angel network

noun

: angel group

In some places … there is a highly cultivated culture of individual investors and angel networks who finance expansions of early-stage companies.

—Guy Kelly, Rocky Mountain News, 14 Nov. 1999

Word History

First Known Use

1991, in the meaning defined above

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