NJIT Highlander Angel Network

NJIT Highlander Angel Network is the angel investor network affiliated with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, structured as a regional angel group connecting NJIT alumni and friends with early-stage startups, often with a regional New Jersey and tri-state area orientation. The model is collective angel investing, where members evaluate deals and individual angels write personal checks alongside the network’s recommendations rather than a pooled fund deploying a single check. Healthcare exposure is selective and likely tied to the NJIT engineering and applied-sciences research base, with interest in medtech, healthtech, biotech, and AI-enabled healthcare where the founder profile resonates with the network’s alumni base. AI focus is plausibly real and applied. Stage is pre-seed and seed, with aggregate angel participation per deal plausibly in the USD 100K to USD 500K range, often as part of a syndicate following an institutional lead. This is the wrong door for post-seed companies, capital-intensive therapeutics, or any business that needs a thesis-aligned institutional lead. It is a plausible fit for very early New Jersey or tri-state-area healthcare and engineering-driven founders who would benefit from an alumni angel network. Entry path is the Gust application page and direct outreach through NJIT alumni networks. Founders should be specific about regional anchor and engineering or applied-sciences fit before applying.