Creating innovative investment funds

The ‘equity gap’ - access to funding in the early stages of business development - affects over 6 million SMEs across Europe.

North East Finance has a unique mix of skills enabling us to help regions and cities to transform the investment and funding environment for their SMEs. We focus on achieving ‘double bottom line’ results - that is ensuring that our investment and support programmes achieve both financial returns for investors and sustainable regeneration returns for a region or city.

North East Finance has developed around £100 million of VC funds with support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and other regional stakeholders.  This gives us first hand experience of running successful finance programmes.

We can support you through:

• Evaluating demand for SME finance
• Utilising EU structural funds to maximum advantage
• Creating innovative funds focused on the specific needs of SMEs
• Managing loan and grant schemes
• Providing specialist venture capital management services
• Recruiting and training locally based fund management teams

Developing informal capital markets

Business angels play a crucial role in the development of an enterprise economy, providing not only informal venture capital but also hands on experience of business development and management. North East Finance has experience in facilitating the development of business angel networks and syndicates.

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