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September 2017
Altitude Partners is rapidly becoming a fund manager to watch amongst private investors. This latest exit adds to their credentials.
September 2017
With the recent Beauhurst report stating that companies that gain equity investment and grant funding have higher valuations it is interesting to note this recent investment by the Angel Academe angels.
September 2017
The news that the Duchess of Cambridge is having another baby is just the fillip the country needs after a spring and summer of disasters (the election result, Manchester and London terror attacks and Grenfell) and a rainy August.
September 2017
We’ve been going back a bit in time to dig out this year’s heros of the month, but time only enhances their contribution rather than diminishes it.
Our heroes are Sir John Major and Ken Clarke MP for the simple reason that it was on their watch as Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer that both the VCT and EIS schemes were introduced. By the end of 2015 tax year these two schemes had pumped more than £6.4bn and £14.2bn respectively into the UK economy since the mid 1990’s...
September 2017
Demosthenes is typically remembered as Democratic Athens’ last great orator, the man who started and lost a disastrous war with Phillip of Macedon (the father of Alexander the Great). For our purposes, however, his Father is more interesting, a new man, of no particular standing, he managed to accumulate a large fortune of 10 talents (c. £12m) by investing his money in three different ways.
The Secret Investor is still hidden away on holiday. He will be back next month
July 2017
The angel industry's favourite banker is our hero of the month.
July 2017
Unicef: Building Young Futures
Emma Sinclair, Unicef UK's first business mentor, gave a rousing speech to encourage us to support young entrepreneurs across the world at the UK Business Angel Awards last week.
Support Building Young Futures here
July 2017
Clever, quiet Beringea has achieved another exit.
July 2017
Angels via Oxford Capital Partners, have been joined by serious venture capital in the latest funding round for Push Doctor.
July 2017
Investment in the life sciences sector is the latest trend to emerge in the angel industry.
The importance of angel investment in the life sciences sector is becoming very apparent. The opportunity is large which explains why everyone from respected names like Deepbridge Capital to newcomers like Capital Cell are now focussing on bringing life sciences opportunities to the angel market. We are also seeing interesting companies emerging from other sources such as medical charities like RAFT.
July 2017
Selfridge started work at the age of 10, delivering newspapers. He had a genuine entrepreneurial spirit, starting his first business at the age of 12.
June 2017
So much has happened in the last two months that it is hard to absorb it all, but the recent acts of terrorism in the UK mean we must give a Shout Out this month to the Foundation for Peace.
June 2017
Ian McGlinn wasn’t your typical angel, he didn’t have large sums of money to invest or any experience of investing more generally.
June 2017
The Icebreak film tax break scandal and its peers have left film as an investment opportunity sullied in the minds of many investors, but there are independent opportunities investors could consider.
June 2017
One of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' heros of our industry, Howard Flight deserves acknowledgement.
June 2017
IPOS are much rarer than you think as a route to exit so the news last month that Octopus Ventures had successfully listed Eve Beds on the AIM market is a cause for celebration.
June 2017
Although it will not have been the largest angel investment round in May, the funding for Kymira (just over £120k) deserves to be put in the spotlight because it has been made by a relatively new angel group, Henley Business Angels.
May 2017
Achieving an exit in less than two years is no mean feat in the angel community. This is Astia Angels latest achievement.
May 2017
The announcement that Monzo raised money from 6,500 investors on Crowdcube may not strictly be an angel deal, but as a record-breaking funding round deserves profiling.
May 2017
Another David this month, but based in Scotland this time!
May 2017
Despite problem with the FDA the practical success of Exroid's Technology in dealing with haemorhhoids has created a £1m turnover medical technology business which is determined to succeed.
May 2017
Darius built the largest Empire the world had yet seen, stretching from India to Eastern Europe, and containing c. 45% of the world’s population. He built a bridge of boats across the Danube, crushed 19 separate rebellions in one year and launched the invasion fleet which was defeated at Marathon by 9,000 Athenians. His claim to be an Angel Investor, however, lies in the fact that he built the Persian Royal Road, at that time the largest infrastructure project attempted outside Egypt.
