ANN ARBOR - Entrepreneurs need to know how to approach angel investors in hopes of getting their projects funded. Skip Simms, who co-founded and managed the Michigan Angel Fund until his retirement last year, provides tips in this video interview that all entrepreneurs should know. In this video, Skip addresses the following questions: • How
ANN ARBOR - Skip Simms was one of Ann Arbor SPARK's first employees when it was created a couple decades ago to provide business training and services to the Ann Arbor tech community, including engineers coming out of the University of Michigan. On Dec. 31, Simms retired from SPARK and stepped down as managing partner
ANN ARBOR – If you want to join one of Michigan’s most active angel funds, you’ll have to do so quickly. Michigan Angel Fund Managing Partner Skip Simms said in an interview with MITechNews.Com that the sidecar fund is nearly closed. “We only accept new members when we are repopulating the sidecar fund,” he said.
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Angel Fund has invested in four women-founded technology companies - what Managing Partner Skip Simms described as “purely coincidental.” But, Simms senior vice president of Ann Arbor SPARK, added the investments can be viewed as a marker of a growing trend of women-led companies. He said outcomes of that shift
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Angel Fund invested nearly $3 million in six deals during 2015, including almost $1.6 million in the last quarter alone. With 100 members, the Michigan Angel Fund is the largest angel organization in Michigan and has 15 companies in its portfolio. The group funds companies that are seeking early investments
