Here is a list of current 2018-19 EIS investment opportunities – including managed EIS funds and single company EIS offers. Click through to read our review of each EIS offer, download the documents and find full details on how to invest.
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Invests across various technology sectors, including energy, medical and business enterprise software. Transparent – investors can see which underlying companies they will be invested in. Targets a return of £1.60 per £1 invested and should be viewed as at the upper end of the risk scale.
This EIS gives you an opportunity to invest in Digme Fitness, an established boutique fitness studio operator providing Spin (indoor cycling) and HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) sessions.
Parkwalk is an interesting high-growth fund that looks to back patented technology with commercial potential coming out of UK universities. The fee structure incentivises management to seek exits rather than sit on investments.
Choice of EIS or SEIS. Invests alongside business angels in early-stage, high growth potential companies carrying high investment risk. The co-investment model has benefits, and the individuals involved have strong credentials.
Calculus Capital has been at the forefront of EIS investing for years, having created the UK’s first approved EIS Fund in 1999. This offer focuses on established businesses with growth potential and will be typically split between eight to ten investments.
CHF Media Fund will invest in companies that own the intellectual property rights (IPR) to newly developed family, or children’s, television shows/concepts. Funds are used to create the IPR, which is then monetised through licensing, merchandising and broadcast sales.
The Deepbridge Life Sciences EIS offers an opportunity to invest in a selected portfolio of healthcare innovation companies, whilst taking advantage of the EIS tax benefits.
Foresight Group has joined forces with Williams Advanced Engineering: the result is the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund. The fund invests into early-stage, unquoted companies that are developing disruptive technology and pioneering innovations, which can benefit from Williams’ technical, engineering and commercial expertise.
The Guinness AIM EIS is the only EIS portfolio currently dedicated to AIM-listed EIS-qualifying companies. It aims to deploy investors’ capital within twelve months.
Jenson's first SEIS first fund was launched soon after the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme was introduced in 2012. This sixth tranche of the Jenson SEIS and EIS fund offers a mixture of new technology investments and follow-on funding into companies previously backed by Jenson SEIS and EIS funds.
Mercia EIS Fund invests in early-stage technology and life sciences, seeking to commercialise developments from industry and spin-outs from 19 UK universities. It has a focus on the Midlands, the North of England and Scotland.
The MMC Ventures EIS Fund focuses on technology-enabled sectors. For instance, it invests in financial and business services, digital media, e-commerce and software solutions for business.
Many consider EIS appropriate for high-risk, high-growth opportunities. Technology companies seem to fit this area well as often they are not capital intensive businesses at launch, but need ongoing rounds of funding to get to market. Oxford Capital typically invest at the first round of institutional funding for these early-stage businesses.
Par Syndicate EIS is a technology growth EIS fund which co-invests with business angels from Par Equity's well established network. It focuses on the "equity gap" outside London: opportunities that are beyond the reach of an individual business angel but not quite big enough for private equity to be interested.
This EIS service invests in later stage, established growth orientated businesses. Each will typically have an annual turnover in the region of £5 million. It is likely investors will invest in a spread of unquoted and AIM listed businesses.
As many as 42% of paediatric clinical trials end up in failure and inconclusive results. Look at it another way: nearly half of the billions of dollars big pharma companies invest in clinical trials on children ...
Four of the world’s ten best universities are in the UK. As well as seats of learning, many of these top universities are innovation hubs. In the past, innovation was usually uncommercialised but universities are starting ...
The Velocity Technology EIS fund targets young companies that offer innovative technology solutions. HighlightsFocus on consumer technology startups with scale up potentialExperienced management teamTarget Return of £2.50 per £1 invested (not guaranteed)Minimum investment £25,000
HighlightsProven business operating in the rapidly growing city tours and experiences market$18 billion market growing by 11% p.a.Cash generative with strong profit marginsExperienced and passionate management teamScalable low-cost growth modelTarget return 7.0x before tax relief – ...
