Women's Venture Summit: Angel Academy
Thursday, October 29, 2026, 3:00 PM PDT – 4:30 PM PDT
Virtual event
Hosted by Women's Venture Summit

LEARN. CONNECT. ACTIVATE. A FREE Pre-Women’s Venture Summit Experience 📅 Thursday, October 29, 2026 | 3:00–4:30 PM PT 💻 Live on Zoom | FREE Registration Knowledge creates opportunity. Connections build relationships. Capital drives impact. Join Women’s Venture Summit, She Invests!, and Tidal River Fund for a dynamic, 90-minute virtual experience bringing together aspiring and experienced investors, entrepreneurs, and ecosystem leaders who want to better understand early-stage investing and put capital to work. Through real investment data, portfolio case studies, emerging trends, and practical insights, we’ll explore how to evaluate investment opportunities, navigate the startup ecosystem, and activate capital with purpose. What You’ll Learn 💡 Angel Investing 101 + 201: From investing fundamentals to portfolio strategies, risk assessment, and evaluating startups. 📊 Real Investment Case Studies: Go behind the scenes of investments from the She Invests! and Tidal River Fund portfolios, with practical examples and a take-home case study. 📈 Early-Stage Investment Trends: Explore the opportunities, market shifts, and emerging trends shaping today’s startup investment landscape. 🎤 Ask the Investors: An open, tactical Q&A focused on real investment decisions, opportunities, and challenges. Learn. Connect. Activate. At Women’s Venture Summit, we believe investor education should be accessible, investment relationships should be authentic, and capital should be activated to help innovative companies launch, grow, and scale. Whether you’re exploring angel investing, actively building your portfolio, or seeking to understand the investor perspective as an entrepreneur, this experience is designed to help you take your next step. 🩷 BONUS: Introducing the FREE WVS Angel Academy Online Course! We’re launching a free, open-access investor education course featuring two learning tracks: 🌱 Investor Foundations: Five modules covering the fundamentals of early-stage investing, evaluating startups, and developing an investment thesis. 🚀 Investor Mastery: Five modules focused on investment strategy, valuations, term sheets, due diligence, portfolio management, and capital activation. The initial 10-module curriculum will launch alongside the Academy, with video lessons rolling out over the following month. From there, we’ll continue building the curriculum collaboratively, inviting investors and industry experts to contribute their knowledge, experience, and insights. Our vision is to activate expertise capital through accessible education and connect it with financial capital through our growing investor network and syndicate opportunities. Together, we’re creating an investor education platform that continues to grow, evolve, and expand access to early-stage investing. Registration is FREE and required. Your Zoom link will be provided upon registration. LEARN. CONNECT. ACTIVATE. Because investing is about more than capital. It’s about the people, possibilities, and impact we create together.