We spoke to Sarah King, CEO & Co-Founder of Obu Invest, about how and why she founded Obu and asked her to share her views on angel investment and why encouraging greater diversity in the angel world - both the entrepreneurs seeking funding and the angels providing the money - is important for its future success.

Early-stage investor community South East Angels has invested in Uhubs, a SaaS platform helping revenue leaders build and improve their sales teams with data-led decisions.

Firglas is a seed-stage company focused on the production of microalgae for use in the aquaculture, cosmetics and nutraceuticals sector.

The company is raising funding of £500k to achieve a key commercial milestone - to start production at scale and start to generate product sales.  Visit our Funding for Entrepreneurs website HERE to find out more about the opportunity and how you can invest.  OR click on this link

Winefi has announced its upcoming platform launch, poised to revolutionise the landscape of fine wine investment, making it an accessible mainstream asset class. 

New wealth-tech platform Prosper, which plans to revolutionise how we save and invest, has raised a £3.2 million angel round.

The founders of Monzo, Capital One, World First, Tandem, Azimo, Embark, Comply Advantage, and the Connect, MMC and Portfolio Ventures all contributed to Prosper’s £3.2 million angel round, backing the company to shake up the way people manage their wealth.

Oxford Innovation Finance’s Angel Network (OION) has invested in the latest funding round for Aura, the digital funeral planning and delivery tool tackling the fear, uncertainty and complexity surrounding death.

Eilla AI, a generative AI platform designed to assist M&A, venture capital (VC), and private equity (PE) professionals with financial research, analysis, and document creation, has raised $1.5m in seed funding as it looks to grow the team and scale the company and its offering.

Portaire, a UK-based startup, has successfully raised £550,000 to build a workflow platform for interior designers.

Portaire is creating the future of work for the interior design industry by simplifying every stage of the design process from sourcing to procurement. From discovering beautiful products from top international brands to client presentations and scheduling, Portaire enables a more efficient and collaborative process.

Virtuall, a Danish FashionTech startup, has raised €829k pre-seed funding to bring fashion brands to virtual spaces. The funding round was led by EIFO (Export and Investment Fund of Denmark), Styleit (Styleit is the FashionTech accelerator of the Italian National Accelerator Network of CDP, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti), and Antler, Europe’s most active early stage VC firm. 

A new Angel Investor Programme launching in the Great South West is set to play a pivotal role in driving economic growth.

The initiative is aimed at identifying, educating, and supporting new individual investors, fostering a diverse and thriving investment community to drive innovation and help address funding challenges for tech businesses in the region.

Investment Futures 24, a new event taking place on 28 November in London, is set to explore the landscape for investment going into 2024 for innovation-led start-ups, scale-ups and spin-outs.

LawBite, is a fast-growing lawtech enterprise is solving the issue for SMEs in to get access to affordable, good quality legal advice, is seeking £250,000 EIS working capital.