David Solomont

  Angel investing is a unique way to invest in startups and tech companies. Angel investing is a type of investment that allows you to invest in companies that have potential to make a lot of money, but have not yet achieved this level of success. Angel investors are typically very passionate about their investments and want to see the company reach its full potential. They also want to be able to influence the company’s future by helping it grow and succeed. Being an experienced investor and advisor, David Solomont invests in early-stage technology companies, to which he also provides his advisory services on business development, funding, mergers and acquisitions, and team building. To help you get a better grasp on angel investing, below, skilled entrepreneur David Solomont explains how angel investing works.

In a globalized world, markets’ competition is growing. This makes it necessary for companies to be constantly changing and to think of different ways to expand their sources of income while cutting expenses. David Solomont, experienced tech investor, advisor and entrepreneur , indicates that technology will help you to have an innovative company that allows you to differentiate from your competitors. Whether in products, services, processes or even in the management model, innovating allows obtaining competitive advantages.  

  It seems like the era of internal combustion engines (“ICE”) is slowly coming to end. Hoping to decrease the effects of global warming, countries around the world are working to replace traditional vehicles with zero-emission electric vehicles (“EVs”) over the next decade. According to the International Energy Agency (“IEA”), however, there will be around 145 million battery electric vehicles (“BEVs”) in the world by the end of the decade. If governments around the world dedicate their resources towards achieving international energy and climate targets, electric vehicle adoption would be even higher, reaching 230 million BEVs by 2030. With industry players such as ev Transportation Services Inc. offering reliable, efficient and low-maintenance electric vehicles for specialized applications, it will not be long before fossil-fueled vehicles are a rarity on the roads. David Solomont, founder and CEO of ev Transportation Services (evTS) , an EV manufacturer that focuses on essent...

  Ever since 1987 Nobel Laureate Robert Solow wrote in the New York Times that he can see the computer age everywhere except for productivity statistics, much has been written and argued about it. More recently, Nicholas Carr, in his 2003 article “IT doesn't matter”, stated that technologies were commodities, accessible to anyone and that the most prudent thing to do was to invest as little as possible, and again generated many conflicting opinions in favor of and against. David Solomont, a well-known venture investor in the Boston area, recognized the opportunities of the information technology more than forty years ago. With vast experience in the information technology, interactive media and software industries, he is an active investor and advisor to early stage technology companies and was the founder of Common Angels in Boston, one of the first institutionalized angel groups in the country. In his opinion, the non-adoption of technologies can make a company lose the op...

  In an increasingly saturated context, achieving differentiation is not easy. More and more companies use different resources in order to generate added value. But how do you create that extra plus? What tools are there to make a difference? Investing in information technology is today one of the most reliable resources to acquire a differentiating nuance. If you are new to all this, in this article David Solomont, a pioneer of investing in software and Internet firms will teach you the essential fundamentals of information technology. David Solomont is the founder of Business and ProfessionalSoftware, Inc ., an early entrant into the personal computing software market, and a software and Internet company investor. In the 1980s and 1990s, David Solomont was a key player connected to CommonAngels — a prominent angel investing group — and the Massachusetts Software Association. Information technology helps the company achieve significant economic benefits in addition to considerab...