COREangels – About Us

Our energy comes from determined entrepreneurs and passionate angels. We work every day to provide a fulfilling experience to the ones who dare to innovate and the ones who dare to invest in innovation. This forges a close community conducted by tireless and thoughtful leaders and supported by our seasoned team. We are all so different, but aligned to impact the early stage fuelled by local trust and diversity.

CINTIA MANO, CEO

Global Community of Angel Investors

Co-creation of value with the entrepreneur in a shared adventure. No one else, from the initial investment stage, has this mission as clear as business angels. COREangels leverages it with its greatest purpose: the professionalization of angel investment.

Our model

COREangels Community is diverse.
Each angel fund is unique and different.
Our community operates around one single model.

An expanding global community with a distinctive model.

Portfolio

Angels invest in a common portfolio and make investment decisions as a group to ensure diversification.

Mentorship

Our angel investors actively mentor the founders of startups in the portfolio towards success.

Fund Leaders

Due diligence, valuations, pre-selections and reporting are done by professional leaders.

Meet our Business Angels

We make angel investing professional and global,improving outcomes, while contributing andenjoying the journey.

The Founders & Management Team

COREangels funds are supported by a full time team of seasoned angel investors and professionals dedicated to creating the best experience for our community.

Cintia Mano

CEO

Ela Zohrevandi

Community Manager

Marjorie Ferro

Project Manager

Rui Falcão

President & Co-Founder

Pedro Bandeira

BoARD MEMBER & CO-FOUNDER

Klaus Ukens

VP Investor Cofounder

Leaders of COREangels Funds

COREangels funds are managed by professional fund leaders with extensive field knowledge and experience in angel investing, startups investment and entrepreneurship .

Maurizio Calcopietro

Atlantic

Guillermo Soto

Madrid

Alejandro Soto

Madrid

George Cargill

Pacific

Yoshiyuki Oba

Pacific

Nils Galdo

Pacific

Urs Rothmayr

Barcelona

Rui Falcão

Lisbon

Francisco Dowsley

Edutech

Fernando Rolim

Edutech

Terry Huang

Health Ventures

Gregor Hoffman

Health Ventures

Jorge Martínez-Arroyo

EnterpriseTech

Maha Mandour

MEA

Federico Giannetti

Climate

Michele Morabito

Climate

Dr. David Griesbach

Big Data & AI

Pascal Stämpfli

Big Data & AI

Samira Courti

Big Data & AI

Ahmed Essam

MEA

Hala Elsadek

MEA

Khalid Yasser

MEA

Rui Falcão

Porto

Eduardo Flores Prieto

EnterpriseTech

Pedro Bandeira

Lisbon

Pedro Bandeira

Porto

Get in touch with us

Please, leave us a message! Our team replies to inquiries that are aligned with our goals within 7 working days.

FAQ

What is COREangels?

COREangels is a network of people who are passionate about helping entrepreneurs launching innovative businesses by professionally investing as a business angel.

How do COREangels work?

COREangels has developed its own group investment model. All business angels in each group invest together in the portfolio. Business angels invest in a group managed by group leaders. Each group has its own investment thesis and autonomy in investing decisions. Group leaders are responsible for screening startups and taking them to the Investment Committee. New investments are approved democratically with the vote of the majority of business angels. Each business angel has 1 vote, regardless of the amount invested.

What is the relationship between the Head Office and each angel group?

COREangels is born glocal, sharing a global brand through vertical and geographical groups of business angels and promoting involvement and long-term commitment with the local ecosystem in each geography. Each angel group is an independent company. The group leaders are responsible for managing this company. COREangels Head Office has an important role in the development of each group, preparing and training new group leaders and defining and guaranteeing governance standards. COREangels supports the leaders in attracting investors, business flow, startup evaluation, besides the benefits of being part of an international network. COREangels also provides branding, website, setup support, administrative support, documentation support, meetings and activities planning support, marketing support, and tools support (CRM, screening, reporting, financial analysis).

What are the benefits of being affiliated with COREangels as a global network?

COREangels supports the growth of professional angel groups and offers individual investors a hurdle less experience, maximizing outcome and diversifying investment while creating the context for them to involve, to contribute, to foster innovation, to self-develop, to network and to enjoy the journey.

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