Active Starts is a professional angel investment firm. Our investment focus is on California-based software start-ups within a year from product launch. We help talented entrepreneurs maximize their chances of successfully validating the market opportunity they are pursuing. Our financial results are a function of the demonstrated technology innovation, leadership skills and operating excellence of the management teams we encourage relentlessly, and of our collective ability to execute on a sound financing strategy to continuously create value for founders, managers and investors.

Here are three examples of software start-ups we are currently working with subsequent to our investments in the original angel rounds of financing:

	RapLeaf provides search services to gain insight about people on the social web. RapLeaf has gathered the industry's largest portable social graph.
	RateItAll's mission is to become the universal consumer rating engine for the web.
	Plastyc provides the UPside service, an online service with a Visa prepaid card for teens and students to manage money received from parents and jobs without having to open a bank account or get a credit card.