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Hello and welcome back to Equity TechCrunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups.

I'm Marianne Acevedo, and this is the episode where we bring on industry experts to help us explore a trend in the tech world and dive deep.

Today we're joined by Angelis CEO Avloc Koli to dive into a variety of topics, including just what Angel List does today,

the state of Angel Investing, and so much more.

Avlock, welcome to the show. How are you today?

Thank you for having me. Doing great and excited for this podcast.

Yeah, looking forward to it as well.

So I don't know if everybody is aware of your background.

Prior to joining Angel List in 2019, you actually founded and sold two

companies of your own to the likes of Postmates and Square. They include FastBite, which was a food

delivery company, and then Ferry, a provider of high-frequency house cleaning services. So you

obviously bring an interesting perspective as a former founder and operator.

So we're going to get into that a little bit more later.

But I think one thing I'd like to clarify up front before we get into anything else is just really exactly what Angel List does today.

I know that it started as a platform to connect startups with early stage investors. It's expanded over the

years into kind of more of, I think, an infrastructure provider. It's definitely evolved over time.

So I guess Angelis is no longer just a job board or Angel Investment platform. Can you clarify for

our listeners exactly what does Angelus do today? Yeah, the best way to think of Angelus today is we're

actually the go-to fintech platform where any GP in venture can actually launch or scale their next fund.

We took what was a SPV provider in 2019, and we scaled it out over the last, almost 60 years now, into venture funds,

rolling funds, where we invented a whole new product. We also introduced another innovation,

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