Venture Capital funds buy shares in young companies that are at a fairly early stage of their growth. Companies that raise funds this way will normally be generating revenue but may not yet have reached profitability or be breaking even on a cash flow basis. However, some VC firms also back start-ups. Venture capital investments typically range from a few hundred thousand pounds up to £2m-plus.
Venture Capital
Short Description: At a time when domestic markets are offering businesses fewer opportunities to generate growth, expanding into new geographies can prove attractive. However, such a move can be tough and understanding the risks and challenges of operating in international markets with differing rules and cultures is key to unlocking potential and realising growth.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: With almost 30 years of experience investing in novel life science technologies, we understand how challenging it can be to turn a great idea into a great company. We are comfortable evaluating and taking significant scientific risks. Our team and network of advisors includes a number of former executives with first-hand experience of these challenges, who are available to provide support and advice when it is needed.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: ACT invests from early to expansion stage. As well as backing start up and early stage businesses, we also invest in established companies looking to use Venture Capital to build scale. We typically invest between €200,000 and €7million in funding rounds of up to €30 million. We either invest on our own or alongside other venture capital firms, usually as lead investor.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: AdImpetus EIS Fund The AdImpetus EIS Fund 2011 is a specialist national fund designed to provide investors with a spread of investments in small and early stage companies that qualify for the tax reliefs available through the Enterprise Investment Scheme. The Fund offered investors registered with The FSE Group to take a tax-efficient and portfolio approach to early-stage investment in unquoted UK companies with high growth potential. The fund is currently fully invested. The fund is operated by FSE Fund Managers Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The Advantage Early Growth Fund is a venture capital investment fund which was set up with the help of the UK Government. The fund aims to help companies obtain small equity investments to allow them to grow. Advantage Early Growth Funds is very rare amongst venture capital funds because it does not charge any fees for making an investment (including the costs of legal and due diligence work). The Fund is open to applications from almost all industrial fields although there are a few 'prohibited sectors' which are generally related to European regulations related to agriculture and fisheries. Businesses must be commercially viable and seeking capital to expand and must also be able to attract a matching private sector investment. The Fund is not able to invest in order to rescue failing businesses
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Real people. Real insight. Real value. Advent Life Sciences is one of Europe’s leading venture teams investing in life sciences businesses. We are a highly focused team of senior individuals, with long-standing track records of entrepreneurial and investment success across the UK, Europe and the USA. We invest predominantly in early and mid-stage life sciences companies. We seek to back truly innovative companies that have a first-in-class or best-in-class approach and who are looking for a well-connected partner on the road to success. Our investments cover a range of sectors within life sciences, including new drug discovery, enabling technologies, med tech and diagnostics.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Advent Venture Partners is one of Europe's most successful growth and venture capital investors in market-leading tech and life sciences businesses. We have designed our strategy, teams and funds so we can focus on backing a select few companies. We pride ourselves on establishing true partnerships with entrepreneurs in order to build valuable businesses together.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Albion Ventures was established to generate long term investment returns for shareholders through making venture capital investments in smaller companies.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Alliance Fund Managers is an experienced fund manager with funds under management totalling around £149m. Currently, AFM manages the Northwest Small Loans for Business Investment Fund on Merseyside which provides loans from £3k to £50k to to SMEs, including limited companies, sole traders and partnerships. We can provide stand alone finance or as part of a package with banks and other funding providers such as invoice discounters. The product now also includes the retail sector. AFM also manages the entire investment portfolio for Merseyside Special Investment Fund’s Group of Funds – which was one of the largest regional funds in the UK. The portfolio includes a wide range of businesses from large SMEs with multi million turnovers to small businesses run by sole traders and covers a diverse range of sectors. AFM is actively seeking out new opportunities to manage additional funds throughout the UK.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Alta Berkeley is a premier European venture capital firm, focused on identifying exceptional young technology companies based in Europe and Israel, and leveraging our wealth of experience and industry contacts to help them become commercially successful in the global market. Strategy We focus on finding leading communications and computing technology teams based in Europe and Israel and assisting them to build global companies by harnessing our investing partners' own entrepreneurial experience of growing successful technology companies and bringing them to successful exit via public offerings and trade sales. Approach Our investment methodology is similar to that used by top tier US venture capital firms, characterized by partners with relevant industry background, a deep understanding of technology and high-level contacts at the leading global technology companies. This approach has been honed over a long history of investing success – and a few that never reached their full-potential – to form an invaluable bank of knowledge for start-ups. Track Record Since 1982 we have raised six venture funds and backed over one hundred companies through both bull and bear markets. In the process, we have helped create considerable value for our portfolio companies and for our own investors, including listings on five different public markets (including Nasdaq and LSE) and trade sales both in Europe and in the US.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We believe the most exciting innovations originate from the power of networks – physical, social and commercial: the smart connected world.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Ambient Sound Investments (ASI) was established in 2003 as an equal partnership by four founding engineers at Skype Technologies to hold a minority stake in Skype. At the end of 2005 ASI sold its stake to eBay and now operates as a private investment vehicle. Today we are a team of about 10 people managing 100 million Euros of the partners' assets and growing an independent investment vehicle spanning multiple generations.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Angel Capital Ventures is uniquely able to address equity gap funding. The team have extensive experience in structuring and building early stage Venture Capital funds, with a key focus on leveraging the Angel market. Whilst at GLE, the team launched the UK's first government backed £5m Early Growth angel co-investment fund, Seed Capital and co-founded the UK's first angel-led Enterprise Capital fund, the £30m Seraphim Capital fund.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We are a venture capital firm that invests in exceptional tech entrepreneurs in the UK and Europe.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Anglia Capital Group is a leading group of business angel investors in Norfolk and Suffolk. Formed in the Spring of 2014, Anglia Capital Group is a sister company to Cambridge Capital Group - a network of over 70 investors and private venture funds who have been investing in hi-tech businesses and technology start-ups since 2001.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Anthemis Group is the venture investment and advisory firm at the center of a vibrant ecosystem of startups and financial institutions dedicated to reinventing financial services for the digital world. We are committed investors, thoughtful advisors, active conveners, and dedicated problem solvers who share a passion for technology and a belief in the transformative power of digital financial services. We are witnessing a tremendous opportunity to create value from the emergence of a new paradigm in financial services and markets. Disruptive new business models, products and services – enabled by exponential improvements in technology – are fundamentally challenging incumbent firms and market structures. These new approaches are driving a reconfiguration of the financial services industry and the structure of many markets within the wider economy.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Antrak Capital is an independent, privately owned venture capital investor. Their heritage is in managing successful private companies and they have found this operational and leadership experience invaluable in helping companies they invest in achieve growth and value. Antrak invests development and expansion capital in companies that have the potential to grow rapidly and are run by talented management teams. Typically they hold minority stakes in businesses with enterprise values of between £2M & £30M.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Led by one of Europe's entrepreneurial champions, Ariadne has pioneered a new model for the financing of entrepreneurship - entrepreneurs backing entrepreneurs.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Arts Alliance is a venture capital organisation that supports high growth technology companies in Europe.
