Women Backing Women

The UK Business Angels Association and Beauhurst have joined together to explore the vital role women angel investors have in the UK. In a newly launched report, it is highlighted that more than 5,000 women are making angel investments in every nation and region in the country, helping to create over 10,000 jobs in the past decade.

The Women Angel Angel Insights: The impact of female angels on the UK economy report is a vital piece of research that demonstrates the huge contribution that female angel investors are making across the UK to building successful entrepreneurs in our economy.

On 22nd February, 2023, the latest finds from the Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship launched. The findings demonstrate significant progress and illuminate the many important initiatives that will continue across the early-stage investments space.  

Women founded more than 150,000 new companies last year despite a more challenging economic environment. The resilience of female entrepreneurs is underlined by data which shows that female founders started more firms in 2022 than ever before. The figures are published today in the Rose Review Progress Report 2023, which sets fresh goals to provide record levels of support for female entrepreneurs and drive up the numbers of female angel investors.

The Report illustrates the advances made since the Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship was launched in 2019. More than twice as many companies led by women were created last year as in 2018.

However, the report sets out the importance of increasing the support available for female founders in the face of economic headwinds.

Since the launch of the Women Backing Women campaign, there has been a flurry of activity across the UK. From workshops and educational sessions to networking and more, women across the regions have been spotlighting this incredible asset class. Many further events are planned for the coming months – stay tuned!

Female angel investors have helped drive more than £2bn of investment in companies across the UK in the past decade. We are spotlighting some of the UK’s leading women angels who are making waves in early-stage investment.

From industry-leading reports to helpful guides and studies, we have drawn together a host of host of resources to underpin the importance of increasing the number women angels in the UK

The Women Backing Women campaign collaborates with angel investor groups and key ecosystem players working on the ground across the UK, including in Wales, Scotland and the North. The campaign is connecting and celebrating women angels across the UK.

If you would like to be part of this movement, get in touch. From hosting a networking or education event to how you can join an angel group, launch your own syndicate, or help spread the word on this important initiative – let’s work together. 

Share your details below and how you would like to get involved and we’ll be in touch.