Angel Academe

London, United KingdomFounded 2014

AI Healthcare Climate & Energy Consumer Cybersecurity Education Enterprise Software Fintech Marketing & Advertising SaaS

Angel Academe is the UK's longest-established and most active female-focused angel investor network, founded in 2014 by Sarah Turner and Simon Hopkins. It invests in early-stage, female-founded technology startups across sectors including fintech, healthcare, climate, AI, and cybersecurity, and also operates the UK's first EIS fund dedicated to female founders.

Their most common stage is seed (80% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $1.9M (across 4 rounds with reported amounts).

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Portfolio

Fund Size

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Top Stage

Seed

Last 12 Mo

Team

Yee Mun Thum

Managing Director (part-time)

Lara Mott

Lara is a senior leader, founder and adviser with over 20 years' experience in healthcare, technology, life sciences, PE and venture-backed businesses. The company she co-founded and led, ImproveWell, was an award-winning SaaS platform, adopted by 1000s of teams in over 80 NHS organistions, expanded internationally and was acquired by Silicon Practice in 2025. Read more about Lara here.

Sarah Turner

Co-founder & CEO

Simon Hopkins

Co-founder & COO

Khyati Sundaram

Khyati is a two-time founder and exited CEO with a decade of operating experience in enterprise SaaS. Her most recent company, Applied, was a data science-backed hiring platform built on structured models and predictive analytics. From 0->1 to acquisition by Phenom in 2026, Applied scaled to 500+ customers across the UK and US and reached profitability. You can read more about Khyati here.