‘North has huge capacity for growth in numbers of angel investors’
Ms Oldham also said the number of female investors remains very low and this needed to change.
She told the audience: “Think of somebody you know who could become an angel investor. They are key to growing small businesses.”
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Ms Oldham said that, while collaboration was often talked about, it was not always happening, because people have got a “slightly different set of imperatives”.
She added: “Stats from the British Business Bank say that only five per cent of angels had invested in a business in Yorkshire. So the angel investment sector is very under developed at the moment and can create a huge increase in the pipeline in terms of funding for those very early stage businesses.”