Robin Beattie from Akaina Talent wraps up the ‘Standing out to Top Talent’ series by exploring passive candidates, how AI really fits into hiring, and the new questions investors are asking that often catch founders off guard.

Please join us in welcoming Lara Mott to the AA community as Entrepreneur in Residence…

Join us online to hear highlights & progress from Fund 1 and find out more about Fund 2…

We’re excited to be running the Founders and Funders Programme again this summer for 16–18 year olds interested in entrepreneurship and early-stage investing.

BBB has committed £1m to invest alongside our angels and EIS Fund. Read more…

Angel Academe, Thena Capital & others participate. Read more…

Khyati Sundaram is a two-time founder and exited CEO with a decade of operating experience in enterprise SaaS. Read more…

Our MD Yee Mun speaks to the Entrepreneurship Bites podcast about her founder to funder journey

Akaina Talent has a brand new website!

Just in time for the end of the 2025-26 Financial Year, we completed deployment of our first EIS Fund.

Béa Fertility offers clinical-grade at-home ICI kits that achieve a 39% pregnancy rate at a fraction of the cost of IVF.

A new partnership with farmers and growers will advance PheroSyn’s innovative pollination strategies in UK strawberry production.

The latest episode of the Angel Insights podcast is with Jessi Baker MBE, founder of portfolio company Provenance.

Robin Beattie of Akaina Talent has a great permanent job opportunity for a CPTO/CPO/CTO .

Robin Beattie gives advice on how to share your message through smart employer and personal brand building without a big budget.

Our latest investment by our angels as well as our EIS Fund is in LabCycle - pioneers of the circular economy for contaminated lab plastics.

We’re delighted to announce that the first investment from our EIS Fund (the UK’s first for female founders) is into DataWollet based in Cardiff.

The first of a two-part post from Akaina Talent’s Robin Beattie on “How Seed to Series C companies craft the content that attracts exceptional talent.”

Join us from 6pm on 23 October to learn more and secure your place in the fund…

The nomination recognises the launch of our EIS fund, the first in the UK to invest exclusively in female founders.