Angel Investment Network was in the room at the London Stock Exchange for Female Founders: Connecting Companies with Capital, an evening of live pitches from Seed to Series A founders. Francesca Carlesi, CEO of Revolut UK and previously CEO and…
Read MoreIn a piece for e27, Angel Investment Network COO Ching-Yun Huang sets out what European observers keep missing about Asian entrepreneurship. After twenty years inside British and European business culture, and a move back to Asia through Thailand…
Read MoreThe Angel Investment Network will join the judging panel when the Female Founders Pitch Competition returns at SCALE Manchester on 25 November, extending a partnership that began in London. The Angel Investment Network (AIN) will join the judging panel…
Read MoreYour equity is the most valuable thing you own, yet founders often give it away more casually than almost any other asset in the business. Drawing on advice from experienced investors, we look at how to protect your equity as a founder, from the…
Read MoreWe sat down with a series of different investors over the past few months. A former private equity operator turned specialist VC. A serial founder who built and sold his way into the boardroom. A SaaS leader who now backs founders with her own capital…
Read MoreIn our latest Meet The Investor interview, we speak to Deborah Young, a non-executive director, advisor and angel investor with more than 20 years in SaaS and enterprise software. Deborah led Sword GRC’s global business and executed buy and build across…
Read MoreIn a piece for EU-Startups, Angel Investment Network advisor Mike Lebus argues that the early stage funding conversation has drifted away from a more fundamental shift: the dramatic fall in the actual capital needed to launch a startup. This is…
Read MoreIn our latest Behind The Raise interview, we speak to Baris Ozaydinli, founder of Scooch, a proactive dog-health platform combining human-grade functional supplements with Rio AI, its care-intelligence layer. Inspired by his own dog Rio, the repeat…
Read MoreThe Tech Nation Report 2026, launched at London Tech Week, reveals the UK AI boom is real, accelerating, and is the key driver of early stage investment activity. But peer through the forest of data and you will see the commanding heights of this new…
Read MoreSpoon Cereals, the UK challenger breakfast brand best known for its award-winning, taste-led granola, has raised £250,000 through Angel Investment Network (AIN), the world’s largest online angel investment network, as part of a £1.45m funding round. The…
Read MoreARDHANN is rethinking the materials behind the hydrogen economy with a “smart” composite – a sensor-embedded laminate that can sense damage from the inside before it fails. Fresh off winning the Underrepresented Founders pitch competition at SCALE Expo…
Read MoreSo your pitch email landed. An investor opened it, read enough to be intrigued, and clicked through to your pitch deck. Congratulations, you’ve cleared the first hurdle that the majority of startups never get past. Now the bad news: This is where most…
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