March 3, 2011

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Upcoming Boston Application Deadline, Apply Now!

We’ll be in Boston on March 15th, deadline for companies to apply is Thursday March 9th.  (Apply here!)

If you are an investor interested in attending, you can sign up here.  If you are a service provider interested in sponsoring, you can find more information here.

January 10, 2011

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Philadelphia March 16th!

We are pleased to announce that we are adding Philadelphia to the list of Open Angel Forum Cities.  We are now accepting applications for our first event  March 16th.  Companies interested in presenting can apply here, and interested investors can sign up here. Gabriel Weinberg is helping us out, and we are really excited to get involved in the startup community there.

Upcoming Events:

Boulder – February 3rd

New York – February 8th

January 5, 2011

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Announcing New York City – February 8th!

Happy New Year!  Our second event of 2011 will be taking place in New York City on February 8th.  If you have a company looking to raise money you can apply here.  Interested angel investors can apply here, and sponsors can find more info here.  Charlie O’Donnell and Brian Alvey will be the hosts for the evening, and it promises to be another excellent event.

The application deadline for companies to present at the Boulder event on February 3rd is Saturday January 22nd at midnight.  You can apply here for Boulder.

We will be announcing the full 2011 lineup shortly, so check back for that.

Finally don’t forget about the LAUNCH Conference taking place on February 23rd and 24th.  Learn more here.

December 5, 2010

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UPDATE: Boulder February 3 2011!

The new date for the Boulder Event will be February 3, 2011.  If you previously applied for your company to present, don’t worry, we still have your application and you’re all set.  If not, companies can apply here, angels here, and if you’d like to sponsor you can do so here.

Happy Holiday’s everyone!

November 19, 2010

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Open Angel Forum Boulder – Applications Open!

We had a blast in San Francisco and Seattle last week.  10 great companies presented over the two awesome events.  We saw some old friends,  and of course made a bunch of new ones.  A big thank you to Andy Sack and his team at TechStars Seattle for all of their help.

Don’t forget we’ll be in Boulder with David Cohen on Dec 9th.  If your company is interested in presenting, apply here.  You can read more about the event here and here.

San Francisco Presenters:

Seeport

Ticketcake

Micromobs

Swipegood

Cardmunch

Seattle Presenters:

Scriptpad

Viafo

Bobber Interactive

Nearlyweds

Globalmojo

November 8, 2010

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Welcome our new partner Joyent, and applications are open for Boulder on December 9th!

We’re excited to announce that Joyent is a now a national partner of the Open Angel forum.  Over the last year, Joyent has been to many of our events and helped a lot of great start-ups begin building out their web applications.  As a partner, Joyent will be providing winners at all Open Angel events with architecture consulting and free cloud hosting for 6 months — which is exactly what our winners need while looking for early funding and building their business at the same time.

We are now accepting applications for Boulder, which will be taking place on Thursday December 9th at 7:00 PM.  Companies can apply here.  We have a limited number of tickets available for service providers, you can get more information here.  If you are interested in attending as an angel investor, you can apply here.  You can read more about the Boulder event over on David Cohen’s blog.

This week we are headed back to San Francisco and Wednesday will be our first event in Seattle.

October 12, 2010

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Announcing San Francisco November 3rd, and don’t forget Seattle on Nov 10th!

UPDATE: Due to the Giants being in the World Seires, we are pushing this event back Tues Nov 9th.

We’ll be heading to San Francisco on Wednesday November 3rd.  Interested companies need to apply by Tuesday Oct 26th here.  If you are an angel investor interested in attending, please submit your information here.  If you are interested in sponsoring, you can find more information here.

Don’t forget about our upcoming Seattle event as well, we are still accepting applications!

October 1, 2010

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Upcoming events, and announcing Seattle!

We are very excited to be heading to London for our first international Open Angel Forum event which will take place on Wed Oct 6th.  Following that will be our first simultaneous Open Angel Forum events, with Boston and New York both taking place on Wednesday October 13th.  If you would like to submit your company for consideration at the Boston event, you can find more information here.  If you’d like to be considered for New York, you can find more information here.

We are also happy to announce that we are teaming up with Andy Sack from TechStars Seattle to do our first event in the Northwest on Wednesday Nov. 10th.  Angels who are interested can apply here, companies who would like to be considered to present can apply here.  If you are interested in sponsoring the event, you can find more information here

September 28, 2010

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Rapportive raises $1M to make gmail even better

Rapportive,   raised $1M from a large group of investors earlier this summer after they presented at the first Silicon Valley Open Angel Forum in April.  Gmail creator Paul Bucheit was involved in the round, along with OAF members Jason Calacanis,  Jay Levy, Dave McClure, Shervin Pishevar, and Dharmesh Shah.  Rapportive provides relevant information from the social web about the people you are emailing with.  Try it for yourself here, you won’t know how you ever lived without it.

September 17, 2010

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Applications open for New York on Oct. 13th!

Join Charlie O’Donnell and Brian Alvey as they host the third NYC Open Angel Forum event of the year.  Companies can apply here, angels here, and if you are interested in sponsoring you can do so here.