Fourth Estate Angels

We invest in extraordinary entrepreneurs with new, unique and/or disruptive solutions at the intersection of journalism, technology, data and community.

Much more than just a funding application. It’s an introduction.

Fourth Estate Angel Investors provides seed and early stage venture funding for news and journalism innovation. We are not a fund, our members share and colloborate on deals and due dilligence, but our members make individual investment decisions.

We strongly prefer companies with new and/or disruptive solutions at the intersection of journalism, technology and community.  

The Fourth Estate Fund prefers to serve as the lead investor but is also willing to form part of a syndicated deal led by other experienced angel groups and investors.

The Fourth Estate Fund typically invests between $5000 to $100,000 with the following characteristics:

• Opportunity for the Fourth Estate Fund to add significant value
  
  


• Operates in a large, disruptive and rapidly-growing or transforming market in the Journalism, News, Media or Information sectors
  
  


• Differentiated product or technology-enabled service that addresses a clear market need with a expanding market opportunity
  
  


• Capital-efficient business model with a clear path to significant revenue with multiple customers
  
  


• Realistic pre and post money valuations
  
  


• Strong and experienced founders and management team
  
  


• Founders have their own cash invested (aka skin in the game) or have completed a meaningful "Friends & Family" round

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Please note we charge a nominal one time fee to submit a funding application.

• Aerospace
• Agriculture
• Biotechnology
• Business Products
• Business Services
• Chemicals and Chemical Products
• Clean Technology
• Computers and Peripherals
• Construction
• Consulting
• Consumer Products
• Consumer Services
• Digital Marketing
• Education
• Electronics / Instrumentation
• Fashion
• Financial Services
• Fintech
• Food and Beverage
• Gaming
• Healthcare Services
• Industrial/Energy
• Internet / Web Services
• IT Services
• Legal
• Lifestyle
• Marine
• Maritime/Shipping
• Marketing / Advertising
• Media and Entertainment
• Medical Devices and Equipment
• Mining
• Mobile
• Nanotechnology
• Networking and Equipment
• Oil and Gas
• Other
• Real Estate
• Retailing / Distribution
• Robotics
• Security
• Semiconductors
• Software
• Sports
• Telecommunications
• Transportation
• Travel

• Capital Seeking
• $5,000 - $100,000
• Valuation
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