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Investing Women Angels

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Investing Women Angels is Scotland's first all-female business angel group, established to address funding imbalances for female-led enterprises. The network has invested over £2.5m across twenty-eight companies to date.

Portfolio

3

companies

By category

  • AI/ML£370K
  • HealthTech£290K
  • MusicTech£195K

By location

  • United Kingdom£485K
  • Scotland£370K

Portfolio companies

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My SMASH Media

My SMASH Media connects content creators with industry buyers through an artificial intelligence platform.

Petscribers

Petscribers

Petscribers runs a price comparison platform for pet medication.

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Terrible

Terrible develops a merchandise technology platform for musical artists and creative industries.


Team

JW

Jackie Waring

Founder

Rhona Campbell

Rhona Campbell

Chair

Rhona brings investment and product management experience, having previously chaired Investing Women Angels and held product roles at Idox and iBAHN. She currently serves as a director at RCA.

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Pamela Barclay

Investor Director


Recent investments

Pre-Seed
£290K

Investing Women Angels backed the pre-seed round to support product development and market entry.

"At Petscribers, everything we do is rooted in our experience as practising vets. We’re building the tools and support we wish we’d had in practice, to make pet healthcare clearer, simpler, and more affordable For us, investment has never just been about money. We’ve been intentional about finding investors who share our purpose, believe in our vision, and genuinely care about improving access to veterinary care. We’re proud to have an incredible group of individuals behind us. People who understand the change we’re working towards and are with us every step of the way."
— Angela Jones, Co-founder
Seed
£370K

Equity Gap led the seed round alongside Scottish Enterprise and Innovate UK to fund artificial intelligence development.

"We would like to acknowledge the support of Investing Women Angels, which has not only been a key early investor, but has also supported and mentored us through its AccelerateHER programme"
— Fiona Gillies, Co-founder
£195K
"IWA is immensely proud to be leading this investment to support Terrible*, an innovative and inspiring merchandise technology business bringing a fresh and unique approach to its market. I am also very excited to be joining the board and supporting the business through this growth phase as its Investment Director."
— Pamela Barclay, Investor Director