the business angel simulator
Scale Up! Angel
Scale Up Angel! allows any current or aspiring angel investor to experience, understand and get started on successful angel investing in just hours. It equips the participants with a profound insight into the role of angel investors and helps them truly understand how to become excellent angel investors.
how it works
Scale Up! Angel in 30 sec
You are an aspiring business angel. You have 2M to invest and SAFE notes as your tool. Meet exciting startups, invest and partner with them. Your goal is to invest early and scale your portfolio startups to a successful scale up and exits and walk away with huge multiples on your investment.
Along the way you will meet Ups (Boom), downs (Bust), investors, competing Angels, World Famous Advisors. You will develop strategies, funding structures, business models, pitches, deal with strategic dilemmas, tackle growth-stage investor pitches, master cap table math, deal with exit scenarios and help develop a long-term capital strategy. Your companies will struggle, and you need to help them overcome. You will be competing and collaborating with other angel investors, all trying to outcompete you in the market.
canvases
The Business Angel Toolkit
All participants receive the 40+ page Business Angel Masterclass Toolkit.
Packed with 18 tools, designed exclusively to help business angels develop their strategy, increase their impact and make better investment returns, these tools will be used during Masterclass, but really comes to life in real-world use cases by the angel investors afterwards.
Content deepdive
What You Will Experience
You (as the angel) and your team (as co-investing angels and founders) will take connect and collaborate to scale. You can invest in one company (concentration risk) or invest in all of them (spray & pray). You can allocate all your money early (get in at lower valuations) or save some for follow-ons, bridges and down-rounds.
You will be exposed to strategic dilemmas, hostile competitors, demanding market conditions, complex deals, liquidity crisis and all the factors an angel investor and startups have to deal with towards a successful exit.
Many people get overwhelmed. They function poorly as a team. They get stressed. They make bad decisions. They are unable to collaborate on strategy. They are unable to handle tough competitors. They make bad deals. They are unable to handle cap tables. Their angel portfolios go up in flames.
This is by design.
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why
Why Scale Up! Angel Works
Scale Up Angel! leverages real-life experiences and examples to guide participants through the entire angel investing journey. It employs visual tools and hands-on team collaboration in a competitive environment. Participants will master new startup strategies and funding canvases, focusing on exits, value creation, and investor outcomes.
The simulation integrates various aspects such as portfolio management, startup strategy, financing, investor negotiations, and term sheet analysis, updated with the latest industry trends. Based on insights from seasoned investors from Powerhouse, EQT, and Blackrock, it can be conducted in-person or online, offering a flexible and powerful method to excel as an angel investor.
Learn The Seven Different Angel Styles
Dipping toes, spray & pray, Super Angel? Participants will learn the seven different angel styles and how to apply them in practice. The Masterclass combines short teaching modules with extensive, interactive group work.
Building Your Early Angel Portfolio
Starting the simulation, angels will need to commit their limited capital through a series of SAFE notes (Investments). Once you start deploying your SAFE notes, you are well on your way!
Growing, Supporting Your Angel Portfolio
As an angel investor, during the Masterclass, you will need to closely track and monitor your investments. Some will go belly up, others will blitz to global unicorns; but can they do this without your support?
Format
Our Success Stories, Online and In-person
Scale Up! can be used in-person, as well as online. Here are some success stories showcasing our different formats.
In-Person
Empowering Female Angel Investors: How Tiye Angels & Strategy Tools are Transforming Egypt’s Investment Landscape
Explore how Tiye Angels, Egypt’s first women-focused angel investment network, is transforming the investment landscape with the help of Strategy Tools. This case study highlights their efforts in empowering female investors and entrepreneurs with the Scale Up Angel Masterclass, fostering economic inclusivity and gender parity.
Dive into the full story to see the impact of their initiatives on Egypt’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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Bring Scale Up! Angel to Your Ecosystem
Looking to grow an angel network, train your fellow angel investors or boost the angel ecosystem.