AUSTIN, TX — (Marketwired) — 01/27/15 — . () announced today that , CEO/Co-founder, will be the featured keynote speaker at an open-invitation angel/venture capital event, , from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm on Thursday, January 29, 2015 at the Austin-based Capital Factory located on at 701 Brazos Street, Austin, TX 78701. Mr. Fernandez–s keynote will provide “” followed by an angel investor panel board discussion/Q&A session.
Click below to RSVP for a free seat at this exclusive angel investor presentation:
The purpose of the event is to introduce a new generation of financial technology (fin-tech) investing platforms called Texas Crowdfunding Portals (TCPs) that will soon be providing equity investment opportunities to more than 20 million new Texas investors, who will have the legal right (when the TCP is approved by Texas State Securities Board) to invest up to $5,000 per startup company as angel investors. .
This new-style of Texas equity crowdfunding represents a vast departure from the old-school practice of working with broker-dealers where only accredited investors could get access to investments in up and coming high-tech, rapid growth areas to potentially spawn the next Uber, Google, or Facebook.
” has highly vetted startups within its platform for accredited investor members. This streamlines the investment process and makes it much easier for promising entrepreneurs to market their startup to a wide variety of accredited angel investors,” said Manny Fernandez, DreamFunded.com–s CEO. .
Currently DreamFunded.com is active for accredited investors only regardless of what state they live in. When the platform officially opens the site for non-accredited investors, Crowdfunders also known as Issuers will be able to market their private equity investment deals immediately to more than over 3,400 accredited investors. This represents a large pool worth millions of dollars of seed and venture capital that is ready and seeking to be invested in attractive new Texas business opportunities.
“Our Texas equity crowdfunding portal is awaiting approval from the Texas State Securities Board (TSSB), but the site is currently open to accredited investors,” said Rexford Hibbs, DreamFunded.com–s CFO.
Mr. Manny Fernandez is the founder of , an angel investing group in San Francisco / Silicon Valley tech startups that is now seeking to invest in Texas-based companies. Some of angel investors include a partner of , an angel member of and also an early investor of Heritage Bank in Texas.
won the equity crowdfunding leadership award by Startup Grind Monterey Bay.
Manny has been selected to join the prestigious panel of investors at South-by-Southwest Interactive 2015 (SXSW) and is a frequent speaker/judge for pitch contents and conferences across the world.
Note: Media Interviews will be conducted in person two hours prior to this event or via telephone the day before the event
Robert Hoskins
Front Page PR
512-627-6622
@Crowdfunding PR
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