{"id":7857,"date":"2025-12-29T21:51:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7857"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:51:32","slug":"archangels-sees-investment-surge-in-scale-ups-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7857","title":{"rendered":"Archangels sees investment surge in scale-ups \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Archangels-team.png\" alt=\"Archangels team\" class=\"wp-image-187882 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Archangels-team.png\" alt=\"Archangels team\" class=\"wp-image-187882 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Archangels-team.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Archangels-team-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Archangels-team-768x541.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Archangels-team-600x422.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Archangels team: ready to invest<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Angels syndicate Archangels leveraged a 50% increase in investment in Scotland\u2019s early-stage tech and life sciences companies over the past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The \u00a341.1 million total  for 2025 (2024: \u00a327.3m) included \u00a312.8m invested directly by Archangels\u2019 members alongside \u00a328.4m secured from partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The syndicate recently saw another exit, via the acquisition of Edinburgh-based wearable technology company Reactec by Ideagen. In the last four years alone, Archangels has returned \u00a340m to its members through successful exits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The year has seen Archangels support several high-growth Scottish technology and life sciences companies through significant funding rounds in sectors such as underwater communications, deep tech and dental imaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Co-investors included Investment Fund for Scotland (managed by Maven Capital), Scottish National Investment Bank, Old College Capital, Scottish Enterprise, Par Equity, Mercia and various Scottish angel syndicates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The activity comes amid broader resilience in Scotland\u2019s angel investment market despite challenging macro-economic conditions. Recent data from Angel Capital Scotland shows that while the number of angel investments fell slightly to 91 from 94 in 2023-24, the total value of private capital committed increased from \u00a3100.6m to \u00a3106.4m, reflecting an increasing average deal size.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">David Ovens, joint managing director at Archangels,\u00a0said: \u201cThe level of activity we have seen from our members and partners in 2025 reflects the strength of Scotland\u2019s scale-up ecosystem and the quality of Archangels\u2019 portfolio. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe growth ambition demonstrated by Scotland\u2019s scale-ups continues to impress, and the near \u00a330m of co-investment we\u2019ve been able to leverage alongside our investments demonstrates the appeal of these companies among the wider investor community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cOur exit this year from Reactec is a great example of how patient angel capital can deliver strong returns for our investors over longer investment cycles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe early-stage deal market in 2026 looks set to remain challenging but we\u2019re confident that we\u2019ll continue to see a healthy pipeline of innovative scale-ups hungry for funding to fuel their ambitions. Archangels will be ready invest in the very best of those young tech and life science companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Archangels #sees #investment #surge #scaleups #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archangels team: ready to inve&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[6454,266,265,6455,22,6456,564,2284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}