Your submission will be sent to a Student VC team who is local to your business to do an initial check to see if your opportunity meets our investment criteria.
IN PERSON MEETING
If your business fits our criteria, you will be invited for a face to face meeting with upto 3 Student VCs who delve deeper into your business opportunity.
CLEAR NEXT STEPS
Within a couple of weeks from first receiving your pitch you will either receive a valuable ``No, Because...`` or clear next steps towards us investing.
Depending on the stage of your business, we are able to offer anywhere from £50k - 200k investment, either as part of a larger round (upto £1m) or on our own.
Do you offer any other perks to your portfolio companies?
Yes. We have a number of corporate partnerships who offer our portfolio exclusive discounts and credit. Including £10,000 AWS credit and 90% off Hubspot.
No. Unfortunately it doesn’t matter how amazingly groundbreaking your idea is, we are unable to invest any money at this stage. To speed up your idea validation and to get yourself investor ready, we recommend reading our insights and maybe joining our VC community.
Funny you should ask... We've created a blog just on that topic (click to read it). But in short, it should be 10 -15 slides that summarize your business.
We generally will look at investing into any UK based early stage, growth focused businesses that has a strong emphasis on scientific, creative digital and technology enabled innovation. For more information click here.
Do you invest into solo founders?
Yes, but... we understand how hard that road is (our founding partner has previously been a solo founder) so it will depend heavily on the plans building a truly equity incentivise team alongside that founder. People that don't see that equity as a perk, but as the reason they turn up.
Do you take equity in my company? If so, how much?
Yes we do take a minority equity stake in your company in return for our investment. The amount of equity will depend on how much you are raising and at what stage you are at, but it will always be below 25%
Can I meet with a partner rather than a Student VC?
In short, NO. Also I don't know why you would want to, our Student VCs are awesome! We trust their judgement, knowledge and insight. They take all founder meetings and are the ones who analyze the companies and make the decision to put deals froward for investment.
Will you sign an NDA?
No. Like all investors we are unable to sign NDAs at the pitching and early due diligence stage. That said we do follow our privacy policy and will never share your information or pitch decks with anyone outside of our company and Student VC programme. If the reason for this question is because you are in the middle of submitting a patent application, we would suggest removing any restricted information from your pitch before submission.
How long will this investment process take.
We aim to have completed our initial analysis, met you and given our initial response to you within a month of first receiving your pitch. From there it really depends on how much you are raising, if we are the only investors and if you have all the information we require. But we aim for this process to move forward quickly and not to be a burden on the founders.
SUBMIT YOUR PITCH
We don't beleive in wasting founders time, so for this reason we have decided to pause our investment programme until the market conditions improve.
