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Friends That Invest · Investing Tips from a Successful Angel Investor | Jaclyn Johnson · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

It seems it's very founder-oriented.

focused as opposed to the idea focused but what are sort of the main things you look at for a deal that makes you go that sparks my interest and on the flip side what do you look at that goes that's probably not a good angel investment in general

So it seems like out of most of those things, it is very like founder centric.

And when founders, especially like female founders begin their journey of trying to raise capital, do you think there is a level of, especially like at the beginning of the journey, do you think there's a level of them focusing too much on the product side instead of sharing their journey and their experience and who they are?

Let's take a little break.

And now back to the show.

What's been some of the examples of companies that you've like invested in that you've been really excited about just to give people an idea of like, what is a kind of company that I could invest in your portfolio?

You said it was more like all the way from tech to makeup.

So what are some examples?

I feel like a lot of the misconceptions and the fears that women have when it comes to angel investing is like, where on earth do I find these?

Something that kind of got my interest was you said you got in quite early to a lot of deals.

And for someone listening at home, when it comes to venture investing or angel investing,

The earlier you get, the bigger piece of the pie you get.

And then over time, you know, maybe you get in and the valuation of the company is a million dollars and having 1% of a million dollar pie is pretty good.

But when the company's worth 10 million, 20 million, 30 million, 100 million, you know, your $10,000 doesn't go as far.

And so the returns are lower.

How did you get into these companies so early on?

I don't know if this is going to make me sound like a huge nerd, but that gave me goosebumps.

Because if you think about it, what you've done is you've put $8 million from the hands of women that want to invest, more importantly, into the hands of women that are building companies.

And when only 2% of VC funding goes to female founders,

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