In 2000, Daren Cotter founded a tech company in his dorm room, which he bootstrapped and grew for the next 20 years. In 2019, he sold that company. Daren started angel investing in 2013 as a hobby, then as a full-time career in 2021. He had a portfolio of about 100 investments, mostly in B2B SaaS, Marketplace, and Consumer Tech/Internet sectors, and mostly in Midwest-based companies.