Italian Angels for Growth , the leading Network-Powered Venture Capital investor in Italy, announces participation in a SAFE investment round of $2,270,000 in Votis.

VentureWave, an Irish-based venture private equity group committed to impact investing and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs, and Funderbeam, the angel investing and trading platform, have announced that they have agreed to enter into a transaction to create a leading global entity which will serve institutional and angel investors in venture deal execution and secondaries.

Investing Women Angels (IWA), Scotland’s first all-female angel investment syndicate, has led a circa £200K equity investment round into merchandise technology platform developers Terrible*.

Terrible is a UK-based, full-service supply chain company which supports musical artists as well as video gaming, comedy and other creative industries in the UK, Europe and the US. The company creates, sources and delivers uniquely-designed, sustainably-produced merchandise relevant to their clients’ audiences which is sold both online and in-person at concerts and events internationally.

Get ready to elevate your angel investing game and expand your network at the EBAN 2023 Annual Congress in Thessaloniki, Greece, from May 24-26!

Dorset Business Angels (DBA) hosted its quarterly pitch event at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel and welcomed entrepreneurs based across the South of England, two of them from the BCP area.

Dorset Business Angels (DBA) will host its inaugural Angel Investing Workshop on April 17th, at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel. The workshop will take place prior to the Spring pitch event and will be led by experienced angel investor and DBA Chairman, Don McQueen.

Dorset Business Angels is gearing up for its next pitch event on 17th April where a number of exciting businesses will be pitching for investment from DBA members.  

A syndicate of 10 business angels led by Angels Invest Wales lead investor Ashley Cooper has made a follow-on investment in Swansea-based 2B Enterprising, the company delivering an engaging and bilingual enterprise  education programme for primary schools throughout England and Wales. This brings the aggregate number of angel investors over the two funding rounds to 21.

Founded in 1992 by Mike Rutterford and Barry Sealey, Archangels is considered to be the oldest, continuously operating business angel syndicate in the world, and is still going strong.  Since then it has invested in 89 early-stage Scottish companies contributing to the growth of the syndicate to become one of the leading angel investment organisations not just in Scotland, but the world.

Much has changed in the startup ecosystem since then.  We spoke to Archangels Joint Managing Director, David Ovens, about some of those big changes and the future opportunities and challenges facing angel investors and the companies they back.

Not-for-profit, Virgin StartUp, has announced the 14 ambitious British business founders that will join its new ‘get investment ready’ accelerator programme, which launches this week to help start-ups supercharge their first angel investment round.

Connectd, the leading platform for managing and growing relationships between startups, investors and advisors, has secured $2.6m in seed funding as it continues its expansion.

Angel Academe has made an investment into a female-founded tech business Dressipi.