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Glasgow angel syndicate announces new ownership Member ownership marks the syndicate s move out from underneath its university incubator Updated Sign up to FREE email alerts from businessInsider - Subscribe We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time.More info Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice A Glasgow-based business angel syndicate has announced its transfer from university ownership to being led and owned by its members. Gabriel Investments, set up in 2012, has been supported by the University of Strathclyde via its SUI incubator. It specialises in funding very early stage, high risk business ventures with promising commercial potential. ....
Gill MacAulay and Lynne Ross of Gabriel Investments. Picture: Martin Shields By Kristy Dorsey Glasgow’s Gabriel Investments is transferring out of university ownership as it prepares to expand its network further across Scotland. The business angel syndicate will now be owned and led by its members, having previously been supported by the University of Strathclyde’s incubator unit since it was first set up in 2012. Since its inception, about 60 per cent of the businesses in which its angels have invested have had a link to the university. While Gabriel will continue to have a “strong relationship” with the university, the move is designed to open up more investment opportunities across further organisations in Scotland. ....
It was an idea which stemmed from the cancellation of flights at London s Gatwick Airport following reports of drone sightings close to the runway in 2018. The airport was closed for 30 hours, disrupting 1,000 flights and more than 140,000 passengers. One affected passenger began to give the whole episode some thought. Three years later that same passenger, a Glasgow university graduate, has developed a counter-drone project and set up his own business to take this further. Read more: And it has caught the attention of major investors. Joe Gibson pitched his project to Gabriel Investments, a Scottish business angel syndicate, and even had the counter-drone model sitting on an iron board when he held Zoom meetings with the them. ....
A YOUNG Glasgow-based “counter-drone” company has won more than £200,000 of funding from a business angel syndicate that specialises in backing high-risk ventures. Gabriel Investments is hoping to reach for the skies with the “promising potential” of Gibson Robotics, which was established last year and develops drones to protect airspace from an aerial threat. Its high-speed drones physically capture other drones in a net after being launched by a catapult. It is monitored by a human operator. Founded by Joe Gibson, 23, an electronic and electrical engineering graduate from the University of Strathclyde, the company will receive a total £217,000. The funding is led by Gabriel Investment Syndicate, and includes support from Scottish Enterprise, Strathclyde Inspire: Entrepreneurs Fund (SEIF), the University of Strathclyde’s dedicated early-stage investment fund, and two private investors. ....