Useful Links
Finance and Funding links
Show me the Money
This event, held at the IOP in February 2009, outlined a wide range of funding mechanisms available to SMEs in the UK. View the event web page and watch the presentations here.
Fundmap provides easy navigation to the grants and funding available to businesses in the UK technology sector.
The BBA is the voice of the banking industry for all banks who operate within the UK.
British Business Angels Association
The BBAA is the only trade association dedicated to promoting angel investing and supporting early-stage investment in the UK. Each year private investor's account for between £800 million and £1 billion of investment in the UK: the single largest source of early-stage capital in the country.
British Venture Capital Association
The BVCA is the industry body and public policy advocate for the private equity and venture capital industry in the UK. Their members come from venture capital, through mid-market, to private equity/large buy-out houses from all over Britain.
The EIB raises substantial volumes of funds on the capital markets which it lends on favourable terms to projects furthering EU policy objectives. The EIB continuously adapts its activity to developments in EU policies.
EIF makes investments in venture capital funds that support SMEs, particularly early-stage and tech-orientated enterprises.
This site indexes the contents of websites for 2000 VC funds that operate in different regions internationally. If you are looking for an investor with a specific investment track record, or an investor with a portfolio investment in a particular area this search engine is a very simple solution
LINC Scotland is the national association for business angels in Scotland, with a membership network of hundreds of investors including those operating individually, many of the best known groups and syndicates, and a number of significant private offices.
The London Technology Fund is a venture capital fund investing in exciting seed, start-up and early-stage technology businesses in Greater London.
PERA works to improve the growth and competitiveness of industry and business in Europe by helping clients gain better differentiated products and services, greater access to global knowledge and markets, more efficient business processes and more effective skills development.
The Royal Society Enterprise Fund is an exciting new initiative from the Royal Society, created to make equity investments in innovative early-stage businesses emerging from the science base in the UK and elsewhere.
TimesOnline - Financing Eco Start-ups
A three-part series for budding green entrepreneurs.
VCR Directory Online is a searchable database of information on 3000 investors in unquoted businesses across Europe and Israel including business angels, venture capital firms, private equity houses, secondary fund managers and corporate venturers.
Young Company Finance tracks and reports on early-stage, high-growth companies in Scotland and the North of England. They focus in particular on how young companies finance their development from start-up to maturity, but also report news about senior appointments, business awards, product launches, and sales successes - in short, any of the milestones which such companies must pass on their way to profitability. YCF also report news from other organisations involved in the wider eco-system in which young companies develop; investors, advisers, incubators, public sector agencies and many others.
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