Joshua Wohle is a EdTech/Learning enthusiast, advisor, investor. He was previously CPTO & co-Founder of SuperAwesome, the largest kidtech company in the world and is currently CEO and co-founder of Mindstone.

Joshua is also a Venture Partner and LP of Emerge Education, an education sector focused European seed fund. Here he shares his experiences of being an angel investor.

The Bank of England has put interest rates up from 1.25% to 1.75%, the biggest increase in rates for years. 

In this final part of our series, we asked our five investors about the most important lessons they have learnt along their crowdfunding journey, what they see happening in the future and what advice they would pass on to others thinking about starting out on their own adventures in the world of equity crowdfunding.

The latest figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) show that inheritance tax receipts received by HMRC increased by £300 million to £1.8bn in the three months period of April 2022 to June 2022.  This is an increase from the same period in the previous year, and continues the upwards trend over the last ten years.

The tech sector was not what it is today when most angel investors graduated from university. This is why, in the UK especially, the majority of angel investors have backgrounds in traditional industries like finance, law or real estate.

More and more people are turning their hand to crowdfunding these days.  Some do it for fun, some see it as an important part of their overall investment portfolio and others see it as a good way to access earlier stage, potentially high growth investments, by investing through platforms who provide access to a range of diversified opportunities with high potential for scale.

These opportunities were once only available to Venture Capitalists and High Net Worth Investors, but now are open to all with minimum investments as low as £10.

We talked to 5 serial crowdfunding investors to find out more about their different investment strategies, their experiences in the world of crowdfunding, their successes (and disappointments!) and their views on what comes next for the sector.

Oliver Woolley of Envestors makes the case for becoming an angel investor and why now is a good time to jump into the pool.

Data suggests Brits are resigning at the highest rate since 2009; it’s been dubbed ‘The Great Resignation’

SFC Capital is calling for urgent action to reinvigorate seed-stage investment and help secure the next generation of innovative businesses emerging across the UK, with SEIS at risk of becoming redundant as a funding mechanism due to startups’ growing funding needs and the impact of inflation.

Fearless Adventures invests in D2C (direct to consumer) startups, and its co-founder is David Newns. David sold two companies he founded for more than £150m, and is passionate about supporting new founders with the proceeds of those sales through his angel investments. 

Gannon's Catherine Ramsay asks "what are the key issues and pitfalls encountered where a company is reorganising and it has subsisting enterprise management incentive (EMI) options?"

Modwenna Rees-Mogg considers how inflation is going to affect the angel (and VC) investment market.

It's Easter, and James Murdoch wonders if perhaps it's time for investors to think of being kinder to failed entrepreneurs.