We provide better ways to launch, manage and grow venture capital funds
We play the long game to back and support our chosen visionaries.
We back visionaries to launch sector-leading early-stage venture capital funds. We then provide the funds with the management, tools and resources to excel within their chosen VC ecosystem. Our chosen visionaries are industry experts with transformative ideas and a passion for identifying and investing in the companies of the future. The future is exciting.
We believe in disruption and so do our visionaries.
Mark is a fearless entrepreneur and a highly successful investor. He previously founded and exited MyVoucherCode for £55 million before launching Fuel Ventures. Mark also personally invested in many lucrative early-stage companies.
Fuel Ventures is one of the UK's most active venture capital funds. The firm aims to scale up the UK's most promising SaaS, platforms and online marketplace companies.
Claire is a highly experienced finance professional. After working for numerous prestigious financial firms, she is now using her skills to fight animal cruelty and promote the alternative lifestyle. She notably engineered the first-ever vegan ETF listed on the New-York stock exchange and funded influential non-profit foundations.
Claire has launched the Beyond Impact Vegan EIS and SEIS Fund I, with the aim to invest in sustainable companies that follow her vision of impact investing.
Jasper is a serial entrepreneur and an inspiring environmentalist. After sailing from Australia to Alaska via the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia he founded PlayJam that he ultimately scaled into the world's largest TV games network. He later co-founded several highly successful businesses in the media and gaming industry before launching Vala Capital.
Vala Capital aims to grow the UK's most innovative B2C and B2B companies.
Nicola is a highly accomplished business leader, entrepreneur and investor in the life science industry. After working as an investment director for Mercia, she joined Oskare Capital to lead investments into exceptional medical and pharmaceutical companies.
Oskare Capital's Medcan Fund will focus its investments on deep tech and life science endocannabinoid companies.
We’ve got everything sorted in one place (almost).
01
Fund Incubation
Sapphire partners with industry leaders, writes the investment fund documents and conducts in depth reviews of the market.
02
Investor onboarding
Sapphire carries anti-money laundering checks on all investors and assesses the investor. Sapphire also offers a fully compliant, integrated and customisable online application form to support our funds.
03
Ongoing management
Sapphire will carry out the due diligence on investee companies, make investment management decisions, execute capital deployments, and ensure regulatory compliance throughout the life of the fund.
04
Fund exit
Sapphire will oversee the wind down of the fund, and transfer, sell or dispose of any remaining assets within the fund.
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