The Angel Investment Network will join the judging panel when the Female Founders Pitch Competition returns at SCALE Manchester on 25 November, extending a partnership that began in London. The Angel ...

Your equity is the most valuable thing you own, yet founders often give it away more casually than almost any other asset in the business. Drawing on advice from experienced investors, we look at how ...

We sat down with a series of different investors over the past few months. A former private equity operator turned specialist VC. A serial founder who built and sold his way into the boardroom. A SaaS ...

In our latest Meet The Investor interview, we speak to Deborah Young, a non-executive director, advisor and angel investor with more than 20 years in SaaS and enterprise software. Deborah led Sword ...

In our latest Behind The Raise interview, we speak to Baris Ozaydinli, founder of Scooch, a proactive dog-health platform combining human-grade functional supplements with Rio AI, its ...

The Tech Nation Report 2026, launched at London Tech Week, reveals the UK AI boom is real, accelerating, and is the key driver of early stage investment activity. But peer through the forest of data ...

Legal teams today are under increasing pressure to move faster, reduce risk, and support business growth without slowing deals down. This is especially true when it comes to startup legals, where ...

After 14 years as a midwife, Nina van Schaick watched hundreds of women suffer preventable birth injuries and decided to build the solution herself. Her company Peripear has developed a hands-free ...

Two standout founders have been crowned winners of the two pitch competitions that AIN judged at SCALE EXPO & SUMMIT 2026. The event was held at London’s Business Design Centre on 22–23 April. Nina ...

We sat down with Piers Linney, entrepreneur, investor, former Dragons’ Den dragon, and co-founder of Implement AI – a platform deploying coordinated teams of AI workers across sales, support, ...

Most startups are told that growth means hiring. But as teams expand, speed slows, costs climb and the marketing engine becomes harder – not easier – to run. In this article, Simon Spyer, founder of ...

Angel Investment Network (AIN) is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with SCALE EXPO & SUMMIT 2026, the UK’s flagship event for high-growth scaleups and investors. With a prominent role at ...