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J
ason Calacanis, one of the
most successful angel inves-
tors, believes "fortunes are
built during the down market
and collected in the up mar-
ket." It is well-known that star-
tups like Uber, Instagram and
Airbnb were founded in the
Great Recession and managed
to generate enormous wealth
for both their founders and
early investors.
At Angeles Investors, we
know that Latinos are no excep-
tion to this story. In 2009, Isaac
Saldana was building Send-
Grid, a platform for email mar-
keting. Having just completed
the Techstars accelerator and
with 100 clients in the books,
Adela
CEPEDA
Angel Investors looking for Latino companies
Stock Exchange, taking Send-
Grid public at a valuation of
over $1 billion!
While the pandemic and
economic recession has shaken
the world, Hispanic & Latinx
entrepreneurs are still out there
creating innovative companies
and solving critical problems
across industries – and they
need investors to back them.
Because of this, now more
than ever is the time to invest
in Hispanic & Latinx entrepre-
neurs. Isaac's story will cer-
tainly repeat itself – and Ange-
les Investors will hope to find,
fund and grow those ventures.
A major difference with the last
recession: more work is being
done today to ensure our com-
munity can participate in this
investment class.
Since launching, Angeles
Investors has already invested
into 5 startups across indus-
tries ranging from real-time
analytics for agricultural supply
chain to education technology.
More recently, after organizing
its third quarterly pitch night,
featuring 5 Hispanic & Latinx
Founders, the group is set to
make 2 more investments.
Angeles Investors is riding
this momentum and expects
to reach 100 members in 2021,
and aims to close the year
with 10 portfolio companies to
its name and over $1 million
invested.
Contributing writer,
Israel Munoz
Isaac raised a $750,000 seed
round to grow the company.
Fast-forward to 2017 and Isaac
found himself on the New York
