About The ACS

The Angel Capital Summit (ACS) is a unique and new collaboration of the premier professional organizations that serve entrepreneurs and early-stage investors. Having grown from an hour-long brainstorming session at an event hosted by the Rockies Venture Club, ACS has become a comprehensive all-day seminar featuring opportunities for investors and entrepreneurs to connect, learn, and generate tomorrow's growth businesses.

Instead of simply presenting pitch after pitch, this collaboration makes possible an entirely new approach to helping entrepreneurs and investors find each other.

Here's are the basic principles behind the Summit:

1. A collaborative selection process: Each of our investor partners will screen candidate companies to present, from among the companies with which they are working. This results in a broader selection of companies from a wider range of industries.
2. An intensive coaching process that puts soundness of the business concept before "spit and polish": Each presenting company is put through a structured process that starts with a standards-based assessment of strengths and weaknesses, and follows up with one-on-one coaching with industry experts to address the weaknesses. The presentation itself is honed through a collaborative "pitch practice", where companies do a dry run to each other. Few companies go through this process without making significant, positive changes in their business plans. The result: better presentations, based on better business concepts.
3. An emphasis on helping the right entrepreneurs and the right investors find each other: Many early-stage investors prefer to play an active role in their investments. With a standards-based process, it's easier for investors to find companies that are closely aligned with their interests.

The Angel Capital Summit is hosted by the Rockies Venture Club (RVC). The RVC is the region's premier networking organization that connects entrepreneurs, service professionals, investors, venture capitalists and other funding sources. Founded in 1985, the RVC was one of the first non-profit organizations in the country to help entrepreneurs launch and manage high-growth potential companies.

The Angel Capital Summit is a dramatic new extension of the RVC's mission, creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors alike to better understand their businesses and the investment opportunities. Read more about what makes this event unique.