NEARLY every week, all around the world, wealthy people, self-made business owners and senior executives in a range of industries gather at private clubs, cultural centres or five-star hotels for free, invitation-only angel investing "boot camps" intended to help them size up fledgling business ideas and the people behind them.
The events are organised by Angel Labs, a global angel investor academy based in San Francisco whose mission is to widen the influence of angel investing, a field in which the relatively affluent put money into startups, usually in the tech industry.
"There is a huge interest in angel investing, but many of these people feel left out of what's happening in Silicon Valley,"...