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We have built a group of leading sector investment specialists to concentrate investment through this Tagged Executive Programme. All equity houses listed are interested in participating in this programme and have funds to deploy today. Throughout this group there is a recognition that top executive talent prepared to make a personal investment is likely to lead to a successful business. They look forward to receiving your approach, which you can make direct.
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Albion Ventures LLP
• Contact Name: Will Fraser-Allen
• Email: will@albion-ventures.co.uk
• Telephone Number: +44 (0)20 7601 1850
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• Sector: Media, Production, Healthcare, Telecoms, Clean Technology, Green Technology, Food & Drink
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Albion Ventures LLP is a leading independent private equity business, managing over £200 million across seven Venture Capital Trusts. The company was established to generate long term investment returns through making venture capital investments in smaller companies.
Albion Ventures LLP's investment management team has created market leading investment performance for the shareholders in the seven venture Capital Trusts they manage. In the twelve years since the first fund was launched a dividend has been paid by every fund, every year, totalling some £81 million; more than any other VCT manager.
The company was created in January 2009 when it acquired the business of Close Ventures Limited from Close Brothers Group plc and is structured as a partnership formed by the former Close Ventures management team. They think it is appropriate that a business investing in owner-managed companies is itself owner-managed. Albion Ventures LLP looks to invest £1-10m in a wide range of growing businesses, from technology orientated companies to service and asset-based businesses.
Albion Ventures LLP enjoys working with smaller companies and entrepreneurial management teams, seeing their purpose as helping businesses to grow by providing financial resources as well as strategic advice. Their ultimate aim is to realise the full potential of the business invested in and so create returns for the shareholders in their funds, acting with integrity and respect for the people they deal with.
Larger investments tend to be strongly asset-backed such as care homes, hotels and pubs, while at the smaller end of the funding scale AV looks at second or third round technology propositions. Finally, in the middle ground (investments of between £2m and £5m) AV is focused on mainstream growth capital and smaller MBOs.
The company works closely with its investee companies, taking a board seat and providing advice on a strategic level, when required, with the ultimate aim to realise the full potential of the business. Investment is made in either ordinary equity or a mixture of debt and equity.
Disclaimer: Albion Ventures LLP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered in England No. OC341254
Registered Office: 1 Kings Arm Yard, London EC2R 7AF. Member of the British Venture Capital Association.
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Nesta
• Contact Name: George Whitehead
• Email: george.whitehead@nesta.org.uk
• Telephone Number: +44 (0)20 7438 2500
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• Sector: Healthcare, Telecoms, Technology, Media, Clean Technology, Green Technology, Food & Drink
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NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts - a unique body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. The organisation invests in early-stage companies, informs and shapes policy and delivers practical programmes that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future.
NESTA Ventures provides early-stage capital to businesses in the areas of engineering, environmental technology, healthcare and information and communications technology. The organisation looks for companies that have the potential to generate significant commercial return. Through NESTA Capital, investments are made indirectly through partnerships with specialist angel investors, venture capital funds and other investment partners.
NESTA's independence and ability to work across different sectors allows the organisation to bring together ideas from a wide range of perspectives. And because NESTA can take a longer-term view, the organisation is able to assume a greater burden of risk than others.
NESTA does not work alone. Its success depends on the strength of the partnerships it forms with innovators, policymakers, community organisations, educators and other investors. The organisation brings the best ideas, new flows of capital and talented people together, and encourages others to develop them further. It works across all stages of the innovation process: Learning about how innovation works, funding new ventures, building and delivering innovation programmes, and disseminating what has been learned, nationally and internationally.
The organisation has endowed funds of over £300m and funds its activities through the interest from the endowment, the returns from investments and other public and private sources of income. It does not receive any general government funds to support its work, although some departments provide funding or contract with the organisation for specific projects.
NESTA is governed by a board of trustees who determine the strategic direction, policies and procedures.
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Octopus Ventures Ltd
• Contact Name: Anthony Collinson
• Email: anthony@octopusventures.com
• Telephone Number: +44 (0)207 710 2846
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• Sector: Media, Technology, Clean Technology, Telecoms, Healthcare, Green Technology
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Octopus Ventures focuses on early stage business opportunities in market sectors where its directors and members of the Octopus Investor Group have relevant knowledge and experience. This involves searching, screening and selecting these opportunities. Each opportunity is carefully assessed for investment after commercial, financial and legal due diligence by Octopus Ventures. Once the investment has been completed, Octopus Ventures monitors the business to maximise the chances of success. - Expertise in leading investment round and supervising due diligence process
- Investments range from £250,000 to £2m of equity with an average of £1.4m
- Enterprise value under £10m
- All sectors considered
- Advanced early stage, expansion and development, MBO, MBI and turnarounds
- Geographical preference primarily UK with bias to England and Wales
In particular, Octopus Ventures looks for: - Experienced and committed management teams
- Novel ways to satisfy unmet customer and business needs
- A focus on large existing markets or embryonic markets expected to undergo explosive growth
- Companies that could have sales in excess of £25m within three years
- Exit within five years of investment
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Bridges Ventures Limited
• Contact Name: Ed Simpson
• Email: ed@bridgesventures.com
• Telephone Number: + 44 (0)20 7262 5566
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• Sector: Food & Drink, Clean Technology, Healthcare, Green Technology
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Bridges Ventures is an innovative investment company focusing on investments that deliver attractive financial returns to investors combined with social and/or environmental benefits. It believes that market forces and entrepreneurship can be harnessed to do well by doing good. It reports back to the investors in its funds on both the financial results and the social impact of investments.
Bridges Ventures invests primarily in growth companies at the early and expansion stages, but also invests in management buyouts and property backed businesses. It targets investments in ambitious businesses which are either located in under-invested, mainly inner city areas of the UK or which generate social impact through the nature of their operations in the education, healthcare and environmental sectors.
Bridges Ventures' founders, directors and investors are leaders in private equity, financial services, business and entrepreneurship. They provide valuable expertise and a huge network of contacts. This helps Bridges Ventures to work with the management teams it backs in order to help them reach their potential. Bridges Ventures is an active investor, aiming to provide support and advice to the companies it backs.
Bridges is actively looking to invest and, as at Q1 2009, had approximately £50m available. It can invest up to £10m per opportunity, with initial investments usually in the £2-4m range.
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Seraphim Capital
• Contact Name: Mark Boggett
• Email: mark@seraphimcapital.co.uk
• Telephone Number: +44 (0)207 089 2318
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• Sector: Telecoms, Technology, Healthcare, Clean Technology, Food & Drink, Green Technology, Production, Media
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Seraphim is an early stage, sector agnostic, venture capital fund that invests between £0.5 million and £2 million into high growth early stage UK businesses.
The £30 million Fund has been created through a collaboration of leading business angel networks throughout the UK and US. This provides the Fund access to a unique network of more than 1,000 leading business angels, consisting of some of the most successful and influential business leaders from across both the UK and America.
In every company in which the fund invests, one of these business angels joins the board in a NXD or Chairman capacity. These angels are typically industry heavyweights who have already successfully built and sold their own businesses and are now looking to leverage their contacts and experience to help other exciting early stage companies to access new customers and new markets. Seraphim continues to leverage this network for the benefit of portfolio companies throughout the holding period and has achieved great success in introducing new customers, hiring new staff and entering new markets.
The Funds investment focus is on rapidly growing, highly scalable businesses that have already validated their product or service through sales to a number of blue chip customers.
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