May 2017
The charity for this month that deserves highlighting is Heropreneurs which is creating the pride of business from the UK Armed Forces. www.heropreneurs.co.uk.
April 2017
Mike made millions at Intel and retired at the age of 32.
April 2017
Lots of angels I know are keen cyclists and I am sure everyone recognises the need to support cancer charities. Therefore this month's Charity Shout Out is for The Sturgeon Ventures Chicks ride the night for breast cancer.
April 2017
Brickvest has closed its second round of funding raising £2m from 41 angels as well as from its management team.
April 2017
Patient capital is the name of the game in our world. For some the patient capital is reserved for the most sick investments in a portfolio, but for the lucky few it bears another purpose. Creating the time to allow the investment to build until a really excellent return can be had.
April 2017
It is hard to find a more good natured angel/venture capitalist than David Cummings of Draper Esprit.
April 2017
Air quality is one of the biggest issues of the 1st world. Mostly we hear about the issue in the context of particulants in the air in major cities - often exacerbated by particulates from diesel engines, but I bet most people do not realise that there can be some pretty nasty stuff circulating inside the cabin when you take a flight.
March 2017
Rockerfeller is estimated to have been worth $336bn (adjusting for inflation) on his death at the age of 97 in 1937.
March 2017
A Third of Clients in Debt Contemplate or Attempt Suicide - that's why Crosslight Advice is so important.
March 2017
I was spoilt for choice in terms of angel fundraisings this month. Deals from Startup Funding Club, Angel Investor Network, Oxford Capital, London Business Angels, Archangels and many more can be found in the NEWS section of the website. I have elected to profile a deal from the Chelverton Investor Club which is based in Bath, close to AngelNews HQ down here in Somerset. Qualification Check offers a global qualification verification platform to help employers validate qualifications of potential employees.
March 2017
Normally Deal Envy profiles an exit achieved by investors, but this month a strategic investment in Amati Global Investors by Mattioli Woods caught my attention.
March 2017
Hero of the Month - Mark Payton from Mercia Technologies
March 2017
One finds interesting deals in all sorts of places, but it is nice to find one that tickled my interest close to home recently. Veteran financial media entrepreneur Gavid Oldham is raising funding for Share Radio.
February 2017
This month’s collection are an example of Angels gone bad. They are linked by two things, their investment in the South Sea Trading Company between 1711 and 1720, and their prominence in the English Government and Civil service during the same period
February 2017
Another deal from the London Business Angels stable deserves attention this month. Jupiter Diagnostics has raised £1.6m from a syndicate including Angels In Med City. Jupiter's reader enables anyone to perform quick, affordable blood tests.
February 2017
The sale of Allinea is symbolic in that it has been sold to another major UK success story, ARM.
February 2017
Those of you who are information junkies about venture investment will be aware of Global Corporate Venturing an angel backed company which has come to dominate news and views on the world corporate venturing market. Our ears pricked up when we heard that one of the original members of the team is now striking out with his own venture, Novum Insights.
February 2017
Hero of the Month, Mark Boggett from Seraphim Capital
February 2017
This is something we should have done ages ago - giving a shout out for charities which need the financial support of our readers. From now on each month we will profile a charity that we think deserves your attention. Our thanks go to James Winterkorn at SOS Children's Villages for pushing for a meeting with us and asking for our help to spread the word about the work the charity he works for.
January 2017
Dr Arthur Krebbers asks to what extent investors can really be influeneced by a slick presentation when making investment decisions.
January 2017
Tom Britton, Co-founder of SyndicateRoom looks back over 2016 as a year of radical change, politically, economically and socially.
January 2017
A better way to fget cheaper bespoke travel - this month the Secret Investor discusses Destia.
January 2017
It's time we started giving more attention to really important people in our industry; those who have made a significant change for the better to how our industry works. Each month we will feature someone who deserves an accolade for their efforts. We will feature people who have made a seismic difference because of their efforts. As well as investors we will feature advisers and others who have caught our attention not just occasionally but in a sustained and sustainable way.
January 2017
John and Horace were prominent industrialists and entrepreneurs in Detroit in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
January 2017
It's good to see that serious tech remains loved by angels!
