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When the government announced the SEIS initiative in 2012, Jenson Funding Partners LLP (JFP), was founded by the team behind Jenson Solutions Limited, Paul Jenkinson and Sarah Barber. As an appointed representative of Foresight Group, JFP launched the Jenson Seed EIS Fund to provide start-ups with the level of financial and operational support normally only available to much larger businesses.

Raising £5.5 million in the first fund iteration, JFP has closed 4 funds and now manages more than £14 million, which has been invested in just under 100 companies.

In 2015 JFP, recognising that the SEIS investee company portfolio was maturing, started raising funds under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) to provide follow on funding to its more successful companies. To date the EIS, combined with the syndicated investors, has invested over £5 million, and raised over £5 million of debt facilities.

We now have a combined evergreen SEIS and EIS Fund open for investment. The Fund aims to target exciting new innovative and disruptive technologies to be nurtured alongside existing investment opportunities that require follow on investment to fully exploit commercialisation of a proven business model.

JMW is a full service national law firm with its head office in Manchester and further offices in London and Liverpool.  We have a team in excess of 500 partners and staff, and aim to offer an entirely new approach to the provision of legal services with a focus on the importance of quality and efficiency to help us understand client’s needs and the best way to meet their expectations.

We advise on a wide range of EIS and SEIS issues with experience in advising clients including issuing companies, SEIS and EIS funds and investors.  Advice is provided on all stages of an investment from startup/initial fundraising through the growth phase and subsequent investment rounds all the way to exit by way of trade sale or listing.  Support is provided for our clients in all of the key areas for a growing business including IP/IT, employment issues, compliance and data protection, property and commercial contracts as well as any disputes which arise.

We are recognised by the Legal 500 and Chambers Guide in various practice areas.

At Johnston Carmichael our team of expert chartered accountants and business advisers are on hand to listen and advise to help you grow your business.

An award winning team of accountants and advisers offer a range of services tailored to your business needs including: corporate tax, consulting, personal tax, and employment tax to name but a few.

As a member of the international network Moore Global, we operate in strategic locations across the UK. With almost 900 people, we’re one of the UK’s top 20 accountancy firms and our people use their knowledge and experience to think proactively and act as trusted advisers to over 16,000 clients across the UK and beyond.

Founded in 1991, JP Jenkins is the UK’s oldest platform for private companies. We help companies engage with existing shareholders and prospective investors to manage their private share holding. We open the door to investors to access opportunities and help early stage investors realise a return on their paper wealth. Our mission is to provide an efficient process of matching willing buyers and sellers of unlisted company shares. The JPJ platform allows unquoted companies to potentially create shareholder liquidity and long-term engagement with existing and prospective investors. JPJ was a founding member of AIM and OFEX, now AQUIS (AQSE) exchange. We have previously had companies such as NCP, Arsenal, Weetabix, Adnams and many more.

Want to launch or operate a Venture Capital fund? Kin Fund Services is the Fund Services arm of Kin Group; the Venture Capital industry’s ‘one stop shop’ and provides a broad range of services to VCs (https://www.kinfundservices.com/about-us/). The core of the business dates back over ten years, but as the business has grown it’s range of services has grown too. Services include Fundraising, Fund Management, Fund Administration and Compliance Consultancy. The firm has invested substantially in building its own proprietary digital infrastructure, allowing it to customise and tailor its infrastructure around its clients and give best in class investor experience. Kin is responsible for providing Custodian, Nominee and Administrator services for many thousands of investors. These range from private investors investing in SEIS or EIS Funds to well known global businesses investing in Institutional LP funds.

Kingsley Napley LLP is an internationally recognised London law firm with expert lawyers across 11 practice areas including corporate and commercial.

The corporate team’s expertise lies within advising on corporate transactions, banking and financing and a significant proportion of our clients are entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial in nature.  They specialise in investments in early stage and growth companies, often in the technology and media sectors and many of which take advantage of the SEIS and EIS schemes. They have particular experience of acting for companies raising funds: not only in terms of guiding them through the investment process, but also in resolving problems which may have arisen in earlier rounds, and also act for EIS funds, investor syndicates and individual investors.