Type: Equity
Year Established: 1996
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: ASSEC Investments are an organisation who make investments in UK businesses. The group looks to support growing UK businesses and entrepreneurs, across a wide range of industries by providing them with the necessary finance to grow their businesses and take it to the next level.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Atlantic Bridge is a global growth equity fund focused on technology investments.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Atlas Venture is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in promising entrepreneurs focusing on life science and technology innovation.
Type: Equity
Year Established: 1980
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Atomico invests in innovative technology companies, primarily outside of Silicon Valley, that are on their way to becoming category leaders. Founded in 2006 by Niklas Zennström, a co-founder of Skype, we have made over 50 investments over four continents, including Skype, Supercell, Rovio, Klarna, and The Climate Corporation, with an exclusive focus on the technology sector. Our sector expertise and deep network mean that we know, and have worked with, people across the world who can add value to our portfolio companies. Please note that this information has been extracted from Atomico Venture Capital website www.atomico.com. Last updated July/2015
Type: Equity
Year Established: 2006
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We are looking for established fast growing businesses in the e-commerce and technology sectors worldwide to invest in.
Type: Equity
Year Established: 2009
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Avlar was founded in 1999 by Alan Goodman and Daniel Roach and manages Avlar Fund II (£43m) and the First Cambridge Gateway Fund (£35m). Avlar has invested in eighteen companies across a range of sub-sectors of the bioscience industries. Ten are still private, two have been merged, three have been bought by public companies, two have been sold for cash and two listed on the public markets. Prior to the formation of Avlar Messrs Roach and Goodman co-founded or seed financed nine life science companies. Seven of these were listed on recognized Stock Exchanges producing highly profitable realizations. These included Acambis, Chiroscience, Core, Salix and Oxford Biomedica.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Balderton's aim is to help build long-lasting, disruptive and ultimately profitable companies.
Type: Equity
Year Established: 2007
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Ballpark Ventures is a small, boutique fund investing in early stage technology startups. Our partners are all successful entrepreneurs and at this stage, investing their own money.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Ventures is the in-house unquoted equity arm of Barclays and has a strong track record of working with management teams to maximise shareholder value, both organically and via acquisitions.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We were formerly known as AngelLab. We have worked together since 2012 to build a portfolio of over 28 companies whose market value (as of H2/2015) exceeds $300m, a growth of over 4x since making our investment. We invest our own monies alongside institutional funds. This year – the year of 2015 – we become Beacon Capital and we continue investing and backing the daring ones. Our team has been through every stage of the entrepreneur’s journey, from starting up, growing and managing a large business to selling it or taking it public. We know how to help our companies grow faster. We believe the European and UK tech sector is coming of age. We discover and invest in tech entrepreneurs who have bold ideas and can make these happen.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Beechbrook Capital is a specialist fund manager providing debt and equity capital to small and medium-sized businesses in northern and western Europe. We support companies with typical enterprise values between €10 million and €100 million. We provide innovative and flexible private debt and equity finance to support these companies' growth plans by financing strategic acquisitions or expansion. We often fill a funding gap faced by SMEs as banks are in many cases less active in this space than they were historically. We invest in companies that enjoy strong competitive positions in well-defined niches, offering attractive growth opportunities. They will typically have ambitious management teams that have shown their ability to generate profits and positive cash flows throughout the economic cycle and who are looking for finance to support a buyout, to facilitate organic growth or to fund add-on acquisitions. We expect the main shareholders of the businesses we back to have made, and to maintain, a significant cash investment in their company. Investee companies usually: operate in one of the following industry segments: business services, telecom and media, industrials, consumer and leisure, or healthcare have their main centre of activity in northern and western Europe (UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, Austria or Switzerland).
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Bestport Ventures is an independent and entrepreneurial provider of development capital to smaller fast-growing companies in the UK. Bestport was founded in early 2005 by Ole Bettum and James Stoddart to deploy their considerable experience of venture investing through a focused entity in a segment of the venture market that remains under-serviced and under-supplied. Bestport draws on the strong track record and experience of the founders and our accomplished advisory board to invest in and assist fast-growing, ambitious companies through to profitable exits. estport Ventures was voted winner of the "Best EIS Newcomer 2013" at the EIS Association awards ceremony in February 2014. This follows the launch of Bestport's first EIS product, the Bestport EIS Fund in late 2013.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The Community Generation Fund supports communities to build their own community renewable projects. Projects such as wind-turbines and small hydro-electric generators will produce energy for local communities, who will be able to sell any surplus back to the national grid and use the income from this to support other community projects such as fuel poverty mitigation, community centres and youth projects in disadvantaged areas. The aim is to create an eventual £15m fund which will have the potential over time to support over 130 communities to develop their own community-owned renewable energy projects. The Community Generation Fund provides commercial but creative loan funding for communities at the pre-planning (development) stage of their projects, as well as the construction (post-planning) stage: Development Loans: contingently-repayable loans for design, environmental and other external costs involved in achieving the required planning and other consents/licences Construction Loans: long-term loans for equipment, construction and commissioning costs (post planning consent) either stand-alone or alongside bank finance The Fund provides access to capital at project stages or scales where funding is needed most but is not readily available. The Fund will consider project sizes from 25kWp capacity upwards, subject to assessment of technical viability, financial viability and social impact. Typically, the project is likely to involve total feasibility/pre-planning costs of £20,000-£100,000 (depending on technology and scale) and construction costs of £250,000 - £2,000,000. Currently the Fund is focused on supporting communities falling within the top 50% of the latest available Indices of Multiple Deprivation, with a particular desire to support those falling within the top 20% most deprived locations.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Welcome to Strathtay Ventures, the investment management subsidiary of Braveheart Investment Group plc. Established in 1997, Strathtay has a strong and tangible track record investing in unquoted growth companies; and in generating attractive returns for its private investor and family office clients for which it provides comprehensive discretionary or advisory investment management services. For companies, Strathtay offers direct investment (using private investors’ funds and those of Braveheart Investment Group plc) and co-investment alongside trusted partners. Investment sizes range from £100,000 to £10 million (the latter being syndicated), with a strong culture of engaging in follow-on funding for existing investee companies. Principally focussed on Scottish-based enterprises, Strathtay also manages various funds. These include the Lachesis Fund, the Viking Growth Fund, the Strathclyde Innovation Fund, the Alpha EIS Fund and the SMART Equity Fund. Strathtay Ventures Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. It is also a member of the British Venture Capital Association and a member of the EIS Association.