It’s a truism of investing that you should invest in great people. In fact, we believe it’s most importantly about investing in great founder CEOs.

So like most VCs, we believe our job is to find those A-star founder CEOs working on a big disruptive idea with the right timing to be a market leader in their space and then just back them.

Award-winning not-for-profit investment platform, NorthInvest, has announced the launch of a new Angel Investor Hub in collaboration with the UK Business Angels Association.

2017 saw the value of investment LINC Scotland reach a new record.

LIfT BioSciences has successfully raised more than £250,000 to develop a pioneering cancer treatment that shares people’s innate immunity to cancer to help potentially cure cancer patients.

The knotty issue of regulation is still an area that needs some light thrown onto it.  I suspect few angels (and indeed some advisers in the angel market) realise that under FCA rules any company defined as an SME – less than 250 employees for example – is regarded by the FCA as a retail client. 

The Great Western Railway was built to allay the fears of Bristol Merchants who believed that their position as the second most important port in England would be taken over by Liverpool. 

A study of more than 4,000 organisations reveals major shortcomings in cyber security readiness at nearly three-quarters (73%) of firms.

Idinvest has published its second annual UK Entrepreneurship Barometer which studies the UK’s attitudes towards entrepreneurship.

Quilam has made a multi-million pound investment into Catfoss Finance, a specialist lender providing Asset Finance into the UK SME market.

The Peer-to-Peer Finance Association has appointed Paul Smee as new independent Chair, succeeding Christine Farnish who is stepping down after a five-year term.

The Venture Capital and Private Equity Country Attractiveness Index suggests the UK will lose it's #3 ranking post Brexit.

Kernel Capital, has invested in Dublin City University spin-out Pilot Photonics, a developer of comb source laser technology.