LINC Scotland
Local Investment Networking Company (LINC) can introduce small firms looking for equity finance, usually in the range £20,000 to £250,000 to private investors (Business Angels). A business plan is required from companies seeking support.
Link to LINC Scotland Website
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Scottish Enterprise Business Growth Fund
The Business Growth Fund provides loan and equity investments between £20,000 and £100,000 to businesses that show ambition to grow, and that satisfy various criteria relating to their size and commercial viability. The business must be a limited company with a registered head office in Scotland. Support is available for companies falling into the SME size ranges but companies must be independently owned. Certain sectoral restrictions apply.
Link to Scottish Enterprise Business Growth Fund Website
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Scottish Equity Partners
Scottish Equity Partners is a technology focused venture capital company providing equity finance to new and growing technology companies through a range of funds. The Partnership is backed by a number of significant investors including Standard Life, Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of Scotland, Martin Currie and Scottish Power. Investments can range between £500,000 and £1.5m in start up, early stage and expanding businesses.
Link to Scottish Equity Partners Website
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Scottish Co-Investment Fund
Unlike a standard Venture Capital fund or a business angel, the SCF does not find and negotiate investment deals on its own. Instead, it forms contractual partnerships with active VC fund managers, business angels and business angel syndicates from the private sector. In these partnerships the private sector Partner finds the investment opportunity, negotiates the investment deal and offers to invest their own equity cash. If the opportunity needs more money that the private sector Partner can provide, the Partner can call on SCF to "co-invest" alongside it, on equal terms. The SCF would become part of the investment syndicate. A list of the partner organisations can be found on the Scottish Executive Website.
Link to Scottish Co-Investment Fund Website
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