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Bridges Ventures was founded in 2002 with the vision that hands-on investment and entrepreneurial talent can be used to address some of the challenges facing our society, as well as drive sustainable growth.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Why Choose BroomWood Capital? Investor and business partner, leveraging deep investment and operating expertise. Unlocks unique opportunities in the illiquid section of the SME market. Value creation enhanced through the ability to invest substantial time. Maximises and de-risks returns for both the entrepreneur and Syndicate. Strong track records, which have been proven in battle in both good times and bad. We invest our own money, and so are fully aligned with Syndicate members.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Growth capital can fund a site roll-out for a growing restaurant or retail group, as it is for five of our portfolio companies: Barburrito, Boost, Camino, Peyton and Byrne and Shuropody. In every case the management team came to us with a proven business model, lots of ambition and above all a backable plan.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Cabot Square Capital is a leading provider of investment capital for small and mid sized companies in the UK and Western Europe. We are a hands-on partner able to provide companies with capital for growth and acquisitions, innovative management ideas, creative problem solving and strategic, long-term planning. Cabot Square Capital invests long-term equity capital to support the strategic, financial and operational objectives of outstanding management teams. We invest in companies supported by strong cash flow and real assets with competitive positions in growing markets. Our investment focus includes financial services, operating property and infrastructure. Cabot Square Capital provides capital at all stages of a company’s development, including start-up, turnaround/distressed, buy and build, and expansion. We typically take majority control positions to position ourselves as a flexible source of capital and value-added partner.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The Cass Entrepreneurship Fund is a £10 million venture capital fund, providing growth equity to start-up and early stage companies. The Fund finances a number of high-growth young businesses (Portfolio Companies), as well as providing general support and incubation facilities. The Fund was established in 2010 with the generous support of Peter Cullum CBE, one of Cass' most successful entrepreneurs and the Founder of Towergate Insurance.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The team behind Catapult Ventures are among the most experienced venture capital investors in the UK.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: CMR is the leading provider of funding and management support for small to medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurs
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We co-found new businesses where we or someone in our network has an idea that we want to back, we invest in startups that have achieved market validation, we acquire later stage companies, and we advise businesses. We are not a fund, we are entrepreneurs and we like to get involved when we have the skills to help. We are happy to get involved in early stage businesses along the whole spectrum from starting them, to advising, to passively investing behind a strong lead investor.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Chord Capital is a venture investment company based in Cambridge and . We work with entrepreneurs to drive our portfolio companies from technology projects to commercial enterprises. Chord Capital’s managers have spent over 20 years building businesses and helping entrepreneurs to grow their companies. Our genesis as the venture arm of the Cambridge-based technology and design consultancy, Sagentia Group plc, has taught us the power that technology can bring to create change and generate improved investment returns. However, we believe that the vital and often most poorly executed stage in a technology company’s life cycle is the transition from a project – revelling in its intellectual property and development potential, and perhaps with a working prototype – to a sustainable commercial enterprise. It is at this stage that we focus our energy. We work with our companies on channel partnering and ‘go-to-market’ strategies, on the sales process and on management change. This approach, alongside financial and funding skills, positions us to generate step changes in value.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Clarendon Fund Managers Limited is venture capital fund manager based in Belfast, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Clarendon manage £25m of regional VC Funds in Northern ireland including £13m of fully invested Funds (Viridian Growth Fund and Nitech Growth Fund) and Co-Fund NI, a £12.5m fund that co-invests with business angel/private investor lead deals which when matched to the private investment on a deal by deal basis will equate to a £28m Fund. It is the appointed Fund Manager for the Viridian Growth Fund LP, which was established in August 2001, and it also manages the Nitech Growth Fund LP, which was established in February 2003. Both these Funds have an investment focus on innovative SMEs based in Northern Ireland but are closed for new investments. Clarendon have invested over £20 million in over 40 companies from the three Funds under management across a wide range of sectors including ICT (CRM, ERP, Data Quality), medical devices, biotechnology, communications, food industry, waste management, renewable energy and computer gaming.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Our vision is of a world where the financial system is a powerful force for good and the impacts of businesses are considered in all investment decisions. It is our mission to bring impact as the third dimension into investing, where all investors consider risk, return and impact – creating an environment for entrepreneurs and businesses that make a difference to thrive. We work exclusively with high-impact businesses, charities and funds. We support their capital raising activity through financial advisory work, and introduce them to institutional and individual investors who share their objectives and values. For businesses and charities raising between £150k and £20m, we provide advisory and capital raising services, which can include introductions to investors in our -based angel network. For impact investment funds, we raise capital and offer advice and support on structuring funds. For businesses raising between £150k and £1m, please see our criteria for investments.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The Coalfields Enterprise Fund is a commercial venture capital fund set up to support the growth of businesses and encourage entrepreneurship in England's former coalfields. The Fund will bring over £20 million of new investment into these areas and finance new-start companies, established businesses seeking to expand, acquisitions and mergers, and buy-outs/buy-ins.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: connect is an initiative from the UK's Technology Strategy Board with the singular aim of making open innovation happen. The networks on _connect are home to some of UK Industry's brightest minds, and they are waiting to collaborate on their next exciting projects.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We are a venture capital firm investing in early stage internet and mobile startups. We're based in and invest throughout Europe. We help founders build product-focused businesses, starting from finding product/market fit through to scaling up. As an independent and focused team, we are able to move quickly and give our portfolio companies the time and attention they deserve.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Established in 2010, Craigie Capital is a broad based angel syndicate with considerable experience across finance, enterprise sales and technology.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We thrive on meeting potential investee businesses. We seek out the bold, creative and independent thinkers. We like to meet teams at an early stage to start a conversation that will hopefully develop a mutual understanding and common purpose – the core of our partnerships. We immerse ourselves in these companies, their product, their customers and their management team. We primarily offer companies funding but crucially we also provide guidance, expertise, experience and exposure to a network of relevant business contacts. Through partnering with us local companies are transformed into thriving global businesses. This undoubtedly brings challenges to the company. But by having an open and honest relationship from the outset, both Crescent and the investee company will have a unified vision where challenges are foreseen, planned for and overcome together.