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Eos is a hands-on, early-stage and growth investor in science and technology innovations that seek to address societal and environmental issues.  With deep roots in Scotland and a global mindset, our core values are trust, hard-work, discretion, and partnership.  Eos manages an Innovation Fund (EIS), which has an annual close in Q4.  They have sector specialism and understands the potential, and associated risks, of investing in knowledge-intensive companies.  The 4 impact areas Eos focuses on help address some of society’s largest challenges and positively impact our world.  These are:

• Disease Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment
• Food and Water security
• Energy Security, Climate Change and Pollution
• Improvement and Sustainability of Industrial Processes

Foresight Group is an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, with specialist teams targeting growth businesses, renewable energy and environmental projects in the UK, North America and Italy. At Foresight we are well aware of the need to live up to our name. That means spotting opportunities ahead of the crowd; it means being flexible; it means being innovative; it means being totally focused and responsive to the needs of our investors while creating an environment that attracts the very best talent in our sector. We summarise this in just two words Creative Capital. These two words sit behind everything we do from supporting entrepreneurial managers of growth businesses, to bringing together institutions to invest in groundbreaking renewable energy projects alongside the Green Investment Bank, to offering private investors tax efficient investment solutions to help them plan for the future. It is in deploying our financial, intellectual and emotional capital creatively that helps us make a better future for our investors, for our investee companies, for our partners, for our colleagues and ultimately for the world in which we live.

Founder + Lightning is a pioneering Venture Studio and Fund, that invests in Founders to build and grow their businesses.

We invest in B2B companies that have the potential to use tech to radically increase their value. We use our decade-long skillset and resources to help them realise that potential, by co-building technology solutions.

Our headquarters are in London, but we have teams in India, Poland and all across the world. We are proud of our 130+ team, 6 investments and 30 portfolio companies that have a combined value of £150m+, multiple of which are now at Series A.

Too many tech companies in the UK fail, and frustratingly it’s often for the same reasons over and over. If we’re to live in the kind of society we all want to live in, we need more founders to succeed– that is what drives the Founder + Lightning model.

Growthdeck is a private investor network that provides direct, tax-efficient investment opportunities in exciting UK companies.

We offer both equity and debt options, focusing on fundraises between £500k and £3m, and give High Net Worth and Sophisticated investors in the UK and overseas the chance to invest from £5,000.

We have raised funding for fast-growing SMEs across a wide range of sectors, including hospitality and leisure, technology, biopharmaceuticals and telecoms.

Our core team have decades of combined experience in the private equity and venture capital arena as well as a variety of other investment sectors, and our in-depth due diligence process draws upon the best elements of this.

Our Chairman and Head of Investment, Kieron Launder, has worked across a number of leading institutions, including Rothschild & Co where he headed up the strategic investment advisory service.

The other members of our executive management team and board also have a strong track record, with several having founded other private investor businesses in the past before bringing all their expertise together to create Growthdeck.