Remembering a child's birthday with a gift is how grandparents stay in touch and involved, but isn't gift giving becoming a little impersonal? A toy, a card, or increasingly a giftcard just doesn't create much impact. Instead, wrap a gift in adventure; that's the idea behind Steve Mock's Giftventure.

Angelsoft facilitates deal sharing between angel groups, in this case Giftventure is a Vegas Valley Angels deal led by Jim Shaw. I visited the Las Vegas group a few months ago and heard Giftventure pitch. "What's the process to bring Giftventure to the Tech Coast Angels?" Jim asked. My challenge, there was no procedure; we've always only invested locally, but Giftventure seemed like a good deal so I risked some degree of rebuke and brought them to LA. "This is the best deal I've seen all year," said one TCA angel, "I don't care where the deal comes from, I want to see the best deals." I felt redeemed. And I gained an insight into just what collaborating on deals via Angelsoft could mean to the future of angel investing.

Meet Giftventure's Steve Mock; he's almost funded.

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