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What We Do
We help public and private organisations interested in innovation, entrepreneurship and investment, through the design, structuring and raising of venture capital funds and other open innovation models.
For entrepreneurs and start-ups, we support the alignment of business strategy to funding strategy.
We work with fund managers, start-ups, larger companies, accelerators, incubators, universities, the 3rd economy and economic development organisations.
Our approach is to understand your situation in detail, consider your goals, as well as those of your stakeholders, and deliver primary research as required before layering our expertise and experience. We deliver market understanding, strategic development and plans of action and we can support implementation.
We also provide unique training in decision making in situations dominated by uncertainty, extremely common in the world of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Case studies
City Region Seed Fund
- New Fund Research
- 3rd economy and social impact investment models
- New fund marketing, structuring and raising
- Fund strategy and operations
- Fund manager procurement design
- Business Angel support
Medical R&D funding organisation
- Primary market research and customer interviews
- Deal flow characterisaion
- Stakeholder analysis
- Technology evaluation
- Innovation barrier analysis
VC Transaction
Support for a Fund Manager
- Target identification
- Investment case research and development
- Investment structuring
- Negotiation
- Due diligence
University investment fund establishment
- Situation evaluation
- Business plan and strategy development
- Fundraising planning, marketing and execution
- Transaction support
Training
- Understanding uncertainty
- Strengths and weaknesses of modelling with uncertainty
- Processing decisions with radical uncertainty
- Using due diligence to drive negotiation
- Business Angel Support
Spin-out evaluation and investment
- Technology evaluation
- Product / opportunity fit through primary market research
- Strategic planning
- Investment planning
Fund Manager repositioning
- Understanding fund manager strategy and options
- VCT, EIS. GP/LP
- Team building
- Financial incentives and structure
Start-up recruitment
- In-house vs agency
- Employer branding
- Diversity and inclusion
- Building systems and processes
Contact Us
We have a local presence in North England, equidistant from Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield, as well as in Edinburgh.
We operate locally, nationally and internationally.