Posts Tagged ‘NESTA’
An Extinction Level Event for Seed Funding?
Brett Tudor on Monday, July 19th, 2010New venture funding is the lowest it’s been for a decade according to Nesta’s July report Venture Capital Now and After the Dotcom Crash and that’s not all…
Budget Could Swell Ranks of Business Angels
Brett Tudor on Thursday, April 1st, 2010The latest Budget could well have helped create the conditions for the growth of business angel investing
Where Business Angel Investors Fear to Tread
Brett Tudor on Monday, March 8th, 2010Investors in early stage and start-up businesses are known as angel investors. The tag ‘angel’ coming from their tendency to operate in the margins where venture capitalists, banks and other backers choose not to go.
They also help plug a major funding gap to get such ventures off the ground and they happen to be the kind of investors who are prepared to take a risk, rely on their instincts and invest large sums without too many hard questions asked.
At least this is the accepted view.
