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SPARK Ventures manages approximately £215 million across several investment vehicles including: three Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs); University Funds on behalf of leading UK universities including Oxford; and a Limited Partnership on behalf of major institutional investors. SPARK Ventures plc also invests capital from its own balance sheet.
SPARK Ventures has been investing in early-stage businesses for 12 years and has a wealth of expertise in backing and developing companies from start-up through to eventual trade sale or IPO.
SPARK’s core expertise lies in identifying promising early-stage businesses and leading their funding right from the earliest stages.
SPARK Ventures’ team is one of the most experienced in the early-stage investment space. It brings its portfolio businesses the necessary capital, combined with strategic and operational management support as well as commercial and marketing expertise to help them succeed. Its founding management team has worked together for more than 10 years, and during that time has helped many entrepreneurs to realise their ambitions.
SPARK Ventures has built its reputation as an experienced and successful venture investor with a proven ability not only to identify promising entrepreneurs and technologies, but to understand the sectors in which their portfolio businesses operate and, more importantly, what it takes for them to develop into leading global businesses.
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Quick Profile
Listing and fundamentals:
Listed on AIM in 1999
450m shares in issue (39.245m in Treasury)
Total net assets:
£62.8m 15.54 pence per share
Business description:
Total assets under management £215m
Directly invested in 25 unquoted early stage TMT venture capital investments.
Manager of 6 funds:
SPARK VCT: NAV at 30.06.08: £32.2m
SPARK VCT 2: NAV at 30.06.08: £20.5m
SPARK VCT 3: NAV at 30.06.08: £14.1m
Manager of two major University funds:
ISIS College Fund – managed on behalf of Oxford University and 27 Oxford Colleges
LACHESIS Fund – investing in spun out research of the Universities of Nottingham, Leicester, Loughborough, De Montfort and Nottingham Trent.
Manager of 1 limited partnership:
Quester Venture Partnership: Raised £69m June 2002
Directors:
Tom Teichman (Chairman), Michael Whitaker, David Potter, Andrew Carruthers, Jay Patel, Charles Berry, Andrew Betton
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