkyDeck. She is also an active member of the Chemical Angel Network and the Berkeley Angel Network.
