uwsp access to finance
University of Warwick Science Park is expanding the range of services it provides through its Access to Finance programme, so watch this space!
To use these services your business should ideally be based in Birmingham, the Black Country, Coventry, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Wolverhampton or Worcestershire, but we also assist exceptional businesses located elsewhere.
Our range of services currently includes:
Minerva: Introduces high calibre businesses seeking £25,000 to £1.5m to potential sources of capital including venture capital funds, business angels, banks and providers of asset-based finance. Often provides packaged solutions
Investment Readiness: You only get one chance to impress potential financiers, so this programme helps businesses across the West Midlands Region to get in the best possible shape before approaching banks, business angels, venture capital funds and other external sources of finance
UWSP Concepts Fund: Invests sums of up to £50,000 in companies based in Coventry, Solihull or Warwickshire that are in the very early stages of developing innovative new products or new technologies. At present the fund is fully invested, but may open to new proposals in 2009