Fresh face, fresh start

You're getting this in your inbox, but you can also now get it old-school blog style!

Hey! If you’re already a subscriber to The Angle, then you’re getting this in your inbox – but you might be just landing here on the web, without any or much context. Either way, welcome – it’s great to have you reading this.

The Angle started when I got laid off from TechCrunch, after spending over a decade there building what I hoped was the world’s leading startup technology publication. In my brief foray into unemployment, I envisioned The Angle as a general purpose tech newsletter focused on everything from iPhones to intellectual property disputes.

The new iteration of the blog (and yes I think of it more like a blog, but you’ll still be able to get it in your inbox via Substack, too) will have a more defined focus: Early stage startups.

In case you missed it, shortly after I left TC, I was lucky enough to land a job at OMERS Ventures – a venture firm attached to Ontario’s municipal employee retirement pension plan, and one of Canada’s largest VC funds in terms of assets under management.

OV’s primary focus in terms of allocating its funds is on companies that I would categorize as in the ‘late early to growth’ stages, including Series A through Series C. Ironically, across my career this is probably the category of company that I’ve had the least exposure to; instead, my focus has either been on mature public companies without outsized influence on the tech industry overall, like Apple – or on companies at or near formation.

The Angle will henceforth focus squarely on that latter category, and will feature profiles of interesting early stage companies (geography agnostic), as well as interviews with founders and investors.

To that end, I’d love to hear from you if you find yourself identified in any of the above coverage areas. I’m already lucky enough to be getting inbound based on my original The Angle announcement, but with the new remit I think there’s a whole world of new potential connections out there to be made. I’m darrell @ theangle [dot] com for those of you who are not robots and can figure out my low-tech CAPTCHA.

There’s plenty in the works for The Angle in this new iteration – including a podcast, a tweaked approach to the newsletter, and possibly some events as well. But all of the above will be guided by what resonates best with, and best serves, the audience, so please let me know what you think as we go.

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