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Guides for angel investors, from your first check to the tax year: how the instruments work, what the rules are, and how to keep track of it all.
Help with Signed
How the product works: importing from AngelList, forwarding email into your portfolio, taking pitches from founders, and connecting an AI assistant.
- Building Your Angel Investor Profile
- Exporting your AngelList investment portfolio
- Forward Your Emails into Signed: [email protected]
- Monitoring Your AngelList Portfolio
- Receive Startup Pitches from Founders
- Using Signed’s MCP Server
- What is Signed's Currency Magic™?
- What Happens If You Downgrade or Your Card Fails
Investing Basics
The instruments and the vocabulary: SAFEs, valuations, pro rata rights, and how to write your first check without learning it the expensive way.
Taxes & Compliance
What the tax year asks of an angel: writing off the losses, reporting the wins, and the records worth keeping before anyone asks for them.
QSBS
Section 1202, one question at a time: how long you have to hold, which rules your stock is on, what your state does about it, and how options, SAFEs, and secondaries change the answer.
- QSBS Benefits for Angel Investors
- How Long Do You Have to Hold Stock for QSBS?
- QSBS Rules Before and After July 4, 2025
- Why QSBS Gain Is Taxed at 28%, Not 20%
- Which States Tax QSBS Gains?
- QSBS and SAFEs: When the Holding Period Starts
- QSBS for Stock Options: When Your Clock Starts
- Do RSUs Qualify for QSBS?
- Tender Offers, Secondary Shares, and QSBS
- QSBS for Non-US Investors
- Section 1045 Rollovers: The QSBS Escape Hatch
- Costly QSBS Mistakes
Portfolio Management
Running the portfolio rather than picking the company: how many checks to write, how to size them, and what to do after one of them works.
Glossary
Plain definitions of the terms every angel investor runs into.