Angel Investing with Purpose: Xandra Laskowski's Investment Philosophy

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Want a quick estimate of how much your business is worth? With our free valuation calculator, answer a few questions about your business and you’ll get an immediate estimate of the value of your business. You might be surprised by how much you can get for it: https://flippa.com/exit -- In this episode of The Exit: Xandra Laskowski, founder and CEO of Osea Angel Investors, shares her journey from tech industry veteran to angel investor. After retiring in 1998, she started a family office in 2008 and began angel investing in 2013. Xandra discusses key criteria for startup investments, including the importance of founders having prior exit experience and maintaining two years of runway. She emphasizes the critical role of early exit planning, strategic market positioning, and maintaining strong metrics for successful scaling. Drawing from her experience investing primarily in female-founded companies, Xandra highlights the challenges and opportunities in healthcare tech, sustainability, and financial technology sectors. Despite seeing positive trends in female founder representation through her syndication partners, she acknowledges the persistent challenge of only 2% of funding going to women-run companies. For more details and insights from her entrepreneurial journey, listen to the latest episode of The Exit. -- Xandra Laskowski is an angel investor and startup advisor with over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience with large multinational tech companies as well as startups as founder, investor, advisor and board member. She has held positions as Worldwide Commodity Manager and National Major Accounts managerial roles before moving into the Angel Investment and startup worlds. She founded OSEA Angel Investors in 2017, a women focused angel investment group based in Newport Beach, California. Website: https://www.oseaangelinvestors.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xandra-laskowski-765b1813/overlay/contact-info/ Check Out Flippa’s Data Insights Tool: https://flippa.com/data-insights -- The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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0:00.0	Before we get into the exit today, I want to talk about the certified M&A advisors that are on
0:05.7	Flippa. If you are an operator right now running a business and you're thinking about exiting,
0:10.8	you are going to want to get a free online business valuation on the exit landing page.
0:16.7	Without a doubt, it is the smartest thing you can do to start a process and get yourself organized.
0:23.0	So you're going to go to the URL, flippa.com, slash exit, to check out more, and let's jump into
0:28.1	the interview.
0:29.3	Below and welcome to the exit presented by Flipa, the number one platform to buy and sell online
0:34.2	businesses.
0:35.2	Flipa manages over a billion in deal value annually and combines
0:39.5	expert buy and sell side advisory with its market leading valuation tool, deal room,
0:43.9	off market offering, market insights, an AI-based deal-by-deal matching engine. Now for the exit.
0:50.9	The exit is a 30-minute podcast featuring awesome entrepreneurs who have been there and
0:54.7	they have done it. The exit talks to operators who have bought and sold businesses of all
0:59.4	different sizes. You learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits.
1:04.7	It's a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. On this episode of The Exit, I sit down
1:10.6	with Zandra Leskowski,
1:12.8	and she is an awesome founder and CEO of OC Angel Investors.
1:18.1	She really walks through the early stage trials and tribulations of a startup
1:22.1	and really what they look for as an investment firm
1:25.8	and really all of the details that are needed when you're bringing to an
1:30.0	investor. And honestly, this was a breath of fresh air because there are so many people out there
1:35.7	that say that you need X, Y, and Z when you're approaching an investor. And Zandra really lays it out,
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