New Vantage Group Angel, Investing, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Venture, Private Equity, Virginia, Maryland, DC WashingtonDC, MidAtalantic, Mid-Atlantic, Mid Atlantic, Seed Funding, Funding, Seed Stage, Early Stage, Venture Funding, Angel Investing New Vantage Group (NVG), a leader in the US structured angel movement and has innovatively mobilized private equity capital since its inception in 1997. Through its myriad of activities, including co-founding the Angel Capital Association (and acting as its current Co-chair), authoring two books on angel investing (the seminal "State of the Art of American Angel Investing"), and providing angel education services in conjunction with the Kauffman Foundation and on our own, NVG has positioned itself at the vanguard of the rapidly expanding angel investment movement. In 1998, New Vantage Group founded its first Dinner Club, a manger led LLC that enabled members to determine who could join, what companies to invest in, how the meetings would be held, and how due diligence would be conducted. In marked the one of the first times investors had to put up money, not just to for deals, but in order to belong to a club managed by a professional staff. The Dinner Club quickly became oversubscribed with 60 members. In response for this high demand for structure angel groups, NVG organized the eMedia Club in 1999 and the Washington Dinner lLub in 2000, each with over 75 members. After the NASDAQ bubble collapsed in 2001, NVG continued to manage the dinner clubs, while looking for ways to bring new life to the early-stage investing industry. In 2002, NVG collaborated with the Batten Institute at UVA's Darden School of Business on several angel related research projects. From 2002-2004, NVG worked with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to form what would become the Angel Capital Association (ACA). In 2003, NVG launched the Active Angels Investors (AAI), a group that follows the pledge-fund format: members pay dues and pledge to participate in deals on an opt0in basis. AAI was the first group of its kind in the Washington DC area and continues to invest in about 2 companies each year. New Vantage Group continued to manage these funds and groups while helping other angel groups form around the country and the world. As an advisor, NVG has helped to form WomenAngels.net,, and Blue Tree Allied Angels. In 2006 NVG partnered with Focus Enterprises, as well as investors in the UK to become general partners in London-based Seraphim Capital, LLP, which focuses on high-growth, innovative UK companies seeking to penetrate US markets. NVG helped to organize 21 angel investors as limited partners in the Seraphim fund.In 2007, NVG worked with FNABA (Portuguese Business Angels Federation), EBAN (European Business Angels Network) and ACA (the US Angel Capital Association) to create the World Business Angels Association. In 2008, NVG created it's fifth angel investing group, D'Arch Angels, who specialize in early-stage investments in technology start-ups in the defense industry.