ANGELS DEN ACADEMY · LONDON · 2026
Angel Investor Bootcamp
Two half-days, in person, in London. Fifteen to twenty participants. Six taught sessions, three workshops, two panels, a compliance briefing, a specialist track, and one judged investment decision, sourced, diligenced, analysed and defended in front of a panel of angels.
COHORT 01 · 2026
12 of 18 places remaining
12 of 18 places remaining
LONDON · TWO HALF-DAYS, IN PERSON
FORMAT
Two half-days, in person
09:00 – 14:00, both half-days
COHORT
15 to 20, curated
By application, then interview
DATES
2026 cohort, London
Planned 3 to 7 days apart, confirmed to applicants
FEE
Materials and working lunch
Fee confirmed at offer
WHAT TWO HALF-DAYS CHANGE
You leave able to run the whole decision yourself.
Built for exited founders, senior operators, and first-time or early-stage angels ready to commit personal capital. Across the two half-days you build things you can use on a real deal: a written thesis, a diligence framework, a defended call.
(01)
A pipeline, not an inbox
Where quality early-stage opportunities actually come from, networks, platforms, scouts and syndicates, and how to turn a written thesis into a sourcing filter by sector, stage and cheque size.
OUTPUT
A written sourcing filter
(01)
A pipeline, not an inbox
Where quality early-stage opportunities actually come from, networks, platforms, scouts and syndicates, and how to turn a written thesis into a sourcing filter by sector, stage and cheque size.
OUTPUT
A written sourcing filter
(02)
A diligence process you repeat
A structured framework for founders and teams, a stress test for market, product and traction, and the red flags that decide it. You leave with a framework you can run again on the next deal, and the one after that.
OUTPUT
A repeatable evaluation framework
(02)
A diligence process you repeat
A structured framework for founders and teams, a stress test for market, product and traction, and the red flags that decide it. You leave with a framework you can run again on the next deal, and the one after that.
OUTPUT
A repeatable evaluation framework
(03)
The paperwork, and the portfolio
Term sheets, cap tables, SAFEs and ASAs read with confidence. SEIS/EIS relief and its constraints. Reserve ratios, follow-on strategy and the biases that quietly distort every one of these decisions.
OUTPUT
Term-sheet fluency and a reserve plan
(03)
The paperwork, and the portfolio
Term sheets, cap tables, SAFEs and ASAs read with confidence. SEIS/EIS relief and its constraints. Reserve ratios, follow-on strategy and the biases that quietly distort every one of these decisions.
OUTPUT
Term-sheet fluency and a reserve plan
(04)
A decision defended to a panel
Direct experience presenting an investment recommendation to experienced angels and hearing their verdict in the room. You leave with a completion certificate and entry to the Angels Den Alumni Network.
OUTPUT
Panel verdict, certificate, alumni entry
(04)
A decision defended to a panel
Direct experience presenting an investment recommendation to experienced angels and hearing their verdict in the room. You leave with a completion certificate and entry to the Angels Den Alumni Network.
OUTPUT
Panel verdict, certificate, alumni entry
THE CAPSTONE
INVEST
OR PASS.
HALF-DAY 2 · 11:35
60 minutes, live
Individually or in syndicate groups
Judged by a panel of experienced angels
The capstone spans the gap between the half-days and one focused live slot, taking you through the entire angel decision, end to end, individually or in small syndicate-style groups. This is the moment the whole programme builds toward: you leave having actually made and defended an investment decision, not just discussed one.
01
Source and evaluate
Between the half-days, take an opportunity through the full pipeline: source it, evaluate the founders and team, and stress-test market, product and traction.
02
Read the paperwork
Review the cap table, term sheet and SAFE/ASA, and flag anything that would change your view.
03
Make the call
Submit a first-draft view before Half-Day 2: invest, pass, or more diligence needed. If investing, at what cheque size, and whether to lead or follow a syndicate group.
04
Defend the decision
Present the recommendation and portfolio rationale to a live panel of experienced angels, including how the deal fits the thesis you wrote in session one.
The panel, drawn from Angels Den’s investor network and bootcamp faculty, questions each group as a real syndicate lead or co-investor would, then gives a verdict and feedback in the room.
Application, then a short interview.
THE RUNNING ORDER
Six taught sessions, three workshops, two panels, a briefing, a breakout, one decision.
