We are nearing the end of our Autumn series - with only one flagship London event left!

To see the series off in style, and to celebrate Pitching for Managements 5th Birthday we will be having a Christmas and Birthday special so please do come and join us!

• London - 3rd December

The full season of Pitching for Management will kick off on 2nd February 2014 in Guildford. To see all dates as they are announced look HERE; http://www.angelnewsevents.eventbrite.com

Connecting local exciting businesses with top-level senior talent. Pitching for Management enables diverse fast-growing companies to pitch for top-level executives to join their teams for salary, sweat equity, commission and/or bonus schemes. So if you are a company looking to build/expand your management team or an executive looking for a new career challenge, Pitching for Management is the perfect event for you.

To view all events: http://angelnewsevents.eventbrite.com/?s=3240613 or for more information call: 01761 452248

A series of events to allow successful companies in three Launchpad competitions to showcase themselves to potential investors will be happening this Autumn.  

The Technology Strategy Board's Launchpad competitions are designed to support innovative SMEs in developing clusters around the UK by offering grants for innovative R&D projects, combined with a structured programme of business and investment support offered through a local 'cluster champion'. 

And on 6th November it will be the turn of companies from the Materials & Manufacturing North West Launchpad, who share £1.5m in grant funding, to present at an event at the Sci-Tech campus in Daresbury. 

Altogether over 40 innovative technology companies will be showcased at these events, offering some exciting opportunities for business angel, venture capital firms and other funders to consider. 

Any suitable potential investors who are interesting in attending these events should contact Nigel Walker, head of Access to Finance at the Technology Strategy Board.

You are invited to SBBA's ninth pitch event sponsored by Investec Wealth & Investment on the 11th of November at the AFC Bournemouth, Goldsands Stadium, Dean Court, Kings Park, Bournemouth, BH7 7AF.

There are six carefully chosen businesses pitching their innovative ideas to an audience of investors, entrepreneurs and businesses with two break-out sessions to create the opportunity to talk directly with two entrepreneurs of your choice.

Details of the six businesses are now available on their website here. 

The event will finish with a networking session to allow further discussion among entrepreneurs, investors and delegates over wine and canapés

For booking and details, please visit the website here.

I have pleasure in inviting you to join the SVC2UK 2013 Angel Summit, which we have partnered with - the intention is to discuss best practice for leading angels on what we can all do to scale our portfolio companies more effectively. In addition to answering the 'scale-up question', we also plan some myth busting topics to include:

• How to flip an EIS company into the US and preserve EIS benefits for angels
• What type of preference shares are compatible with EIS
• Survival guide/advice for angels investing and then being followed by VC investors

Angels include: Dale Murray: Voted Angel of the Year 2011 and Rajat Malhotra: Voted Angel of the Year 2012, Mohsen Moazami (from Silicon Valley) and we hope, YOU!

If you are available to join us, please register at this url https://2013angelsummit.eventbrite.co.uk

Modwenna Rees-Mogg will be explaining how to exploit the evolving trend for C-level executives to build a portfolio career combing paid for part time executive positions, with value added roles which are remunerated on a deferred basis with equity and bonuses and typically unpaid roles such as mentoring and charity trusteeships. Modwenna will explain about the new trend (where just under 50% of working people are no longer in a full time role) and the key issues to consider including: How to plan your portfolio career; Where to find opportunities; Negotiation tactics with current and future employers; How to make a portfolio career more tax effective; How to under promise and over deliver; and Legal and ethical obligations.

To find out more and to book your tickets, please contact Andrea Lowe on 0161 247 7634 or email [email protected]

The UK Business Angel Institute's "Standard Angel Training Course" is aimed at business professionals / private investors interested in become angel investors. This course is suitable for both complete novices at angel investing, as well as those that have made a handful of angel investments but would like to undertake some training to hone their existing investment skills.
Please register here or contact Carly Hearn for more information 

For more information and to book your ticket, please visit:https://businessangelinstitutestandardtraining.eventbrite.co.uk/

26th November 2013
200 Aldersgate, St Paul's, London
9am-5pm + drinks afterwards

The VCT & EIS Investor Forum is the largest national live gathering of private investors and venture fund managers in the UK.  Come and join us at the 4th Investor Forum which promises to be bigger and better than ever before.

Highlights include:

Keynote speeches from:
- Martha Lane Fox
- Sarah Adams Head of Enterprise Investment at HM Treasury
- Patrick Reeve, Managing Partner at Albion Ventures

Debates on:
- The truth behind EIS and VCT statistics
- Attracting the next generation of VCT and EIS Investors
- Investment Risk Management
- Tax efficient investing all year round
- Seed EIS one year on

You can find out more and book your place athttps://thevctandeisinvestorforum2013.eventbrite.co.uk/

Engage Invest Exploit (EIE) is Scotland's premier investor showcase for the best companies spinning out of Scotland's world class universities and start-ups from the wider Scottish entrepreneurial eco-system.

Informatics Ventures is now bringing EIE to London with twelve of the most ambitious and high growth potential Scottish-based entrepreneurs, to meet with investors looking to back such businesses.

An afternoon of key note speakers, presentations by the companies, and a highly charged debate on how technology is helping investors to cross borders will be followed by a celebratory dinner at which attendees can network with each other and the presenting companies.

For more information and to book your ticket, please visit:http://eielondon2013.eventbrite.co.uk/