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Houston Angel Network
Accredited investors in the Houston area who want to make and manage their own early-stage investments
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Founding: The organisation describes itself as the oldest angel network in Texas, dating its investment record to 2001.
The Houston Angel Network is a non-profit angel investing group based in downtown Houston. It screens early-stage companies, presents a shortlist to its membership at monthly selection meetings and roughly ten pitch events a year, and lets individual members decide whether to invest their own capital in each deal. Membership is open only to accredited investors under SEC Regulation D, and there is no minimum investment attached to joining. The group publishes two membership levels, individual and family, each carrying an annual due and a one-off initiation fee. Members get access to the group's deal-management platform, can join screening committees and due-diligence teams, and attend the network's education and networking events. HAN reports that its members have invested more than $100 million across more than 400 deals since 2001, which makes it one of the longer-running and higher-volume angel groups in the United States. Sector interest spans technology, consumer, health and life sciences, and energy, reflecting the Houston economy.
How it works
Companies apply through the group's Dealum deal room and are screened by member committees. Selected companies pitch at monthly selection meetings and at about ten pitch events each year. Members who are interested form due-diligence teams, and each member then invests individually; the network itself does not hold a fund or take a carry on member investments.
Typical member
Members are accredited investors as defined in SEC Regulation D. The group draws heavily on Houston's energy, technology and health/life-sciences communities, and members invest their own money deal by deal rather than through a pooled fund.
Membership requirements
Requirements in detail, with history →Requirements are the tests the organization itself publishes: an age ceiling, a company-revenue floor, a net-worth minimum, a role. Where a figure straddles a range, the organization's own assessment decides. Local chapters can apply stricter tests than the published standard.
| Criterion | Published requirement | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Accredited-investor status | Members must be accredited investors as defined in SEC Regulation D | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ |
| Other criterion | No minimum investment required to become a member | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ |
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Initiation fees are paid once on joining; dues recur. Chapter dues, retreats, travel and events are usually additional and are listed separately when the organization discloses them. Figures are as published or reported on the date shown, not quotations.
| Cost | First year | Three years | Provenance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual duesa year | $2,080 | $6,240 | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ | |
| Annual duesa year | $2,730 | alternative tier, not added | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ | |
| Initiation feeonce | $2,000 | $2,000 | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ | |
| Estimated total, disclosed figures only | $4,080 | $8,240 | Not counted: Annual dues (alternative tier, not added). | |
Structure and programming
Independent context
HAN is unusually transparent about price: both dues levels and the initiation fee are published on the membership page, which is rare among US angel groups. The explicit statement that no minimum investment is required makes it more accessible than groups such as Sand Hill Angels or Hyde Park Angels, which expect a minimum annual deployment. The trade-off is that a group without a deployment requirement can carry members who attend but rarely write cheques, which dilutes the pooled-diligence advantage. It suits accredited investors already in Houston who want deal flow and structured screening without committing to a fund. It is a poor fit for passive investors, for anyone outside Texas, and for those who want a manager to allocate on their behalf, since every investment decision remains the member's own.
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History and changes
Site-wide change log →- milestoneHouston Angel Network founded; the group describes itself as the oldest angel network in Texas ↗
- milestoneReports members have invested more than $100 million across more than 400 deals since inception ↗
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- Houston Angel Network, Houston Angel Network. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
- Membership — Houston Angel Network, Houston Angel Network. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 2
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