A Newcastle-based entrepreneur with ambitions to disrupt the online dating industry has raised £225,000 in a bid to create a dating platform with user safety at its heart.  The Women angels of the North syndicate investment made up part of the total fundraise for Safer Date. A number of other investors were also contributed to the total investment of £225,000.

MedKitDoc, a German telemedicine platform, has raised 7 million euros in seed financing. In addition to Vorwerk Ventures, Acton Capital, and existing investor Picus Capital, FlixBus founders Daniel Krauss and Jochen Engert are also investing in the fast-growing digital health start-up based in Berlin and Hannoversch Münden.

Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel investment group, led investments totalling a record £23.7m in promising Scottish tech and life sciences companies during 2021. 

Two London entrepreneurs who pivoted their mobile phone charging business into a successful mobile order and pay app and hand sanitiser network as the pandemic hit, generating turnover of £1m in a month, today scored a new win, securing £7 million to support the expansion of their hospitality “super app”. On a mission to lead innovation in the hospitality sector, theUp.co, secured investment from high-profile investors such as Jägermeister, former CEO of Monzo, Tom Blomfield and JamJar Investments - the ex-Innocent Smoothie founders fund, in the round led by a leading private global investor. 

Angel Investment Network (AIN), the world’s largest online angel investment platform, has seen significant annual growth, with annual revenues up 27% year on year. The figures underscore the extent to which global startup investment activity has bounced back impressively from the pandemic. 

Mindstone, an edtech platform rethinking online education to help people learn faster and remember more, has raised £1.44 million through a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs.

All-in-one charge point and EV-friendly energy tariff comparison service Rightcharge, has raised £700k in a fully subscribed Seed funding round, to help accelerate the adoption of smart EV charging in the UK.

Cerbos, a new open source software startup helping tech scaleups and other companies manage user permissions more efficiently, has raised a $3.5 million seed round.

Vauban, the platform that provides venture capital fund managers with everything they need to raise a fund and invest capital quickly, has closed a £4.7m funding round.

Investors include co-leads Pentech and Outward, in addition to 7percent Ventures and MJ Hudson. A roster of high profile angel investors have also participated; This includes  the CEO of Nested Matt Robinson;  the founder of Grabayo, Will Neale; the founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, Charles Delingpole; Partner at Augmentum Fintech Perry Blacher; and Al Giles, from legal services provider Axiom.

Green Angel Syndicate (GAS) is preparing for its next phase of growth with several significant changes to its Board.

Current COO Cam Ross will take over the CEO role from Nick Lyth. In addition, new board appointments will lay the groundwork for GAS to further develop its EIS Climate Change Fund and future fund management activities.  More growth for GAS means a greater impact on the reduction and reversal of greenhouse gas emissions and a greater impact in the fight against climate change. 

Following the publication their latest White Paper, Brian Moretta of Hardman & Co delves into the tricky question of how investors should decide what proportion of their investment portfolio should be in angel investments.

Dent Reality, the London-based start-up behind a pioneering AR platform,  has raised £2.5m ($3.4m) in funding to expand its pioneering work across the retail sector.  The funding round was led by Europe’s most active proptech VC, Pi Labs, with participation from Silicon Valley-based commerce experts Sugar Capital and deep tech specialists 7Percent Ventures – one of the first backers of Oculus VR – alongside several notable angel investors.