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Have you ever considered looking for investment for your business and wondered what it’s all about? How it works? What the investors are looking for or how to value your business? Yes… well this event is for you!

We are running TWO free virtual workshops on breaking down the investment landscape in April.

We hope you can join us at one of the two online workshops, which will cover the following topics:

Is investment right for you
Angel or crowd funding
Valuation – what is your strategy
What an angel is looking for
What does your perfect angel look like
Pitching for investment

We had a great time sponsoring the Lincoln Business Club this morning, thank you for having us!

It was a fantastic event and we got to meet some awesome businesses. What a great way to spend a Friday morning.

Shipley Enterprises Ltd supplies and distributes the highest quality, authentic Kashmiri and Indian food products for the retail and food service markets under the Aagrah Foods brand. The recipes are based on those used at the Aagrah Restaurant Group and have been perfected over 40 years.

Shipley Enterprises Ltd, T/A Aagrah Foods is operating under an IP license agreement to supply restaurant quality food products into the retail and food service markets as well as online. The current range of six Tarka (TM) cooking bases have regional listings with Asda, Co-Op and around 15 independent farm shops and have a growing following online which includes regular orders from Europe and even Australia. The directors (Shezad Aslam, Shakil Hussain) have created a detailed 3-year business plan which sees turnover increasing to a healthy £5.3m in three years.

Founder, Shezad Aslam said “We were delighted with the support from angelgroups, in helping us raise the £330k we needed to meet our aspirations and would definitely recommend them to businesses looking to go down the equity fundraising route”.

“This is exactly what we are looking for, a great team with a great product with such huge potential” angelgroups Martin Avison.

It may have been a gloomy day over in Hull yesterday, but what a view from the pitching room!

Well done to the four businesses who pitched, there was some fantastic feedback from the Angels including “very investable, great idea!”.

One down, one to go, as we get ready for tomorrow’s pitching session in Sheffield where we have four new businesses pitching for investment and support – roll on the next event.

Have you ever considered looking for investment for your business and wondered what it’s all about, how it works, what the investors are looking for or how to value your business?

Yes?

Well we have a free event coming up that’s aimed at you! If you’re interested in attending, just pop us an email at: [email protected] and we will send you over some more information.

The event link will be live soon, in the meantime – we hope you have a great weekend.

The number of women Angels is on the up, and we are thrilled to say we have welcomed several new women investors to our groups in 2020! We have also seen a rise in female entrepreneurs seeking investment.

Female entrepreneurs have made significant strides in what has been a predominantly male environment. We recently had 2 female founders come to us looking for funding, and received some of the best feedback any business has had at our sessions. We hope to finalise on their investment in the next few weeks.

We are looking forward to seeing the continued growth in both the female entrepreneur and women Angel sectors in the years to come!

Click HERE to read the latest UKBAA report on Funding statistics for UK female entrepreneurs.

EXCITING NEWS… we are opening up a new Angel Group in Newcastle!

We are thrilled to announce the opening of angelgroups-Newcastle, which will see it’s first event at the end of March. We can’t wait to get this group up and running and meet with local businesses and Angels alike.

We will keep you posted on the launch of what we hope to be a fantastic Angel group in a region that has some really exciting growth.

“Excellent idea – huge potential”. It was our Sheffield pitching session yesterday and with comments like this from the Investors, we know it was a great one!

We ask our Investors to score the businesses in various areas and provide written feedback for them. We then give this feedback to the businesses – the good, the bad and the indifferent. If it’s a no from the Investor, then it’s important to know why.

We had 4 fantastic businesses pitch yesterday. We’re excited to follow their investment journeys and help them secure the funding needed to excel their growth plans. Roll on the next events!

The sun made an appearance this week when we were over in Hull running our second pitching session of the year, and that’s not the only thing that has brightened up our week!

We are working hard completing several deals in the hospitality, construction material, interior design technology and food manufacturing sectors.

Our Angels invest in all sectors, which is what sets us apart from other funding groups, meaning our pitching events are incredibly diverse. It also means the businesses that pitch with us aren’t in direct competition with each other, because they will appeal to different Angels.

If you would like to find out more just get in touch, we love discussing all things funding related!

We’ve had a great week back to work following the festive break, and are full speed ahead with our 2020 plans.

This week has been jam packed, as we ran our first pitching session of the year over in Leeds. Our Leeds events seem to get bigger and bigger every time we run one. We even had to bring more chairs in the room, which is brilliant – the more the merrier!

We then spent 2 days over in Manchester making some fantastic connections and getting some exciting plans underway (watch this space!).

We’re looking forward to the upcoming weeks where we have more pitching sessions and an Angel Only Event. Let’s start as we mean to go on.

The wonderful world of technology has made it so much easier for us to connect with businesses who are looking for funding. We are finding more and more of our time is being spent having ‘virtual meetings’ when businesses can’t make it in to the office for one reason or another.

There’s nothing like sitting down face to face with a business, coffee in hand, to discuss all things funding. We appreciate however that occasionally this can be a challenge for businesses, especially if they have other jobs separate to their business venture. That’s why we try to be as flexible and accessible as possible, and try to ‘move with the times’ wherever we can!

The latest Angel research found that 39% of Angel Investors look for an investment opportunity where they can contribute to the success of the business.

The support an Angel can provide can add significant value to a growing SME. The support can include:

Strategic
Access to the supply chain and contacts
Operational
Further rounds of investment
Recruitment
Management
Sounding board

Having an Angel Investor involved can even increase the company’s valuation because of the skill set they are bringing to the team.

If you are interested in pitching to a room of Angel Investors just get in touch. We have pitching sessions most weeks and are always looking for businesses with high growth potential to introduce to our groups.