Month: October 2017

Investor Updates: Why? How? When?

What you’ll get from this post:

• 1. Why you should update your investors
• 2. A template for great updates
• 3. Example updates from fast-growth companies like Sweatcoin and ScreenCloud

“We connect entrepreneurs and angel investors.”

That’s our tagline at Angel Investment Network. We’ve been doing it for 14 years so it makes sense! We help make the initial connection that results in feedback, meetings and often investment. Startups get the funding they require. Investors get access to great and diverse deal flow.

But as a result of this, most of our advice and guidance focuses on the early part of the fundraising journey: how to meet investors, how to value your idea, how to find great deal flow, how to invest etc… read more

Fundraising on Angel Investment Network – A User Story:

Kresimir Budinski first reached out to me through LinkedIn. He is the founder of Air Ticket Arena – the first fully-automated platform allowing passengers to bid for unsold seats on scheduled flights; and helping airlines to recuperate some of the £120 billion in lost sales each year through unsold seats.

He recently closed a £350,000 of seed fundraising through Angel Investment Network.

Kresimir, or ‘The Bishop’, as he is affectionately known by his team, complimented me on my article about SEIS & EIS Tax relief. He had apparently used it as an explainer throughout his fundraising. Both for investors he had found through Angel Investment Network and other channels. read more