Jessi Baker We’re delighted to announce our follow-on investment in Provenance with co-investment from Angel Academe partners Alumni Ventures. The round has been led by Nordic Eye and a global adtech/martech venture fund and others (to be announced formally soon). Founded by Jessi Baker, Provenance is a SaaS and data platform that validates and amplifies sustainability credentials for consumer packaged goods, empowering customers to cut through the greenwash and make sustainable choices with confidence. Their software enables businesses to be transparent about their impact from discovery ..read more

We are delighted to announce our 49th investment in a female-founded start-up: PheroSyn. Led by Dr. Mary Ellis (Co-Founder, CEO) and Daniel Bahia (Co-founder, Director of Operations), PheroSyn are an innovative agricultural technology company using green chemistry techniques to produce identical copies of nature’s own pheromones, providing an alternative to damaging pesticides. The company was spun out from the UK’s Rothamsted, one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world. Angel Academe is investing alongside Sustainable Ventures, and has been able to help in securin ..read more

The Dots founder and CEO Pip Jamieson We’re thrilled to have completed a follow-on investment in The Dots. The Dots was founded by Pip Jamieson as an online network for creative “No Collar” professionals, an alternative and competitor to LinkedIn, with revenue from recruitment and advertising. Since November 2021, they’ve also offered a white label “community as a service” product to brands such as Apple, Dazed Media, Soho House and Frieze Art Fairs. This part of the business is growing rapidly. Our 10 angels who participated in this round were led by John Robson, who exited his own ..read more

Adora CEO and founder Ann O’Neill We’re delighted to announce that our latest investment is in Adora Health, co-founded by CEO Ann O’Neill and CTO Ed Smith. Working with HR departments and benefits providers, Adora uses conversational AI and Natural Language Processing to deliver personalised and expert menopause healthcare at scale. Other participants in the round include a European healthtech specialist VC as well as other individuals angels. US-based Alumni Ventures also participated in the round, our first co-investment with them as part of our Super-Angel partnership. This is th ..read more

We’re excited to be announcing our partnership with Alumni Ventures (AV), ranked most active US VC and 3rd globally (PitchBook, 2022). Angel Academe will be part of their Super Angel Programme — a select group of co-investors chosen for their track record, sector expertise, and community connections. Startups that raise funding through the Angel Academe network will be put through for consideration, with AV potentially investing between US$25–50k alongside Angel Academe network members. As an AV portfolio company, the startup will also be able to access AV’s CEO services — a value-add platfor ..read more

Dem DX founder and CEO Lorin Gresser We are delighted to announce that our latest investment is a follow-on in Dem Dx, founded by CEO Lorin Gresser. Dem Dx’s CE-certified AI clinical reasoning platform helps frontline healthcare professionals to make initial clinical assessments more effectively and efficiently. Dem Dx is the perfect tool for medically trained staff to make decisions faster and more consistently with access to national and local guidelines. It speeds up time to treatment and frees up senior clinical time to focus on more complex cases, meaning better patient experience an ..read more

Angel Academe founder and CEO Sarah Turner writes: I made a conscious decision about 10 years ago that I was only going to invest in tech startups with a female founder. And in 2014 I started an angel network to attract more women to angel investing. Members of the network have just invested in our 47th female founded tech startup. We’re investing in the change we want to see. I spend most of my time speaking to women about women and the challenges women have raising investment for their businesses. Like with much about our world, the status quo was developed by and for men dating f ..read more

We like to celebrate International Women’s Day by announcing an investment into a female-founded tech business. This year is no exception and we’re thrilled to confirm that several members of our angel network have just completed an investment in Dressipi. Founded by Donna North and Sarah McVittie, Dressipi is a SaaS product for fashion retailers to optimise profit and reduce waste. Their fashion-specific personalisation engine ensures that customers only see products they’re likely to buy and keep on a retailer’s website; and their forecasting tool helps retailers order only what they can&nb ..read more

As well as continuing to run our own virtual and real world pitch, learning and networking events, Angel Academe is delighted to announce a new event partnership with Women in Telecoms & Technology (WiTT). WiTT is an informal networking group for women in tech which runs regular tech-themed events throughout the year. Their 2,000+ members include women from large and small organisations as well as lawyers, consultants, accountants and entrepreneurs. They kicked-off 2023 with a very interesting discussion on Trends in Agricultural Technology and have 2 more coming up soon: 4 April: Wha ..read more

ScaleXP founder and CEO Suezann Holmes We’re delighted to announce that we’ve just completed a follow-on investment in ScaleXP. Founded by Suezann Holmes, the ScaleXP platform allows full automation of business metric and KPI tracking with just 10 minutes of attention per month. Crucially, it integrates both financial and sales data into one dashboard with graphs and interactive displays, making it easy for founders and their teams to spot/confirm opportunities and trends, as well as reducing the effort required to make impressive and meaningful investor/board presentations. Alex Hir ..read more