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PRWEB - New York: A new angel investment group has formed in New York City, pledging to solve the engineering talent crisis of the city by offering considerable development resources to web and mobile startups in exchange for equity.
KAYWEB Angels, LLC is majority owned by KAYWEB, LLC, which is a web and mobile application development company with staff in the United States, Australia and the Philippines. In these countries, KAYWEB has delivered over 150 websites, web applications and mobile applications covering complex verticals including real estate listings, online dating, social networking, CRM and others.
KAYWEB Angels Founder and CEO Haig Kayserian says his investment group is ready to reward great ideas with development services that are hard to reach in New York and the United States in general.
"We refer to ourselves as 'angel developers,'" said Kayserian, who founded the KAYWEB development firm in Australia seven years ago and guided its rise up to a leading international web and mobile solutions provider.
He added: "We realize that New York is historically a hub for great ideas, but it suffers from a shortage of engineering talent. We will provide that talent and our considerable network of resources to startups who can convince us that their idea is great. We will then join them on their journeys as co-founders."
The KAYWEB Angels board of directors are great assets to the organization, and the startups that are chosen for investment.
Sidney Minassian is CEO of GrowthQ, a Silicon Valley-based consultancy helping startups launch, monetize and grow. Shant Soghomonian is an executive at VMware, with over 12 years of IT sales, management and leadership experience in Asia, the Pacific and Japan. Foad Fadaghi, formerly with Friendster, brings over 15 years of experience in technology research and consulting. John Buckman is a corporate attorney and the founder of Buckman Group - Corporate Counsel, whose specialty is startups.
Minassian, who launched his previous startup Liaise at DEMO in 2009 and won the People's Choice Award and the peak marketing prize, commented: "It's great to be part of the team and I am looking forward to working with all our portfolio CEOs and launching some awesome companies."
KAYWEB Angels already has three New York projects as active investments and is inviting applicants to submit their ideas at www.kaywebangels.com.
Kayserian said: "We will look to take in two more investments by the end of July 2011 in order to take our total number to five. Then we will invite applications once every quarter."
Follow KAYWEB Angels on Twitter @KAYWEB_Angels and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/kayweb-angels-llc, like the company on Facebook at www.facebook.com/kaywebAU, or visit the website at www.kaywebangels.com.
New York startup founders of the non-technical variety have long struggled to find skilful, technical co-founders. These individuals are not often immediately monetized in order to be able to afford the services of the limited developer talent pool available in the big city.
KAYWEB Angels, LLC is the 'angel development company' founded to fill this gap and plug New York's developer hole.
KAYWEB Angels is majority-owned by KAYWEB, the web and mobile development company with offices in New York, Sydney, Melbourne and Manila. KAYWEB employs 20 full-time staff, including 14 programmers specializing in developing websites and applications using various languages and technologies.
With over 200 clients using our systems, including our state-of-the-art content management system KAYWEB CMS, KAYWEB is well-equipped to build the next great web and mobile startup projects originating in New York City.
KAYWEB Angels has been founded to facilitate this process by providing our considerable resources in exchange for equity in founders' projects.
Our resources include website, application and mobile application designers, developers and project managers.
It also includes a mentoring network headed by our board of directors, who bring an outstanding level of expertise to the table.
Sidney Minassian is a Silicon Valley-based CEO, who has led one of his previous startups through significant levels of funding and a launch at DEMO which won his product the peak marketing prize.
Shant Soghomonian is an executive at VMware, with over 12 years of IT sales, management and leadership experience in Asia, the Pacific and Japan.
Foad Fadaghi, formerly with Friendster, brings over 15 years of experience in technology research and consulting, having authored ground-breaking studies into paid search, social networking, online group buying and tablet computing.
John Buckman is a corporate attorney and the founder of Buckman Group - Corporate Counsel, which actively provides transactional and corporate legal services to a variety of businesses, specializing in startups.
I, Haig Kayserian, am the Founder and CEO. I am an internet and mobile business consultant with clients across Australia, the United States of America and Asia. I founded KAYWEB seven years ago and have personally managed and advised on hundreds of website and applications projects for clients, which include businesses, organizations, government and individuals.
KAYWEB Angels, LLC has three New York projects as active investments already and we are actively inviting applicants to submit their ideas as we look to take that number to five by July 2011.
Click here to apply.