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We love tech. It makes yesterday's impossible possible. And tomorrow, it will do it all over again. We love tech and we love startups. Every year we will meet a few thousand teams looking to shape that tomorrow. We find every discussion energising as a new window onto the future opens. And every so often, when the stars align, we have the privilege to partner with an exceptional team on its multi-year journey. We invite you to be that team.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Delta Partners is a venture capital firm investing primarily in Ireland and the United Kingdom. It was established in 1994 and has €250 million under management. Delta is among the most active early stage investors in Europe. The partners' backgrounds in operations, strategy and finance complement the drive and ambition of entrepreneurial management teams.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Derbyshire First Investments makes venture capital investments in companies based in, or about to relocate to Derbyshire, or the surrounding area. It is not an aim to have majority shareholder control of the companies in which they invest. Nor do they seek to become actively involved in the day-to-day running of businesses. However, they usually insist on taking a place on the Board of Directors of each company, on the regular supply of financial and other management information and to be consulted about major decisions. Derbyshire First Investments Limited to utilise their experience of a variety of business situations to offer guidance to management on strategic and policy matters. Essentially they are looking to form a "partnership" with owners and managers which will be supportive and bring success for everyone. funding can be used for a variety of purposes, including:- - Working capital - Expenditure on capital equipment - Purchase of a business - Management buy-outs or buy-ins - Development and marketing of new products or services - Part-refinancing bank debt
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: DFJ have one of the strongest teams in European venture capital - characterised by their experience and extensive market knowledge in technology, media, telecoms, medtech and cleantech to add real value to the best entrepreneurs in Europe. Recognising the best players in the industry and helping them realise their ambition to build world-class companies is where we excel. The strength of their experience and contacts working alongside our hands-on approach helps cultivate the best strategies to accelerate businesses towards global success. DFJ Esprit was launched in 2007 when Draper Fisher Jurvetson (“DFJ”), one of the oldest and most successful names in Silicon Valley venture capital, acquired a strategic stake in Esprit Capital Partners (“Esprit”). DFJ Esprit is the exclusive partner for DFJ in Western Europe. Esprit was formed in 2006 through the merger of Cazenove Private Equity and Prelude Ventures. This transaction brought together a team of investing partners with over 100 years of venture capital experience, an enviable capital base, a great portfolio and an investment track record that includes some of Europe’s highest profile exits. DFJ is a pre-eminent venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley but with global presence through a network of affiliated funds with offices in more than 32 cities around the world and over US$6 billion in capital commitment.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: DN Capital's objective is to identify, invest in and actively support leading digital media, e-commerce, software and mobile applications companies on a global basis. The investment professionals at DN Capital bring more than 50 years of early stage and growth equity experience to their investments, and work with portfolio companies to guide their growth through the various stages of development. We help portfolio companies by leveraging our extensive global network of managers, investors, and intermediaries who are actively involved with DN Capital's portfolio companies.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We are optimistic risk-takers who roll up their sleeves. Earlybird is an international venture capital firm that invests across multiple stages. Our companies have the potential to reshape markets and change the world around us.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Eden Ventures invests in high growth, European technology companies. We have a particular focus on the big data analytics, cloud computing, digital media, enterprise software, fintech, internet, mobile, retail technologies, social media and telecommunications software sectors.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Elderstreet is a leading UK venture capital fund manager investing in early stage and development capital for UK growing businesses.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Enterprise Ventures is a leading provider of finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in England and Wales and one of the few able to provide both venture capital and loans.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We believe our attitude and experience are complementary. We also believe that true potential is only realised by looking to the future. Our investment philosophy is to focus on building long-lasting, sustainable and valuable companies.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We invest in the best UK focused software entrepreneurs, then work with them to build large valuable businesses through active Board participation.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs, management teams and companies with the potential to become ‘category leading’ in large or fast growing markets. Our companies typically exhibit high growth rates and often disrupt the markets they are present in. We consider ourselves a bridge between the Old World (US, Europe) and the New World (driven by China, India, Latin America and other emerging markets), helping replicate successful investment themes as well as building new and geographic specific models.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: ETCapital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Cambridge - the heart of the UK's leading technology cluster.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Ferranti's mission is to help entrepreneurs realise their dreams. We do this not only with the use of capital, but by giving them access to our resource and network of contacts around the world.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Fig provides a pragmatic new approach to supporting high-growth companies through their early development and the process of securing investment. Fig provides investment services to businesses looking for funding and support. These include: Business model development and creation of investment material Introductions to strategic partners Fundraise strategy planning and management Creation of sales and marketing strategy Financial modelling and valuation analysis Introductions to investors On-going support and post-investment advice Corporate governance implementation and reporting infrastructure Fig works with companies across any sector, typically looking to raise £500k to £5m. To date, Fig has worked with companies in the US, Europe and Asia, helping them complete successful funding rounds.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The Seedcorn Fund aims to invest in early stage innovative or technology-based ventures which have the potential to become “beacon companies” for the region. The fund fills a gap in the local finance market for ventures that are often seen as too risky for mainstream providers or which require more hands-on support from a specialist investor. Clients will be companies that are based on new and innovative technology with ideas that have strong potential and once in the market, are capable of rapid growth and returns of many multiples of their original investment. The fund can provide investment up to £780k over the lifetime of those companies that show the most commercial potential. We also provide specialist support to those growing businesses in return for a share of the eventual returns.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The £40 million Foresight Nottingham Fund (the "Fund") is a dedicated regional growth fund that has been created to support small and medium sized companies in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Foresight Private Equity is one of the UK's leading and longest established investors in smaller growth companies
