Gareth Hawkins | FounderTech Investor Currently Launching @ AngelSyndicate.uk | Why Coordinating Liquidity In The Angel Community Is Now Key To Its Ongoing Evolution

In this episode of the FounderTech Decoded podcast it was really good to talk to Gareth Hawkins, who is Investment Director at the Block Dojo London incubator and Partner at Henley Business Angels.   

Gareth has also invested in a portfolio of 30 startups - several of which are key FounderTech platforms such as Connectd.co and Pitch.Space - which we’ve previously been lucky enough to talk to and feature previously in this podcast.

Given Gareth’s insight into the space, this discussion is a insider tour through the state of play in the contemporary angel landscape as it stands today and where it could potentially arrive in its next iteration. With FounderTech now playing a potentially key role in driving and evolving that new horizon. 

This is being accompanied by a rise of an emerging generation of investors, who increasingly see angel investing as a new asset class and are demanding new models and platforms that help them access and manage the agility and liquidity of that asset. 

We talk about how lack of innovation in the systemic structure in the ecosystem is itself possibly a key driver of market failure and contributes to hindering unlocking its untapped ‘idling’ founder potential. This includes angels still primarily acting in silos rather than in groups that are fluently aligned and coordinated around their ongoing portfolio preference and a curated funnel focus.

To address this, we discuss how Gareth is currently launching AngelSyndicate.uk in June, as an end-to-end community, syndication and deal-execution platform for business angel networks, that provides a single point of application for founders to reach multiple regional groups of angel investors. 

 

Connect with Gareth:

> gh@angelsyndicate.uk 

> https://www.linkedin.com/in/gareth-hawkins/ 

> https://www.angelsyndicate.uk/