Wed, 12 Jun
|Investment Zone
UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA): How Angel and VC investment works
Explore how early-stage investment works for founders.
Time & Location
12 Jun 2024, 13:00 – 14:00
Investment Zone
About the event
This interactive session presented by Roderick Beer of UK Business Angels Association, will explore how early-stage investment works for founders. Covering angels, investment funds and the broader investment ecosystem, we will dive into the in's and outs of seed stage equity so that you can decide if it's right for your business.
Speaker information
Roderick’s career spans over 20 years of managing, founding and growing angel groups and investment platforms, collectively deploying over £100m of equity investment in more than 500 startup and scaleup businesses. He started at Beer & Partners, the first and largest angel group in the UK which later sold to Risk Capital Partners.
He is now the Managing Director of the UK Business Angels Association, the trade body for angel and early-stage investing, representing 220 organisations including Angel Groups, Investment Funds and Family Offices that collectively deploy over £2bn p.a. in innovative, high-growth businesses.