Equity finance for growing businesses
GLE Growth Capital offers an extensive range of equity finance services to enable small and medium sized enterprises to grow and prosper, specialising in the sub £1m equity gap.
From angel finance to venture capital funds, GLE has 25 years experience of supporting access to business angel finance and recruiting and building the capacity of new angel investors.
Our services include:
Access to 200 business angels
£50m angel investment available
Funds offering from £200,000 to £2m
Access to the £30m Seraphim Enterprise Capital Fund
Access to EIS Approved Funds
Help with becoming investment ready
Investing from start up to growth
Exciting and cutting edge investment
opportunities
The London Business Angels Network is the oldest and most established angel network in the UK with 200 angel investors offering £4m equity finance annually.
The network facilitates investment into early stage businesses, seeking growth capital between £200k
and £750k.
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This four year-old fund co-invests alongside angel finance, acting as a stimulator to the angel community to invest and support syndicates of angels. The fund is supported with £5m Government funding. Through investing £18m in businesses the fund has enabled on average £500,000 deals for individual entrepreneurs.
GLE Growth Capital operate a new £30m early stage venture
capital fund which has been established with £10m private investment
and £20m Government funding.
The fund is one of the first of five new Pathfinder funds established
under the new ECF initiative. The unregulated angel-led fund
enables investment from £750,000 to £2m.
LBA EIS Tracker Funds make investments in EIS qualifying companies alongside London Seed Capital and Seraphim, investing between £30,000 and £100,000 per company.
This is an investment readiness programme, run by GLE Growth Capital, supporting London's creative and innovative high-growth companies.
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The EASY project is a cross-border meeting point for early stage investors and high growth businesses seeking risk capital.
The project is led by GLE Growth Capital and has 17 partners involved in early stage funding across 11 different European countries.
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EASY is part of the ProInno Initiative, under European Commission's DG Industry and Enterprise.