TRIFFT Loyalty has raised €550K in pre-seed funding to scale its AI-powered emotional loyalty platform. The funding is backed by Lighthouse Ventures, BD Partners, Gi21 Capital & Koopeo.

Tradeaze, an innovative asset-light marketplace platform connecting building merchants and contractors to an elastic fleet of construction couriers, has secured investment from seven members of Henley Business Angels (HBA), in collaboration with the Southern Angel Investors Club (SAIC). The investment forms part of a wider £1.25 million funding round.

Fhunded, Lancashire County Council's (LCC) early-stage investment programme used its recent second anniversary to share details of the positive impact it has had on the county's startup and scaleup economy.

PetProov, a Chorley-based startup which uses anti-fraud technology to combat illegal and unethical practices within the pet sector, has recently closed a six-figure angel investment round.

PetProov, a Chorley-based startup which uses anti-fraud technology to combat illegal and unethical practices within the pet sector, has recently closed a six-figure angel investment round.  The final five-figure investment came from a sole angel investor, James Butcher, a serial entrepreneur and business consultant based in the north west. James is also one of Lancashire's Fhunded Angels, a community of private investors looking specifically for early-stage and high growth investment opportunities in the county.

The Secretary of State for the Department for Business and Trade has announced that more than £4.5bn is being allocated to the British Business Bank, as part of the Government’s ‘Backing your Business’ small business plan.

Korra Ventures, an impact-investment angel syndicate backing underrepresented founders to create the next wave of £100m+ companies, has launched with a mission to deploy £50 million of capital to support these founders over the next decade.  The syndicate is founded on a simple but radical premise: the next generation of £100m+ businesses will be built by underrepresented founders tackling the UN Sustainable Development Goals, if they can access the right capital and networks.

The Athena Festival, a trailblazing event dedicated to empowering female entrepreneurs outside of London, returns for its second year at Nexus Leeds on Tuesday 7 October 2025.

The 2025 Invest in Women Code report shows that at the early stage, 71% of deals reported by angel groups who were signatories were for all female led or mixed gender led teams, with all female led being the highest single group. In addition female founders backed by women led angel groups achieved twice as much investment as all male founder led businesses.

The British Business Bank has made a second investment under its new co-investment strategy as part of its £350m Regional Angels Programme into Portal Biotech, a developer of a real-time, single-molecule protein sequencing technology. The company has raised £27 million ($37m) in an oversubscribed round led by Earlybird and NATO Innovation Fund.

Business angels continue to be a significant source of equity investment for start up and early stage businesses with 70% of angels investing in early-stage businesses. British Business Bank's Small Business Equity Tracker, published this week, found that two-thirds (64%) of respondents to the Bank's survey of UK angel investors have matched or increased their investments from 2023 to 2024.

Six companies have received investment from a new angel investor network The Clarendon Private Investor Network (CPIN) in the past 12 months, with a number of additional funding rounds due to complete in the next few weeks.

The Minerva Business Angels investment network - part of the University of Warwick Science Park - brought new investors and business founders together as part of the UK Business Angel Association's (UKBAA) ‘Embracing Diversity' series of talks around the country.