Angel Investors Step Up as Orlando Venture to Fund Area Startups, Takes Off

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Nearly three dozen potential investors at the formative meeting of Maximize Angel Investments Central Florida recently pledged their knowledge, experience, contacts ---and their cash--- to create a strong Angel Network to fund promising Central Florida startup companies.

William De Temple, president of Maximize Angel Investments Central Florida, said he was delighted with the turnout and the number of investors who have pledged annual investments of a minimum of $25,000 each.

De Temple said the group is growing rapidly and he hopes it will exceed sixty members by the New Year and over 100 members by the end of the first quarter of 2012.

The group’s first business meeting will be held in January to elect the board and the membership committee to welcome additional prospective Angel investors.

Maximize Angel Investments Chief Analyst Ed Alvarez and De Temple will begin screening and vetting prospective entrepreneurial applicants soon.