Open Angel Forum, a series of events for connecting entrepreneurs with investors, announced it will be hitting Boston for the first time, with an event on June 18. The program started as a way to counter startup pitching events where entrepreneurs are required to pay to get in front of angel investors. Open Angel, which was founded by Jason Calacanis, CEO of California-based search engine site Mahalo, will select five startups and a group of angels for its Boston installment.
Author: Erin Kutz
Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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