Capital angels flock to new format
By Francis Moran
The Capital Angel Network, a new angel organization whose launch we covered about a year ago, is stepping up its activity levels in support of what organizer Laurie Davis said this morning is an effort “to make Ottawa a more vibrant (investment) community and a better place to start a company.” The first step in that process was this morning’s first of what the network intends to be regular monthly meetings of people who are, or who are interested in becoming, angel investors.
Intended primarily as a networking event to allow angels and prospective angels to get to know each other better, the breakfast meetings, scheduled for the first Thursday of every month, will also include a presentation by a company or two. This morning’s presenting companies were What Wins, an online tool that helps horse racing bettors pick their bets both more easily and, the company claims, with better odds of winning, and JetstreamHD, a consumer appliance from Ottawa’s Nuvyyo that can stream to an iPad any media — movies, photos, music files, home videos and more — from wherever you keep it in your home network. (JetstreamHD executives have just returned from launching their product at Demo Spring 2011 conference that wrapped up yesterday. They were quite chuffed by the response they got, including some boffo media coverage.)
