My latest guest is Amber Illig, General Partner at The Council. What started, as she told me, as her desire to do angel investing eventually expanded to a community and then a fund a couple of years ago.
The Council Fund typically invests about $50-100K into pre-seed startups, and then she also has a group called the Council Angels, which has become a consortium of over a hundred angels. Prior to that, she has a really interesting history in both startups and established tech companies.
She's worked in names you would definitely recognize: companies like Atmos, Cruise, Snap, and even Apple. She started her career in engineering roles at Eli Lilly and Delta Faucet, two of Indiana's most well known companies. And she also graduated from my arch rival school, Purdue. But I was still excited to speak with her.
We had a fun conversation covering her journey, the current state of VC, where she sees exciting opportunities, life as an emerging manager, and some examples of companies and less obvious industries where she's finding great investments.
Thanks to show sponsor, BankTech Ventures.
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Ike Kavas - Founder & CEO of Ephesoft
Peter Polydor - Founder of Eureka Building & Eureka Hub; President of Ergo Holdings
Neel Grover - Founder & CEO of Indi
Lori Torres - Founder & CEO of Parcel Pending
Dan Heinfeld - President of LPA
Kurt Johnson - Founder / CEO of FreightPop
Scott Duffy - CEO, SD Media Holdings; Top 10 Speaker
Dawn Reese - CEO, The Wooden Floor
Mike Daniel - Regional Director, Orange County & Inland Empire Small Business Development Center Network
Lawrence Greaves - Co-founder & CEO of OPKIX
Don DiCostanzo - Founder & CEO of Pedego Electric Bikes
Nick Kovacevich - Co-founder, Chairman & CEO of KushCo Holdings
Peter Nguyen - founder, CEO of Ad Exchange Group
Lori Seal - CEO, Blytheco
Cary Breese - co-founder, CEO at NowRx
Grant Van Cleve - CEO Buy It Installed; Chairman Tech Coast Angels
Beckham Thomas - Founder / CEO of Dealer Credit Resources
Fauad Hasan - CEO of Ornovi, former CEO of Bonti
Travis Lindsay - CSUF Startup Incubator, Professor, Titan Angels
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