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Archangel ploughs 50 per cent extra into novice firms
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ARCHANGEL Informal Investment, the leading Edinburgh-based private
equity network, ploughed GBP 8.6 million into early-stage companies
last year, a rise of almost 50 per cent on 2003.
The syndicate, which typically invests up to GBP 500,000 in early-
stage Scottish firms with cash raised from a pool of business
veterans, said investment in seven new companies accounted for GBP
3.9m of 2004's total - compared with the GBP 1.6m sunk into five new
firms the year before.
Meanwhile, additional investment in 12 existing companies from the
Archangel portfolio amounted to GBP 4.7m, against GBP 4.2m ...
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