Maverick Angels Goes International
The Southern California angel group will announce an alliance with Intesa Sao Paolo, Italy's largest bank, and is starting a new angel network based in Milan, peHUB has learned. Maverick president John Dilts, who founded Maverick three years ago after leaving the Keiretsu Forum, said Maverick has been looking for ways to partner with large corporations that want faster access to startups, and the alliance with the bank should help. A lot of corporate venture arms got burned in the tech bubble and pulled back on investing in startups, he said, and now they've fallen behind.
27 October 2009•2 mins read
