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The Fund will seek to identify the most ambitious and scalable opportunities in the design sector today and believe that the Fund has the right investment approach and access to quality deals that have the potential to deliver exceptional returns. We will assist the Investee Companies to build products that people want and need. In doing this, the Fund will invest in some of the UK’s potentially most exciting design companies, helping them grow and taking them to the next level of their development.
Key Individuals - Damon Bonser is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years’ experience of building and running product design and manufacturing businesses. The CEO, investor and mentor started out in business when he was in his mid-20s, after finishing university. Fast forward to October 2019 and the BDF has invested just under £1m into six companies, with the aim of expanding their portfolio over the coming years.
Damon is supported by a team of experienced investment professionals with backgrounds in venture capital, private equity and entrepreneurship.
Investment goal
Growth
Relative risk
High / Adventurous - Capital at Risk
Invests in
UK Product design
Manufacturing
Target Return
3x return after six years
Not a reliable indicator of future income.
CURRENT STATUS - OPEN
Open to new investors. Fund close date 31 March 2020. The minimum investment is £10,000.
The British Design Fund 2 invests in and provides support for UK product design and manufacturing companies. As per John Mathers (a director of Twenty20 Mentoring and former Design Council CEO), the UK has become “the second-largest design sector in the world and the largest design industry in Europe”.
The Fund is driven by a mentoring team with strong retail and product experience, and this team (headed by Damon Bonser and John Mathers) maintains several close partnerships and relationships with design institutions and accelerators such as Design Council’s Spark2, the New Designers Show, Luma ID design agency, and the Central Research Laboratory. Through these initiatives, as well the Fund’s wider network and ongoing marketing activities, the Fund has access to a selection of investment opportunities in the product design and manufacturing sector for the Fund to potentially invest in.
Kokoon’s, Bluetooth, noise-cancelling headphones which uses sensors and audio within a feedback loop to monitor, protect, and induce sleep.
Lutra Marine supply precision, environmentally friendly dredging equipment to the marine and other sectors
KTech Manufacturing Limited
kTech manufacturing is an idea for a new range of products, using the 221 series of connectors from Wago.
Full initial charge | 0% |
Annual management charge | 0% |
Administration charge | 0% |
Performance fee | 20% |
Initial charge | 5% |
Annual management charge | 2/4% |
An annual charge is payable to the Investment Manager by each Investee Company of between 2% to 4% of the amounts invested in the Investee Company, determined by the level of support required by the Investee Company.
Please check the fees section of the Information Memorandum for full details. All fees and charges are stated exclusive of VAT, which may be applicable in some cases. Any fees and charges payable by the investee companies or the underlying businesses do not directly come out of your investment. However, they will effectively reduce the returns generated by investee companies and therefore directly impact your investment.
To invest, you must be an eligible investor. To be an eligible investor, you must be qualifying as one or more of the following:
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.
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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.
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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
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Sapphire Capital Partners LLP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance and may not be repeated. You should be aware that values can go down as well as up and you may not get back all or any of the amount you originally invested.
Sapphire Capital Partners LLP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance and may not be repeated. You should be aware that values can go down as well as up and you may not get back all or any of the amount you originally invested.