the london technology fund stage types

Stage: An investment whose primary objective is to:
   
Seed: Provide finance to research, assess and develop an initial concept before a business has reached the start-up phase.
Start-up:
Provide finance to companies for product develpment and initial marketing. Companies may be in the process of being set up or may have been in business for a short time, but have not sold their product commercially.
Other Early Stage:
Provide finance to companies that have completed the product development stage and require further funds to initiate their commercial manufacturing and sales. They will not yet be generating profits.

Please note that when investing in a company for the first time, the London Technology Fund can only invest at the one of the stages of development described above.

Other BVCA categories include Expansion, Refinancing bank debt, Secondary purchase, Management buy-out (MBO), Management buy-in (MBI). For further explanations of these categories see www.bvca.co.uk The BVCA website also includes lists of venture capitalists providing finance at these different stages.

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