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Frog invests in Europe’s most ambitious growth stage companies. We only invest in sectors we understand: IT, Digital Media & Resource Efficiency. If you’re in these areas, Frog can help develop your strategy in a fast-moving market. We target businesses which are growing quickly. To us that means growing in excess of 40%. Frog’s objective is to support you to achieve strong growth each and every year.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Frontline Ventures is Europe’s first community-focused fund, creating a platform for innovative tech entrepreneurs building capital-efficient businesses in high-growth markets.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: GEIF Ventures Early Growth Fund is a £5 million co-investment fund managed byIQ Capital Partners established with the commitment by the Small Business Service to co-invest into promising early growth businesses with business angels who are members of Great Eastern Investment Forum (GEIF). GEIF Ventures helps angels to amplify their investing power, allowing them to spread their capital and management skills to a greater number of companies and ensure that such companies have sufficient funds to achieve profitability or the next key milestone. Combined with business angels’ finance, GEIFV investment will help to bridge the equity gap faced by many early stage companies.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Gilde Healthcare is a transatlantic investor in fast growing healthcare technology and healthcare services companies. Since 2001 Gilde Healthcare has raised a series of dedicated funds which have invested in healthcare businesses across Europe and the US. To date, Gilde Healthcare has over €550 million ($650 million) under management. Healthcare technology funds Gilde Healthcare I, II and III participate in fast growing companies active in therapeutics and medical technologies. The portfolio companies are based both in Europe and in the US. The Gilde Healthcare Services I and II funds invest in lower mid-market healthcare services companies in the Benelux and Germany. Target companies are active in Primary Care, Medical Clinics, Elderly Care, Mental Care, Service Providers, Suppliers and Outsourcing.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: GV provides venture capital funding to bold new companies. We invest independently of Google, and we’ve backed more than 300 companies, including Uber, Nest, Slack, Foundation Medicine, Flatiron Health, and One Medical Group.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: A leader in providing capital to middle market companies. We specialize in providing capital to small and medium-sized companies.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: As one of the most successful European venture capital firms and with more than € 600m under management, we have been supporting exceptional founders in building market-leading internet companies for over 15 years. We seek entrepreneurs who share our passion for growth and innovation, and business ideas with the potential to transform important markets and build large and valuable companies. We were one of the few venture capital firms in the past to ourselves found internationally successful companies such as Parship and Experteer. Our aim is to support the founders in developing their business as intensely as possible. This approach has made us one of the most successful European early stage investors.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Hugo Burge, David Soskin and Sascha Hausmann are rather passionate about the internet. Having successfully grown our own businesses, we have raised this fund to invest in high-potential companies in the digital sector.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We are a $40 million early stage technology venture capital firm. We partner with founders seeking to invent new market categories or transform large, existing industries. Our sweet spot is internet, mobile and software startup investing.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Index Ventures is a Europe- and San Francisco-based global venture capital firm, focused on making investments in information technology and life sciences companies. Since it was founded in 1996, the firm has invested in businesses in more than 20 countries.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The Company was incorporated in the Isle of Man on 10 June 2002 as a closed ended investment company. The Company was formed primarily for investment in UK commercial property. The objective of the Company is to seek to improve income, reduce debt and provide the prospect of long term capital growth. To enhance net rental income – the marketing strategy for vacant units will aim to meet tenant requirements for good quality affordable accommodation on flexible lease terms.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Initial Capital is an investor in seed and early-stage technology companies with a focus on games, consumer services and technology enablers. We're not a traditional VC fund - we're a group of serial entrepreneurs who invest our own money and actively partner with world class teams to build global category winners. Please note that this information has been extracted from Initial Capital website www.initialcapital.com. Last updated July/2015
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Innvotec is a small authorised UK AIFM "Alternative Investment Fund Manager" regulated by the FCA (FRN: 122365). Investing now for a profitable tomorrow In the past 25 years, Innvotec has gained unrivalled experience and expertise investing in SME’s and private companies, particularly those companies exploiting innovative technologies. Innvotec is also among a new breed of venture capital fund manager, one that wishes to utilise its know-how and experience to work alongside entrepreneurial groups (its Partners) who wish to raise a fund but have neither the expertise nor regulatory approvals to do so.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Iona Capital Ltd manages funds for institutional investors which provide equity and subordinated debt into renewable infrastructure projects in the BioEnergy sector. Our investment focus is on long term, low risk, infrastructure projects that deliver non correlated cash yields to investors in excess of 10% p.a. Iona develops strategic partnerships and uses sector-specific expertise and financial skills to source, evaluate, execute and monitor investments on behalf of its investors.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: IP Group offers more than traditional venture capital, providing its companies with access to business building expertise, networks, recruitment and business support.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We invest in innovative, early growth stage, high-tech businesses: usually post- revenue companies with evidence of scalability. These companies typically use B2B models and operate in IT and Internet, Communications, Electronics, Robotics or Med Tech sectors. We can invest £1-5m in the first round and subsequently add further capital through follow-on investments. For the first investment round, we always partner with an expert private investor (or 'IQ Angel'), who invests alongside the fund and commits their exceptional experience and time to the investee companies. We also occasionally make small seed investments in exceptional teams. These teams are always identified by us directly or come to us through our own network or referred through an appropriate IQ Angel. The IQ Capital II fund (£42m first close) started investing in November 2014, both IQ Capital Fund II and IQ Capital Fund I are created under the Enterprise Capital Funds programme.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We are JamJar. The consumer Venture Capital fund run by the innocent drinks founders. Our mission is simple: help entrepreneurs be successful with consumers. We invest in strong teams with a digital/offline product that consumers love.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We like businesses that have identified a way to break out of traditional markets. Our favourite companies are bootstrapped. They are managed by their founders or by management teams that are significant equity shareholders. Sectors we invest in include technology-enabled business services, digital media, e-commerce, consumer Internet, enterprise software, telecoms software and infrastructure, semiconductors and IT services. We like stand-alone investment opportunities, but also divestitures, buyouts, management buy-ins, take-private transactions, and recapitalizations. See our Deal Glossary. We can invest up to $20 million on our own, or as much as $50 million together with our institutional investors or syndicate partners. Most of our investments are a combination of new capital to fund growth, and the purchase of partial equity stakes from founders or earlier investors. Our funding is used to accelerate expansion, to fund acquisitions, to bolster the balance sheet, or to cash out existing shareholders. We are patient investors, and in most cases our holding period is between two and five years. We invest in you and your team. Our approach is to contribute proactively on your Board of Directors, but not to interfere in the day-to-day running of your business. As your business grows, we help you tackle the difficult challenges around competitive positioning, business development strategies, executive recruitment and exit planning. For more, see For Entrepreneurs.