January 2017
Although I suspect deals such as Maven's 9x and 5x returns from the sale of Regent Pacific and Nenplas might have given a greater return to investors, the news that Syndicate Room investors have achieved their first exit is notable.
December 2016
Welome to a new regular feature of the AngelNewsletter - each month our Secret Investor will showcase one or two companies that have hit his inbox as they are currently looking for angel finance.
December 2016
Thomas’ name is not well known, but his money lies at the route of two ventures, one of huge cultural importance and one of huge economic significance. Thomas made his money initially from investing in land and lucrative government posts in Bristol.
December 2016
A 40x return! This definitely means that YFM Equity Partners' sale of Go Outdoors wins the right to be featured in Deal Envy this month.
December 2016
Evidence that angel investment activity is alive and well north of the Border is symbolised by the recent investment by Par Equity in Agency Core.
December 2016
The term 'capital preservation' is often banded around within tax-efficient investment circles but often with differing meanings. This can therefore often lead to confusion for advisers and investors alike.
As far as I am concerned there are effectively three ways in which the term capital preservation can be interpreted, or has been misappropriated, and I believe it is important that financial advisers and investors understand which of these is being used when considering such propositions.
December 2016
By Charles Owen, Founder and Director at CoInvestor
Entrepreneurs raising funds via SEIS and EIS are, on the whole, treading a well-worn path as they widen their circle of contacts in search of investment. Invariably they start by talking to friends and family; investors who are prepared to take a view on backing someone they know well and who might not look so closely at the underlying proposition. Once this route is exhausted our budding entrepreneur starts to seek out other private investors not previously known to them and then finally, dependent on how much is being raised or the stage of their business, will look to find an institutional investor.
November 2016
John, the second son of Edward III, got his cash in a distinctly unconventional manner, through state sponsored pillaging and blackmail.
November 2016
As someone who appreciates her sleep, my ears always prick up when I hear about anything to do with sleep....
Noember 2016
Better health is the flavour of the month. The profitable exit for investors in Calculus funds from the sale of Human Race is another example of this trend.
November 2016
Charles Owen, Founder and Director at CoInvestor, asks whether angel investors are becoming more risk averse.
November 2016
Louize Clarke from ConnectTVT names 50 Game Changers: Companies and individuals who are putting Thames Valley back on the tech and digital cluster map.
For the full list click here
November 2016
Dr. Arthur Krebbers is a Finance Researcher, Angel Investor and Investment Banker. He is passionate about leveraging academic insights to boost the performance of private firms and investors. In the first of his regular contributions to AngelNews, he looks at how you can identify startups most likely to successfully expand internationally. @arthurkrebbers
October 2016
Who would have thought that an early angel investor was a Caesar in Ancient Rome. This month we tell you something about Augustus Caesar!
October 2016
When angels back a crowdfunding platform they do it big. Last month Crowdcube raised £8m with the help of angels and VCs, but this has been trumped by the US$72m raised by OurCrowd which started out in Israel but is now on a mission to dominate the world!
October 2016
The news that Rutland Partners exited from Millbrook Group to Spectris PLC for £122m giving a 6x return to the private investors who invested in its Rutland Fund II is another example of how investing in private companies can turn a small fortune into a large one if you know what you are doing.
October 2016
Katherine Wilson and Charles Owen from CoInvestor consider why co-investment in EIS is good for investors and fund managers alike.
October 2016
Dr Savvas Neophytou, Partner and Head of Life Sciences at Deepbridge, highlights why there is no substitute for deep sector expertise when investing in life sciences.
September 2016
Sherman Fairchild was one of the largest shareholders of IBM stock. His father had gone into partnership with Tom Watson in setting up IBM, and since Tom Watson’s family consisted of three or four children and Sherman Fairchild was the only heir in his family, he owned a lot of stock. He inherited his fortune in 1924 when he was 28 years old.
September 2016
Improving defence through sniffing out one molecule
September 2016
In a new regular column from CoInvestor, Katherine Wilson asks "Are Investment Product Labels Misleading?"
