Does anyone have any experience gaining VC / angel investment for a start up?
I've got a well researched and planned out business idea in the leisure industry which is mostly ready to go, only a bit of R&D on specific things which would need to be built, and I'm looking at this market for achieving investment. I was originally going down the bank loan route but we got 5% from opening up and someone gazumped us on the property we needed so we lost a lot of our personal investment in the lost legal fees, planning applications etc and we now don't meet the banks required match funding method.
There seems to be a lot of websites out there that claim to connect you with investors, I'm in the U.K. By the way, but I'm wondering if there's any more 'legit' ones? Also if it's achievable to seek investment now that the only seed money I have is already in use (it went on the previous attempt and on the logo, branding etc that we still have to move forward with). Ideally I'm looking for funding of £150-200k to open the company and all I'd need the investor for is their money and possibly some mentoring as the business grows so it wouldn't be a heavy involvement for them. I sadly don't have any family / friends with money to tap into.
Anyone with some experience / knowledge in this area?
I've got a well researched and planned out business idea in the leisure industry which is mostly ready to go, only a bit of R&D on specific things which would need to be built, and I'm looking at this market for achieving investment. I was originally going down the bank loan route but we got 5% from opening up and someone gazumped us on the property we needed so we lost a lot of our personal investment in the lost legal fees, planning applications etc and we now don't meet the banks required match funding method.
There seems to be a lot of websites out there that claim to connect you with investors, I'm in the U.K. By the way, but I'm wondering if there's any more 'legit' ones? Also if it's achievable to seek investment now that the only seed money I have is already in use (it went on the previous attempt and on the logo, branding etc that we still have to move forward with). Ideally I'm looking for funding of £150-200k to open the company and all I'd need the investor for is their money and possibly some mentoring as the business grows so it wouldn't be a heavy involvement for them. I sadly don't have any family / friends with money to tap into.
Anyone with some experience / knowledge in this area?