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Northern VCTs: an interview with Tim Levett

1 March 2020

I met with Tim Levett of NVM in January 2020 to talk about the Northern VCTs. We discussed what the VCTs aim to achieve, how they’ve fared in the last year and what investors can expect, ...

2018 Maserati 100 list: VCT and EIS-backed companies

30 April 2018

At the weekend, Maserati published the “2018 Maserati 100” in conjunction with The Sunday Times. Now in its fourth year, the list celebrates one hundred “game-changing entrepreneurs” who have had a big idea and converted it ...

Mobeus VCT exit: Baby Gro-Bag maker sold for £22 million

5 January 2018

Mobeus VCT portfolio company Gro-Group Holdings Ltd, the business behind the popular Gro Bag brand of baby sleeping bags, has been sold to Mayborn Group, the owner of the Tommee Tippee brand, for £22 million. The ...

Exit for Maven VCTs – Crawford Scientific

20 October 2017

Maven Capital Partners, the manager of the Maven VCTs, has just announced an exit from one of the largest holdings across its VCTs. Crawford Scientific, a leading supplier of chromatography products and analytical services to the ...

Eve Sleep: investment story behind the VCT-backed company

18 May 2017

Shares in eve Sleep plc (LON:EVE), the VCT-backed mattress-in-a-box pioneer, made their debut on London's AIM this week. The IPO has raised a further £35 million to fuel the company’s growth plans, and values the two-and-a-half ...

Three VCT providers investing in Velocity Composites IPO

16 May 2017

Hargreave Hale, Octopus and Amati are all investing in Velocity Composites plc, which has its IPO on AIM this week. The Burnley-based company manufactures carbon-fibre composite materials for the aerospace industry. Its customers are aircraft builders. ...

First London IPO of 2017 will be a VCT-backed company

15 May 2017

London’s first retail IPO of 2017 will be a VCT-backed company. Mattress-in-a-box ecommerce company eve Sleep Ltd, backed by Octopus Investments, has announced it will float on AIM on Thursday 18 May. The 2½ year old ...