Machela Sathekga

HERMESA is a UK based angel syndicate investing in extraordinary female (co)founded start-ups. We are a community of operators who know what it takes to build successful start-ups and we invest smart money – capital and expertise – to help change the funding landscape for women founders.

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazons expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.

HERMESA is a UK based angel syndicate investing in extraordinary female (co)founded start-ups. We are a community of operators who know what it takes to build successful start-ups and we invest smart money – capital and expertise – to help change the funding landscape for women founders.

Enterprise 100 is a unique angel investment network to bridge the gap between the entrepreneurial, academic and commercial worlds. Established in 1999 when it was launched out of London Business School, the Club is distinct in its business model and by-invitation only membership. Nominated as Best Angel Network by Investor AllStars (2012), Enterprise 100 is recognised as one of the leading business angel groups in the UK.

We are now British International Investment: https://www.linkedin.com/company/british-international-investment/

Our secret is simple - ABSOLUTE, UTTER, BRUTAL SIMPLICITY. We invest in early stage technologies We typically invest £100k to £300k per deal We act like an Angel We move quick We like to get in at seed stage and lead rounds We can follow too We dont have LLPs so dont need billion dollar companies We can help get to market We are all founding entrepreneurs whove built businesses. We love tech that solves big human problems. We invest in big ideas we think can change the world. We keep everything we do simple.