Arāya Ventures

Wednesday was nothing short of epic! During the day, we proudly welcomed 40 new graduates to the ĀVA Angel Investing Course. Instructed by Araya's Founder and Managing Partner Rupa Ganatra Popat. One attendee shared: "This is everything you need to know when starting out your angel investment journey. Rupa shares everything so generously and honestly, I couldn’t recommend it enough." 👏 With this milestone, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve now surpassed 200 graduates since launching the academy last year! The day didn’t end there. In the evening, we headed to Google to host 50 ĀVA Angels and 70 female founders alongside our incredible partner, Female Founders Rise. Our fantastic panel - Emmie Faust, Sameer Singh, Nasreen A., and Monik Pham - shared valuable insights on angel investing, as well as advice for founders and their biggest investor turnoffs. A special thanks to our sponsors, Google Cloud and Vestd, for making it possible ❤️ It was wonderful to see so many meaningful conversations and connections happening throughout the evening. We’re so excited to watch the impact of these connections grow 💫 If you’d like to learn more about our Angel Investing Course—or know someone who should join in 2025—tag them below 👇 Here’s to an even bigger 2025 with more courses, events, and opportunities for our ĀVA community. We can’t wait to continue growing with you!

I am looking forward to speaking tomorrow with Eleanor Kaye to founders at Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures on: How to build an effective Fundraising Strategy discussing: - Planning and prep ahead of opening your fundraising round - A tangible structure to help your thinking - Understanding the realities of fundraising - Valuation considerations - How to prepare for VC's We'd love to open this workshop up wider in December and run it virtually on zoom for any founders who are planning to kick off their fundraising rounds in 2025. Tag yourself in the comments if you'd like to receive more information about the December workshop (it will be for an hour on zoom and completely free to attend!).

At Arāya Ventures, we're not just investors – we're catalysts for transformation. We're inspired by visionary founders who are reshaping the future of work and life. We invest at the earliest of stages (pre-seed and seed) and build empowering relationships with the founders we fund, providing unparalleled access to expertise, network, support, and capital. But don't just take our word for it. Our portfolio founders describe us as pivotal to their success. Our mission? To be the most value-add investor on your cap table. Are you a founder with a groundbreaking idea? Let's connect and explore how Arāya can fuel your vision. #StartupInvestment #VentureCapital #FounderSuccess 

Yesterday 50 Women joined the ranks of our ĀVA Angels, after completing the full-day Angel Investing training course. Taught by our founder Rupa Ganatra Popat, whose energy and insight to keep the entire room captivated left us in awe. Our angel investor movement keeps growing. We’ve now taught the course to over 100 women in the U.K. - the numbers will be over 200 by the end of 2024. For anyone taking their first leap into angel investment, join our waiting list at www.Araya.ventures/ava for the next available courses. And if any companies would like to host this course internally, we would love to hear from you at ava@araya.ventures. Hazel Nabarro, Francesca Keller Sarmiento #angelinvestment #womenangels #femaleinvestors

Wow - thank you to whoever nominated me (please tell me if you did - I have a few ideas on who you might be). I just got the email from UK Business Angels Association that I have been nominated as a finalist for Angel Investor of the Year (second year in a row). None of this is possible without my village, my team, founders, peers, colleagues and more. Congrats to everyone who is up for this and every award. Its been a busy year and so it’s so nice to pause, reflect and be recognised. Shout out to the amazing team I am working with at the moment to bring the next phase of Arāya Ventures into fruition Hazel Nabarro Martin Carruthers Francesca Keller Sarmiento Ollie Blears Adam Lawrence Barry Lawson Manveer Singh Rick Payne Seb Wallace Rob Tominey Eloise Morgan and so many more

📣 We are inviting one startup to pitch live on the Arāya Ventures Academy for Angels (AVA Angels) 😇 Investment Course to 50 new angel investors on 27th June in London 📚 It will be part of our Live Case Study module, where our course participants will have the opportunity to test out what they’ve learnt in a real-life pitch scenario Criteria: 🚀 Consumer or B2B 🚀 Health, FinTech, Climate, Commerce, Work 🚀 Raising a pre-seed or seed round 🚀 UK-based What to do: 👉🏽 Tag yourself and your company in the comments of this post 👉🏽 Email your PitchDeck to hello@araya.ventures The selected startup will be notified by June 10th. 😇 And for any aspiring angel investors, sign up to our waiting list for future courses & community events 👉🏽 https://lnkd.in/dVCDUFMc #startups #angelinvesting Hazel Nabarro