angel fund

noun

: a fund that pools capital for investment in new businesses : a fund of investment capital from a network of angel investors

Cook should collect money from alumni for an angel fund aimed at Harvard undergraduate startups.

—John Heilemann, Wired, June 2000

Word History

First Known Use

1990, in the meaning defined above

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