Welcome to the web site of the Association of Angel Investor Clubs, LLC™.
Our Business: The Association of Angel Investor Clubs™, LLC ("AAIC™") founds, fosters, administers, and supports investment clubs comprised of people who invest in startup and early-stage private companies - Angel Investors.
The Association of Angel Investor Clubs™ ("AAIC™") has been formed to offer an organizational mechanism to this community that we believe will unleash the latent economic power of Angel Investors. Angel investing is a high-risk endeavor. We believe that by reducing the risks and inefficiencies of angel investing, membership in one of our local Angel Investor Clubs is likely to improve each Member's total investment experience and investment results. We provide opportunities for
Our Mission: AAIC activities and materials are designed provide a solid intellectual and commercial basis for our members - angel investors - to optimize their investment decisions and their results by their own efforts. Our mantra is "Education, Information, Collaboration."
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime."
Club Membership Value Proposition: AAIC™ provides a clear, concise, detailed map of the early-stage private investment market, thereby, improving the investor's chances of success by serving as an integral source of guidance to investors in early stage companies, observers of this market, and advisors to our constituents.
Member Value Proposition: This business model yields better returns than investing alone.
  • Risk is shared and diversified across Club memberships.
  • Deal flow and quality will increase through participation in the Club.
To achieve this value for our members, AAIC materials will provide:
  • Perspective - related trends in the economy, the capital markets, and history,
  • Data - broad-based economic, industry, and capital markets data,
  • Logic - analysis of and discussion about the structure and dynamics of specific industries and application of the strategist's tools to specific cases, and
  • Collaboration - opportunities to benefit from the experiences and insights of peers and of the Company's experts and to co-invest with more experienced investors - augmented, customized collaborative investing.
Membership in one of our local clubs will result in:
  • More opportunities to collaborate with peers and, thereby, incorporate their experience, knowledge, and wisdom in your decisions,
  • More deal flow volume and better deals,
  • More and better information to support your evaluation of deals,
  • New or improved analysis tools
  • More investment resources,
  • Better club administration, and
  • Improved liquidity.
Products and Services
Included with a membership in a local AAIC Club are:
  • Monthly Club meetings to invest collaboratively: discussion of portfolio companies, new deals, and investing in early stage, private companies, generally;
  • Subscription to "M|Accseus: The Journal of Early Stage Investing™", a quarterly journal of articles and information written and compiled specifically for Angel investors;
  • Access to "Angel Investor Data Library™", our proprietary database of angel investment activity and preferences
  • and the quarterly SeedMoney Survey©;
  • Educational materials targeted at Angel investors;
  • Local Club administration and support;
  • Member training.
  • Interclub deal syndication;
  • Company/Investor Matchmaking services;
  • Interclub market for their otherwise illiquid securities; and an
  • Annual conference of members from Clubs throughout the United States.