Startup Ecosystem

A startup ecosystem is the network of participants — founders, angel investors, VCs, accelerators, advisors, and service providers — whose interactions enable new companies to form and scale. Healthy ecosystems exhibit dense information sharing, recycled capital from successful exits, and normalised failure.

angellist was specifically designed to make the angel investing layer of startup ecosystems more accessible and transparent.

Referenced in: smillie-2014-avenging-angel