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Kreos has focused for 15 years on providing finance to high-growth companies with revenues up to €150 million, and has so far committed €1.4 billion to more than 400 portfolio companies.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The Lachesis Fund is an early stage seed fund investing in the technologies arising from research undertaken at the Universities of Derby, De Montfort, Leicester, Lincoln, Loughborough, Northampton, Nottingham and Nottingham Trent. The Fund Provides venture capital investment to transform innovative research into commercial reality. The Lachesis Fund invests in spin out companies emerging from our partner Universities (De Montfort University, University of Derby, Loughborough University, University of Leicester, University of Lincoln, University of Northampton, University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University). Investments range in size from £25K to £250K. Investments support projects in various ways: securing of commercial staff, enhancing and verifying intellectual property, prototype development, market research and business plan preparation.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Lean Investments LP is a seed fund which invests in early-stage Internet and other technology startups based in Europe. The fund is a private vehicle founded by Tim Jackson, a leading figure in the European technology scene as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, angel investor, commentator and technology journalist.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The Co-Investment Fund is founded and managed by Funding and Capital Enterprise. It has raised £25m from the Mayor of ’s Growing Places Fund to co-invest in seed rounds between £250,000- £1,000,000, led by our selected co-investment partners. We are looking to invest in high growth tech, science and digital startups in . Could that be you? The stated aim of the Co-investment Fund is to enable the start-ups who can raise funds, to raise significantly more, so they have sufficient money, time and resources to prove their business model. The additional resources allow the start-ups to be well equipped for their subsequent funding rounds. The end objective is to empower ’s start-ups to grow into tech giants.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Venture Partners is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - we're operating experts in the online, social, mobile and tablet games world, and we only ever invest in those sectors.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Longwall Venture Partners LLP was founded in 2011 by Matthew Frohn, Michael Penington and David Denny to manage early stage venture funds and is based in Oxford. The partnership currently manages two funds: the £30m Oxford Technology Enterprise Capital Fund; and the £40m Longwall Ventures ECF fund.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: At m8 Capital all we do is mobile, we are passionate about it. New computing cycles have commenced every ten years and each new cycle is generating ten times the previous install base.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: At Mangrove we want to be involved in the great entrepreneurial journeys. We believe that entrepreneurs are the real stars and spend our time traveling extensively across the globe looking for the next big thing.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Maven is an independent alternative asset manager, investing primarily in later-stage UK companies, typically valued at up to £25m. We provide flexible funding packages for entrepreneurial businesses, normally committing between £2m and £10m of finance in a single transaction.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Mercia Fund Management is one of the leading technology investors in the UK. We work in partnership with pioneering UK businesses, both with financial support and our expertise, to help accelerate future growth.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Midven is an owner managed, entrepreneurial, venture capital company located in the heart of Birmingham. We have been successfully investing in dynamic, small and medium sized businesses since we started in 1990 when six Midlands based entrepreneurs established the business.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Mosaic Ventures is a new Silicon Valley-style venture capital firm based in , focused on Series A. We are investing a $140 million fund in founding teams that are fundamentally reshaping big markets.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: MSIF has been investing in Merseyside businesses since 1994. We are a local, independent organisation which is not bound by national policy - all lending decisions are made here in Liverpool. Our experience and local knowledge of the unique characteristics of the region gives us a greater understanding of the business community here and we don’t conform to a “one size fits all” approach. Many of our applicants and clients have struggled to get investment from other sources. We take each application at face value; if a business or business idea can show it is sustainable and profitable then there is every chance we will be interested in making an investment. We want to provide support over and above just providing finance. As well as the additional services we provide, we also use our close links with numerous individuals and organisations within the local business and professional community to connect businesses with useful contacts to help start or grow their business.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: MTI has been investing since 1983, helping entrepreneurs realise their visions and stakeholders create value.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: MVM was founded in 1997 and manages several funds totaling more than $700 million. MVM has a global perspective on healthcare and maintains offices in Boston and .
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: NEL Fund Managers Limited is an independent fund management company, which provides financial products to small and medium-sized businesses based in the North East of England. Originally set up in 1989 to provide unsecured loan funding to regional businesses, NEL is the region’s most active business investor and has since managed fifteen funds with a combined value of over £90m, including the new £23m Finance for Business North East Growth Fund. We have invested in over 200 regional companies in the last five years alone, with hundreds of companies and thousands of jobs in every part of the region being supported. Both early and late stage capital investments are available from NEL, according to investees’ needs; and alongside large numbers of investments in traditional industries, an increasing number of technology investments have also been made in recent years as the region’s knowledge economy has expanded and thrived. NEL is always looking to support North East companies with strong management teams and robust business plans for the future. For an initial discussion of your firm’s investment requirements, please call 0845 111 1850 or visit our contact us page.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: As the regional business development agency, Invest NI's role is to grow the local economy. We do this by helping new and existing businesses to compete internationally, and by attracting new investment to Northern Ireland. We are part of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment and provide strong government support for business by effectively delivering the Government’s economic development strategies. Invest NI offers the Northern Ireland business community a single organisation providing high-quality services, programmes, support and expert advice. We principally support those businesses that can make the greatest contribution to growing our economy. These are businesses that have ability to grow and drive productivity in the economy and are keen to export their goods and services outside Northern Ireland.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The North East Technology Fund is managed by IP Group and is specifically for the technology and innovation sectors. The fund supports technology businesses at any stage of their development with investments made principally to address the demand for seed and development stage finance. Managed by IP Group plc the £28m North East Technology Fund invests in technology businesses which are based in, or are willing to relocate to North East England. We aim to provide flexible investment structures in the form of equity and mezzanine debt to businesses at all stages of their development. We have invested from as little as £50k in start up businesses to seven figure seed investments and have co-invested in multi-million pound series A transactions.