Linc Scotland

LINC Scotland, the national angel capital association, has launched a new operating brand, Angel Capital Scotland. Angel Capital Scotland will continue LINC Scotland’s role of supporting collaboration across the angel investment sector, including member syndicates, individual investors and ind

In 2022, business angel groups which are members of LINC Scotland, the national business angel association, invested over £50 million in young companies in Scotland.

In 2021, deals led by angel syndicate members of LINC Scotland secured in total £146 million funding for young companies with high growth potential, almost double the amount raised in 2020, and 70% higher than the record set in 2019. Before the pandemic struck, 2019 had been a high point in th

New figures from LINC Scotland, the national angel capital association, indicate that investment levels from Scotland’s business angel community into promising young companies are in line for a record year in 2021. The association’s research found that Scotland-based angel investors led

Scottish business angels are now investing almost as much as they were at the end of 2019, bucking the UK-wide trend, according to new figures from LINC Scotland. Angels invested £9.7 million in the first quarter of 2021, the second highest on record after a peak of £10.9 million in the

In the final quarter of 2020, angel syndicate members of LINC Scotland, the national business angel association, invested more than double the amount posted in quarter three. This brought total investment by the syndicates for the year to £25.0 million, just a little short of the £26.9 m

In the second quarter of 2020, angel syndicate members of LINC Scotland maintained the high level of equity investment activity seen in the first quarter, bucking the trend of a decline of investment in companies generally during the coronavirus pandemic. Taking these first two quarters of

Business angel syndicates in Scotland participated in deals which invested over £100 million in young entrepreneurial companies in the financial year to end March 2020.

The process for investing in Scottish companies is to be streamlined thanks to a partnership between LINC Scotland, the national association for business angels, and Burness Paull LLP. LINC Scotland supports the business angel market, making targeted introductions to well-matched business angels and