Investor Partnerships - Investor Briefing Webinar

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About the programme

The Innovate UK investor partnership programme tackles the challenges faced by highly innovative UK businesses with strong growth potential in accessing the finance required to grow and scale. It does this by leveraging Innovate UK’s expertise, connections and grant funding whilst encouraging commercial investors to provide finance and business acumen to younger businesses operating in underserved markets.

This is an opportunity for suitable investors to join our existing pool of 54 investor partners. The investor partnership programme will cover the breadth of the future economy, as described in Innovate UK’s plan for action, including net zero, health and wellbeing, next generation digital technologies and technology families. We will also target equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI). Further information is provided on the investor partnerships page of the Innovate UK website.

Applications to become an investor partner open on 20th February and close at 11am on Wednesday 29th March 2023. Click here for more details of how to apply.

About the briefing event

To find out more, watch our investor applicant briefing webinar recorded on Tuesday 28th February. This webinar recording provides an opportunity for investors to find out more about the investor partnership programme, including the application and selection process to become one of our investor partners, and the process for engagement with innovative SMEs in the coming 2 years.

This briefing webinar is for investors only and participants came from venture capital, corporate venturing and formalised angel groups.

Competitions for grant funding for SMEs will start in March 2023, when we will run briefing events aimed at businesses.