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London Business Angels invest £1m into 6 high growth tech companies in the last week of the tax year 12/13

17 April 2013

London Business Angels (LBA) angels invested £1m in the first week of April 2013 into 6 potentially high growth SMEs alongside other co-investment of circa £4.5m. The £1m of LBA investment included £200k of co - investment by LBA’s in house EIS and SEIS Funds. LBA has now closed 10 angel deals in Q1 2013.

London Business Angels’ syndicate completes £150k SEIS investment into Style on Screen

10 April 2013

Seed stage, London based, social media commerce specialist, Style on Screen (http://styleonscreen.tv/) , has closed a £150k SEIS investment from a syndicate of London Business Angel( LBA) investors, including co-investment by LBA’s SEIS Roundtable Syndicate Fund 2012.

Syrinix Goes Global with £2m Funding Round

10 April 2013

Syrinix, the pipeline monitoring technology specialist, has secured £2.1m of fresh investment to accelerate its growth nationally and internationally

London Business Angels syndicate closes £145.5k SEIS investment into Westco Medical Holdings

10 April 2013

Early stage, Liverpool based,  nasogastric feeding tube specialist, Westco Medical Holdings Limited (Westco Medical), has closed a £145.5k SEIS investment round from a syndicate of London Business Angels investors, including a £29.5k investment by the LBA SEIS Roundtable Syndicate Fund.

Trident Energy completes fundraising round for sea trials

22 March 2013

Trident Energy is pleased to announce completion of a second close of its funding round to finance pier-based sea trials of the company’s enabling technology for the offshore renewable energy industry. The new investment takes the total equity raised by the company since October 2012 to £1mil.

London Business Angels investment helps Sphere Fluidics close £1.6m early stage funding round

19 February 2013

Early stage, Cambridge based, life science company, Sphere Fluidics, has closed a £1.6m funding round which included a £133k investment by a syndicate of London Business Angels and its EIS Approved Roundtable  Syndicate Fund 2012.

London Business Angels SEIS Roundtable Syndicate Fund 2012’s first investment in Sustainable Marine Energy

7 February 2013

A tidal energy platform specialist, Sustainable Marine Energy (SME), working closely with Cranfield University, has completed a £150k SEIS eligible funding round which was corner-stoned by a £133k investment by a London Business Angels (LBA) syndicate, including a £40k investment by the LBA SEIS Roundtable Syndicate Fund 2012.

London Business Angels helps UK early stage technology companies access over £12m of equity funding in 2012

14 January 2013

In 2012, London Business Angels (LBA; http://www.lbangels.co.uk/)  helped 17 UK based early stage technology companies with the potential for explosive growth access over £12m of risk capital, with £3m of investment directly by LBA investors alongside co-investment of £9m.

London Business Angel’s investment corner-stones OR Productivity’s £1.25m funding round

20 December 2012

Early stage, Guildford based, laparoscopic imaging specialist, OR Productivity, has closed a £1.25m funding round which was corner-stoned by a £140k investment by London Business Angels, including a £90k investment by the LBA EIS Fund 2012 and a £50k investment by a lead London Business Angels investor.

London Business Angels' syndicate helps Cipher Surgical close its £650k Angel round

29 November 2012

Early stage Coventry-based medical device company, Cipher Surgical, has raised £130k as part of an internal £650k round from a syndicate of London Business Angels med tech investors.  The company is commercialising a highly innovative medical device for maintaining a clear distal window of the laparoscope during an operative procedure(the OpClear).