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Angel investment, for its part, also continues to occupy a meaningful portion of private investment.
So far this year, individual angels and angel groups in the U.S. have doled out $10 billion to startups.
So how do early-stage startups decide who’s money to take (if they have that luxury)?
In these frothier times, I encourage founders to interview investors who take a slot on their cap table with the same rigor they would a potential employee.”
UK/Georgia| Start-up topishare raised $1m dollar in their Round A and is now valued at $10m.
Topishare transforms the way we connect online through Social Kingdoms and user-controlled advertising, with people in over 70 countries joining after its launch Marc 3rd, 2016.Kingdoms are like mini-social-networks where you are in complete control: open API, no algorithms, and your privacy protected.
You can create or join public Kingdoms where you can connect globally with strangers and share topic-based: may it be your dubbed songs, co-creating a graphic design, or voice-posting your thoughts of the day.Or connect privately with people you know in secret kingdoms, where you stay up-to-date with your team’s interactive to-do-list, attend live-streamed webinars while posting questions instantly, or customize your daily workout in a Fitness Kingdom.It all depends on what you want for your Kingdom.
Which means both businesses and individual users are missing out: they’re no longer connected with each other.
Topishare revolutionizes advertising: user-controlled, hyper-targeted marketing, without violating the users’ privacy.Topishare breaks online boundaries, by merging social technology, ads tech, and accessibility.
The raised money will be used to build topishare’s app, finalize the open API and advertising system, and translate topishare into multiple languages.
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