The Invested Investor, a social enterprise aiming to increase the success rate of early-stage start-ups, recently interviewed two key figures in the investment world. Rajat Malhotra, Managing Partner of Wren Capital and former UKBAA Angel of the Year, and Modwenna Rees-Mogg, the dynamic CEO/Founder of Angel News.

NACO has published the 2017 Canadian Angel Investing Activity report.

The University of Surrey’s S100 Club – the evolution of the Surrey 100 Club angel investment network – announces significant developments to attract more investors and technology businesses seeking investment.

Paul Misener, VP of Global Innovation and Policy at Amazon.com is joining 

HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and a joint initiative of Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIreland, today announces that its new London Syndicate plans to invest €3 million in Irish start-ups over the next three years. Earlier this year, HBAN partnered with the New York-based Digital Irish Angels (DIA) Syndicate, making the London Syndicate the second of HBAN’s international business angel groups. 

NVM Private Equity has invested £1.0 million of growth capital into Cambridge-based medical device company Ablatus Therapeutics Limited (“Ablatus”) alongside existing angel investors.

OnTruck, the haulage tech platform, has raised 25M€ from a group of investors to fund its expansion across Europe and consolidation of its position in the U.K. and Spain.

Ken Skates, Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport has formally launched a new £8 million fund that will encourage business angel investment across Wales.  Speaking at events held in Cardiff and Wrexham this week, Mr Skates said that the Development Bank of Wales will work with Angels Invest Wales (AIW) to bring together syndicates and facilitate increased investment across Wales.

Digital healthcare provider MedicSpot has received investment from a member of Henley Business Angels as part of the SEIS qualifying fund raise. In total MedicSpot is raising £1m in funding and has rapidly closed its oversubscribed £150k SEIS round.

Angel investment experts Peter Cowley, Paul Doany and Zsolt Katona offer their guidance on how wealth managers should be approaching this critical phase.  

Green Angel Syndicate has announced the completion of its latest investment: Spinetic Energy Limited, the company behind a new concept for generating small scale wind power. Spinetic has developed the Wind Panel, a low-cost device which is easy to deploy, and will do for local wind energy generation what photovoltaic panels have done for solar energy