Stanton: Hashtag Angels Backed 120 Startups, 40 Personally
Katie Stanton · 20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do · Jan 27, 2020 · at 7:21
Katie Stanton is the founder of Moxxie Ventures and co-founder of Hashtag Angels, an angel investment syndicate formed by former Twitter executives.
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“Over the course of about five years, we collectively had invested in about a 120 companies. I had personally invested in 40”
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