Happy Thursday.
In today’s issue:
Angel Deals of the Week | 254 Deals, 124 Networks
First time featured this week: Golden Angels Investors and Aerospace Angels
Bookmarks I think you’ll enjoy
The best nugget from my conversation with Blair Jeffery, Aggie Angel Network board member and former President/COO of ConnexPay
🔥 Angel Deals of the Week
Angel funding rounds announced in recent weeks, compiled from public sources or via direct announcement. These deals represent the elite few that survived an angel network’s vetting process. Note: I have not personally analyzed these companies and am sharing for informational purposes only.
📊 Angel Network Investment Tracker: 254 Deals, 124 Networks.
🔓 The Exclusive: 16 Actively Raising Deals Shared to Date
Mosaic ETA | Private equity for search entrepreneurs
Participating Group: Ambassadors Impact Network
Mosaic ETA is a private equity firm backing entrepreneurs who acquire and run small and midsize businesses (entrepreneurship through acquisition). Ambassadors Impact Network recently announced an investment in the company.
Julien Ham-Ying and Eduardo Zaldivar | New York, NY | September 2026 | Source
Alma Mater Footwear | Spikeless performance golf footwear brand
Participating Group: Oregon Sports Angels
Alma Mater Footwear sells premium golf shoes for men and women, including its spikeless Beta line, and has served as the official footwear partner of the golf series THE PRO. Oregon Sports Angels recently announced an investment in the company.
Eric Sarin and Nathan Brown | Malibu, CA | September 2026 | Source
Retham Technologies | Blood test for heparin reactions
Participating Group: Golden Angels Investors
Retham Technologies is developing a test for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (a dangerous reaction to a common blood thinner) and reports $4.8 million in NIH grants. Golden Angels Investors recently announced an investment in the company’s $1.5 million seed round.
Steven Visuri | $1.5M Seed | Wauwatosa, WI | September 2026 | Source
Kepplair Evolution | Turning regional airliners into firefighting planes
Participating Group: Aerospace Angels
Kepplair Evolution is converting ATR 72s (twin-propeller planes used on short regional flights) into multi-role aircraft for fighting forest fires, and has received French government grants. Investors from Aerospace Angels joined its recently closed round, which the company says will fund prototype testing and certification.
David Joubert | $6.9M Series A | Toulouse, France | September 2026 | Source
Galaxy Diagnostics | Diagnostic tests for stealth pathogens
Participating Group: Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York
Galaxy Diagnostics offers tests that directly detect hard-to-find tick- and flea-borne infections such as Lyme disease, and has licensed related detection research from Virginia Tech. HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York recently announced an investment in the company.
Nicole Bell | Research Triangle Park, NC | August 2026 | Source
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🔖 Bookmarks
🍼 Botsitters for Hire: AI’s productivity gains are getting eaten by human verification; research shows workers spend 37% of the time AI saves them fixing its output.
🕵️ Corporate Espionage at OpenAI: The FBI arrested an OpenAI product team employee accused of planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room.
🦾 A Million Coworkers Who Never Call in Sick: Amazon’s robot fleet just passed 1 million, and internal docs suggest it could cut projected US hiring by 600,000 by 2033.
But Andrew, Which Ones Are Still Raising?
That’s the question I launched The Exclusive to answer. 16 new actively raising angel-network-backed deals posted since I launched.
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🥇 The Nugget: My Top Takeaway from a Conversation with Blair Jeffery
The customer lives in today, not the future 🕰️
The future is super cool. And when you spend all day listening to founders paint a picture of what the future is going to look like, it’s easy to forget the customer is stuck in today.
Blair shared an illustration that still blows my mind: he said that as of our recording in late 2024, ~50% of corporate payments still went out as paper checks. What. We’re talking about AI and crypto and all this cool modern stuff, but the reality is a gigantic portion of transactions are still handled old school.
From Blair: “When I got into the payments industry 25 years ago, they were declaring the death of the check. Well, here we are still in 2024 dealing with checks.”
Takeaway: Change is really, really hard, and “the future” doesn’t materialize just because it sounds cool. It materializes when the customer is convinced the next thing is 10x better than the current thing. Focus on founders who are as obsessed with the customer’s CURRENT reality as with the 10x better one.
Want more? Check out my full conversation with Blair 👇
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Until Next Week 👋
Thanks for reading - have a great week.
-Andrew
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