BGF Venture Fund

All Tech

£200m venture fund

“BGF is an investment firm that provides growth capital for ambitious entrepreneurs running growing UK companies. Our job is to support talented management teams and business leaders achieve their full potential by offering three magic ingredients for success:

• Substantial capital
• Superb contacts
• Sound counsel

BGF is already the most active growth capital investor for smaller and midsized UK companies. We are well placed to support companies financially, operationally, and strategically. We can help you develop a growth strategy that is organic, achieved via acquisition, or both.”

BGF are looking for management teams with a good track record, a proven business model and a desire to grow.

They look for:

• Exceptional founding teams with long-term vision
• Innovative products that could change an industry(or create a new one)
• Large and ideally global addressable market
• Promising early customer engagement & feedback
• Exceptional growth
• Highly scalable and defensible business models

• BGF provide early feedback and make practical suggestions for alternative options if they cannot invest themselves.
• They undertake due diligence on all investments, but they make this streamlined and cost effective by being very focused.
• BGF can structure their investments in ordinary shares, loan stock, preference shares or a combination, and will consider a small element of cash-out from their investment for existing shareholders.
• Typically a three-month process: 4–6 weeks to understand your business and funding needs, 4–6 weeks to complete their investment