Angels Magazine

Hyperoptic, the UK’s leading provider of fibre-to-the-home broadband technology, today announced that it has received an equity investment commitment of £50 million led by Quantum Strategic Partners Ltd.

If you’ve ever wanted to pitch on Dragons’ Den – but can only spare about six seconds – then you are in luck.

The world’s first flat-packed vehicle, a low-cost, two-tonne light truck called OX, designed for the most arduous conditions of the developing world, has been unveiled by the British entrepreneur, Sir Torquil Norman. He plans to sell production versions on a non-profit basis throughout the developing world.

BankToTheFuture.com, the crowdfunding platform that allows people to invest in start-ups and mature businesses, has announced that it is providing an investment platform for Fabfob, the latest venture by Wowcher founder, Nick Brummitt, who has chosen cowdfunding over traditional venture capital funding.

The wide-ranging applications of bioscientific developments will feature at Venturefest Oxford 2013, the business event attracting investors, innovators and entrepreneurs taking place this year at the Saïd Business School, Oxford.

A student from London’s Kingston University has created concepts for a range of clothing for disabled women which combines sophisticated style with practicality and comfort.

The co-founder of PayPal, who made more than a billion dollars by making a $500,000 gamble on an unknown website called Facebook in 2004, has made his first European investment.

Software developer Beyond Verbal has launched a patented technology that can extract, decode, and measure a full spectrum of human emotions from a person’s raw voice which saw a $2.8 million round of funding led by prominent angel investor Kenges Rakishev, and new VC, Genesis Angels.

There is just time to enter Accelerator Academy, the early stage business development programme as the entry date to decide which companies will be accepted onto its fifth semester in late-May is 13th May.

More than £300,000 from three prominent UK businesspeople and serial investors is waiting for the right investment opportunities on a new video pitching website, dubbed ‘Dragons’ Den without the nerves’.

At an event held in Edinburgh a panel of experts from across Scotland debated the country’s commitment to funding and supporting Scottish entrepreneurs.

Nearly ninety percent of technology startups plan to hire new employees in 2013, according to an interactive report by Silicon Valley Bank, financial partner to technology, life science and cleantech companies and their investors worldwide.

A specialist lender reports a 20% leap in first-time landlords as savers hunt more attractive returns and benefit from inflation-busting yields and record rents.

‘We must storm the boardrooms and let them know we’re here’ was the message given this week by Tech London Advocates, a newly launched group of 150 tech and business leaders who want to build bridges between tiny startups and multinational corporations.

The Manchester based disruptive online recruitment company Hiring-Hub.com is celebrating triple-digit growth during the first quarter of 2013 with month-on-month revenues leaping 260% from January to March.

Zalando was founded in 2008 as a shoe retailer for the German fashion market. One year later, they began to ship their goods to Austria, and they have continued to expand across Europe.

Growth Capital Partners (GCP) has acquired medical marketing agency Fishawack in a deal which values the communications company at £13M.

Rohan Silva, the Downing Street advisor behind the soaraway success of east London’s Silicon Roundabout, is leaving politics to join a european venture-capital firm.

Wayra, the technology incubator run by Telefonica, the company behind O2 in the UK, have confirmed the appointment of new Academy Director, Charmaine Eggberry.

Seventeen of the sharpest start ups from education kickstarters to cloud based ticketing platforms, and dating apps to restaurant delivery services have been selected to join Telefonica’s global tech start-up accelerator programme Wayra.

A new model of finance has been unveiled at the Great British Private Investor Summit: Syndicate Funding 2.0. Based on the concept of allowing crowdfunders to co-invest alongside Business Angels, the model is supported by an online platform called Syndicate Room.

High-net-worth investor confidence is at its highest level in three years, according to data from a leading independent financial advisory firm.

An app created by Seventeen-year-old Nick D’Aloisio who took time off school to develop the Summly smartphone app has been acquired by web giant Yahoo in a deal understood to be worth just under £18 million pounds.

Key Capital Partners has confirmed that it has invested £2 million for a minority stake inspecialist recruitment firm EarthStream, which supplies specialist staff to the global energy & resources sectors.

Wayra, Telefónica’s global start-up accelerator, has announced it is partnering with Enternships to give 130 young people paid internships in its Wayra Academies.