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Welcome to edition #28 of The AIS Angel Insider, your weekly scoop of inspiration, insights and insider knowledge on all things Angel Investing and Startups.

On this weeks AIS Angel Insider:

📰 Inside Scoop: Are demo days dead? From Unicorn to Unicorpse a growing trend

🚀 For the Founders: Female Founder - Grow F - SaaS Cohort 2024

🤓 Read of the week: How do angel investors support founders after they have raised

🧠 Lessons on Angel Investing: The SEIS/EIS Tax Relief Scheme

🔎 What’s happening at AIS: Free angel investing resources just for you

🗓 Dates for your Calendar: Our FIRST event of the year?! + more

🤑 Discounts Freebies & Rewards: Read till the end

📰 INSIDE SCOOP

Are Demo Days Dead and do they really help founders raise funding? In reality, too many Demo Days struggle with attracting investors and, instead, it becomes founders on stage pitching to founders and corporates in the audience…Read More

Last weeks biggest funding round: Generate Capital Goes Big Again, Kore.ai Nabs $150M…Read More

From Unicorns to Unicorpse: Why billion-dollar startups and even VC firms keep imploding…Read More

The end of 0% interest rates: What it means for tech startups and the industry…Read More

🚀 FOR THE FOUNDERS: Female Founder - Grow F - SaaS Cohort 2024

Have a gender-diverse SaaS startup? Ready to fundraise? 💰

Female Founders offers a 5-week investment readiness program for female-led ventures and mixed teams. Get unfiltered expert sessions & workshops, a personalized fundraising journey, and join their thriving network. Plus, there will be an exclusive in-person networking event in Vienna as a part of #LTST24.

Applications for this equity-free program are open until February 23rd. Don't miss out on this opportunity and get the support you need to succeed in the competitive world of VC funding. Apply here.

🤓 READ OF THE WEEK

How do angel investors support founders after they have raised?

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🧠 Lesson On Angel Investing: The SEIS/EIS Tax Relief Scheme

 🔎 WHAT’S HAPPENING AT AIS 

We’ve put together a collection of written and video resources to help you get started with your angel investing journey, if you have any further questions feel free to reply to this newsletter or contact us as [email protected]

Download your free copy of our Angel Investing Basics E-book

Watch our free angel investing webinar

🗓 DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR

How to Start Series A Funding - Angel Investing School x Dream Factory:​ Join us in collaboration with Dream Factory for an evening dedicated to understanding how to raise Series A funding for your startup. This will be a safe and intimate setting where you can ask unfiltered questions and socialise with likeminded founders on the same journey as you. Spots are very limited.…February 15th 6:30pm Register Here

Morgan Stanley Venture Lab Showcase and Demo Day: Morgan Stanley invites you to join them at their Inclusive Ventures Lab Showcase and Demo Day for the 2023 Global Cohort, hosted by Morgan Stanley. This event will be an opportunity to meet the innovative startups that represent a range of disruptive technologies in industries including healthcare, sustainable solutions, artificial intelligence, customer service, supply chain, recruiting and consumer products. This cohort of startups founded by underrepresented entrepreneurs is the largest and most geographically diverse to participate in the Lab in New York and London…February 7th 2pm - 7pm Register Here

Angel Academe View from the mid market - Tech & Media Landscape: Join Angel Academe for their latest webinar with their partners at DC Advisory, Rich Darlington, MD for Tech & Media. It will be a "fireside chat" with Lydia Gregory from FeedForward and Amy Williams from Good-Loop, talking about the journey from startup to scale up and exit via angel, VC and later stage investment.…February 13th 5pm Register Here

🤑 DISCOUNTS, FREEBIES & REWARDS 

Free Syndicate memberships in 2024 for one year!

Here is a list of 3 syndicates membership deals we currently have offers for, join and get one years membership for free

1) UKBAA

Fill out this form https://form.jotform.com/201603444058953 and use code: AngelSchool

2) Green Angel Syndicate

Email [email protected] and mention you are part of the AIS community

3) Hermesa

Email [email protected] and mention you are part of the AIS community