Early stage businesses in North Wales are set to benefit from a new collaboration between Angels Invest Wales and business mentoring provider Camau Nesaf.

Leapfunder is a Europe-wide, online angel club which aims to disrupt the long-standing models we are used to.  We asked CEO Tienko Rasker to tell us more.

Dorset Business Angels (DBA) recently hosted their quarterly pitch event at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel. In a ‘Dragons type Den' initiative each presenting business made their case for investment and answered questions from investors. 

Neil Cunningham, founder of MatchPoint Hospitality Group, has been appointed to the board of Archangels, the world’s longest continually running investment syndicate.

Round 4 of the Green Angel Syndicate EIS & SEIS Climate Change Fund opened on Friday 1st July and closed on 22nd September, having exceeded its minimum funding target by 50%. The round was evenly split between GAS members and non-members, and 45% of investors had invested in one or more previous rounds of the Climate Change Fund.

Archangels, the world’s longest continually running investment syndicate, has generated up to £1.4 billion Gross Value Added (GVA) for the Scottish economy from its investments in the life sciences and tech sectors.

Lisburn-based engineering company, Rock Extraction has secured £500,000 in funding to further develop the Volt 100K, an innovative rock-breaking tool offering a cleantech alternative to explosives for the global mining industry.

Ronspot has raised €1.1 million in investment funding. The news follows the recent dramatic growth in the hybrid working and space management market. This investment includes the HBAN Angel Network and Enterprise Ireland as well as being led by Dublin-based Furthr VC (formally DBIC Ventures).

HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network) angels have participated in an oversubscribed €1.3M funding round in agri-tech start-up, CropBiome. 

Catalyst has announced a new partnership with global IT service provider Fujitsu, which has become its latest Platinum Partner. The two organisations plan to collaborate on projects aimed at growing the innovation ecosystem in Northern Ireland.

Swiss techbio company Hedera Dx, founded in 2021 by veteran healthcare entrepreneurs and executives, has raised €14m to support the launch this Autumn of a blood-based testing solution to profile cancer DNA circulating in the blood, helping patients access better treatments.  

Cello has raised €2.3m in pre-seed funding, in a round led by byFounders, with participation from Tiny VC, Possible Ventures and Notion Capital; together with operator angels from Youtube, Personio, McMakler, and others.