June Newsletter
👩🏽💻 WHAT DO WE DO AGAIN?
Since 2014 our mainly female angel investors have backed 55 female-founded startups through 100+ investment rounds helping catalyse over £200m in co- & follow-on investment. Our portfolio is creating innovative & scalable solutions to big, global problems in healthcare; finance; education; work & hiring; climate change and security.
👩🏽💻 THE ANGEL ACADEME EIS FUND: A FEW FIRSTS
For the first time ever, individual investors will be able to back 7-10 female founded high growth startups with a single ticket of £10,000 and benefit from the full EIS tax reliefs.
Our fund is the UK’s first EIS fund to focus on female-founded companies, selected by the UK’s leading female focussed angel network. EIS benefits include 30% tax relief and capital gains tax deferral. Deployment will start in Q4.
Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you are unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong. Take 2 mins to learn more.
This financial promotion has been approved by Syndicate Room Ltd (FCA FRN 613021) on 14 May 2025.
📰 OUR OTHER NEWS
Angel Academe in The Times: Angels Bearing Tax Gifts Seek Female Entrepreneurs
Our latest investment: Zonova, founded by Dr Georgia Fleet and Carla Southworth
Our most recent webinar: Investing in AI & the Future of Work with Deployed
Our previous webinar: Investing in Health Tech with Movetru, Adora Health & HSBC Innovation Banking
Our video: Meet some of the female angels on the cap tables of the UK’s best female-founded startups
In case you missed it: watch recordings of other recent events and read our latest articles
Pitched to our investor-led screening committee so far this year: over 60 startups in sectors from climate education and particulate reduction to medical data and sexual health.
📰 NEWS & VIEWS FROM OUR FEMALE FOUNDERS
Samphire: Announce the close of their over-subscribed $5m seed round
Deployed: Kayleigh Kuptz was featured on the SyndicateRoom #AngelInsights podcast
Fiskl: Shortlisted for "Accounting Tech of the Year" at the #EuropeFintechAwards 2025!
PreActiv: Real Voices, Real Results - A PreActiv Patient Interview
Inicio: Announce their latest new client Everyday People Financial Solutions
Adora Health: How Menopause Silently Fuels the Midlife Gender Pay Gap (blog post)
CENTURY TECH: Ambassador Spotlight – Nadine Baki – Dar Al Marefa School
Yeo Messaging: When Free Isn’t Free - Why Meta’s New WhatsApp Ads Signal a Privacy Breaking Point (blog post)
ImproveWell: Shortlisted for BusinessCloud’s annual HealthTech 50 ranking
Béa Fertility: IVF injections - The realities and tips to navigate them during a busy social calendar (blog post)
Loowatt: Upcoming impact report
Enterprise Alumni: 6 Virtual Alumni Engagement Ideas (blog post)
Abundance: The Green Finance Institute: scaling Climate Finance (blog post)
📰 MEMBER AND PARTNER NEWS
SyndicateRoom: The (good) network advantage in angel investing
Robin Beattie: Introducing Akaina Talent
Kingsley Napley: Subscribe to the KN Tech Law Newsletter
DC Advisory: US Private Equity Mid-Market Monitor: Q1 2025 & Outlook
WiTT: Upcoming events
Women on Boards: Congratulations on joining forces with Neurole!
Angela Cretu: Interviewed by Ana Samiresan for THE VALUES ROOM
Laura Meyer: Watch her interviews with AA founders and investors
Alumni Ventures: AV portfolio company Circle goes IPO
Shoal IT: VAT Phishing & Cyber Security Cost-benefit analysis
Emma Maslen: Women in Sales Leadership Webinar Series
Simon Hopkins: Round-up of his recent extracurricular activities
👩🏽💻 NEWS, READING & LISTENING
Alexandra Depledge: Appointed as the First ever Entrepreneurship Advisor to the Treasury #entrepreneurship
The Times: Will a chatbot give me a job? (feat. Applied) #futureofwork
Amazon Sustainability Accelerator: Demo Day #pitches
HBS: Women Are Avoiding AI. Will Their Careers Suffer? #AI #careers
InnovateUK: Open competitions #funding
Works in Progress: How the world's first electric grid was built #infrastructure
UKRI: Patients’ voices help improve access to medical technologies #futurehealth
UAL: Greenhouse Demo Day #pitches
NatWest Accelerator: Female Founder Networking #networking
Sam Harris: Countdown to Superintelligence - A Conversation with Daniel Kokotajlo #AI
Apple Machine Learning Project: The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity #AI
The Register: The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge #AI
Nesta: Upcoming events #innovation
Barclays Eagle Labs: Female Founder Accelerator Programme #accelerator
👩🏽💻 SUMMER READING RECOMMENDATIONS
Sarah: Vaseem Khan - The Malabar House series
Yee Mun: Brandon Sanderson - Tress of the Emerald Sea; Samantha Sotto Yambao - Water Moon
Michelle: Suzanne O’Sullivan - The Age of Diagnosis
Simon: Michael Symmons Roberts - Quartet for the End of Time; Ford Madox Ford - Parade’s End
The Angel Academe newsletter is lovingly hand-crafted (no AI involved, honestly!) each month by Sarah, Yee Mun, Michelle and Simon.
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