Angel Academe - increasing female investment

📣 Are you a female founder raising pre-seed to Series A investment to continue to grow you healthcare, work, finance or clean tech startup? 🚺 We've backed 51 businesses, many through multiple rounds inc. ImproveWell LTD The Dots Provenance EnterpriseAlumni Béa Fertility Uncommon 🤝 We build long-term relationships between founders & investors based on mutual respect 😇 Our angels are experienced, engaged & supportive investors ✅ Our process from application to investment is fair, efficient & transparent 📣 We give feedback to everyone who joins a screening call 👇 Apply to pitch - it's the fastest way onto our radar. No introduction needed! https://lnkd.in/dRn4UHn 👍 John Robson Kanika Goela Sara Sullivan Laura Meyer John Souter Susan S. Jimmy Cockerton GILLIAN MCCOLGAN Jenny Bullis #femalefounders #startupfunding #FairForFounders

Yesterday, we ran another edition of our popular Angel Investing 101 workshop for new and not so new #angelinvestors. As usual, the room was buzzing 🚺 🚀 😇 All but 2 attendees were women & included entrepreneurs, scale-up operators & senior leaders - all committed to angel investing & super-charging the growth of #femalefounded #startups 🚀 🚺 😇 During the afternoon, we "workshopped" a case study from opportunity selection to pitch (brilliantly role-played by Yee Mun T.!) through to due diligence, reviewing deal terms (thanks to Mei Chung for her session!) and how to support your portfolio. All followed by drinks with our members, partners & founders kindly hosted by Kingsley Napley ⭐ 🚀 👏 Several people mentioned to me how impressive our members are - from IP and regulation to tech and textiles, we have an expert able & willing to help & share their knowledge with founders & other investors 🛠️ 🎓 ⭐ Ann Marie Juliano Alexander Hirsch Yee Mun T. Emer Hughes John Robson Robin Beattie Simon Goldsmith MA FCA Tracey Rob Perera CA PMP FCMI Mark Pattenden Emma Maslen Lana Novikova Cornelia Raportaru Mary Ellis Rowena Ironside Angela Cretu Rachel Curtis Victoria M. Virginia Gardiner Corporate, Commercial & Finance | Kingsley Napley Lily Soares Smith Sabina Liu Charlotte Pearl Lily Elsner Nick Shipley Suezann Holmes Jane Clemetson FRSA

🏆 We were absolutely delighted to pick up the award for Angel Team of the Year at the Growth Investor Awards last week! 😇 Thank you British Business Bank Intelligent Partnership & Guy Tolhurst for recognising that we need to mobilise more women as investors to close the gender gap in investment. 📈 We've been doing this since 2014 with the support of many male allies, but know that it starts with female angels. We've now backed 51 female-founded startups through 100+ funding rounds, helping them raise over £150m in investment. 👏 Congrats to Claudia Winkleman for keeping it very snappy & not stumbling over any of our strange industry jargon. A true professional! And huge thanks to our good friends at DC Advisory for their support & my colleague Yee Mun T. for all her hard work. Cordelia Meacher Robin Beattie John Robson Jodie O'Keeffe DC Advisory Lily Soares Smith Julieta Dorantes Tom Britton Alina Vader Lapusneanu Emma Sinclair MBE Laura Meyer Ramona Liberoff Robert Mollen Kingsley Napley Bianca R. Lucy Woolfenden Sara Sullivan Jane Clemetson FRSA Ben Wibberley

🏆 We were absolutely delighted to pick up the award for Angel Team of the Year at the Growth Investor Awards last week! 😇 Thank you British Business Bank Intelligent Partnership & Guy Tolhurst for recognising that we need to mobilise more women as investors to close the gender gap in investment. 📈 We've been doing this since 2014 with the support of many male allies, but know that it starts with female angels. We've now backed 51 female-founded startups through 100+ funding rounds, helping them raise over £150m in investment. 👏 Congrats to Claudia Winkleman for keeping it very snappy & not stumbling over any of our strange industry jargon. A true professional! And huge thanks to our good friends at DC Advisory for their support & my colleague Yee Mun T. for all her hard work. Cordelia Meacher Robin Beattie John Robson Jodie O'Keeffe DC Advisory Lily Soares Smith Julieta Dorantes Tom Britton Alina Vader Lapusneanu Emma Sinclair MBE Laura Meyer Ramona Liberoff Robert Mollen Kingsley Napley Bianca R. Lucy Woolfenden Sara Sullivan Jane Clemetson FRSA Ben Wibberley

Keep your fingers' crossed for us tomorrow for the Growth Investor Awards 🤞🤞 & see you there if you're going 👀 https://lnkd.in/eDfWeQ4m Emma Sinclair MBE Alina Vader Lapusneanu Tom Britton Lucy Woolfenden Sara Sullivan Laura Meyer Jane Clemetson FRSA

Our November newsletter is out! 🚺 News & views from our female founders including Emma Sinclair MBE EnterpriseAlumni Pip Jamieson The Dots Tess Isabelle Cosad Béa Fertility Benjamina Bollag Uncommon CENTURY Tech Fiskl AI Accounting Deployed PreActiv Dressipi Nuggets ImproveWell 😇 Updates from us & the investor community including Growth Investor Awards Founders Forum Group Business Without Bullshit ComputerWeekly.com Amelia Hill in The Guardian The Lovie Awards The Europas #femalefounders #angelinvestors #startups

Not one but TWO Lovie Awards for The Dots' White Label App - congratulations Pip Jamieson John Down & all the team 👏 👏 👏 https://lnkd.in/edWyHftu Their app powers private networks for member clubs, co-working spaces, communities etc. John Robson Isobel Spencer Francesca Tondi Guy Ramona Liberoff Kanika Goela Meganne Houghton-Berry Austin Peat Suzie Choi Joanne Smith John Souter Lucy Caines Jane Clemetson FRSA Maya Kuzalti Peder Bratt Diane Morgan Tatyana Popova Lorraine Heggessey Prakriti Sofat #femalefounders #angelinvestors #startupinvestment

Thanks to Founders Forum Group for their "100 Women Founders to Watch" report & so good to see some of our investments highlighted in there. 🚀 Congratulations to all the founders mentioned 🙏 Thanks also to our deal leads who "chaperone" founders through our due diligence process - John Souter (through multiple rounds!) & Esther Reynal de St Michel Richardot for Béa Fertility; Rosalind Singleton & Jodie O'Keeffe for Uncommon; & Francesca Tondi Guy & Emma Maslen for our rounds in Provenance 😇 I think we have 2 or 3 bold angels who've backed all 3 of them... https://lnkd.in/gBV_fvcg

Congratulations to Anu Duggal & Female Founders Fund on returning their first fund & proving that women founders are a good investment 👏 👏 🚺 Many first funds don't achieve this 📈 Any further exits from FFF will be profitable for investors 😇 It takes 10 years at early stage, so really is patient capital https://lnkd.in/gGjKZgjv Anmol Nayyar - thanks for the intro all those years ago! Kanika Goela Audrey Mandela Simon Thorpe Tom Britton Alexander Hirsch Laura Meyer Jane Clemetson FRSA Ramona Liberoff Sophie Muir Yee Mun T.

Definitely avoiding the BS, but no shying away from tough questions around gender and opportunity in this Business Without Bullshit podcast. Andy Oury & Sarah Turner chatted about why it's so hard for women to raise investment & what can be done about it. Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eEyQbtje #venturecapital #angelinvestment #femalefounders John Robson Robert Mollen John Souter Verity Baldry Lucy Woolfenden Emma Sinclair MBE Kayleigh Ciara Kuptz