Angel Academe - increasing female investment

📣 Are you a female founder raising pre-seed to Series A investment to accelerate innovation in healthcare, work, finance or clean tech? 🚺 We've backed 48 businesses, many through multiple rounds inc. ImproveWell LTD The Dots Provenance EnterpriseAlumni Béa Fertility 🤝 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 M. Jenny Bullis #femalefounders #startupfunding #FairForFounders

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 make a return for investors 📈 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

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

Great article from Natasha Frangos. Hopefully Rachel Reeves' budget will be as pro-growth as promised for our ambitious entrepreneurs & job-creators 🤞 Sara Sullivan Laura Meyer Helena Forsythe haysmacintyre #femalefounders #angelinvestors #budget

Congratulations Deployed! 👏👏👏 Rosalind Singleton Hugo C. Emma Maslen Sarah Quinlan Amrock Ventures Ltd HearstLab International Aimee Nisbet

We're absolutely delighted to be a finalist in the "Initiative of the Year" category (as well as our nomination for Angel Team of the Year!) for the Growth Investor Awards 🎉 Our initiative is a "meet the corporate buyer" campaign with female B2B founders in partnership with DC Advisory. Thank you Jen Barham Charlotte D., Lily Soares Smith & Richard Madden for believing in us as well as Robin Beattie from Hays & Emma Sinclair MBE from EnterpriseAlumni for their support 👏👏👏 🏅 The campaign is on-going so please get in touch if you can help. #femalefounders #angelinvestment #techstartups Yee Mun T. Jodie O'Keeffe Audrey Mandela Rosalind Singleton Meganne Houghton-Berry John Robson Kanika Goela Mei Chung Corporate, Commercial & Finance | Kingsley Napley Mark Pattenden Growth Investor Awards British Business Bank https://lnkd.in/gxJM6PDW

Thank you Growth Investor Awards & British Business Bank for recognising us as a finalist in this year's Angel Team of the Year category 😇 🎉 🚺 Our angel network has been investing in and moving the dial for women since 2014. We were the first to mobilise an army of women as angel investors specifically to deploy funds into female-founded tech startups. Key stats: 💰 Portfolio: 51  ✅ Investment rounds: 100+ 💷 Investment & co-investment leveraged: £150m+ 👩💼 Jobs created: 1,000+ 📈 Valuation increase: 3X 🤑 Exits: 4 Wish us luck 🤞🤞🤞 #femalefounders #angelinvestors #techstartups Yee Mun T. James Fulforth Emer Hughes Roberta Draper Mei Chung Mark Pattenden Robin Beattie Charlotte D. Lily Soares Smith Jen Barham Jodie O'Keeffe Mélanie Bernard https://lnkd.in/erv2upjc

It seems that every startup is deploying #AI in some shape or form. What do investors need to know before making an investment in an AI business and what do founders need to consider when speaking to investors? 🖥 In our recent webinar, angel investor Audrey Mandela put the questions to portfolio founders Lydia Gregory from Figaro.ai and Edward Smith from Adora Digital Health. 🧠 For context: there are many types of AI from conversational & generative AI to computer vision & autonomous systems etc etc. 💡 We’ve seen AI startup pitches in: coaching, therapy, wellness & healthcare, education & training, companionship, content creation, decision support & many others. In each case we ask: ❓Why is AI the best solution from the problem you’re solving? ❓Who in your team is responsible for the AI and what’s their experience? ❓Are you training your own AI, or using an existing one? Is it proprietary or open source? Are you using 3rd party support? ❓What kind of data are you using to train your models? How do you source & manage it? How do you handle data privacy & security? ❓How much do you expect to spend on AI over the next 5 years (inc compute costs for LLMs)? We don’t necessarily expect definitive answers but want to know about your thinking in these areas. Watch the event recording here👇   https://lnkd.in/e4nj9EMS #femalefounders #angelinvestment #techstartups Jodie O'Keeffe Robin Beattie Ben Wibberley Rowena Ironside Sara Sullivan Bianca R. Deirdre Walters Steve Swayne

📣 Hear about when to use #GenAI and when you definitely shouldn't at our next online event, 5-6pm on 8 October 📣 GenAI is a type of AI system that's capable of generating new content, ideas, or data that mimic human-like creativity. ✅ This is brilliant when you want a graphic (as here) or a lively event description for example - we've been experimenting with writing in the voices of different well known authors to keep ourselves & our investor network amused - never a dull moment here! ❌ But if would be a disaster in situations where you need accurate and reliable results, eg disease diagnosis or accountancy. In these cases, the AI system must be trained on verified data. In our next online panel, we'll discuss the transformative potential of AI, trends and opportunities as well as the different types of AI and when to use them. Our very own Simon Hopkins will be putting the questions to Audrey Mandela, experienced angel investor and exited tech founder, as well as 2 pioneering AI founders: Lydia Gregory, CEO of Figaro, and Ed Smith, CTO of Adora Digital Health. ✏ Register here https://lnkd.in/ereewcxM #femalefounders #angelinvestors #startupinvestment Sara Sullivan John Souter Robert Mollen Laura Meyer Jane Clemetson FRSA Yee Mun T. Charlotte D. Robin Beattie Rosalind Singleton

Congratulations to our founder and CEO Sarah Turner on making ComputerWeekly.com's 50 most influential women in UK tech for 2024. It's a great list and particularly good to see Mary McKenna, MBE on it too - another leading light for female angel investors & female founders 😇 ✅ You can cast your vote for this year's top spot via the article below 👇 Robin Beattie Jane Clemetson FRSA Laura Meyer Tom Britton Jodie O'Keeffe Rosalind Singleton Audrey Mandela Susan Simnett Ramona Liberoff Sara Sullivan #angelinvestors #femalefounders #techstartups