Thoughts on yesterday's budget from a range of perspectives in the private investor ecosystem.

Julia Elliott Brown, founder of Enter The Arena and author of RAISE, considers one possible solution to address the funding gap for women founders.  

Investor James Muroch shares some thoughts on how the mini Budget this week is likely to affect seed funding in thre UK.

James Murdoch gives his expert view on the Republic purchase of Seedrs.

Ahead of the Accelerating Investment & Innovation Summit, taking place on Tuesday 13th September, Jordan Dargue, Head of Access to Finance at Innovation SuperNetwork, argues that, although the North East is brimming with investment opportunities, innovative businesses continue to find it hard to raise finance, and considers what can be done to attract more investors to the region.

The North East is brimming with investment opportunities. So why do we still see less investment in our innovative businesses? asks Jordan Dargue, Head of Access to Finance at Innovation SuperNetwork.

 Nick Lyth, Founder and President of Green Angel Syndicate comments...

2021 was a record year for investment for businesses at every stage of funding, from those going for the first round of funding to those seeking much later stage investments. The year closed out with $643 billion having been invested by venture capitals (VCs) across the globe, marking a year-on-year growth rate of 92%. Whilst it’s true that in 2022, funding slowed slightly in comparison, funding for the second quarter of 2022 still exceeded funding for every quarter in 2020.

Joshua Wohle is a EdTech/Learning enthusiast, advisor, investor. He was previously CPTO & co-Founder of SuperAwesome, the largest kidtech company in the world and is currently CEO and co-founder of Mindstone.

Joshua is also a Venture Partner and LP of Emerge Education, an education sector focused European seed fund. Here he shares his experiences of being an angel investor.

The Bank of England has put interest rates up from 1.25% to 1.75%, the biggest increase in rates for years. 

In this final part of our series, we asked our five investors about the most important lessons they have learnt along their crowdfunding journey, what they see happening in the future and what advice they would pass on to others thinking about starting out on their own adventures in the world of equity crowdfunding.

The latest figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) show that inheritance tax receipts received by HMRC increased by £300 million to £1.8bn in the three months period of April 2022 to June 2022.  This is an increase from the same period in the previous year, and continues the upwards trend over the last ten years.

The tech sector was not what it is today when most angel investors graduated from university. This is why, in the UK especially, the majority of angel investors have backgrounds in traditional industries like finance, law or real estate.