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An investor's yes rests on seven tests, from the founders to the route to an exit, and the Angel Investing & Venture Capital Bootcamp teaches the method at The Shard on 6 November 2026:
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One day at The Shard, London, on valuation, cap tables, due diligence and term sheets: the Angel Investing & Venture Capital Bootcamp, Friday 6 November 2026. Tickets: angelsden.com/academy
In 2025, 27 UK angel groups put £53m into 321 deals inside £348m of rounds, 15% of the value, and in UKBAA's words anchored the other 85%.
HM Treasury's call for evidence on tax support for entrepreneurs asks 14 substantive questions ahead of the 28 October Budget: seven mention scaling, none mentions SEIS, angels, seed or a first round.
Four or five real opportunities. No names attached.
Every investor in the room votes. Then the floor opens.
Investor Town Hall, Wednesday 26 August, London.
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Every startup has a cafe nowadays.
So we got ourselves a bar.
Anyone #londonmaxxing tomorrow come on down!
WE HAVE AIRCON!!
Anna Colombatti, CAIA, joins the Investor Town Hall panel, 26 August.
Investment COO and Head of the UK Investment Team at a large institutional asset manager, in a personal capacity. Co-Founder, Diversity X Ventures.
In Partnership with TLT, 20 Gresham Street, London
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Alexander Fink joins the Investor Town Hall panel, 26 August.
Principal at the Fink Family Office, Partner and IC Member with Empirical Ventures. He backs science-led and deep tech businesses.
In Partnership with TLT, 20 Gresham Street, London
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Six taught sessions, one judged decision, and a panel that gives its verdict in the room.
Learn more → angelsden.com/academy
Looking for 40 founders who want to get some serious work done.
Starting next week, we’re opening up a space 2–3 days a week for founders to come and deep work alongside us in London.
Just good people building ambitious companies, in the same room, getting shit done.
We’ll provide the space, WiFi, coffee and a few smart people around you.
40 spots.
Interested? Reply “IN” and we’ll send you the details.
The median self-reported AI speed-up is 3x. The one time METR measured, tasks took 19% longer, and it has since marked that result out of date.
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Session 1 of the Founder Fundraising Readiness Programme, done. Warwick Business School, The Shard.
Thanks to Dan Pandeni Idhenga (LVCN), Ashmi Bhagani (Wilson Sonsini) and Christian Rasmussen (Flint Growth Partners) for the insight- and to every founder who showed up ready to work.
More sessions to come.
UK early-stage had a serious few weeks:
FinTech → Primer $100M Series C. Balderton, Accel, Tencent all doubled down.
Deep Tech → Scope €17.3M Series A. Founded 2024. Index Ventures. Ex-DeepMind angels.
BioTech → Imperagen £5M seed. Manchester. Real science, serious backing.
CleanTech → Europe just beat North
America on climate tech VC for the first time. $6.6bn in Q1.
Defence → Institutional now. DTCP raised €300M for a dedicated defence fund.
AI → Anthropic filed for IPO at $965bn. Revenue run rate: $47bn. Up from $9bn six months ago.
62% of UK deals are still seed or pre-seed.
The angels writing first cheques right now are ahead of the market.
#UKStartups #EarlyStage #AngelInvesting #VentureCapital
Frontier-grade coding models are becoming cheap and downloadable. GLM-5.2 ships open-weight, near the closed frontier on selected coding evaluations, at a fraction of the price.
For founders, the model stops being the moat. What holds is what no one can download.
European pre-seed deals this week aren't speculative. They're targeted bets on provable problems.
$5.5M → AI real estate development (France)
€871.7K → AI ops for creative agencies (London)
€5M → satellite climate monitoring (Switzerland)
€1M → fintech infrastructure (Prague)
European VC stabilised at €58B after the 2021 correction. Valuations are 30-40% below peak.
Harder market. More honest one.
~60% of pre-seed-backed startups go on to raise Series A.
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Angels Den x TLT
A new partnership supporting founders and investors with stronger structure, diligence and legal infrastructure.
Better prepared founders.
More confident investors.
Cleaner execution.
Building the next standard for early-stage investment.
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1/ Three years ago, the $1–2.5m round was the recognisable middle of pre-seed. It's becoming a smaller part of the market.
5/ The band thinning out did the practical work: enough to reach first traction, early enough to be backed on conviction, not consensus. It hasn't disappeared. It just leans more on people willing to make an early call.
6/ Angels Den has helped founders and angel investors meet around that cheque since 2007.
Discover more at:
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