And the good news for entrepreneurs is that there are a lot of angel investors and they invest a lot of money each year. In fact, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, last year angel investors gave $22.5 billion to 66,230 entrepreneurial ventures. And in total, 318,480 individual angel investors provided this funding. Yes, that’s a lot of angel investors, a lot of money and a lot of entrepreneurs who received that money in order to start and grow their companies.