Archangel Informal Investment

Welcome

Archangel Informal Investment is Scotland's leading Business Angel Syndicate. Originally formed in 1992 and based in Edinburgh, the syndicate now comprises around 100 investor members and is investing c. £10m per year in early stage Scottish companies, including leverage from partners the largest being the Scottish Enterprise Co-Investment Fund.

LOOKING FOR INVESTMENT?

We invest equity only, with no preferential terms, and provide significant business experience and networking opportunities to our portfolio companies.  We seek to invest in companies with high growth potential and global application and are prepared to become involved at all stages from proof of concept through growth capital in a wide variety of business sectors.  To find out more about our investment criteria and our decision making process please visit the Investment section.

WANT TO BECOME A MEMBER

We are always keen to attract new investor members and welcome the opportunity to meet with potential members to discuss our approach to investment.  We are an unregulated activity in terms of the FSA and therefore rely on certification of members as either High Net Worth Individuals or Sophisticated Investors as defined by the FSMA 2000.  Unless otherwise stated, all investment opportunities are carried out under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) rules and therefore attract tax benefits.  Please visit our Investors section to find out more about membership.

Our office is based in Central Edinburgh and provides resources for reviewing all investment opportunities and monitoring the performance of portfolio companies.  We are the largest partner of the Scottish Co-Investment Fund  which provides matching equity funding of up to 50% (£1m max) on any qualifying investment if required.

VIEW OUR CURRENT PORTFOLIO

There are currently around 29 companies in our portfolio covering a wide spectrum of business activities.  Visit ourPortfolio section to find out more about the companies in which we are currently invested and follow the links to the websites of those companies for further information.

Latest News

Angels rush in where banks fear to tread

20 Jan 2010
Touch Bionics announces loan from Archangels. Funding of £800K to support accelerated expansion in response to successful launch of ProDigits bionic fingers

Bolton Council Selects Bloxx Media Filter - 1st in the country

14 Jan 2010
Bloxx, the innovator in Web content filtering, today announced that Bolton Council will be the first Local Education Authority in the UK to deploy the recently launched Bloxx Media Filter.

Lab901 delivers next-generation system to Oxford Gene Technology

10 Jan 2010
ScreenTape R6K is a next-generation platform for RNA QC that automatically delivers the ScreenTape Degradation Value (SDV), an objective quality metric for total RNA samples.

OPTOS WELCOMES NEW CHAIRMAN

14 Dec 2009
Medical device & biotechnology expert, Dr. Peter Fellner, becomes Chairman of Optos from 1 January 2010

Touch Bionics unveils world's first bionic finger

08 Dec 2009
ProDigits is the first ever motor-powered system for patients with missing fingers