Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Michael Gruber, Founder and Managing Director, Cornerstone Angels (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Will your new Independence Equity fund be making seed investments? Michael: It will be the first institution round, so typically it will be series A and series B type investments. Depending on how large the fund gets to be down the road, the size of investments

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Michael Gruber, Founder and Managing Director, Cornerstone Angels (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Could you give us a timeline of your career up to this point? Michael: I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. I studied international relations and economics. It was basically an East Asian studies within the international relations. I studied Japanese, and I spoke

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Michael Gruber, Founder and Managing Director, Cornerstone Angels (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the thirty-ninth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking Michael Gruber, founder and managing director of Cornerstone Angels, a Chicago-based group of angels that seeks to provide financial capital and mentorship to early-stage companies in the greater Midwest.