We’re in Leeds this afternoon for our latest pitch event.
Good luck to the founders who are pitching. We are certain they will each deliver fantastic pitches. We’re excited to hear the feedback from our local angel investors and share this with the businesses post pitch. We provide a written feedback report following each pitch. This report covers:
– What the investors liked about the business
– What the investors perceive is the biggest challenge for the business to overcome
– General feedback comments
– Scores across three key areas
Good luck everyone!
It was a pleasure to have worked with the team at Easology in their funding round. Dr Peter Ashall and the team worked incredibly hard to secure their raise and we could not be happier to have been part of their journey.
We are looking forward to following their success in the months and years to come and are expecting great things from this team.
We wish Easology all the best!
We’ve worked with some fantastic new founders this year, and have also worked with some of our previously funded businesses on their follow on investment. There’s nothing better than hearing the progress founders have made following their investment and their plans for further expansion as they come back to us and do it all over again!
For some founders, depending on their businesses journey, funding can become a full time job. We have known founders who have had to employ someone into the business who’s sole job is to go through the funding loop on repeat. We are here to support founders who just don’t have the time (or connections) to complete their funding rounds on their own. We help teams by doing the leg work for them, and rounding up the relevant investors.
If you would like to find out more about how we can support your funding round, just get in touch.
There is still time to register for this week’s FREE online event for businesses exploring their funding options (21st June, 4pm-5pm).
This is the second of two Angel Insight events and will enable you to fully understand the challenges from both sides of the fence and enable you to prepare accordingly. You do not need to have attended the first event to attend this event. All attendees are welcome. These sessions will be delivered by our founder, Martin Avison.
This Angel Insight session will cover:
Angel v Crowd
Martin’s funding story
What angels are looking for
Pitching for investment
We hope you can join us. You can register for the event HERE.
Last week saw the launch of the latest Investing In Women Code report. We are proud to have contributed and to be one of the code signatories.
The Investing in Women Code is such an important initiative that we have supported from it’s inception back in 2019, and look forward to supporting in the years to come.
This was a fun one!
Our Founder Martin Avison sat down with Chris Fordy from Action COACH York & Leeds for one of their Business Success Stories podcasts where he discussed his journey as a founder. You can listen to the full podcast HERE.
There is still time to register for tomorrow’s FREE online event for businesses exploring their funding options.
This is the first of two Angel Insight events we will be running and will enable you to fully understand the challenges from both sides of the fence and enable you to prepare accordingly. These sessions will be delivered by our founder, Martin Avison.
This first Angel Insight session will cover:
– Do you want investment
– Investment profiles and strategy
– Investment landscape
– Investment returns, the key variables
We hope you can join us. You can register for the event HERE.
ORB Innovations have been acquired by Glidewell (U.S.) for the development of smart oral appliances technology.
Having funded Orb Innovations back in 2020 we are delighted for both the business and our angels in achieving a successful exit.
To have scaled this through covid is a real credit to the founders and our supporting angel syndicate.
We are proud to have identified such a winning technology and a team that is capable of delivering this. Another great return for our members.
Well done to all concerned. You can view the full press release HERE.
We were delighted to have been part of Hands In’s recent funding round. It was an absolute pleasure to work with Samuel Flynn and the Hands In team.
Samuel Flynn, CEO, said “Overall, a very good experience. I enjoyed the conversations with Martin leading up prior to the pitch. His advice was very helpful and I believe paid off on the day. Investors were very nice too, and the rest of the team. Process is quite simple and easy to understand and would definitely do again”
We wish them every success and have no doubt they will take over! They certainly have a bright future ahead of them and we look forward to following their journey.
You can read their full press releaser HERE with The Fintech Times.
We designed our technology so it can match investors to businesses who are seeking investment.
When a business registers with us, we gather a set of data that we also collect from our investor members. We are then able to match the best fit investment opportunities to the most relevant investors. The system automatically notifies our members to let them know when a new opportunity which meets their criteria is live.
It’s this technology that enables us to identify potential investor interest prior to a business pitching at our events. If you have had a call with our Founder Martin Avison you likely will have seen our matching technology firsthand.
FREE online event for businesses exploring their funding options.
Are you needing to unlock investment to grow and scale your business? If so, this free online session is a must. This is the first of two Angel Insight events we will be running and will enable you to fully understand the challenges from both sides of the fence and enable you to prepare accordingly. These sessions will be delivered by our founder, Martin Avison.
This first Angel Insight session will cover:
– Do you want investment
– Investment profiles and strategy
– Investment landscape
– Investment returns, the key variables
We hope you can join us. You can register for the event HERE.
We are delighted to be sharing the news that we have supported Habitude with their funding round! They have a really compelling team and super solution in a large and sticky market.
Habitude is a SaaS workflow management platform for school groups.
Habitude takes complexity – that’s all of the parts that make up a school group’s infrastructure i.e. data of all the types, the different systems being used, and the people doing the work – and ties them together into automated workflows. It can help with everything from onboarding a new member of staff consistently across all schools, to making sure that every step of a Trust’s complaint process is followed.
Having launched in July 2022 Habitude is now working with 12 multi academy trusts representing 80 schools to solve complex admin across all functional areas.
Izzi Dorrian, Co-Founder Habitude said, “We really enjoyed working with angelgroups. Not only did they give us excellent support and feedback to help us to craft the narrative for our pitch, but we met some fantastic investors who are supporting us in the next stage of our organisation’s growth.”
We wish them every success on their exciting journey!
