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Marya Stark is a Co-Founder of The Angel Fund, which brings key women in technology together to invest in Bay Area technology companies. She is also a Co-Founder and the Founding Executive Director of Emerge America, the premier national leadership program for women who want to run for public office. Emerge America, which now serves twelve states, is known as a “game-changer” on the national political scene. Marya began her career in corporate finance with Smith Barney and continued doing M&A transactions for a French telecom company in Paris and for a small boutique that she started with a colleague. Subsequently, she was the SVP of Marketing and Strategy for Urban Box Office Networks. She is a Board member of UC Berkeley’s Alumni Association. Marya holds a finance degree from UC Berkeley and a Masters in Applied Statistics from Georgetown University. You can contact Marya on Twitter @maryastark
Marya’s talk covers the main aspects of angel investing, including your objectives and value-add in finding the right investments. She covers tips and considerations for generating deal flow, deal screening, due diligence and follow-on investing. Lastly, she touches on crowdfunding and how this could impact early stage investing.