TAUGHT SESSIONS · IN THE ROOM
Half-Day 1
SOURCING & EVALUATING THE DEAL
09:00
Welcome & the competency map
09:10
Angel Investor Foundations: Risk, Responsibility & Reality Check
09:45
Sourcing & Deal Flow: Finding Quality Opportunities
10:20
Mock Portfolio: Sourcing & Deal-Flow Case Study
10:50
Break
11:05
Evaluating Founders & Teams: People Predict Outcomes
11:35
Red Flag / Green Flag Founder Assessment
12:05
Market, Product & Traction: Validating Business Fundamentals
12:35
Pitch Deck Tear-Down
13:05
Sourcing, Networks & Syndicates
13:35
Working lunch & networking
14:00
Close. Capstone sourcing and thesis work begins
Half-Day 2
STRUCTURING, DECIDING & PROTECTING
09:00
Coffee & recap of the work since Half-Day 1
09:10
Term Sheets, Legal & Structures: Protecting Your Investment
09:50
Compliance & Responsible Investing Briefing
10:15
Break
10:25
Portfolio Strategy & Decision-Making: Building a Defensible Portfolio
11:00
Specialist Deep-Dive Tracks (choose one)
11:35
Mock Angel Investment Decision: pitch & panel Q&A
12:35
What Nobody Tells You About Angel Investing
13:05
Certificates, closing remarks & the road to Responsible Angel
13:20
Working lunch & networking
14:00
Close. Optional evening add-on for those opting in
TAUGHT SESSION
WORKSHOP OR BREAKOUT
PANEL, BRIEFING OR BREAK
Faculty and panellists are confirmed to applicants ahead of the programme.
THE RUNNING ORDER
Six taught sessions, three workshops, two panels, a briefing, a breakout, one decision.
TAUGHT SESSIONS · IN THE ROOM
Half-Day 1
SOURCING & EVALUATING THE DEAL
09:00
Welcome & the competency map
09:10
Angel Investor Foundations: Risk, Responsibility & Reality Check
09:45
Sourcing & Deal Flow: Finding Quality Opportunities
10:20
Mock Portfolio: Sourcing & Deal-Flow Case Study
10:50
Break
11:05
Evaluating Founders & Teams: People Predict Outcomes
11:35
Red Flag / Green Flag Founder Assessment
12:05
Market, Product & Traction: Validating Business Fundamentals
12:35
Pitch Deck Tear-Down
13:05
Sourcing, Networks & Syndicates
13:35
Working lunch & networking
14:00
Close. Capstone sourcing and thesis work begins
Half-Day 2
STRUCTURING, DECIDING & PROTECTING
09:00
Coffee & recap of the work since Half-Day 1
09:10
Term Sheets, Legal & Structures: Protecting Your Investment
09:50
Compliance & Responsible Investing Briefing
10:15
Break
10:25
Portfolio Strategy & Decision-Making: Building a Defensible Portfolio
11:00
Specialist Deep-Dive Tracks (choose one)
11:35
Mock Angel Investment Decision: pitch & panel Q&A
12:35
What Nobody Tells You About Angel Investing
13:05
Certificates, closing remarks & the road to Responsible Angel
13:20
Working lunch & networking
14:00
Close. Optional evening add-on for those opting in
TAUGHT SESSION
WORKSHOP OR BREAKOUT
PANEL, BRIEFING OR BREAK
Faculty and panellists are confirmed to applicants ahead of the programme.
BETWEEN THE HALF-DAYS
Not everything has to happen in the room.
AFTER HALF-DAY 1
01
THESIS
Finish the investment thesis.
The worksheet you start in session one, refined against the sourcing frameworks from session two, ready for Half-Day 2.
02
SOURCING
Source the capstone opportunity.
Take a real or curated startup through sourcing and evaluation: read the deck and the financials, and where possible speak to the founder.
03
FIRST DRAFT
Submit a first-draft view.
Invest, pass, or more diligence needed, with a proposed cheque size and whether you would lead or follow, so the live slot pressure-tests a decision rather than starting from zero.
04
PRE-READ
Pre-read for your specialist track.
Short preparation ahead of the Half-Day 2 breakout, so the taster goes straight into discussion rather than set-up.
05
REVIEWED · FACILITATORS
Facilitators review submissions.
Anything needing attention is flagged before Half-Day 2 and picked up in the room, so live time goes on judgement rather than groundwork.
BEFORE HALF-DAY 2
THE COMPETENCY MAP
Where two half-days actually take you.
The programme is built around a single claim: education bridges novice to developing, and experience plus mentoring completes the journey to responsible. Every session maps to moving you along it.
