AngelList: A Venture Constellation

As far as billion-dollar companies go, most investors are lucky to have one in their portfolio. In my study, I found a number of angel investors who had five or more. Many of these top angels were former founders. Elad Gil (who started Mixer Labs and Color Genomics), David Sacks (PayPal, Yammer), Dave Morin (Path), Jason Calacanis (Weblogs.com), Je

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“AngelList has always been at the absolute cutting edge of venture capital” – Brian Norgard

What would a syndicate look like that could actually get great angels to join and leverage their talents to win competitive deals? Would it even look like a syndicate?

While the majority of the broader venture market is still dominated by large traditional firms we're seeing more changes in the space than ever before. Celebrities are not only active angels but they're building firms whether its The Chainsmokers or Serena Williams. Angel investing has exploded past $25B in capital invested and you're seeing a broa... See more

Technology, new fund structures, and regulatory changes are combining to work their magic here, too. Platforms like AngelList and Forge give regular (albeit, currently, high net worth) people the opportunity to access high risk, high reward venture investments, from early to late stage, and even in the public markets.

So angel investing is a category where people earn economic and social rewards for their curation, and also build their identity around it in the process. And yet angel investing is just one form of curation, so why not extend these benefits for other forms of curation?

what we may see within the next decade is something rather different: the emergence of massive, publicly-traded unicorns predicated on the value of a single person's magnetism.