Mercia EIS Fund

About Mercia EIS Fund

The Mercia EIS Fund invests into sectors where businesses have high growth potential and modest capital requirements. It can provide support for businesses from seed rounds of £100,000, up to larger funding rounds of up to £2m and then up to £10m at later stages. The fund has a target portfolio size of around 15 companies and the minimum investment is £25,000. Mercia aims to triple invested capital, over a 5 to 7 year period.

Summary

About Mercia Asset Management

Mercia is a specialist asset manager with a regional focus. It started up in the early 1980s, and offers venture, private equity and debt capital to help management teams in high-growth, technology SMEs to scale their business.

Mercia has developed collaborative relationships with 19 universities across the UK, including Keele, Warwick and Strathclyde. Twenty percent of its investment activity stems from these relationships.

How does SyndicateRoom's Access EIS Fund compare?

By comparison, SyndicateRoom's Access EIS fund builds investors a large portfolio of 50+ companies across all sectors, co-investing with experienced angel investors who have an average IRR of 42%. Our model is based on our proprietary analysis of the UK startup market, which showed that on average, the market grows by 28% each year. With large portfolios, and a large network of angels providing access to the best deals, earlier, we aim to replicate that annual growth for our investors while mitigating risk. This data-driven approach aims to work around the limitations of a single fund manager attempting to pick winners.

Our minimum investment is £5,000.

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