What we do

Angel City Advisors facilitates the flow of capital and expertise to expand opportunity, elevate community-generated ideas, and achieve equity. We place a premium on market-oriented solutions to social challenges, and take pride in executing our vision at the highest levels with integrity and humility.  We consider ourselves a social enterprise.

We provide a broad portfolio of advisory services that help family offices, fund managers, foundations, municipalities and other market participants connect to rising social enterprises and emerging community voices. We identify, cultivate, and organize pipelines of enterprises, places, initiatives, and projects that merit strategic investment and programmatic partnership. We develop strategies and ecosystems, but also manage intermediaries, and lead individual pilots and ventures.

Our experience is deepest in the following areas:

IMPACT FUND ADVISING, DEVELOPMENT, & MANAGEMENT

We conceive, structure, capitalize, and manage strategic investment funds that make the world a better place. We also develop pipeline for existing funds and conduct due diligence on specific strategic investment opportunities. We have particular interest in catalytic capital vehicles.

Enterprise Consulting & Mentorship

We prepare early-stage companies and social enterprises for launch, growth, and capital attraction.  We are subject matter experts in certain sectors (such as food) and segments (like low-income and multicultural populations) but work across many verticals with various stakeholders. Our advising spans financial, operational, market access, community engagement, racial equity, and other strategic issues.

Real Estate Advising & Project Management

We assert that the physical transformation of communities can translate to improved well-being,  happiness, and opportunity. We provide real estate strategy, entitlements, stakeholder engagement, financial structuring, and project management services for aspiring community developers.

Community Capacity Building & Ecosystem Development

We help communities evolve and prepare themselves for greater levels of investment and innovation. We design and execute place-based initiatives, and develop more robust innovation ecosystems, in order to attract and channel resources for economic development.

Research, Strategy & Thought Leadership

While we see ourselves as “doers” we understand that strategy drives effective action and reflection fuels innovation. We have been tapped to advise and publish across a number of subjects, including community banking, community development, diversity/equity/inclusion, food enterprise, food finance, placemaking, strategic investing, proximate leadership and mentoring, social enterprise, and more.