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Des Moines’ Plains Angels invest nearly $2.5M in 2014
Plains Angels, a Des Moines-based angel investment group, announced this week that its members invested $2,425,000 in seven startup companies last year. The total marks their highest year yet since founding in 2012.
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Plains Angels invests more than $1M, continues expansion to eastern Iowa
Oftentimes, the challenge for new business growth in states like Iowa involves reaching a critical mass of support. For Iowa’s independent angel investor group Plains Angels, that means extending its reach to other parts of the state…
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Three investments by Iowa angel group total about $750,000
Plains Angels, a Des Moines-based consortium of angel investors established last June, has invested about $750,000 in three Iowa businesses, the group’s co-founder Mike Colwell told the Des Moines Register. Carroll-based Agren, a 17-year-old agriculture consulting company …
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Plains Angels adds investor training program in Des Moines, videos online
The Plains Angels, a Des Moines-based consortium of angel investors that came together in June last year, announced today …
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Iowa angel group forms with focus on Midwest
The Business Innovation Zone announced Sunday the formation of the Plains Angels, an independent, nonprofit consortium of angel investors that plans to make investments in the areas of technology, agriculture and manufacturing. “We want to help (accredited) investors more efficiently access high-quality deal flow,” said Mike Colwell (far left), director of the Business Innovation Zone,…