Despite the downturn in the market, over the past year, the AngelList crowdfunding platform increased investment inflows by 56%

Sources: AngelList



AngelList is a crowdfunding platform that helps startups find potential investors in the early stages. Today, the platform reported on its performance in 2015.



AngelList raised $ 163 million for 441 companies. This is 56% more than in 2014 . Private investors and investment funds participated in approximately 40% of all AngelList transactions.

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Megamind wrote in October that the platform had another $ 400 million that could be invested in startups. This is the largest amount in history allocated for investing in startups at an early stage.



The funds were invested by the CSC Global Fund, the American division of China China Science and Merchants Investment Management Group ( CSC Group ).



Startups on the platform are rated by 165 different business angels. Each of them oversees its own group of investors. Therefore, it will depend on the decision of one business angel whether the startup will receive investments from the whole group.



But now investors from CSC can move from one such group to another and make decisions about investing startups on their own. Thus, startups will be able to receive funds faster, and AngelList will have the opportunity to invest even more young projects.



Another important direction of the platform is recruiting. This year the number of applicants (up to 16 thousand) and employers (up to 250 thousand) doubled.