STAGE 01
Novice
Novice
Novice
No investment experience
Limited due diligence skills
Single-deal mindset
High emotional bias
Weak network
STAGE 02 · WHERE THE TWO HALF-DAYS AIM
Developing
Developing
Developing
1 to 2 investments completed
Basic due diligence process
Portfolio thinking emerging
Better founder evaluation
Growing angel network
STAGE 03 · BEYOND THE TWO HALF-DAYS
Responsible
Responsible
Responsible
3+ years, 5+ investments
Rigorous due diligence
Portfolio strategy and reserves
Bias awareness and discipline
Active mentor and syndicate member
The bootcamp takes a Novice to Developing across the two half-days, and hands every Developing participant a concrete plan, reserves, syndicate relationships and decision discipline, for reaching Responsible. It does not claim to get you there in ten hours.
WHY THIS ROOM
Taught inside the network you would want access to.
Learn alongside exited founders who have scaled to multi-million ARR, respected VCs, and angel investors with 20x-plus exits. The same network Angels Den has built since 2007.
The capstone panel, the alumni route and the guest practitioners are not bought in for the occasion. They are that operating network.
CURATED COHORT · 15 TO 20
INVESTOR NETWORK
27,000+
High and ultra-high net worth individuals, family offices and institutional funds.
OPERATING SINCE
2007
Supporting founders from pre-seed through to Series B.
COHORT SIZE
15–20
Curated for complementary experience levels and some geographic spread.
IN THE ROOM
14
Sessions, workshops, panels, the compliance briefing, the specialist breakout and the capstone.
Every session is framed around the angel’s own decision rather than a fund’s, which is what separates this from the sibling VC and Angel Bootcamp: SEIS/EIS, personal portfolio construction and syndication replace GP/LP structures and carried interest.
WHERE THE LINE SITS
What this programme is, and what it is not.
NOT ADVICE
This is not financial advice. Angels Den does not provide investment advice through this programme. Guest experts speak from personal experience, not as advisers, and every participant acts on their own due diligence and judgement.
COMPLIANCE
The regulatory line is taught, not glossed. A dedicated, non-optional Half-Day 2 briefing covers FCA financial promotion rules and investor categorisation, and shows you exactly where the legal line sits.
EXPECTATIONS
Two half-days are not expertise. The same briefing deliberately re-emphasises failure rates, reserve ratios and the ongoing need for mentoring and real deal experience, because an intensive programme can leave people feeling more expert than they are.
GUEST POLICY
Every guest is vetted and declares conflicts. Vetted for genuine experience rather than theory, briefed on learning outcomes and tone, and required to disclose conflicts of interest or platform affiliations.
APPLY
Four steps to a seat.
01
Submit the application form. Places are limited to preserve a balanced cohort, and are not allocated first come, first served.
Submit the application form. Places are limited to preserve a balanced cohort, and are not allocated first come, first served.
02
A short interview or call to confirm fit, risk appetite and readiness to commit real capital.
A short conversation to confirm fit and readiness. Places are allocated to create a balanced cohort of professionals, founders and aspiring angel investors.
03
Successful applicants receive an offer with dates, fee and payment instructions, including the optional evening add-on. Payment secures the place.
Successful applicants receive an invitation with dates, venue, faculty and joining details. Once the cohort is full, applications move to the waiting list for the following intake.
04
On payment you receive the pre-programme pack, the session one worksheet, and logistics for both half-days.
COHORT 01 · 2026
12 of 18 places remaining
12 of 18 places remaining
COHORT 15 TO 20, CURATED
COHORT LIMITED TO 18 PLACES
TWO HALF-DAYS, LONDON
ADMISSION BY APPLICATION, THEN INTERVIEW
ADMISSION BY APPLICATION, REVIEWED BEFORE CONFIRMATION
QUESTIONS
Before you apply.
01
Is this financial advice?
No. Angels Den does not provide investment advice through this programme. Guest experts speak from personal experience, not as advisers, and every participant is expected to act on their own due diligence and judgement, reinforced explicitly in the Half-Day 2 compliance briefing.
02
Do I need to have made an angel investment before?
03
How is this different from the VC & Angel Bootcamp?
04
What do I walk away with?
05
What about the specialist modules?
06
Why two half-days instead of two full days?
07
Will I get less out of it than the two-day version?
08
What if I cannot make the optional evening?
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Angel Investor Bootcamp
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