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John May (Angel Investor) is
John May
[edit]John May is the Managing Partner of the New Vantage Group[1], which has organized five angel investing clubs in the Washington, D.C. area since 1999, placing funds into more than 50 companies. He is the co-author of two books on angel investing, Every Business Needs an Angel[2] and State of the Art: An Executive Briefing on Cutting-Edge Practices in American Angel Investing.[3] May is Chair-Emeritus of the Angel Capital Association[4] and Co-Chairman of the World Business Angel Association.[5] He is a lead instructor for the "Power of Angel Investing" seminar[6] supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation,[7] a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Darden Business School[8] [9]and a Managing Director of Seraphim,[10] a UK-based venture capital fund. May served on the board of directors of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association, the trade association for the venture capital industry in the Mid-Atlantic region.[11]
May began his work in angel investing when he co-founded the Investors' Circle,[12] a network of over 200 investors who use private capital to fund businesses that address social and environmental issues. May co-founded The Dinner Club,[13] an investment group of 60 Washington, D.C. angels who collectively invest in regional early stage ventures. A larger private investor pool, the eMedia Club[14] with 75 members, followed it, and in 2000, the Washington Dinner Club[15] with 75 members was started. In 2003, May started Active Angel Investors[16] fund and in 2008 he created D’ArchAngels[17] a group of accredited investors in the Mid-Atlantic region with significant expertise in the intelligence and defense industries.[18]
Washingtonian Magazine named May one of its 100 Tech Titans of DC.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ http://newvantagegroup.com/site/index.asp
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Every-Business-Needs-Angel-Getting/dp/0609607782/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251145846&sr=8-1
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/State-Art-Executive-Cutting-Edge-Practices/dp/1932692002
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Capital_Association
- ^ http://www.wbaa.biz/
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Capital_Education_Foundation
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing_Marion_Kauffman_Foundation
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darden_Graduate_School_of_Business_Administration
- ^ http://www.batteninstitute.org/profile/may.php
- ^ http://www.seraphimcapital.co.uk/
- ^ http://www.mava.org/
- ^ http://www.investorscircle.net/
- ^ http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu/network/broadcasts/200606/
- ^ http://www.newvantagegroup.com/site/emclub.asp
- ^ http://www.fundingpost.com/angelgroup/Angel-group-profile.asp?fund=76
- ^ http://www.newvantagegroup.com/site/aain.asp
- ^ http://www.afcea.org/signal/articles/templates/200904SIGNALConnections.asp?articleid=1908&zoneid=258
- ^ http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/id_20081122_5057.php
- ^ http://www.washingtonian.com/index.html