Angelique LeDoux
Angelique LeDoux, a NYC-based writer and picture editor turned education advocate and angel investor, is the co-founder of GTFO Capital Partners.
Angelique transitioned from journalism to the start-up world in 2007, founding Jade’s ToyBox, an educational and eco-friendly children’s toy company, named to Dr. Toy’s 100 Best Children’s Products. She co-founded the educational non-profit, and talent-development focused Parents of Accelerated Learners, NYC (PALNYC), to support the academic, social and emotional development of NYC’s youth.
Previously a Managing Director with Golden Seeds, a nationwide angel investor network that invests in companies founded by women or who have significant equity ownership, and later with socially responsible Investors Circle, Angelique became addicted to early stage investing and initiatives that support the change she hopes to see in the world.
She has held board positions in a variety of areas of passion including children’s healthcare through Menlo Park-based PANDAS Network; education via NYC-based The Speyer Legacy School and edutainment with Boston-based, technology company Playrific. Most recently, Angelique is focused on legacy and storytelling through the Seattle-based venture StoryQ and the non-profit Human Library Initiative to help scale its mission because like her, everyone’s got a story to tell.
Start-up Idea you had way before the actual version launched?
Zipcar
Start-up you wish you’d have founded: Little Debbie, but an organic version
Bad habit to break this year? Staying up until 2 am, and waking at 7 am.
Pet peeve of the decade? One syllable start-up company names.
Silver-lining of the pandemic? The dual acknowledgment that we all can achieve a better work/life balance and the realization that education can be delivered differently and better to everyone.
A quote or saying that stares back at you every day?
“Everything happens for a reason.”
What do you still have or own now that you’ve had since childhood? Two things: Henrietta, my childhood stuffed animal and my Southern accent.