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Based in Newcastle and Darlington, Northstar Ventures is a venture capital firm with over £95m under management. Northstar Ventures was founded in 2004, since when we have been inspiring local entrepreneurs and social enterprises with financial backing, and working alongside management teams in new and growing organisations to help them develop and grow.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We invest only in B2B and always a Cloud/SaaS delivery model. We break our own rules occasionally so an exceptional B2B2C business model might make the cut. But most of all we invest in people, which means you, the founders and the people you have around you, your team, your advisors, partners and investors.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Nova Founders Capital builds and backs sustainable large-scale business models in the financial services sector, combining our execution know-how with the right experts in the respective field.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Octopus is a very different type of investment company. Whether you’re a financial adviser, an investor looking for tax-efficient ways of investing in the UK’s smallest and most dynamic businesses, or a company seeking finance for growth, we’re here to help. By putting your needs first, by listening and really understanding what you want, we can help you do smarter things with your money. We manage nearly £5billion for over 50,000 customers. We offer straightforward products which solve problems faced by real people. We don’t believe in unnecessary complexity and only launch products when we’re confident they’ll do what we say they will. We’re working hand-in-hand with some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs and management teams, financing companies capable of creating, transforming or dominating markets. Exceptional customer service and clear communication are integral to everything we do.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Chicago-based Origin Capital is a real estate investment manager that acquires commercial assets on behalf of its principals and investment partners. The firm has offices in Chicago, Atlanta, Charlotte and Dallas, where dedicated regional teams source and manage its portfolio properties.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: For more than 30 years, Oxford Technology has specialised in investing in start-up and early stage technology companies based near Oxford. Investments in start-up technology companies are notoriously among the highest risk forms of investment. There are so many things which can and do go wrong. But the SEIS scheme greatly reduces the losses on any failures. And the other side of the high risk coin is that the capital gains when things go well can be substantial. And under the SEIS and EIS schemes all such gains are free of tax. So, Oxford Technology has issued an Information Memorandum seeking to raise funds to be invested, provided good quality opportunities can be found, in SEIS technology start-ups, and then in years 2-3 in follow on EIS investments, in those of the earlier SEIS investees which are developing well.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Panoramic Growth Equity was set up by Stephen Campbell, David Wilson and Malcolm Kpedekpo to provide growth equity for growth companies.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Par Equity is an investment firm with a difference.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Partech Ventures is a transatlantic venture capital firm, with offices in San Francisco, Paris and Berlin. We help outstanding entrepreneurs build innovative companies that will be remembered. We are organized by investment stage: seed, venture, growth. We all share the same passion for disruptive companies.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Passion Capital is a tech focused investment firm with an impressive portfolio.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: PHD Equity Partners is a dedicated independent investment and advisory private equity firm that is owned and controlled by the Partners. We seek to invest in UK businesses with an enterprise value of up to £10m usually taking a minority stake.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Playfair Capital is an early stage investment fund founded in 2011 by Federico Pirzio-Biroli. From our headquarters, we invest in tenacious entrepreneurs building technology that generates a quantum leap in the way people live, work, and play for the better.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: One team - both sides of the Atlantic. Our team in Silicon Valley, & Israel is dedicated to building technology into global success stories. We focus on investing in ideas which start in any of our geographies, but whose success is destined to be Worldwide.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We are a venture capital fund for entrepreneurs powered by entrepreneurs. Our investors and principals number some of the best-known players within the digital media space -- people who have built some of Europe's most successful companies.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Recruitment Entrepreneur invests exclusively in the recruitment and staffing sector. We invest in passionate, experienced entrepreneurs to start or scale their early stage recruitment businesses.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Our network of contacts, combined with the credentials of our team and our leading reputation in this field, make Ruffena Capital the ‘go to’ team for compelling and high growth businesses seeking investment and finance. This places us in the perfect position to bring investors the very best investment opportunities, from equity investment to alternative finance across all sectors and stages, including property.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We are all founding entrepreneurs who’ve 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
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: SETN had a focus on supporting SMEs and micro-sized innovative companies where a lack of financial resources, detailed technical knowledge and expertise, laboratory space and equipment are significant barriers to their development. The core interventions were a unique and powerful combination, providing deep sectoral technology and market knowledge/expertise, tailored introductions to potential collaborators and access to dedicated laboratory services/facilities for trials, testing and verification of technologies. SETN maintained a leading position in the ECT sector over 8 years, supporting entrepreneurs and established businesses in a vibrant community of over 250 SMEs. In the period Nov 2010-Jan 2014, the network supported the creation of 473 jobs and safeguarded a further 554. Member companies reported having created or significantly improved 240 products, processes or services with an associated increase in turnover of £38m. SETN had been established in 2006 as an extension of the industry focused Contaminated Land Assessment & Remediation Research Centre (CLARRC). CLARRC was founded 1998 as a centre of excellence with SHEFC RDG funding and was hosted at the University of Edinburgh. The Director, Dr Colin Cunningham, broadened the scope of CLARRC to meet a growing demand for support from Scottish SMEs in the emerging ECT sector.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: SEP’s history in venture capital goes back to 1991. Since then we have invested in over 150 companies, many of which have gone on to achieve considerable success on a global scale.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: This fund is delivered by our investment arm, the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB). The Scottish Co-investment Fund (SCF) is widening its parameters and continues to invest alongside accredited investment partners The Scottish Venture Fund (SVF) is now an amalgamation of the Scottish Seed Fund, the Scottish Venture Fund and the Scottish Portfolio Fund Investment now starts at £10,000 for both funds (on deals of £20,000 or more) and up to £1.5 million via the SCF and up to £2 million via the SVF. Both funds continue to co-invest alongside private sector investors.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The Scottish Venture Fund invests in companies from start ups, early-stage to expanding businesses seeking funding to develop products and/or markets. This fund can invest alongside private sector investors on equal terms, up to a maximum of 50% of the total funding package on a commercial basis. We can provide from £10,000 up to £2 million, as part of a total deal size ranging from £20,000 to £10 million. The fund is primarily equity-based (Scottish Enterprise will subscribe for shares), however, we will consider other forms of investment. We take a flexible approach, ensuring the most appropriate solution is provided for the companies’ circumstances, working alongside the private sector investor(s).
