Ask HN: Where to look for a quickfire £ 35-40k investment?

Posted by judlaw on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:46AM
from the ask-hn dept.

This question is predominantly for the UK.

Anybody with pointers on where to look for a quickfire £ 35-40k? We recently won an 220k InnovateUK Grant which is funded at 80%, and are yet to find the other 20%. The starting date is relatively soon i.e. in a month. Since we're quite new to the UK ecosystem, we'd sincerely appreciate any pointers :)

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Re:Ask HN: Where to look for a quickfire £ 35-40k investment? by jbms on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @08:55AM (#24341239)

Scotland: https://archangelsonline.com/

UK: Give Beauhurst a call: https://www.beauhurst.com/

Another source might be to talk to people at accelerators/incubators. Scotland: https://www.thisiscodebase.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Where to look for a quickfire £ 35-40k investment? by jbms on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @08:57AM (#24341252)

This link let's you dive into many many sources of finance, some of which may be suitable: https://www.mygov.scot/funding-advice-search/

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Re:Ask HN: Where to look for a quickfire £ 35-40k investment? by judlaw on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:03AM (#24341307)

Fantastic, thank you so much for this!!

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Re:Ask HN: Where to look for a quickfire £ 35-40k investment? by tixocloud on Thursday September 03, 2020 @09:56AM (#24364068)

I can put you in touch with folks at ArchAngels, Codebase, as well as various UK-based VCs if you have more details on your company? Ascension Ventures along with several others hold regular rapid fire sessions for pre-seed funds so can also put you in touch with them.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to look for a quickfire £ 35-40k investment? by judlaw on Saturday September 05, 2020 @07:21PM (#24387631)

Hi sorry for the late reply, I would very much appreciate that if possible! My id is [email protected] Thanks very much!

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Re:Ask HN: Where to look for a quickfire £ 35-40k investment? by notahacker on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:37AM (#24351490)

I'd also check with InnovateUK what they accept as 'in kind' funding contributions of resources/time, particularly if you already have an third party potential future client lined up to test the product/project

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Re:Ask HN: Where to look for a quickfire £ 35-40k investment? by judlaw on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:42AM (#24351530)

Great thats good to know, very kind of you thanks!

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