Finance Yorkshire Investments Ltd.

Government-backed · Barnsley (United Kingdom)

Government-backed

Pre-Seed

Seed

Cloud/SaaS

About

Finance Yorkshire Investments Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in seedcorn finance, business loans, and equity linked investments. It invests in start-ups, early-stage, and expansions in almost all sectors. The firm seeks to invest in Yorkshire and Humber regions with a focus on businesses based or moving to areas within Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. It typically invests between £0.015 million ($0.023 million) and £2 million ($3.17 million). The firm, through seedcorn funding, aims to back pre-revenue and early-stage technology-based ventures. It seeks to provide investment up to £0.78 million ($1.23 million) over the lifetime of its portfolio companies. The firm prefers to take a significant minority stake in the ordinary shareholding. It targets its exit between three and six years. The firm provides loans ranging from £0.015 million ($0.023 million) to £0.050 ($0.079 million) for early stage businesses; £0.015 million ($0.023 million) to £75,000 ($0.12 million) for established businesses and from £0.015 million ($0.023 million) to £150,000 ($0.23 million) for established and profitable businesses. It typically provides loans to manufacturing or service sector businesses. The firm provides equity linked investments and joint equity linked packages from £100,000 ($0.15 million) to £2 million ($3.17 million) and mezzanine loans, with equity options or redemption premiums, from £100,000 ($0.15 million) to £1 million ($1.58 million). It targets to exit these investments within 5 years. The firm often works alongside other finance providers such as banks, and other lenders. Finance Yorkshire was founded on March 12, 2010 and is based in Barnsley, United Kingdom.

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Investment Criteria

Min. Ticket Size

$31,500

Max. Ticket Size

$1,890,000

Investment Stage

Pre-Seed

Seed

Series A

Focus Areas

Countries

Regions

Western Europe

Northern Europe

AUM

$63M

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