Adele Hinze

I am the executive director for Angel Holdings, the pioneering start-up; funding and support platform that aims to fill the much needed gap for guidance and angel investment for start-ups.

Plans to attract capital from business angels around the globe and to promote Europe as the start up hub for young talent, is at the heart of this venture.

There is a great need for funding and guidance to support young start-up companies who have the desire to drive the economy forward, and increase job creation. Angel Holdings aims to reduce the risks these start-ups present to investors via group mentoring, one-on-one mentoring, webinars, a strong document library, and access to value added services.

Angel Holdings already have a strong mentor database ready to help these fledgeling companies when they go live mid October. We will be encouraging international investment across all sectors, across the globe. We are in talks with a US company to bring the concept of “internships for start-ups” to Ireland, and beyond. There are a number of complementary projects being formulated and fine tuned as we speak. Angel Holdings want to play a key role in job creation, and increase sustainable innovation. Future projects include looking at entrepreneurship in schools and colleges.

Angel Holdings is inundated with enquiries from start-ups and business angels from countries such as Spain, Australia, USA, Greece, Africa, and other EU countries. It is for this reason, that we have pushed forward our launch date from January 2012 to 14 November 2011. Angel Holdings' launch date coincides with global entrepreneurship week.

Angel Holdings will offer business angels access to mentored start-ups, who had an opportunity to be guided by qualified business mentors. Start-ups will receive mentoring in their mother tongue where possible, to maximise their experience. Angel Holdings will provide guidance to start-up companies on their business plans, before making these plans available to investors on the Angel Holdings database. This increases the quality of investment opportunities for business angels and vc’s.

“The launch of Angel Holdings is an important step towards narrowning the gap between investors and start-up companies. It levels the playing field when start-ups understand how to present their business ideas in a professional environment, and have an acurate financial value of their companies,” said Adele Hinze, Executive Director. “The launch of Angel Holdings is only the start of its business activities. We plan to branch out to provide other services such as buying and selling companies, have plans to run community projects to encourage entrepreneurship, and much more…”

About Angel Holdings
Adele Hinze made it to the top 18 candidates of the Apprentice 2011 with her plans to launch Angel Holdings.

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Adele Hinze
Executive Director
Angel Holdings