The team behind the Vala EIS portfolio has been founding and investing in early-stage businesses for years. The fund will invest across a range of sectors from engineering and fintech to media and food & drink. ...
These days investors are overwhelmed with brilliant new ideas promising to be the next big thing. A start-up destined to be the next Facebook; a gadget touting itself as the new iPod; a drug promising to ...
Downing ONE is Downing’s longest-established and largest VCT, with net assets of £104 million (Mar 2019). Downing ONE VCT invests both in unquoted and listed (mainly AIM) companies.Under the current offer, the VCT seeks to raise ...
The Nexus Scale-Up fund will invest in EIS qualifying companies across four sectors: education, healthy eating, data and digital. Whilst this is a new fund, the Nexus team has a strong track record in investing in ...
Why wind energy?Wind turbines operate on a simple principle. The energy in the wind turns two or three propeller-like blades around a rotor. The rotor is connected to the main shaft which generates green, clean electricity, ...
Triple Point 2011 VCT has launched a Venture Share class, known as the Triple Point Venture Fund. The first share offer raised around £7 million. The 2019/20 share offer aims to raise up to £10 million ...
The Seneca Growth Capital VCT is raising up to £10 million, with a £10 million overallotment facility. HighlightsNew VCT offering launched in 2018Raised £5.5 million in first share offer and invested £2.75 million to date across ...
The Puma Alpha VCT plc is the fourteenth Puma VCT, raising up to £50 million (£30 million plus £20 million over allotment). HighlightsTargets an average dividend of 5p per annum from April 2023 (not guaranteed)Puma’s fourteenth ...
Octopus Apollo VCT seeks to raise up to £20 million (with a £10 million overallotment facility).Highlights Large and diverse portfolio of over 50 companiesManaged by the largest VCT managerAims to invest in proven businesses, not startupsMixture ...
As a nation, we are pretty good at startups. The UK creates more “unicorns” than any other European country. A unicorn is a startup now valued at more than one billion dollars. Examples include Zoopla, ASOS, ...
