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Education & Training
Information Technology
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Brighter Capital is the private investment vehicle of Yun-Fang Juan, who started angel investing after a decade long career as a software engineer at Facebook and Yahoo! She joined Facebook in 2006 as one of the first 150 employees, co-created Facebook Ads, and helped grow the ad revenue from scratch to a multi-billion dollar business. Since 2012, Juan has invested in 150+ startups, which consist of 50+ direct investments and 100+ SPV investments through AngelList, FundersClub, Microventures, and TheSyndicate.com. Brighter Capital plans on doing 30-40 direct investments per year ranging from $25K-$100K per investment depending on company stage. In addition, Brighter is making a large number of investments on AngelList.
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Investment Firm Key
VC = Venture Capital
PE = Private Equity
A = Angel
I = Incubator
MB = Merchant Bank
VD = Venture Debt
FI = Family Investment Office
FOF = Fund of Funds
ED = Economic Development Office
TT = Technology Transfer Office
CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
SEC = Secondary Purchaser
HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
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| COMPANY STAGE | REVENUE |
| Venture Capital | |
Seed Stage
(includes "pre-seed," or
concept stage) | No Revenue |
| Early Stage | Minimal
Revenue |
Growth Stage
(also called Mid-stage) | $2M-$7M |
Expansion Stage
(also called Late-stage) | $7M and greater |
| Private Equity | |
| Lower Middle Market | $10M-$249M |
| Middle Market | $250M-$499M |
| Upper Middle Market | $500M-$1B |
| Large Cap | >$1B |
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