SidebySide EIS Venture Fund

Side by Side look to deliver superior returns on your investment by combining capital investment with decades of experience building private, public and international businesses. The goal is to finance and guide the management teams of Investee Companies through the process of becoming a mature corporate entity. In Side by Side's experience, the faster the growth rate, the more frequent and severe the complications seem to be in young companies. Rather than have them settle for lower goals or slower growth, Side by Side meet with their teams every two weeks to help solve growth problems.

Side by Side intend to create significant capital growth by investing in businesses and entrepreneurs with characteristics Side by Side can relate to, based on previous investments. Some of the attributes Side by Side seek are:

• A driven and ambitious management team.
• Businesses with significant growth records and at least three years of meaningful revenue in the scale-up stage, and with one to ten million pounds in revenue.
• Strong customer endorsement of the product or service offered.
• Founders with significant personal investments in the company (not just sweat equity) and who are paying themselves modest salaries.
• Companies that are reasonably and fairly valued.
• Regionally based companies.

Side by Side look for opportunities based on the application of technology to a traditional task which is transformed as a result, and for which the customers perceive and agree that the company’s product or service offering can either solve the problem or create new opportunities.

To invest, you must be an eligible investor. To be an eligible investor, you must be qualifying as one or more of the following:

• You meet the FCA’s definition of a professional investor.
• You meet the FCA’s definition of a certified high net worth investor.
• You meet the FCA’s definition of a self-certified sophisticated investor.
• You meet the FCA’s definition of a self-certified restricted investor.
• You are a client of an FCA authorised firm that will provide advice on the suitability of the product in question.

Risk Warning

Important information for private investors – Reliance on the information provided here to engage in any investment activity may expose an individual to a significant risk of losing all of the property or other assets invested. Your attention is drawn to the risk section contained within the Information Memorandum. Investments are typically in unquoted shares in small companies, the value of which can be volatile and are often difficult to sell. Nothing on this website constitutes investment, tax, financial, legal, regulatory, or other advice by Sapphire Capital Partners LLP.

The value of an investment may go down as well as up, and you may not get back the full amount invested, and you may therefore lose some or all of your investment.

If you are unsure of the suitability of any investment for your circumstances, please contact your independent financial advisor or other professional advisor authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA) who specialises in advising on investments of this type. Tax reliefs depend on individual circumstances. There is no guarantee however that the tax reliefs (such as EIS reliefs, CGT reliefs or IHT relief) will be available on any investment made or that if it is initially available, it will not be subsequently withdrawn. Any references to tax laws or rates are based on current legislation, all of which are subject to change and are provided as a guide only. Prospective investors are advised to take their own investment and taxation advice and should consult their own professional advisors on the implications of investing.

Investments made in investee companies via funds managed by Sapphire Capital Partners LLP are not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). For more details, please contact us or refer to their website: https://www.fscs.org.uk

Past performance is not a guide to future returns.