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📰BIG NEWS: Angel Deal Flow is Here

📰BIG NEWS: Angel Deal Flow is Here

Pelvic floor health, non-opioid pain management, niche beauty products, and a wedding coordinator marketplace

Andrew Kazlow
March 10, 2025 • Reading Time: 7 minutes

Happy Thursday.

Last week I asked 150+ of my most engaged readers how I can do better. Here’s what you told me:

“Can you share more deals with us?”

Yup. Can do.

This week I’m excited to introduce a new section called “Angel Deals of the Week” where I’ll highlight angel deal activity across the ecosystem. For now, I’m pulling this from publicly available channels, but if you or your angel community would like to announce deals directly to our audience shoot me a note.

Here are your angel deals of the week, one thing on my mind, some bookmarks I think you'll enjoy, and the latest podcast drop in case you missed it.

🔥Angel Deals of the Week

Angel funding rounds announced in recent weeks, compiled from public sources. Note: I have not personally vetted these companies and am sharing for informational purposes only.

🤝 Want more details on these companies or have an angel deal to share? Reply to this email - I’d be happy to connect you with the source angel group or feature your deal.

Freyya | Pelvic Floor Health

Via Alamo Angels

Freyya is developing the first ambulatory pelvic floor monitoring and biofeedback device to optimize physical therapy.

Co-Founder and CEO Gabriele Niederauer, PhD | Pre-Seed | San Antonio, TX / Salt Lake City, UT | January 21, 2025 | (Source)

Carson Life | Hispanic-Focused Health & Beauty

Via Park City Angels

Carson Life is a natural health and beauty products company focused on the Hispanic market.

Founder & CEO Sonia Guzman | Undisclosed Round Details | Miami, FL | January 2025 | (Source)

Rebel Medicine | Non-Opioid Pain Management

Via Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN)

Rebel Medicine is developing the next generation of local anesthetics to revolutionize acute & postoperative pain management.

Co-Founder and CEO Brett Davis | $4.9M Series A | Salt Lake City, UT | February 6, 2025 | (Source)

🔖Bookmarks of the Week

Ok yes I’m excited about nuclear but other energy sources matter too. Here’s a solid case for RNG that taps many of the same nuclear drivers. ⚡ | Aaron Foyer @Orennia (link)
Remember the goofy AI Pin thing everyone was talking about last year? Steve Jang with Kindred Ventures is still bullish. 🤖 | Rosie Bradbury @PitchBook (link)
Marc Andreessen on what DeepSeek’s R1 model means for the tech arms race ⚔️ | Patrick O’Shaughnessy @Invest Like the Best (link)

The Observer’s Notebook: Flywheels 🔄

Last week I was fortunate to attend the inaugural Newsletter Marketing Summit in Austin.

Fantastic event. Lots of lessons.

But my biggest takeaway?

To build real, enduring value you gotta build flywheels - not linear processes.

The concept is drawn from Jim Collins’ “Good to Great”, one of my all-time-favorite books, but specifically applied to newsletters/podcasts.

Here’s an excerpt from the book (sourced via his personal website) that explains it well:

Picture a huge, heavy flywheel—a massive metal disk mounted horizontally on an axle, about 30 feet in diameter, 2 feet thick, and weighing about 5,000 pounds. Now imagine that your task is to get the flywheel rotating on the axle as fast and long as possible. Pushing with great effort, you get the flywheel to inch forward, moving almost imperceptibly at first. You keep pushing and, after two or three hours of persistent effort, you get the flywheel to complete one entire turn. You keep pushing, and the flywheel begins to move a bit faster, and with continued great effort, you move it around a second rotation. You keep pushing in a consistent direction. Three turns ... four ... five ... six ... the flywheel builds up speed ... seven ... eight ... you keep pushing ... nine ... ten ... it builds momentum ... eleven ... twelve ... moving faster with each turn ... twenty ... thirty ... fifty ... a hundred.

Then, at some point—breakthrough! The momentum of the thing kicks in in your favor, hurling the flywheel forward, turn after turn ... whoosh! ... its own heavy weight working for you. You’re pushing no harder than during the first rotation, but the flywheel goes faster and faster. Each turn of the flywheel builds upon work done earlier, compounding your investment of effort. A thousand times faster, then ten thousand, then a hundred thousand. The huge heavy disk flies forward, with almost unstoppable momentum.

- Jim Collins

So how am I doing this via The Diligent Observer?

What we’ve done in this week’s newsletter is a start: highlighting interesting angel deal flow.

Stay tuned for more :)

🎙️ Latest Podcast Episode

Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

Until Next Week👋

Thanks for reading - have a great week.

-Andrew

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