Say hello to our visionaries. 

The SidebySide Partnership:

"We aim to fill a historic EIS market void, as “fewer than one in ten firms that obtain seed funding in the UK go on to receive later stage fourth round investment” that is usually required to become ‘substantial, big and strong’ mainstream businesses. Our aim is to select, support and grow those few businesses that we believe, by applying our expertise along with funding, will grow to be ‘substantial, big and strong’."

This Fund will invest in high-growth but more established technology-enabled EIS companies, led by driven teams who dream big. SidebySide help investees enhance the value of the investment by applying our decades of experience building private, public and international businesses. The approach is modelled on past successes in this space where there is a need to have a high-touch engagement of up to two days a month mentoring and directly working with each management team on day-to-day issues.

Consequently, SidebySide intend to have a relatively small (up to ten) number of companies in the Fund, at any one time, to ensure each company has access to SidebySide for the advice they need to reach their potential. The investments will usually be held for a period longer than five years, to allow companies to complete their journey into their mainstream markets. 

Nova Growth Capital

"We believe we owe it to our entrepreneurs and our Investors to create a more rewarding experience, and this belief led Nova to develop the Cofoundery business model"

The Fund is an opportunity to invest alongside an experienced partner in Nova Cofoundery Limited ("Nova") in their portfolio of early-stage companies.

EMV Capital:

"Making smart investments in early-stage companies takes time, experience and a robust process for monitoring and supporting companies’ post-investment."

EMVC has a strong infrastructure for sourcing, evaluating, investing in and supporting companies with this profile, leveraging its network of private and institutional investors, corporate partners, and industry experts. Now, through the EMVC Evergreen EIS Fund, qualifying investors may benefit from the EMVC team's expertise and ecosystem.

Creative England:

"The Fund is an investment opportunity in a portfolio of early stage creative and digital businesses."

Creative England was launched in October 2011 as a government initiative and is now an independent company that invests in creative talent and businesses. Via the Fund, Creative England seeks to assist Sapphire Capital Partners LLP to unlock the power of the creative economy by investing in early-stage creative and digital businesses. It will also help the businesses grow by providing mentoring and support.

Growth Invest:

"GrowthInvest works closely with entrepreneurs, assisting with investment readiness, structuring of investment rounds and HMRC compliance."

GrowthInvest works closely with entrepreneurs, assisting with investment readiness, structuring of investment rounds and HMRC compliance. We aim to build strong relationships with the platform businesses, supporting them throughout their journey in order to generate the best possible outcome for the GrowthInvest investors. The platform technology provides the investors on our platform with full transparency on the underlying investments alongside efficient regular reporting at company level.

From our experience at GrowthInvest, the Fund has been designed to consist of three sub-funds, each with a separate investment policy. The first will target Investee Companies that qualify for SEIS Reliefs only. The second will target Investee Companies that qualify for EIS Reliefs only and the third will be a mixed investment policy which will target Investee Companies that qualify for SEIS Reliefs and/or EIS Reliefs. You will be able to choose how much of your subscription to allocate to each of these three sub-funds. The Fund is aiming to exit investments after three to seven years.

Velocity Capital Advisors:

"Velocity Capital Advisors Limited was set up as a vehicle to facilitate participation in exciting, young companies, which have technology at the core of their offering."

Velocity Capital Advisors Limited was set up as a vehicle to facilitate participation in exciting, young companies, which have technology at the core of their offering. We look to work with companies that are innovative, can scale quickly and provide a product or service that is genuinely useful to their customers, whether B2C or B2B.

The Investment Consultant believes that the UK Consumer Technology Market currently offers attractive EIS investment opportunities and it will source opportunities to allow the Funds to invest in companies that, in the Investment Consultant’s opinion, meet the following criteria:

1. Have a consumer technology focus

2. High growth, capital appreciation potential

3. Have obtained advanced assurance of qualification for EIS tax relief.

Vala Capital:

"This Fund was created to invest in companies run by skilled entrepreneurs, who have the potential to build exceptional businesses."

The Vala EIS Portfolio builds on the expertise of a group of serial entrepreneurs, who over many years have given blood, sweat and tears to create, build and sell businesses across various industries. We have invested more than £30m of our own money into early-stage businesses and raised more than £75m from other investors for those companies.