Cambridge Angels
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| Industry | Angel Investing, Private equity |
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| Founder | Robert Sansom[1][2] |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Key people | Simon Thorpe (Chairman) |
| Website | cambridgeangels |
Cambridge Angels is a leading UK business angel network providing smart capital from entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs.
They are a collaborative Cambridge-based group, actively mentoring and investing in innovative teams and their ideas. Cambridge Angels equip generations of entrepreneurs to generate returns and help realise their full potential. They have a strong ethos of backing merit and supporting entrepreneurship.
Their members, most of whom are successful entrepreneurs, invest in a wide range of start-up and scale-up businesses with a particular focus on deep-tech, and tools and technologies supporting healthcare.
The group was founded[3] in 2001 by Robert Sansom with David Cleevely.[4][5][6]
Investee companies
A list of their portfolio companies can be found here: https://cambridgeangels.com/portfolio [7]
Members and previous Chairs
The current chair of Cambridge Angels is Pam Garside. Previous Chairs include Robert Sansom,[8] David Cleevely, John Yeomans,[9] Peter Cowley[10][better source needed] and Simon Thorpe.
Cambridge Angels is a group of more than 60 high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in Cambridge, London, Oxford and throughout the UK.
Typical funding requirements that Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £150k to £1.5m - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have raised significant follow-on funding from their Members and their venture capital partners over several funding rounds.
Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.
See also
References
- ^ "Cambridge angels invest £1.3m in solution to mobile phone traffic jams". cambridge-news.co.uk.
- ^ "Robert Sansom: Camfed International Board - Member". Camfed.org.
- ^ "Bloomberg: Company Overview of The Cambridge Angels". Bloomberg.com.
- ^ "Cambridge Science Centre: Dr. David Cleevely CBE, FRENG, FIET". www.cambridgesciencecentre.org. Archived from the original on 2016-06-05. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ^ "Institute for Policy Research Advisory Board: David Cleevely". www.bath.ac.uk.
- ^ "Cambridge Ahead: Dr David Cleevely CBE".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Current Portfolio".
- ^ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a376ea66-7b0c-11d9-a8c9-00000e2511c8.html?ft_site=falcon&desktop=true#axzz4lEq2vKlc[permanent dead link]
- ^ "John Yeomans - Chairman of Cambridge Angels". fig.vc.
- ^ "Peter Cowley profile".