How we work
Our unique investment process builds a resilient and future-proof Founder community
What to Expect as a Founder
In working with potential investee firms, we follow a rigorous process. Founders will typically go through the stages below so we can get to know each other and make sure it's the best fit for success;
- Pitch deck, financials and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)/Venture Capital Trust (VCT) status review
- Initial founder calls followed by internal discussion
- Detailed pitch session with senior Ventures team
- Filtering Investment Committee then term sheet
- Data room opens so that full due diligence and legals can begin
- Final Investment Committee and deal completion
- Appoint value-add Non-Exec Director (NED) and provide support to firm
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Watch our 2024 Portfolio Highlight Reel
2024 was a great year for the companies in the Blackfinch Ventures portfolio. To celebrate, we brought together an exclusive audience to hear directly from our founders about their biggest achievements, including key milestones like signing major partnerships and delivering impressive growth. Attendees voted for the Audience Choice Award, won by Kelpi, and our Ventures investment team awarded Placed with the Portfolio Company of the Year award.
Building Strong Partnerships
Uniquely, the Blackfinch Ventures team are all experienced entrepreneurs themselves, with extensive technical knowledge and qualifications. This means that alongside the necessary crunching of numbers, we're also able to deeply empathise with our founder community. We've faced the same heady combination of excitement and challenge that comes with getting a passion or idea off the ground and we know it's rarely a straight-forward road. We use our personal skill sets to add value to our investees, helping them develop ideas, test concepts and find additional applications for future growth.
Ready to partner up?
If you like what you see, and you have an existing start-up or scaling technology business, then we're keen to hear from you.
Share your passion with us and we'll let you know if we can help you thrive.