Developing Time Series Data on the Size and Scope of the UK Business Angel Market

This Report was commissioned to identify the importance of business angel investment in the UK, summarise previous approaches to mapping the scale and scope of the business angel market, identify new approaches to measuring business angel activity and assess the implications for policy.A business angel is defined as an individual acting alone or in a formal or informal syndicate who invests their own money directly in an unquoted business in which there is no family connection, and who, after making the investment, takes an active involvement in the business (as an advisor or board member, for example) directly or via a co-investor...