To say the Financial community love labels in an understatement. There are acronyms for acronyms and investments, based on these acronyms, are sorted into even more acronyms to assess suitability for groups of investors, themselves classified by acronyms. As an industry we have enough cyphers to fill a periodic table.......
September 2016
In this month's article, Ian Warwick, Managing Director at Deepbridge Advisers, considers some helpful Tips When Investing in Technology
August 2016
So much of angel investment is about the here and now and often about the future, but we thought it was time to start remembering the angels in the past who changed the world by backing the most ambitious entrepreneurs of their time. We have, of course, to start with Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille who backed Christopher Columbus, (see below) but over the forthcoming months we will move forwards and backwards across the history of enterprise highlighting angels who contributed to making the world what it is today.
Auugust 2016
Cyber security meets blockchain!
August 2016
BREXIT: A World of Opportunities
In this month's article, Ian Warwick, Managing Director at Deepbridge Advisers, considers why Brexit means that there has never been a more appropriate time to consider tax-efficient investments.
July 2016
The Future, Today!
July 2016
Why EIS is a year round necessity
In his regular column, Ian Warwick, Managing Director at Deepbridge Advisers, considers why EIS investments should be part of investors' year round investment activity and not just something they think about at the end of the tax year.
Jul y 2016
Annie Kadavy is a General Partner @ Charles River Ventures. The prestigious VC fund that is now on it’s 16th fund and has backed the likes of Twitter, Yammer and Mailbox just to name a few. At CRV, Annie focuses on all things consumer and has either led or sourced their investments in ClassPass, Cratejoy, Patreon, Laurel & Wolf and DoorDash. Prior to CRV, Annie spent time witChoose Fileh SV Angel and Warby Parker.
July 2016
David Cohen is the founder and managing partner at Techstars, so a few amazing stats on techstars first, they have a total of 762 companies of which 90% are active or have been acquired, having raised more than 2bn in funding. As for David he is a serial entrepreneur having founded Pinpoint Technologies which was acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation in 1999. David was also the founder and CEO of earFeeder.com, a music service which was sold to SonicSwap.com in 2006.
July 2016
Nikhil Basu Trivedi is an early stage investor with Shasta Ventures, where he focuses on consumer, mobile and SaaS. Prior to joining Shasta, Nikhil was a member of the Insight Venture Partners team in NYC. Before making the move into venture, Nikhil co-founded Artsy in his sophomore year at Princeton University, Artsy now employs over 100 people and has raised over $50m in venture financing. One of Nikhil’s main passions is self driving cars and so today’s show will be centred around the proliferation of autonomous vehicles and what that means for us as a society?
Welcome back to the 3rd series of the Seed & EIS Hour. In this issue we feature several interviews from the new series:
- Rose Lewis, co-founder & CEO of Collider – an accelerator with a focus on MAD- (Marketing & Advertising) tech
- Amali de Alwis. Founder and CEO of Code First: Girls. Amali tells us about the challenges facing young women trying to break into a male-dominated space
- Maria Carolina Romero – Director of Investor Groups – Go Beyond Investing
- CEO Spotlight with Tom Britton, co-founder and CTO at Syndicate Room
- Or you can choose to listen to the full programme broadcast on May 31st
Harry Stebbings, Founder and Host of TheTwentyMinuteVC, interviews today's most successful and inspiring venture capitalists.
This episode he speaks to Sam Lessin, a Partner at Slow Ventures.
Harry Stebbings, Founder and Host of TheTwentyMinuteVC, interviews today's most successful and inspiring venture capitalists.
This episode he speaks to Jenny Lefcourt, a Partner at Freestsyle.
Brian O’Malley is a Partner @ Accel Partners, where he spearheads Accel’s work with next-generation marketplaces and consumer-focused companies. He led the firm’s investments in Amino, Gametime, HotelTonight and Luma, as well as disrupt
- The Twenty Minute VC: Hiten Shah
- The Seed & EIS Hour - Emma Jones & Paola Cuneo
- The Twenty Minute VC: Ellie Wheeler
- The Seed & EIS Hour - StartUp 2016
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