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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.

You can read the full report HERE.

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!

This video was shot a few years ago, but we still get the same responses from businesses who pitch with us.

Aside from the main purpose of the event, which is investment and support,
the founders also get a huge amount of value from spending the afternoon with the other founders who are pitching. Entrepreneurs have a way of gravitating towards each other, as they are on the same journey.

We like to make introductions between the founders we support, even if they’re not pitching at the same event. If we have worked with a founder in a similar space and we feel there is great synergy to be had, then we ensure those connections are made.

We are a people focussed angel group.

Watch our video HERE.

When we ask founders if they had a nice bank holiday weekend their response has been “what weekend?!”.

When you research how many hours on average an entrepreneur works it’s quite alarming. They are some of the hardest working professionals, but they are more at risk of burnout as a result.

We have known founders fly back in the middle of their family holiday to pitch at an event. A lot of them are also juggling two jobs to support their families and their startup. The entrepreneurial journey is often portrayed as being glamorous, but the reality can be quite different.

This article suggests ways to stop founder burnout in its tracks. The startup community is incredibly supportive, so if you’re a founder that needs a sounding board, this is a great place to start. If you need help in locating a startup community, just get in touch.

 

April is off to a brilliant start!

We are due to close four deals this month, which we are delighted about. The founders have worked so hard through the due diligence process and have been a pleasure to work with. We are just going through the final steps before the funding will hit their accounts.

The investors are really getting involved in these opportunities, which will provide the businesses with support and mentorship as they accelerate their growth journeys.

If you’re looking for funding we would be delighted to hear from you. You can register HERE.