Connecting Entrepreneurs and Investors is a key element of our NEF mission.

Angel Investors, Angel Groups, and Venture Capitalists are important members of the entrepreneurial community and are important stakeholders for NEF. Investors participate in NEF events to learn about new opportunities, make connections, and share their expertise in panel discussions.

NEF helps entrepreneurs that we have coached by connecting them to investors who may be interested in learning more about them.

NEF helps investors with deal flow by bringing new opportunities to their attention and by ensuring that entrepreneurs are prepared with the kind of information that investors need in the early stages of their screening processes.

NEF also collaborates with a few select investor groups to enhance their evaluation and selection processes. For example, at the Investor’s request, NEF can provide Pitch Tune-Up sessions to entrepreneurs who have been given a firm date to formally present to the investor group. To learn more about how your group can collaborate with NEF, Contact the NEF President.

“We find NEF a valuable tool for improving entrepreneur pitches. NEF coaching teams provide entrepreneurs friendly advice on how to make meaningful presentations, covering all the essentials investors want to see at a first meeting.  We  refer entrepreneurs to them regularly.”

Skip Simms, Michigan Angel Fund

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If you are an Investor interested in startups in Michigan and beyond,  Sign Up for NEF Investor Updates. Make sure to include your name, contact details, and organizational affiliations in your message.

We send out Investor Updates by email about ten times a year. We will include copies of executive summaries of certain startup companies that have been approved for distribution to you. Please remember by receiving these executive summaries that companies coached by NEF are not making an offer of any investment in their companies Such an offer can only be made directly by the company. Please read the full disclaimer below. 

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If you are not already a member of NEF, we would welcome you or your organization to join as an individual member or organizational sponsor of NEF.

By registering to the New Enterprise Forum’s private investor list, you will be provided access to business executive summaries from showcase presenters that have been coached by NEF volunteers to give a 10-minute presentation and have distributed these executive summaries at the organization’s monthly forum.

These documents include descriptions of the presenter’s businesses and some of their underlying technologies general details on their financial projections and requirements, an introduction of their teams, and their plans for an exit strategy. They are neither intended as an offering nor as a general solicitation for funding. These entrepreneurs are seeking only indicators of interest.