Venture Lounge is an exclusive event designed to optimize the investment process for entrepreneurs, investors and resource organizations.
Venture Lounge is an exclusive event designed to optimize the investment process for entrepreneurs, investors and resource organizations. The event offers company founders, angel investors, fund managers, support organizations and other key players in our region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem an opportunity to meet in a casual and fun atmosphere.
Sponsored by CrossFirst Bank
PRESENTER BIO
Marianne Hudson – Founder and Executive Director Emeritus, Angel Capital Association – Overland Park, KS (Kansas City, MO area)
Ms. Hudson founded and led the Angel Capital Association (ACA), the world’s leading professional and trade association of angel investors, for 15 years before retiring in 2019. ACA offers education, smart practices, data analysis, public policy advocacy, and significant benefits and resources to its membership of more than 14,000 accredited investors across North America, who invest individually or through its 260 angel groups, accredited platforms, and family offices. As an angel investor, Ms. Hudson makes her investments through three angel groups and two online platforms for accredited investors. She also sits on the board of the National Angel Capital Organization, ACA’s colleague association in Canada, the advisory council of the Center for American Entrepreneurship, and is a national advisor for Pipeline Entrepreneurs, nationally and internationally.
She currently serves as an entrepreneur mentor for several programs for VentureWell. Previously Ms. Hudson was a director of entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation, Vice President of the Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Center, and an associate in technology economic development organizations in Ohio and Kansas. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Kansas and an M.A. in Public Policy from Rutgers University.
More information about ACA is at www.angelcapitalassociation.org or @ACAAngelCapital.
