December Newsletter

OUR NEWS

• Sarah Turner?reviews another fantastic year here at Angel Academe
• Watch our Ask Me Anything session ?on deal terms with Emer Hughes of Kinsley Napley
• Watch recordings of our other?recent events ?and read?recent articles

NEWS FROM OUR FEMALE FOUNDERS

• Abundance:? won the ‘Fintech for good’ award at the AltFi awards
• Applied:?featured in Sifted’s HR Tech Report ‘early stage startups to watch’
• Ayda:?6 simple steps for managing your first user research project
• Cypher Coders:?founder Elizabeth Tweedale featured in the New York Weekly about bringing Cypher Coders to the US
• DemDX:?won a grant from NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research
• Deployed:?Emma Rees spoke with Lucy Woolfenden of the Scale Up Collective on her lessons as a CEO
• EnterpriseAlumni:?hosting the Global Alumni Awards in New York, June 8 2023 ?AND?listen to Emma on the Recruiting Daily ‘Use Case podcast’
• Fiskl:?#14 on the Business Cloud ‘Fintech 50, 2022’ list
• Nuggets:?Seema Khinda Johnson spoke on the N3xt podcast about Web3, ZKPs and the power of decentralised identity ?AND her co-founder?Alastair wrote about self-sovereign identity enabling compliance without compromise
• Provenance:?powering Belu Water’s green credentials
• YEO Messaging:?won Computing’s ‘best cloud security product, 2022’

PORTFOLIO JOBS

• Cypher Coders:?hiring for various coding teacher positions
• FeedForward:?hiring a machine learning research scientist ?AND a?software engineer
• Fiskl:?hiring a community manager (remote)
• DemDX:?hiring a clinical relationship manager
• Higher Steaks:?hiring in many roles including VP of process development, financial controller, and a business & partnerships manager
• Muse Finance:?hiring for various roles in technology & operations
• ScaleXP:?hiring a marketing manager with B2B experience

MEMBER & PARTNER NEWS

• Angel Academe member?Laura Harnett’s company Seep released their 2022 impact report, including being certified as a B Corp
• Angel Academe member?Lorraine Heggessey featured in the Guardian discussing how Strictly Come Dancing came about
• haysmacintyre:?read their full summary of the Autumn budget statement
• Kingsley Napley:?the latest blog in their ‘lifecycle of a tech startup’ is out - VC Investor
• Investec:?how have investment markets reacted to the Autumn Statement?
• Spinks on Site:?placed bronze in the IHR Recruitment Awards ‘onsite RPO in-house recruitment team’ category
• Latest blog from Shoal IT:?the answer is 42
• Women On Boards:?exploring your board potential event, Jan 5. [members only]
• WiTT:?support Digital Boost’s campaign to empower female-led businesses

READING, NEWS & EVENTS FROM OUT THERE

• Joyce Shen:?the importance of thorough due diligence for investors (and founders)
• GP Bullhound:?European SaaS - Refocus on Capital Efficiency
• Balderton:?The founders guide to B2B sales
• Innovate UK KTN:?read about their latest funding opportunities
• Innovate UK:?action plan for business innovation 2021-2025
• Financial Times:?doesn’t anyone do due diligence anymore? [paid content]
• Get down and Shruti:?why everyone should pay more attention to India
• Tech Crunch:?looking at 320 pitch decks, here’s what science tells us works
• Joyce J Shen:?a note on due diligence as a VC
• CityAM:?EY poised to ramp up fintech investment with new London Lab
• GrowthBuilders/PWC:?are running a scaleup programme for female founded fintech companies (fees apply)
• Sifted:?customer acquisition & sales are the biggest obstacles to a startup’s growth, not funding
• Tech Nation:?how the tech sector can achieve net zero
• Zinc: applications are open for?Zinc Venture Builder (financial resilience), starting in April 2023

A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to our members, partners, female founders and everyone in the Angel Academe network.

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