MEET THE ANGELS - AUGUST 27, 2014 | BOCA RATON, FL

The Gold Coast Venture Capital Association will be hosting Meet the Angels on Wednesday, August 27th from   5-8 pm at the Embassy Suites in Boca Raton.

The event is designed to provide entrepreneurs the opportunity to meet all the major South Florida angel groups and many investors and investment funds all in one setting. This will be a fantastic opportunity for area entrepreneurs to learn who these organizations are, who to contact, what their investment parameters are, and what their process is and to learn about current issues in start-up and growth funding.  For investors and angel organizations, the event will provide excellent exposure to the broader South Florida entrepreneurial community and to other investors.   

The fee will be $25 for GCVCA members and $35 for non-members. 

Sponsor exhibit tables are available for $600. Please contact me for additional information. 

The following organizations have committed to participate in panels thus far: 

• Accelerated Growth Partners - Nico Berardi 
• Angel Forum of Florida - Jeff King
• Belle Capital - Marti LaTour 
• Caerus Ventures - Zac Cherry 
• CrunchFire Ventures- Franc Nemanic 
• EarlyShares - Joanna Schwartz 
• Florida Funders - Dave Chitester
• Florida Venture Forum - Kevin Burgoyne 
• Miami Innovation Fund - Jack Karabees 
• New World Angels - Rhys Williams
• Palm Beach Angels - Jeff Brown 
• Spearhead Capital - Ross O'Brien 
• Start-Up Palm Beach Capital - Chris Callahan 
• Tamiami Angel Funds - Timothy Cartwright
• Thesis Ventures - Mike O'Donnell 

 We hope you will join us for what promises to be an outstanding opportunity for a large array of South Florida entrepreneurs and investors to meet.

LevelEleven is a Detroit-based startup that helps managers and teams stay focused on tasks and selling.  LevelEleven has raised $2 million in additional venture funding from Detroit Venture Partners (DVP), Hyde Park Venture Partners, Salesforce.com and angel investor David Fry.  LevelEleven will be using the funding to meet the rising demand from customers, further product development, and increase sales and marketing. This is the first round made by Mashburn Justice Capital Partners, a venture capital firm founded by Jamal Mashburn and Winston Justice.  Jamal Mashburn was an NBA basketball player that retired in 2004 from the New Orleans Hornets.  Winston Justice is a player for the NFL that was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 2006.

Compete, the flagship software created by LevelEleven, now has real-time feedback when completing key sales behaviors, leader boards, and a new user interface for their competition builder.  LevelEleven has real-time “breaking news” bursts for LeaderTV, which is a new month-to-month pricing model.  LevelEleven will also launch a new mobile application this fall.

“This latest investment further validates the great traction we are seeing in the market and our vision around using competition and gamification techniques to motivate salespeople,” said LevelEleven founder and CEO Bob Marsh. “Getting the support of both new investors and having the continued support from local Detroit investors enables us to maintain our aggressive growth track, which has seen us triple our customer base in the past 10 months.”

The last time I spoke with Marsh was in June and he told me at that time was that the quality of data entered by sales reps increased by an average of 819% and customers that used Compete to get reps focused on key products saw their sales spike an estimated 421%.

LevelEleven is based in the Detroit M@dison Building and previously raised $1.5 million in April 2013.  LevelEleven has over 85 customers, including Delta, OpenTable, and Comcast.