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Specialist support for venture capital funding applications to The Liverpool Seed Fund

SME businesses with high quality innovations, concepts and ideas that could become a successful commercial reality often struggle to secure the investment finance capital and business management they need to test and develop these ideas, because they are unproven and too high risk for most investors.

It is recognized that with the right combination of finance, specialist support and business management it would be possible to encapsulate the potential of ideas, innovations, science projects, inventions, process improvements, digital developments, patentable ideas and turn them into profitable enterprises.

Liverpool Ventures is a subsidiary of MSIF established to support The Liverpool Seed Fund investment. We endeavor for viable ideas, concepts and inventions to achieve commercial success.

Where businesses meet the criteria for equity investment from The Liverpool Seed Fund, Liverpool Ventures can offer guidance on:

How to structure the business case for investment
What the seed fund is looking for in an investment
How to pitch an investment proposal
How to prepare forecasts

A range of support services are provided by Liverpool Ventures following investment from The Liverpool Seed Fund. This is to ensure a focus on the rapid development of the company/SME. Liverpool Ventures offers guidance on:

Milestone completion (investment tranches are released following completion of milestones agreed with the SME.
Strengthening of the management team; to create a more powerful enterprise
Development of systems to ensure commercial success e.g. reporting structures, management systems, strategy.
Commercialisation of intellectual property; the best route to market (e.g. licensing, manufacturing)
Plans for follow on funding. Plans for further investment in the SME, commercialization, first round venture funding.

Liverpool Ventures brochure.
(140kb acrobat .pdf document)

Liverpool Seed Fund brochure.
(188kb acrobat .pdf document)

Before investment in an SME, Services provided by Liverpool Ventures are free of charge.

Following investment by The Liverpool Seed Fund services provided by Liverpool Ventures are subject to fees.

Our mission of turning ideas into businesses, aims to grow and support knowledge based SME businesses and on Merseyside.

*The Liverpool Seed Fund is an MSIF Fund managed by Alliance Fund Managers (AFM). Alliance Fund Managers is regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the course of investment business. MSIF has funds totaling £107 million and invests in new and growing small and medium sized enterprises that are based in or relocating to Merseyside.

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