Creative England Investment Fund

"Investing in the creative sector."

Creative UK (formerly 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 UK 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 businesses grow by providing mentoring and support.

N4 Ventures Fund:

The N4 Ventures Fund offers a unique opportunity to invest in some of the most promising early-stage companies in Scotland. We partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs to foster great cultures and create standout UK companies, with a special focus on supporting female-led businesses.

While sector agnostic, we are particularly excited about opportunities in space, life sciences, healthtech, and medtech. We are also committed to accelerating the transition to net zero emissions, aiming for economic, societal, and environmental returns.

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.