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Accessing finance and attracting investment

We can help you find sources of finance, engage with funders and secure investment to grow your business. Providing expert support and advice, we can help you access a range of funding options, including our own co-investment funding and loan funding.

Free expert support

If your company is innovative and ambitious, we can support you to grow and scale. We work with businesses and investors to unlock funding opportunities and accelerate growth.

We'll work directly with your company to help you access a wide range of funding sources, including bank finance, equity investment, loans, and grants.

We'll help your business to become investment-ready and maximise your chances of securing funding. We can:

  • Navigate the full range of funding options and clarify the best routes for your business
  • Connect your business to the right investors and funding partners
  • Strengthen your business case and investment proposition
  • Support you to develop compelling investor pitches

Get help to secure investment

We want to boost equity funding levels for globally ambitious Scottish companies with scaling potential, ensuring the right levels of funding are available from the most appropriate sources, at the right time.

We can help you:

  • Build strong relationships with a range of international investors
  • Identify the type of investor that's right for you
  • Match and connect supply and demand based on investor preferences

We can also help you to:

  • Increase your chances of securing the most appropriate package of finance for your needs
  • Gain access to relevant public sector support
  • Make your business ready to apply for funding

We've produced a series of guides on the different types of finance that could be used to fund your business. The guides also cover what you need to do before making finance applications.

Read our full list of financial readiness guides 

We can also provide insights into Scotland's risk finance market. We provide market intelligence and evidence to companies and investors, helping them to plan for the future. This involves looking into the supply and demand for risk-based growth finance.

We look at the following areas of Scotland's finance market:

  • Year-to-year changes in deal numbers and investment value
  • Sector investment
  • Company growth stages
  • Who's been investing in Scotland’s scaling companies
  • We also keep up-to-date with global and UK trends.

Read about Scotland's risk capital market 

Our business finance guides

Other sources of finance

We can also connect you to a range of other sources of funding and grants. We can help you understand your finance options, offer support and advice and, in some cases, provide funding from our own sources.

Explore all funding and grants 

Get in touch to access support

If you’d like help finding investors, deciding the right finance option for you, preparing for and securing funding, or understanding Scotland’s risk finance market, get in touch today.

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