The commercial team provide a commercial and value for money approach, assisting their clients in negotiating commercial contracts and dealing with data protection, intellectual property, compliance and other legal issues.

Kinhub (formerly Kami) is an AI-powered employee wellness platform “Alexa for employee
wellness.” Kinhub uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to enhance
employee wellbeing and productivity by supporting key life topics including mental health,
family planning and parenting, support for carers, menopause and financial wellbeing. The
platform provides convenient, personalised, and data-driven support to employees, making it
easier for them to be present at home and productive at work. Kinhub’s mission is to ensure
mental health and productivity solutions are accessible and affordable to all.

Kinhub’s commitment to accessibility and affordability is further demonstrated through its
partnership with Parents 1st UK, where for every three parents paid for by their employer,
Kinhub is made available free of charge to a low-income family. The company’s
patent-pending NLP-based sentiment/emotion detection models for real-time determinations
of mental health disorders using multi-tier machine learning models is novel and applicable
to a variety of markets including the broader healthcare and employee engagement markets

KPMG Acceleris is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and provides corporate finance advice and raises funds for early and development stage businesses. It was established in 2000 to arrange equity investments for small and medium-sized enterprises into the funding gap. Since that date, it has sourced over £24 million in more than 70 transactions with funding secured from business angels, regional investment funds, venture capitalists, banks and other sources of trade finance. KPMG Acceleris has a particular expertise in arranging and managing investments by private individuals under EIS and provides business and consultancy services, including accounting and administration support, business planning and investor documentation, for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Levra is an immersive virtual reality (VR) coaching solution that improves the interpersonal communication skills of employees.

While many graduates leave school and university with seemingly excellent credentials, they don’t always have the appropriate interpersonal skills to deliver as competent young professionals in the working world. This impacts costs, productivity, culture, growth, and the reputation of organisations across the world. Levra’s mission is to equip young professionals with the interpersonal communication skills essential for individuals to succeed and businesses to thrive. We build capabilities and confidence in the workplace.

Levra was launched by Emily and Bartek in 2022 who met whilst doing an MBA at The University of Oxford.

Longbow is a specialist venture capital investor in the unquoted life sciences sector, established in 2004. The Partners have combined experience of investing in over 30 unquoted companies as well as in managing and building their own businesses prior to joining Longbow.  Longbow specialises in supporting SME companies with investment to drive their expansion and growth in value.

For investors, we identify investment opportunities which we believe, at the outset, possess the qualities required for considerable and sustainable growth. In almost all cases the investments we have made have provided our clients with tax relief via EIS and BPR.  The realisation of our clients’ investments will flow from the success of the companies in our portfolio through a variety of different outcomes: via private tender offers, MBOs, trade sales, and IPOs and sometimes a combination of these.

For entrepreneurs and small companies, our team, with its blend of, industrial experience, corporate finance and wealth management skills, is uniquely positioned to offer a service to the small company and the entrepreneur.  We undertake to nurture the companies we invest in, to help them build their financial resources, management strength and commercial skills they will require to thrive.

Love Ventures was founded in 2020 by two brothers, Marcus and Adrian Love. Following their respective careers in growth investing and property scale ups, Marcus and Adrian began their investing journey together as angels in 2015, backing the likes of Chip, Crowdcube and Revolut in their early days. Now operating under the Love Ventures brand, with an ambitious and experienced team around them, they are determined to keep the angel ethos running through how we operate today: fast-moving, high conviction, deeply collaborative.

Love Ventures have successfully raised three EIS funds to date, having fully deployed for two of these already. The offering is now an Evergreen offering which seeks to close twice a year and aims to deploy capital within a 12-month period.

The Love Ventures investment team comprises founders Marcus Love and Adrian Love as well as Bill Corfield and Alice Knibbs. The Love Ventures team are further supported by two highly experienced senior advisers; Andrew Hynard and Carolyn Maddox. In addition, there is a stringent investment committee which includes; Jules Pancholi, Rob Hamilton, John Lunn and Kelly Ducourty. The Love Ventures Distribution team is made up of Distribution Director Faye Williams and Head of Investors Kit Blakiston Houston.