Hacker News Reader

That seems weird. Is it so that you don't invest directly and cause Angellist to lose income?

Seems to me like some line of communication between founder and investor should be enabled/encouraged.

It's to protect the startups from hundreds of tiny checks emailing and hassling them. There is a line of communication between the founder and the syndicate which is technically the real investor here.

Party of the benefit of funding through platforms like AngelList is not having to deal with questions from 25 different investors, and instead having one, freeing your time up to work on the business instead of having to respond to 25 different well intentioned but not fully plugged in investors.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com