We spoke to founder and Gabriel Investments CEO Gill MacAulay to find out more about the syndicate and the companies they back, and to get her views on the future of angel investing in the region.

Award-winning hybrid studio and digital fitness platform BLOK has  secured £3.75m in a funding round led by ACF Investors, with additional investment from Elcot  Capital and The Santon Group. The funding round also included investment from the UK  government’s Future Fund, Crowdcube and angel investor Rob Wirszycz, who will be joining the  business as Chairman.  

Experienced equity investor Duncan Gray has been appointed as Technology Venture Investments Director following a successful period of growth in the Development Bank of Wales’ Technology Venture Investments (TVI) division.

Par Equity has announced the addition of MIRALIS DATA to their portfolio. Par Equity led the company’s £1.7m Seed round alongside other angel investors, such as SAAS entrepreneur Kevin Beales.

Green Angel Syndicate, the UK's largest network of specialist investors fighting climate change, has welcomed Glaia to its portfolio.

Green Angel Syndicate, the UK's largest network of specialist investors fighting climate change, has invested in New Motion Labs. Green Angel Syndicate led a £750k funding round into this trail-blazing deep tech engineering startup.

Par Equity has announced their continued support for Par Portfolio Company Speech Graphics alongside our friends at Archangel Investors Limited and Scottish Enterprise as part of the Company’s recent $7m Series A fundraise, led by US-based Sands Capital.

Beep, which has created a unique digital campus card, allowing university students to gain door and facilities access around campus via a smartphone, has secured £60,000 investment through Anglia Capital Group and their partners at New Anglia Capital as part of a £250,000 raise.

Tonic Health, a natural healthcare company that combines all-in-one vitamins, minerals and plants into a drink that fuels the immune system to help end unnecessary illness, has received investment from Henley Business Angels as part of a £463,000.funding round.

Judith Hartley, CEO of British Patient Capital, comments on the need for more diversity within the UK venture capital and angel investment industry.

Investment in Northern Ireland tech firms reached its highest level ever in 2021, hitting over £100m, with the number of deals and average deal size also topping all previous figures, according to new data published by Catalyst.

The annual NI Deal Tracker report revealed that £100.7m was invested across 66 deals in locally based innovation companies in 2021, a 127% rise in the value of transactions completed the previous year.

Angel Academe has made a significant follow-on investment in Provenance, the leading tech platform to tackle greenwashing as part of its $5 million fund raising.

21 of its angel investors participated (16 of them female), investing alongside Working Capital Fund, Digital Currency Group, Nordic Eye Venture Capital, The Brandtech Group, WakeUp Capital and The Index Project.