Overview

With nearly 2,000 accredited angel investor members dispersed throughout 57 chapters on three continents, Keiretsu Forum is the world’s largest and most active accredited investor community. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $1 billion in 700+ companies from diverse industries, including software, telecommunications, health/life sciences, biotech, real estate, mobile applications, Internet, consumer products, and other high growth areas. Academic research has identified 3 key elements that correlate to financial angel investor success. Quality deal flow, due diligence, and diversified portfolios. The funding capacity of the Keiretsu network attracts great opportunities. Having a lot of opportunities allows Keiretsu to be selective, percolating the best opportunities to be presented for investment. Having 2000 members means Keiretsu has experts in virtually every domain within the membership. Expertise in every industry, business model, and functional area. Thirdly, members can easily diversify their portfolios by providing many investment opportunities and SPV vehicles. “Keiretsu” is the Japanese word for a family of affiliated companies that form a tight-knit alliance and work toward each other’s mutual success. Consistent with this definition, Keiretsu Forum is a conglomeration of serious investors, business leaders, family offices, venture capitalists, corporate/institutional investors, and serial entrepreneurs bound by two overlapping and codependent goals: -To work together for each other’s mutual benefit, forming strategic partnerships, enhancing each other’s knowledge, and building an angel network of diverse skills -To access promising angel investment opportunities around the world -To achieve compelling, risk-adjusted returns