SFC Capital

🚀 Startup Spotlight: Meet Reneural Reneural is an exciting #healthtech transforming stroke rehabilitation with NeuroViveXR, a #VR-based therapy platform designed to enhance recovery outcomes, patient engagement, and clinical efficiency. Check out this #StartupSpotlight with co-founders’ Victor Harabari and Heraldas Gaspariunas to learn about their mission, funding journey and plans for the future. Find out more on Reneural’s website 👉🏾 https://reneural.tech/ #investmentportfolio #SEIS #startups Capital at risk. For professional investors only.

Selecting follow-on investments for our EIS fund requires careful consideration. Our CIO, Joseph Zipfel, shares in this clip how we balance backing "obvious winners" with identifying those hidden gems poised for exponential growth. Our SEIS fund investments provide us with a crucial insider perspective, enabling us to identify high-potential companies before the market catches on. 🎥 Watch our SFC 500 roundtable to find out more about our funding strategy and how SFC Capital operates: https://lnkd.in/drVdZnJB Capital at risk. For professional investors only.

With the tax year-end approaching, tax-efficient investment opportunities tend to garner increased investor interest. The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) offer valuable tax reliefs for UK investors, but their criteria can be tricky to navigate, even for seasoned investors. To provide clarity on SEIS and EIS, SFC Capital and bennettbrooks recently held a webinar featuring Mary Tierney, Jason Druker, MBA, and Ed Prior. Key topics covered included: 🔹 Understanding key benefits, tax reliefs & investment limits. 🔹 How recent & future government changes impact these schemes. 🔹 Investment approaches (direct vs fund-based). 🔹 Portfolio Strategy & managing risks. 🔹 The types of investors best suited for SEIS & EIS. 🔹 Tax relief process: Step-by-step guidance on claiming tax benefits. 🔹 Comparison with other tax-efficient investments. Watch the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/dSsPsk6k Capital at risk. For professional investors only.

SFC Capital has been recognised as Europe's most active early-stage investor in 2024 by Sifted, with over £18m distributed to 100+ businesses! This recognition is a testament to our core investment strategy – to find exceptional outliers in the early-stage, a broad approach is paramount. Take a look at Sifted’s publication to find out the top 10 investors in Europe: https://lnkd.in/ej4__SzU SFC has built a portfolio of over 500 startups spanning diverse sectors, giving our investors exposure to multiple markets and maximising our chances of finding the most promising opportunities. Find out more about our strategy in our recent SEIS fund deep-dive with Wealth Club: https://lnkd.in/dxTYVgQY Capital at risk. For professional investors only.

Understanding the numbers game is crucial in early-stage investing. 📊 Our CIO, Joseph Zipfel, breaks it down in this clip from our recent roundtable. He highlights how successful investments like Onfido and Cognism, which have provided a 100x and a 50x return to SFC investors respectively, demonstrate the power of a numbers game. In early-stage, even one or two wins could significantly offset the inherent risks of early-stage ventures. At SFC Capital, our diversified portfolio strategy maximises our chances of finding those game-changing companies. 🎥 For a deeper dive into our investment strategy and how our SEIS and EIS funds operate, watch the full roundtable: https://lnkd.in/drVdZnJB Capital at risk. For professional investors only. Past performance is not indicative of future performance.

We've done it again! SFC Capital is proud to be recognised once more as the #1 most active venture capital firm in the UK by PitchBook's Global League Tables 2024. And on top of that, we’re also ranked #4 in Europe and #20 globally! 🥳 Furthermore, we are ranked amongst the most active investors worldwide in Commercial Products & Services, Consumer Goods & Services, Energy, and HC Devices & Supplies. This marks another year of consistent dedication to fuelling early-stage innovation. Thank you to our incredible team, portfolio companies, investors and partners for making it possible! Check out PitchBook’s global league tables: https://lnkd.in/drCCGpTb Capital at risk. For professional investors only.

We're thrilled to be recognised by Dealroom.co as one of the top 10 most active investors in #AI worldwide! 🎉 At SFC Capital, we believe in the transformative power of artificial intelligence and are proud to back innovative companies that are shaping the future of this industry. Check out this TechCrunch feature to learn more about the exciting landscape of AI investment: https://lnkd.in/g59e5Ey2 On top of this exciting milestone, we’ve also been recognised for backing some of the most exciting sectors, including recent acknowledgements as one of the most active investors in #healthtech (Sifted, 2024) and #1 in #climatetech (Sifted, H1 2024) in Europe, and #1 in #deeptech in the UK (Beauhurst, H1 2024). It’s all part of our mission to support innovation where it matters most! Capital at risk. For professional investors only.

We were delighted to host our portfolio event last night at Home Grown Club, sponsored by our legal partners Simons Muirhead Burton LLP. It was great to see and chat with our portfolio founders and to hear from exited founder Morgan Borer, who is launching her new communications firm, Blair Reputation Management (https://lnkd.in/dcMRwuk9), today. Thank you to everyone who joined. We hope you found the fireside chat with Morgan insightful and had valuable conversations with fellow founders! 

📢 Exciting news for UK startups! SFC Capital has secured an additional £10m from British Business Investments, bringing our total commitment to £25m! 🎉 We are incredibly pleased to receive this extension and grateful to British Business Investments for their continued trust. The Regional Angels Programme is designed to address imbalances in access to early-stage finance in the UK, as well as to increase the overall amount of capital available to smaller businesses, and we expect this new commitment to fund 100 early-stage businesses across the country, unlocking a total of £100m in new funding for startup and scaleup businesses across all sectors. The investments made to date by SFC under the Regional Angels Programme are showing promising performance, including several successful exits from the commitment. This is the case of PeopleForce, an HR software business that SFC exited in a deal that returned 5x the original investment. Read the full press release: https://lnkd.in/dQE_9hKG Capital at risk. For professional investors only. Past performance is not indicative of future performance.

What are the lessons from backing 500+ startups? Our Head of Investor Services Ed Prior recently sat down for an interview with Wealth Club’s founder & CEO Alex Davies to deep-dive into SFC Capital’s #SEISfund, including: 🔹 Our investment strategy & how we effectively screen 3,000 investment opportunities each year. 🔹 The kind of businesses and founders we look for. 🔹 Our recent investments (Pipeline Organics, Adamo Foods, WineFi 🍷). 🔹 Some of our exits & secondary exits (Lunio, Cognism, Onfido, PeopleForce). Thank you Alex Davies & Wealth Club for the feature! Watch the interview: https://lnkd.in/dCigiWFZ Capital at risk. For professional investors only.