Graeme Thickins, Angel Investor

Building value for innovative tech startups through effective messaging is my love and passion. I’ve helped hundreds ride the wave — get investor-ready, launch, grow, become profitable businesses, or exit successfully. I’ve devoted my career to finding and advising winners. Every flavor of tech — software and Internet startups, healthcare, medtech, digital health, biotech, and more. What do you have? I'm also an investor in two early-stage funds and take equity positions with certain clients in my role as a consultant or advisor. I'm a team player with a positive, can-do attitude. I help founders refine their pitch and messaging for investors and their target markets, make key connections, develop their brand & content strategy, launch in the market, get buzz, execute growth strategies, build their valuation, and move toward a successful exit. My experience spans branding/naming, comms strategy, writing/editing, messaging, launch strategy & execution, bus dev, community engagement, PR and media relations, social marketing, events, and more -- first at two Fortune 500 firms (one IT, one medtech), after which I devoted my career to tech startups. I'm a widely read blogger and writer with a large online following.