Oxford Innovation Space, which already runs 32 centres in the UK and Ireland, have come on board to run and operate the Wellsprings Innovation Centre.  The team has over 35 years’ experience in supporting economic growth through a focus on advice, finance, and space.  In that time, Oxford Innovation Space has helped in excess of 7,000 small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to become more sustainable businesses.

After growing to support a membership of 200 Angel Investors in the last five years, the Newcastle Angel Hub was relaunched last night (Thursday 8^th February) as the ‘Northern Investor Hub’.

Dorset Business Angels received 27 expressions of interest from investors at their most recent angel investing pitch event held at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel on Monday evening.

London-based angel syndicate, Veridian Ventures, completed a £150,000 investment in Maji, “a market leading financial wellbeing and open finance platform that educates and coaches employees to build their financial resilience, confidence and ability to save for the future”. This investment forms part of Maji’s £500,000 seed funding round, demonstrating Veridian Ventures’ commitment to supporting innovative ventures tackling challenges like financial stress and lack of financial literacy.

Italian Angels for Growth (IAG), the leading investor network in Italy, has strengthened its presence in the U.S. territory and on the West Coast, where it has already been active for several years.

Operated via Sixth Wave Angel Group (SWAG), the fund invests directly in early-stage companies developing proprietary technologies that tackle fundamental global challenges using science-backed approaches.

Most recently, Sixth Wave Ventures led the seed round of D-time Ltd, helping them fund the development of their Dtechtive platform. The £245,000 raised will enable D-time to build technology that will generate enormous value for data search engines like Google.

Northstar Ventures has launched its first EIS fund, the Northstar EIS Growth Fund, which is now open for subscriptions. The first close of the fund is targeted for 31st March 2024, with investment then being made into a diverse portfolio of technology companies during the 2024/5 tax year. The fund will invest in the North East's highest potential technology scale-up companies, focusing on the clean tech and healthy ageing sectors, where the region has global competitive advantage.

Edinburgh-based investment syndicate, Archangels, invested more than £13.8m during 2023 in eleven of Scotland’s best early-stage tech and life science companies.

Dorset Business Angels will hold its first pitch event and investors' dinner of 2024 on February 5th.

Artemest is an online platform that connects art and design lovers with talented Italian artisans. It was founded in 2015 by Ippolita Rostagno, already a successful entrepreneur in the world of luxury, Marco Credendino, Ignazio Assenza and Marco Deseri. The platform, the result of careful selection, brings Italian artistic and artisanal know-how on an international scale through an online showcase accessible to customers from all over the world. Today the company, after four successful rounds of fundraising, can count on: a site with more than 1400 artisans, 70 employees, four offices between Europe and the United States and a beautiful story of growth to tell.

In a recently conducted member study with over 250 responses, FiBAN mapped the activity, interests, and demographics of its members, painting a detailed image of Finnish angel investors and the startup industries on the rise.

EBAN presents the EBAN Annual Statistics Compendium for 2022, Europe’s most extensive annual research on the activity of business angels and business angel networks.