Silverstone Investment Network
Silverstone Investment Network provides active investors, or ‘business angels’ who can add value to early stage companies, in addition to capital. Many are successful entrepreneurs who bring management expertise and contacts to boost the development of early stage businesses.
Silverstone Investment Network holds investment meetings every two months so that selected companies can meet potential investors. The Network does not invest itself or undertake due diligence. Any deal is a result of negotiation between the angel investor and the company.
Silverstone Investment Network welcomes investment opportunities that are in the early stages of technical and commercial development and match our key requirements.
Before the Investment Meeting, the companies selected by the Network have an opportunity to hone their ‘pitch’ by making a ‘dry run’ presentation to a panel of business angels and professionals with specialist investment experience.
The purpose of the Panel is to ensure that the presenting companies are ‘investor ready’, in order to maximise their chances of securing investment.
The dry run presentation is informal and highly effective, particularly for those not used to presenting to an investment audience.
Investment Meetings are held quarterly. At each meeting five companies present their business proposals for 15 minutes each. The presentations are followed by networking, enabling the parties to meet on an informal basis.
| Presentation fee: | £200 + vat |
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| Success fee: | 4% of funds raised |
The success fee is only charged when an investment is made. It is payable within 14 days of completion of the investment.
To discuss your business proposal in confidence call Eileen Modral Silverstone Investment Network Manager, on +44 (0)1327 856156.
Please read the statement on the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 before you contact Silverstone Investment Network.
Silverstone Investment Network links private investors, entrepreneurs and business support organisations to improve the flow of investment capital and management expertise into start up and growing companies.
The objective of the Network is to provide a means of communication between private investors and companies seeking investment capital in the small high growth potential business sector. Silverstone Investment Network operates an information service, providing an opportunity for investors to meet entrepreneurs and companies seeking investment and enabling investors to receive information on investment opportunities of interest to them. Silverstone Investment Network does NOT advise on the merits or risks of specific investment proposals. It is emphasised that the responsibility for the decision on specific investment lies with the parties concerned.
Potential investors should be aware that investment in new business carries high risks, as well as the possibility of high rewards. It is highly speculative and no established market exists for the trading of shares in private companies. Before investing in a project about which information is given, potential investors are strongly advised to take advice from a person authorised under the Act who specialises in advising on investment of this kind.
We also wish to point out that companies or individuals seeking investment through the Network must ensure that the information presented to potential investors is neither inaccurate or misleading. They are, accordingly, similarly advised to seek guidance from someone authorised under the Act.
In March 2005, after consultation with stakeholders including Oxford Innovation, the Financial Services and Market Act (2000) was amended to remove the requirement for business angels to gain certification as "high net worth" or "sophisticated" investors through an FSA regulated third party, such as an accountancy firm.
Instead, investors are now able to "self-certify" by meeting straightforward criteria as "high net worth" or "sophisticated" investors, and downloading, printing and signing a form, which can then be used in the same way as the certificates previously issued by FSA regulated third parties.
HMT has published an explanatory note to outline the changes to the Act. The actual certificates for SIN investors are also available, as either high net worth or sophisticated versions.
View our success stories – brief case studies of companies that have successfully raised funds through Silverstone Investment Network.