Angel Academe - increasing female investment

Angel Academe is an award-winning angel investment network focused on making angel investing accessible and rewarding for women and men who value diversity. The organization connects entrepreneurs, senior professionals, and portfolio career professionals who seek educated risk-taking and potentially higher returns. Angel Academe invests in ambitious, high-growth companies while fostering an inclusive investment community where women comprise the majority of members.

We make angel investing easy, fun and rewarding for women and men who want to be part of a diverse angel community. Angel Academe is a fast-growing and award-winning angel network. We’re a mix of entrepreneurs, senior professionals/operators and people enjoying portfolio careers. We have an appetite for educated risk and potentially higher returns than other asset classes. Most of us are women, but men who want to be part of a diverse network are also very welcome. We invest in ambitious and highly scalable technology businesses with at least 1 woman on the founding team. Through collaboration with experienced angels as well as technology and sector specialists, we help members pool their money, expertise and resources to perform due diligence, build a portfolio of smart investments and support the businesses they invest in. Since 2014, our members have invested in over 45 early stage businesses in clean tech, health tech, fin tech, enterprise, ed tech etc. Collectively they've gone on to raise £100m+ in investment from both angels and VCs, generate £millions in revenues, deliver considerable social impact and employ getting on for 1,000 people. See our portfolio here, https://www.angelacademe.com/portfolio