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£160K London Business Angels' investment helps Cycell to close its over-subscribed £1m round

27 November 2012

Early stage, London-based, specialist mobile virtual network operator, Cycell, has closed an oversubscribed £1m round which included a £160k investment by a group of London Business Angels investors.  This funding round takes the total level of investment by London Business Angels into the company since August 2011 to over £300k.

Angels in the City meet London’s SEIS-eligible digital entrepreneurs

26 November 2012

Forty newly recruited business angels from the Financial Square Mile, looking to take advantage of the Government’ latest 50% tax break under the new SEIS scheme, gathered together last Thursday night to see pitches from ten innovating seed stage digital technology entrepreneurs from the surrounding areas of the City, including Tech City.  The event was organised under the Angels

Trident Energy secures funding for sea trials of generator technology

6 November 2012

Trident Energy, the independent developer of generator solutions for the offshore renewable energy industry, today announces the close of a funding round with new investors and existing shareholders. The new investment comes from the Low Carbon Innovation Fund (LCIF) and members of the London Business Angels network.

Scour Prevention Systems secures £150k investment from a London Business Angel’s super-angel to close its latest £300k round

6 November 2012

Early stage, Lowestoft based offshore structure scour prevention specialist, Scour Prevention Systems, has successfully closed a circa £300k angel funding round which included a new £150k investment by a LBA super-angel alongside a £100k follow on investment by existing LBA investors.

London Business Angel’s new £250k SEIS Roundtable Syndicate Fund 2012 now open for business

30 October 2012

London Business Angels ( LBA) is delighted to announce that its new FSA Regulated £250k SEIS Roundtable Syndicate fund is now open for business with all LBA member’s cash invested held by the Fund’s Registrars.

Gloople’s £150k SEIS structured round corner-stoned by a £130k investment from a LBA syndicate

25 September 2012

Seed stage London based multi-channel ecommerce platform specialist, Gloople (www.gloople.co.uk),  has closed a £150k SEIS structured funding round which was corner-stoned by a £130k investment by a syndicate of London Business Angel investors.The company has developed an innovative ecommerce platform architected for the multi-channel retail environment which provides a sing

London Business Angels £500k Syndicate achieve significant exit in Sirigen Group

30 August 2012

London Business Angel (LBA) and venture capital backed High Sensitivity Fluorescence Business, Sirigen Group Limited, has been acquired by BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology  US based company for an undisclosed sum.  Founded in 2004, Sirigen uses Nobel-prize winning science to produce light harvesting polymers which have a wide

LBA investment helps Crowd Vision to close substantial funding round

30 July 2012

London-based crowd analytics software specialist, Crowd Vision (http://www.crowdvision.co.uk/), has closed a substantial funding round with participation from a syndicate of London Business Angels Investors and the Angel Cofund which will enable the business to expand international sales activities and execute product development plans.

Circalit’s funding round corner-stoned by investment by Angels in the City /LBA Syndicate

24 July 2012

Early Stage London based digital publishing platform specialist, Circalit (http://www.circalit.com/public/), has successfully closed a funding round which was corner-stoned by an investment by a syndicate of  Angels in the Cityinvesting alongsideLBA investors.

LBA investment helps Emoquo to close £85k SEIS structured funding round being LBA’s 11TH deal closed in first half of 2012

13 July 2012

Early stage Newbury based people skills e-learning specialist, emoquo (www.emoquo.com), has successfully closed an £85k SEIS structured investment which was underpinned by an investment by LBA investors.