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Jeffery Potvin sits down for a conversation with Top Investors to discuss what makes a great Angel investor and strategies on picking winners!

Shrina Kurani is an engineer, entrepreneur, and fact-based problem solver. The daughter of Indian immigrants who sought the American Dream, she has focused her career on building businesses that reduce waste and create quality jobs.

Now, Shrina is helping candidates like her run for office and innovators get the support they need to build a more sustainable future.

With over 25 years of experience as a leader in technology & impact businesses and as an angel investor, Keith has accelerated the growth of both small and large companies and raised over $80M in angel investment and venture capital. As a global keynote speaker, teacher, and advisor, he has an unparalleled ability to collaborate with entrepreneurs, employees, and investors to grow businesses and change the world.

Keith has trained more than 400 impact entrepreneurs on investment readiness and raising capital, including Hootsuite (first three rounds), StoryTap, SocialNature, Nada Grocery, Foodee ($200m exit), Ministry of Programming, ehsAI (acquired), Brightkit (acquired; 3x in 2 years), Careteam, and FoodMesh.

Chris Wake is the Founder of Atypical, an early stage venture fund investing in plausible science fiction. He brings two decades of experience as an operator to his investing, including work on both hardware and software in the fields of aerospace, AI, and cybersecurity.

Caterina works with founders and entrepreneurs in the impactspace in Europe and in the US.
She guides entrepreneurs in navigating complexity, taking difficult decisionswith conviction, bringing integrity and bold transparency in their companies.
She has been an academic researcher, with a passion for mathematical models, astartup operator and a VC investor.

Intellectual challenges, unconventional strategies, operational and humancomplexity characterised this journey. Her ambition is asking tough questionsto unveil unconscious assumptions and beliefs that are holding backentrepreneurs.

She is a rock-climbing guide and a skiff-sailing instructor. Guiding people inextreme environments led her to investigate risks, adrenaline andresponsibility. Both in the outdoors, and in entrepreneurship.

A financial operations and compliance professional, a mentor to early-stage companies, and an occasional investor. Bryan is the founder of Starlight Capital Inc., which has developed an angel investment network and hosted more than 100 conferences for entrepreneurs to meet investors.

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