ANGELFEST NYC: A one-day summit for consumer obsessed early stage investors
AngelFest
One day. One room. First checks.
Wednesday, October 14 · The Bowery Hotel, NYC · 9am to 5pm
Who this is for
You have money you would like to put behind brands you actually use. Maybe you have never written an angel check. Maybe you have written two and want to get sharper. Either way, you want to sit next to the people who do this for a living and ask the questions you are slightly embarrassed to ask.
That room does not exist in New York. So we built it.
Founders, operators, creatives, and investors who have written the checks and lived through the zeros. No fluff, no lectures, goose eggs included.
Who is on stage
- Laney Crowell, Founder & CEO, Saie Beauty
- Cassandra Grey, Founder, VIOLET GREY
- Andrea Hippeau, Lerer Hippeau
- Dan Frommer, Founder & Editor in Chief, The New Consumer
- Noah Sanborn Friedman, Founder & Investor, OuterSignal
- Daniel Faierman, Partner, Habitat Partners
- Hannah Wilson, Co-Founder, CULTISH
- Nicole Angel Wachter, Founder, Angel Ventures
- Simran Kaur, Founder, Friends That Invest
- Adam Spriggs, Co-Founder, The Angel Group
- Michael Axman, Co-Founder, The Nucleus Network
- Katie Shea, Founder & Partner, Divergent Capital
- Alexis Contos, Founder, The Breadwinners
Run of show
9:00 AM. Good Morning, Angels. Breakfast and various caffeinated beverages, ready when you are.
10:15 AM. Welcome. Kelley Arena and Annie Evans open the day.
10:30 AM. The Beauty Beat: A Chat With Cassandra Grey and Laney Crowell. In a crowded market, who's building brands that shine? What the customer cares about and what actually breaks through. Two founders tell us what the future of beauty and wellness holds.
11:15 AM. Main Stage Panel: The Futurist's View. The world is changing quickly. Our panel of experts talks about the market forces driving how people shop, how people behave, and what companies will win in the age of AI, GLP-1s, and short attention spans.
12:00 PM. Power Lunch: Consumer Obsession IRL. Lunch by goop Kitchen. You don't talk about the brands at this lunch. You experience them. Eat well and treat yourself to a host of wellness and brand activations.
1:00 PM. Optional Breakout Sessions: Choose Your Own Adventure. Three rooms. Three conversations. Pick the one you've been needing all year: building your own personal investment thesis, investing out of your DAF or IRA, or the definitive how-to guide to being a Good Investor.
1:30 PM. Main Stage Panel II: Investor War Stories. Their worst deals, their best calls, everything they wish they'd known.
2:30 PM. Pitch Slam. Founders with star power pitch the room. Watch our investor judges dig in while the audience picks their favorite future unicorn.
3:30 PM. The Afterglow. Open bar and open conversation. The room where it happens.
All day. The HALO Bodega. The swag bag is dead. Our NYC-themed bodega has the real goods: a carefully curated selection of brands we believe in.
All day. The Wellness Lounge. Top up on self-care from some of the best brands in wellness, biohacking and beauty. Drop in between panels and at lunch. Featuring NAD+/B12 shots from LEVERS Health, makeup and skincare top-ups from Saie Beauty, TCM treatments from WTHN, and more.
What you leave with
A clear picture of how angel deals actually get done. A shortlist of people you want to co-invest with. At least one brand you want to back. And, if you are ready, a way to write your first check that week through HALO.
Tickets
$399 General Admission
$1,500 Service Provider
FREE for HALO members. HALO is a private investor community investing in consumer brands alongside venture capital. Apply at joinhaloclub.com.
Every registration is reviewed. The room is at capacity, so new registrations join the waitlist and we release spots as they open.
Hosted by Kelley Arena (Golden Hour Ventures) and Annie Evans (Dream Ventures). Between us: $20M+ deployed into startups, 55+ companies backed, 13 accelerator cohorts, 250 founders, an 800-person angel network, and checks into Alice Mushrooms, Brightland, Topicals, Hanni, Superpower, Hey Jane, Vyrao and dozens more.