Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you think entrepreneurs should take the lead and ask for help? Kiki: I’ll tell you one thing entrepreneurs should really do. Once they have investors who’re investing in their company, they should give them regularly scheduled updates no matter what.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Kiki: We try to direct people if we know that there’s a particular grant opening, but, generally, we wouldn’t be the best source for being the repository of all that information. Irina: What is the best way to learn about cleantech grants? Kiki: I would go to

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How long do you usually prefer to hold a company in your investment portfolio? Kiki: We’d like to hold it five years or less, but the market now is more of an eight-year hold. Depending on the product, some of these are being acquired much earlier.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many deals have you funded since inception in 2006? Kiki: On our website, it says over $3 million in 18 companies. But this year, our total investment year to date is $926,000 in seven deals, and that’s in 11 months. Well, it’s 10 months, because

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the forty-third interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Kiki Tidwell, an angel investor and board member of the Northwest Energy Angels, a membership organization of private investors who are interested in funding cleantech entrepreneurs. Founded in 2006 and based

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Chris Rivera, Co-Founder, WINGS, The Washington Medical Technology Angel Network (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Chris: Our deal flow seems to be great – as good as or better than we anticipated. As long as we can continue to get good deal flow and increase the number of angels, and there’s good financing [being arranged], the entrepreneurs realize this is an active

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Chris Rivera, Co-Founder, WINGS, The Washington Medical Technology Angel Network (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: If a company is out of Washington state, could they still reach out to you? Chris: It’s possible. We’ve worked with some companies from British Columbia and from Oregon, for example. Typically, these companies are either looking to establish a Washington base or have already established

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Chris Rivera, Co-Founder, WINGS, The Washington Medical Technology Angel Network (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Chris: Another major difference of the WINGS network is all of our angels come from a medical tech, devices, or biotech background. So, they’re not afraid of and they understand the regulatory challenges. One of the challenges we had with some local angels is that a lot

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