How do you find an angel investor that is right for your business?

Finding the finance you need for your enterprise can be like learning to play chess for the first time - you have to know the moves before you understand how to win. When you know how the game is played, securing investment is quicker and far cheaper.

As with chess, the funding game can be learned

Where do you find business angels? How do you choose a good one? How do you make sure potential investors take note of your business plan?  How do you retain a majority stake? What is the best approach? What are the common errors?

Find out at this exclusive workshop

To hear the answer to these questions and more, you are invited to an exclusive two-hour seminar in partnership with The British Library and sponsored by HSBC, Wingrave Yeats and British Angel Capital Ltd.  We’ll explore the ways you can save time and money in your search for business angel funding and avoid the common pitfalls.

Why should you attend?

You will learn:

• What is the right type of investor for your particular business
• When your business is "investor ready"
• Why full business plans are not important as you think
• How to obtain funding and give away as little equity as possible
• How to get your deal seen by investors
• How much equity you can expect to give an investor
• A DIY approach to finding a business angel
• What angel investors are really looking for
• How to find and approach angel investors
• How to create an executive summary that gets noticed
• Six tools you must have when looking for investors
• The two approaches to raising angel capital

Expert speakers

Paul Grant founder of The Funding Game

Paul knows what it’s like to be on both sides of the funding fence. As an entrepreneur he raised funds for his own business, securing capital from business angels, bankers, family and friends, and even a government grant.

After seven years of trading he exited his business in 2003 and was invited to join a private equity company, Capital Partners, eventually heading up the business angel division. Here he had access to nearly 5,000 angel investors and reviewed more than 1,000 business plans every year.

During this time Paul learnt a lot about why so many businesses fail to secure the funding they need in the start-up and growth phases. Paul has met with many investors, bankers, and venture capitalists over the years and in the course of his work has uncovered what they are really looking for.

More importantly, Paul has developed an approach to raising capital that works. He is keen to share with you what he has learnt as an entrepreneur and as an industry insider.

Paul is currently an associate director of BA Capital and Bergstrom Capital and is a regular speaker at events on the subject of raising capital.

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