Anyone who is trying to launch a business knows that funding is more difficult to find today than at any time in recent memory. In addition to the challenges in the venture capital industry, traditional business funding options have become increasingly difficult to secure. Whether you are seeking a bank loan, home equity lines, venture capital or angel investment, the system is not supporting the needs of entrepreneurs and small business.

Revolutionary Angels is changing the model. They are funding great teams with great ideas at a much lower barrier to entry.

Chris Hurley founded Revolutionary Angels to help entrepreneurs get the funding, advice, and connections they need to launch their businesses. Since the economy has taken a turn for the worse, there are more people out of work or concerned that they could be out of work as well. Many of these people are looking at this moment as an opportunity to have more control over their own futures. We want to help the accidental and the lifelong entrepreneur with the advice and funding they need to build successful businesses.

Prior to founding Revolutionary Angels, Chris was in the Corporate Development group at Sun Microsystems where he was responsible for managing global relationships with Cisco Systems, EMC, Hitachi, LSI, and Huawei that delivered over $1 billion in revenue to Sun.

Chris has also served as VP of Sales & Marketing at Sanbolic, a software development company specializing in file systems technologies and Director of Sales at Breakaway Solutions, an ASP hosting company that was the precursor to cloud computing.

Prior to Breakaway Solutions, Chris was the founder and CEO of The Network Factory, a computer networking consultancy and Boston Interactive Systems, a database development and consulting firm. Both firms provided IT consulting services to major corporations in New England.