May 2010
Guest Speaker
AngelNews
Raising Early Stage Finance
AngelNews is the leading European news service for the investment market, especially for business angels, investors and the companies they back. We report news through our website on over 1,800 fast growing businesses, and every day we break exciting news about the great companies of tomorrow.
As well as reporting news on fast growing businesses, we help companies looking for funding to advertise their investment opportunities to our network of investors, business angels and venture capitalists.
Modwenna Rees-Mogg founded AngelNews as a hobby in 2003 after realising that the lack of available information about companies following a funding round meant that investors were left in the dark about how their investments were doing. This also meant that the investors who decided not to invest often could not find out about the ones they missed and therefore could not learn how good their judgement really was! AngelNews helps to solve this problem!
In the UK alone, the TOU (Total Energy Use) in 2008 was 155 MTOE (Mega Tonnes Oil Equivalent). ULTRaMo can target 43% of the TOU, and save 33.5 MTOE per year in the UK alone. Early applications for the ULTRaMo engine include:
- remote power generators used for leisure, construction, industrial and military applications. ULTRaMo also offers a cool, quiet exhaust, a key design point in many power generation applications.
- Range-Extended Electric Vehicles (REEV), plug-in hybrid vehicles with a small internal combustion engine connected to a generator to resupply the batteries. ULTRaMo also offers a weight advantage, a key design point in REEV development.
A strong IP portfolio is being developed by ULTRaMo of patents and publications. ULTRaMo has already attracted interest and endorsement from several respected experts in world renowned companies and institutions including Ricardo UK Ltd.
PlanCentric is an exciting new software product, created using the latest Microsoft Silverlight technology. It provides an innovative way of managing collaborative projects and services, for clients that struggle to control resources, time, budgets and costs.
With pioneering processes, elegant design and unprecedented usability, PlanCentric is the first interactive software to combine these needs and solve the number one issue that clients face with managing resources. This provides immediate benefit through greater visibility, reduced costs and improved profitability.
PlanCentric is already being used by paying clients, and we have a programme of market trials underway. It can be used in any browser on both PCs and Macs, and is ready to be launched via the Software-as-a-Service and On-Premise models into an exciting market. Microsoft is a key partner, and we are undertaking joint marketing activities with them, including a video appearing on their Chanel 9 technology forum.
While continuing to target the education sector, Future Foundation has now developed relationships with the charities and central government with clients including NESTA and Department for Children, Schools and Families. Future Foundations is an educational training organisation focused on the personal development of young people through one to five day immersion programmes. The focus of their workshops is on: encouraging personal responsibility, promoting leadership and enterprise skills, raising aspirations and academic stretch.
"We had a jump of over 16% in our exam results a significant proportion of that is down to the work done with Future Foundations" Quote from Head of Sixth Form.