4 April

Repositive, the company that created the world’s largest portal for accessing human genomic research data, has closed a Series A funding round of £2.5m. The investors include lead investor, Ananda Social Venture Fund, Force Over Mass Capital and sees Amadeus Capital Partners and Jonathan Milner increase their investments, having previously participated in seed funding Repositive.

4 April 

NVM is delighted to announce that it has strengthened its investment team with two new Investment Associate hires, Victoria Howarth and Jason Warren.   These appointments continue the growth in the investment team over the last 12 months following on from the recruitment of Charlie Winward in 2016.  

4 April

Startup Funding Club’s Fund and its angel syndicate invest £200K into fintech startup Future Mobile Money.

April 2017

With only 725 days to go until we leave the EU, there are things angels need to pop onto the to do list!

As the UK is now leaving the EU here are some things think about sooner rather than later.

3 April

Two of the finalists for the 2017 Birmingham Young Professional of the Year (BYPY) awards are entrepreneurs based at Innovation Birmingham Campus. Dan Rice, Chief Technologist at Turn Partners has been shortlisted for Technology and Ria Blagburn, Founder of GrowBeyond is up for the Marketing and Communications category.

April 2017 

The European technology venture and growth equity market continues to do well. As of the end of February, two months into the year, figures are up by amount invested (+23%), and the number of transactions reported by the professional press is roaring ahead (nearly doubled). As far as larger transactions are concerned (≥€10 million) however, the market is simply stable.

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April 2017

Mike made millions at Intel and retired at the age of 32.

April 2017

Lots of angels I know are keen cyclists and I am sure everyone recognises the need to support cancer charities. Therefore this month's Charity Shout Out is for The Sturgeon Ventures Chicks ride the night for breast cancer.  

April 2017

Brickvest has closed its second round of funding raising £2m from 41 angels as well as from its management team. 

April 2017

Patient capital is the name of the game in our world.  For some the patient capital is reserved for the most sick investments in a portfolio, but for the lucky few it bears another purpose.  Creating the time to allow the investment to build until a really excellent return can be had. 

April 2017

It is hard to find a more good natured angel/venture capitalist than David Cummings of Draper Esprit. 

April 2017

Air quality is one of the biggest issues of the 1st world.  Mostly we hear about the issue in the context of particulants in the air in major cities - often exacerbated by particulates from diesel engines, but I bet most people do not realise that there can be some pretty nasty stuff circulating inside the cabin when you take a flight.