The Martinsburg Journal covered CRAN’s recent annual meeting in Shepherdstown—our first held in the Eastern Panhandle—highlighting our mission to fuel innovation and entrepreneurship across West Virginia.

CRAN’s recent investment announcement was featured by the Panhandle News Network following our 2025 meeting in Shepherdstown, where we committed over $200,000 to three exciting

Country Roads Angel Network (CRAN), at its annual meeting today, announced the latest round of investments totaling $202,500 in three innovative startups in higher education, technology, and medicine.

West Virginia’s economic environment is thriving and the state’s first accredited angel investor group—Country Roads Angel Network—had more good news to announce today tied to several new developments.

Country Roads Angel Network (CRAN) announced today that it received a $25,000 grant from The Huntington National Bank to support entrepreneurial development in West Virginia.

With the motto of “carry as little as possible, but choose that little with care,” a new startup company with ties to West Virginia—The Lite Sleeper—is the latest entrepreneurial venture to receive support from Country Roads Angel Network (CRAN).