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Seed Mentors has become one of the leading independent investment specialists in identifying and mentoring start-up and smaller businesses across a broad number of sectors in the UK. In many instances, but not exclusively, Seed Mentors will use the Seed EIS scheme, which was introduced by the Government in 2012.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: OUR TRACK RECORD IN SEIS FUNDING IS INCOMPARABLE Since 2014, we have invested over £3m across more than 40 high potential companies operating in various sectors. The 2014 edition of our SEIS fund is already showing a 30% uplift on cost. Our model is to co-invest with experienced business angels who help bring sector expertise and additional funding: more than £2m has been co-invested in our portfolio companies. This reduces our risk profile and gives startups a better chance of success.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Venture capital We wish to partner with fast growing, innovative technology or technology-enabled companies. Growth equity We are particularly keen on companies with the following characteristics. a track record of substantial revenue growth at or close to profitability a product or service that has been developed or proven targeting a large and attractive market the opportunity for significant further growth above all, a first class entrepreneurial management team Deal size We typically invest up to £20m in individual companies, either as sole, lead or co-lead investor. We can also invest in larger transactions in partnership with other investors. Sector focus Software, digital media, e-commerce, energy and healthcare. Geographic focus Primarily UK-based companies addressing international markets but we do consider investment in companies in other European countries by exception. Co-investment We can source additional investment from our Limited Partners (the investors in our funds) on a deal by deal basis, further increasing our investment range. Early stage We also have an ancillary investment programme for smaller, earlier stage companies that have the following characteristics:- a capital efficient business model strong differentiation and potentially substantial competitive advantage a commercially validated product or service the opportunity to build a scalable and valuable business
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Seraphim Capital is a venture fund that invests in exciting, disruptive and scalable technology businesses. The fund is sector and stage agnostic, giving it breadth and flexibility to partner with the businesses that it is passionate about.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We invest £2-15M in fast growing UK and Nordic businesses across many industries. Smedvig Capital was founded in 1996 and has invested over £500M of internal capital. We‘re a team with a shared passion for working with entrepreneurs. An investor who takes as much interest in your business as you do. We believe in getting deeper with the businesses we work with to thoroughly understand their dynamics, culture and most importantly, people. Deeper involvement leads to greater success.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: SPARK Ventures is a leading European early stage venture capital company. Across a range of funds, we invest in the UK's best technology to create great companies with world class potential
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: We help entrepreneurs raise early stage funding to take their ideas to the next stage of their development. Startup Funding Club was formed in 2012 by Stephen Page and four experienced entrepreneurs and investors. Recognising the boom in numbers of exciting new startups in the UK and the difficulty to access seed funding, Startup Funding Club aims to plug this gap through a collaboration of entrepreneurs, investors and service providers active in the UK startup community. All of the founders and advisors have been involved in funding, managing, and mentoring new businesses for many years. Startup Funding Club works with a large number of industry experts who provide invaluable advice to startups. A lot of them currently act as growth coaches and work with our SFC SEIS Fund and the Odyssey Mission. Thanks to these people, our industry knowledge is constantly expanding and covers now almost all industries.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Strathdon Investments delisted from AIM as of 9 January 2012 in accordance with the approved resolutions of the general meeting on 30 December 2011. Strathdon Investments Ltd and its subsidiaries (together the "Strathdon Group") holds a portfolio of unquoted investments which are in the process of realisation. These investments are primarily in UK-based technology application businesses. Strathdon Group is focussed on extracting maximum value out of its existing portfolio. With the proceeds of these realisations, Strathdon is considering certain new investments in equity and debt securities. The Board of Strathdon Group is now responsible for all day to day activities of the Group Entities including inter alia portfolio management and financial reporting.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Welcome to Strathtay Ventures, the investment management subsidiary of Braveheart Investment Group plc. Established in 1997, Strathtay has a strong and tangible track record investing in unquoted growth companies; and in generating attractive returns for its private investor and family office clients for which it provides comprehensive discretionary or advisory investment management services. For companies, Strathtay offers direct investment (using private investors’ funds and those of Braveheart Investment Group plc) and co-investment alongside trusted partners. Investment sizes range from £100,000 to £10 million (the latter being syndicated), with a strong culture of engaging in follow-on funding for existing investee companies. Principally focussed on Scottish-based enterprises, Strathtay also manages various funds. These include the Lachesis Fund, the Viking Growth Fund, the Strathclyde Innovation Fund, the Alpha EIS Fund and the SMART Equity Fund. Strathtay Ventures Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. It is also a member of the British Venture Capital Association and a member of the EIS Association.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Summit Partners was founded in 1984 with a commitment to find and partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to help them accelerate their growth and achieve dramatic results.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Supremum Capital has access to broad sources of capital, including banks, private equity funds and high net worth individuals. These include domestic banks, private and corporate investors, as well as overseas equity and debt sources seeking investment opportunities in Russia and abroad. Our extensive network of relationships with financial and strategic investors allows us to arrange financing and investments in diverse asset classes ranging from pure equity to secured debt.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Sussex Place Ventures invests at an early stage in software companies, in businesses developing technology with strong patent-protectable intellectual property and in digital businesses.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The Coalfields Funds are able to offer investment of up to £1.5 million in the form of equity and equity-related funding and are flexible in their approach.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: The Mercer Feasibility Awards provide initial support to test the feasibility of a project in the three general areas; the built environment, nanoscience/ nanotechnology, clean technology, energy and electrotechnology, enabling holders to investigate the technical and economical feasibility of commercialising an aspect of their scientific research, possibly in conjunction with a third party. The Mercer Feasibility awards are open to applicants of any nationality who have a PhD (or are of equivalent standing in their profession) and who hold a substantive post in such an establishment and will be in post at the host organisation for at least the duration of the project. The project must be commenced within three months of the date of notification.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: TVM Capital Life Science is a group of independent investment advisories and fund managers for Venture Capital funds, investing into innovative biotech, pharmaceutical, and medtech companies in Europe, Canada the USA and Asia, with teams based in Munich and Montreal. Since inception, TVM Capital Life Science has invested in entrepreneurial venture backed companies. Over several fund generations, our investment strategy has included a multi-stage investment approach spanning discovery to market ready companies as well as profitable companies searching for growth capital. Our investment focus has always been broad and includes investments in therapeutics, technology platforms, medtech and diagnostics. We invest in Canada, the U.S., Germany and Western Europe with our dedicated team of investment professionals based in Montreal and Munich.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: Wellington Partners is one of the most successful pan-European venture capital firms and a market leader in Germany. With funds totalling some € 800 million, we have invested throughout Europe in companies that have the potential to become real market leaders for more than 14 years.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: WhiteRock Capital Partners LLP was established by Braveheart Investment Group and consortium partners NEL Fund Managers and Clarendon Fund Managers. The Growth Loan Fund will provide loans, primarily unsecured in nature, of between £50,000 and £500,000 over the next 5 years to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Loans will be made to businesses that can demonstrate sales and profitability growth or growth potential. The Fund is targeting businesses with export potential which are mainly in the manufacturing, engineering or tradable services sectors. The Fund is run on a fully commercial basis. Finance for the Fund has been provided by Invest NI (£25m), partly through the European Regional Development Fund, with additional finance provided by the private sector.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Short Description: YFM Equity Partners has a 30 year history of investing in and transforming fast-growing small UK businesses.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
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