The Angel Forum of ACG New Jersey

"The Angel Forum of ACG New Jersey"  is a quarterly breakfast meeting/ discussion forum for current angel investors and business owners and senior executives wishing to learn about angel investing while getting connected with seasoned angels.  The group has been gathering for twelve years and almost 150 angel investors, business owners and senior executives have attended, with many participating regularly.  A typical breakfast group has an angel investor leading the discussion on an important topic of interest, with approximately 20 to 25 angel investors and business owners/senior executives attending.

For more information contact lhalstead@acg.org PLEASE NOTE: If you are qualified to attend this forum, please register via the link in the email invitation or email lhalstead@acg.org.  This event is invitation-only and therefor the registration link is not public on the website. 

Testimonials:
      "The ACG Angel breakfast is an excellent, non-deal flow oriented forum, focused on best practices and shared experiences among angel investors", John Ason, active angel investor and member JumpStart New Jersey Angel Network.

     "As an active angel investor, I love attending ACG's Angel Forum breakfast meetings where we discuss and share the current happenings in early stage investing among experienced investors along with successful business executives interested in becoming Angel investors," Joel Cartun, Active Angel Investor, and Chairman, Business Advisory Services.

Value proposition:  This exclusive, strictly peer-to-peer, meeting is an excellent forum for angel investors and business leaders to share experiences and best practices while developing relationships in a convenient, enjoyable and relaxing setting.

Attendees:  Prior attendees include the following seasoned angel investors, John Ason; Joel Cartun, President, Business Advisory Services; Mario Casabona, Founder & CEO, Casabona Ventures and Chairman, JumpStart New Jersey Angel Network; Peter Christensen, Chairman, Continuity Logic; Stephen Dyer, SRD Capital Management; Bob Griffin; Bob Lieb, Chairman, Mountain Development; Mike Mazzola; Ed Smith, President, Barnegat Bay Capital; Wayne Tamarelli, President, AWT Private Investments.

The Angel Forum is supported by Gibbons P.C. 

Next Angel Forum Breakfast:

October 29, 2024 

At our meeting, Tyler Lange and Justin Murray, of Plug and Play, plan to discuss their startup investments through “NJ FAST” which is the fourth Strategic Innovation Center in New Jersey. NJ FAST is a partnership between Stevens Institute of Technology (“Stevens”), the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (“NJEDA”), Prudential Financial (“Prudential”) and Plug and Play. NJ FAST aims to deliver significant economic impact by supporting startups with innovative, world-class ideas and position New Jersey as a leader in the research, development, innovation, and entrepreneurship of the financial and insurance technology sectors. A list of their investments through NJ FAST can be found here.

Plug and Play is a global innovation platform serving to connect 86,000 startups with 575 corporations in 60 cities across the world. Pitchbook named Plug and Play the most active global investor in 2023 with over 100 investments. Plug and Play (in partnership with Stevens, Prudential, and NJEDA) is launching NJ FAST, as its first accelerator on the East Coast focused on financial services technologies, with plans to strategically invest in startups across the tri state.

Tyler Lange started his career as the eighth hire for Plug and Play's Silicon Valley Insurtech practice, which quickly grew to be the largest vertical in Plug and Play's global ecosystem. He led East Coast partnerships and events for the practice, working closely with partners across the insurance value chain including Cigna, The Hartford, Guy Carpenter, AXIS, and many more. After Plug and Play, Tyler led insurance go-to-market for unicorn fintech startup, Array, before returning to Plug and Play to lead the firm's first East Coast accelerator, NJ FAST.

Justin Murray has been building the technology and startup ecosystem in New Jersey for the past 6 years. His experience has been on the operator side of early stage tech startups like Black Crow AI and on the community side through his previous involvement with TechUnited:NJ. At Plug and Play, Justin is the Ventures lead for the northeast - focused on fintech & insurtech investments through NJ FAST and through the local ecosystem. He is also focused on bridging the gap between NJ/NYC and Silicon Valley. 

PLEASE NOTE: If you are qualified to attend this forum, please register via the link in the email invitation or email Lou Halstead at lhalstead@acg.org.  This event is invitation-only and therefor the registration link is not public on the website.  

INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES?  Contact Lou Halstead (lhalstead@acg.org) or Diane McLevy (dmclevy@acg.org) to learn more.