Few weeks ago, a german venture capital firm put me in touch with a business angel who was very interested in the field of one of our startups. I made the intro between him (I’ll call him Bob) and the CEO (I’ll call him James). They had a first call during which Bob told James that he was willing to invest in the current round of funding, but at preferred conditions (lower valuation basically) because he can potentially bring a lot of additional value on the table to help the company grow.