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Cambridge Angels
IndustryAngel Investing, Private equity
FounderRobert Sansom[1][2]
HeadquartersCambridge, United Kingdom
Key people
Simon Thorpe (Chairman)
Websitecambridgeangels.com

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

  1. ^ "Cambridge angels invest £1.3m in solution to mobile phone traffic jams". cambridge-news.co.uk.
  2. ^ "Robert Sansom: Camfed International Board - Member". Camfed.org.
  3. ^ "Bloomberg: Company Overview of The Cambridge Angels". Bloomberg.com.
  4. ^ "Cambridge Science Centre: Dr. David Cleevely CBE, FRENG, FIET". www.cambridgesciencecentre.org. Archived from the original on 2016-06-05. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  5. ^ "Institute for Policy Research Advisory Board: David Cleevely". www.bath.ac.uk.
  6. ^ "Cambridge Ahead: Dr David Cleevely CBE".[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Current Portfolio".
  8. ^ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a376ea66-7b0c-11d9-a8c9-00000e2511c8.html?ft_site=falcon&desktop=true#axzz4lEq2vKlc[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ "John Yeomans - Chairman of Cambridge Angels". fig.vc.
  10. ^ "Peter Cowley profile".