Equity funding
Scottish Enterprise Investments (SEi) manages three funds that together offer risk capital investment for Scottish companies: the Scottish Seed Fund, the Scottish Co-investment Fund and the Scottish Venture Fund. Each of these funds adopts a highly innovative co-investment/shared risk intervention model to encourage more private investors and funding into Scottish early stage companies.
Scottish Seed Fund - funding from £20,000 - £100,000
The Scottish Seed Fund (SSF) provides equity investments from £20,000 to £100,000 to early-stage businesses that meet the criteria and are keen to grow. The SSF will invest in start-ups and early stage companies at the end phase of product development and/or commercialisation.
Find out more about the Scottish Seed Fund
Scottish Co-investment Fund - funding from £100,000 - £1 million
The Scottish Co-investment Fund (SCF) is a £72 million equity investment fund set up by Scottish Enterprise, and partly financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), to invest £100,000 to £1 million in business deals of up to £2 million.
The SCF does not find and negotiate investment deals on its own; instead it forms contractual partnerships with its private sector partners (SCF Partners). The SCF Partner finds the investment opportunity and offers to invest its own equity cash. If the opportunity needs more money than the SCF Partner can provide, it can call on the SCF to co-invest.
If you are a company looking for investment, you must first secure funding from one of our SCF partners.
Search our directory of SCF partners in our investor directory
Find out more about the Scottish Co-investment fund
Scottish Venture Fund - funding from £500,000 - £2 million
The Scottish Venture Fund (SVF) has been set up by Scottish Enterprise in conjunction with the Scottish Government to invest £500,000 to £2 million in company finance deals of between £2 million and £10 million.
The SVF can only consider investment opportunities brought to the SVF by one of its private sector partners. If you are a company looking for investment through the SVF and do not currently have any investors, please contact one of our SVF Partners in the first instance.
Search our SVF partners
Find out more about the Scottish Venture Fund
Investment Management
If a company has secured investment from one of the funds mentioned above, the Investment Management Team will assume responsibility for that SEi investment. The team’s activities range from capital, interest, and dividend collection through to loan rescheduling, instrument conversions, introduction of contacts/potential recruits and follow on investments.
The team will ensure that investee companies are aware of other products available from Scottish Enterprise and work effectively with other parts of the organisation.
Search the SCF portfolio section for a list of the companies in which the SCF has invested
Contact Us
For general enquiries contact our transaction team