Access to Equity Financing could be a finance route to look at if your business is moderately new, or you’re an established SME whose looking to either grow or diversify.
Equity Financing is where you effectively sell a share of your business to an investor, such investors can be individuals, institutions or in some cases a mixture of both.
For a business, a positive upside by them going down the Equity Financing route would be in not only getting the access to the financial support they seek, but they’d also often get effective and beneficial help and advice in order to scale the business, because Equity Financing investors will undoubtedly always wish to make as good a return as possible on their investment.
With numerous Equity Financing options out there in the marketplace, our business clients depend on us to figure out the type of investment that is particularly right for them, and once established make strides to ensure they secure it.
The route of Equity Finance is an area in which we have much experience, for businesses seeking to access such finance, we work with them on the investor pitch as well as the business plan in order to ensure it’s financially robust and compelling to the potential investors out there.
We have a good track record in securing business finance via this financing route, our success coming by utilising Venture Capitalists (can sometimes be individuals, but are usually private or public firms), Business Angels (a term used for individuals willing to invest some of their own personal wealth), Crowdfunding (a group of investors) and Public Sector Equity Schemes.
We appreciate that for many businesses, it can be quite daunting knowing where to actually start. But in being a business client of ours, they needn’t worry as we take them under our wing offering a vast knowledge and experience which in the past 12-months has helped our clients raise over £30 million.