btc Venture Capital is a multi-stage investor in leading businesses. We invest in the most ambitious entrepreneurs to help them achieve their business goals. We are building a thriving enterprise ecosystem that harnesses and recycles, knowledge, resources, talent and of course money to support generations of entrepreneurs and help them build companies that can dominate their markets.
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Venture Capital is that level of investment that typically takes place before a company goes public. It’s a high-stakes game, involving both risk of losses as well as generating incredible returns. It holds the potential to produce headline-grabbing profits and along the way, it’s also a major engine of economic growth. Investing in a VCT means you can feel confident that you are helping innovative smaller companies to create jobs, prosperity and economic growth across the country.
Venture Capital Trusts offer growth potential. Smaller companies have the potential to grow much faster than their larger listed counterparts. By offering our investors access to a diversified portfolio of smaller companies, VCTs can offer an attractive way to gain exposure to this sector.
The share price of listed companies can be affected by market conditions and global events. Smaller companies on the other hand, are more reflective of the performance of the individual company and can follow a different investment cycle from other parts of the market. This means VCTs can help to add diversification to an overall investment portfolio and provide gains at different stages. VCTs invest in smaller companies that are often not listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. Investments in smaller companies can fall or rise in value much more sharply than shares in larger, more established companies.
When you invest in new VCT shares, you are entitled to claim a number of tax incentives on investments:
btc Venture Capital have various trusts and funds available to invest in that are tailored to different stages of our founder’s growth. With a team of experts led by CEO Barry Cushley who has a vast network of global investors on hand to help you throughout the investment lifecycle, we make your investment work for you and help to generate the best returns.
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Venture Capital Trusts were established by the government in 1995 and since their inception they have provided funds to small businesses to help them grow. VCT’s support entrepreneurial UK businesses to get to the next level. Our VCTs each aim to provide an attractive level of tax-free income and capital appreciation, from a diversified portfolio invested across a range of different sectors.
The principal activity of VCTs is investing in smaller companies that are looking for capital funding. These investments must be predominantly in businesses which meet specific qualifying criteria, in order for investors to retain the associated investor tax benefits.
Investment in new VCT shares offers significant tax benefits for UK investors, as well as the potential for attractive returns from investment in high growth smaller companies. However, VCTs are principally aimed at investors who understand the nature of smaller business investment, and who can afford to take a longer-term view and accept that the value of their investment can go down as well as up, as there is also more risk attached to owning such shares than there is with larger companies.
There is sometimes confusion between these two types of investors.
Venture capital firms tend to work with the company throughout the life cycle, all the way to the liquidity event, when the start-up either gets acquired or goes through an IPO.
Venture capital firms are also very much involved in the operational structure of the company. However, the main difference is that VCs invest in people with a greater degree of risk than a traditional Private Equity firm. PEs will look towards the existing financials and they tend to invest in businesses that are already formed. Therefor the outcomes are less risky and more predictable.
btc Venture Capital offers a unique founder experience with a shared ethos of value add. This helps our companies fulfil their full potential. Our team is focused on delivering a truly great experience and helping our founders and their teams accelerate their success and achieve better outcomes. We share knowledge and help support our founders and their senior management teams on their most critical priorities whilst helping them navigate through the start-up, grow up and scale up challenges that they will face.
An incoming secondary investor can view things in a new light and can help you make the changes necessary to achieve success. These may include creating a simpler capital structure, new management incentives or changes to strategy, often facilitated by much needed investment where that will help the company to build value towards a profitable exit for all concerned. However, we also know that the source of ultimate success is the energy and enterprise of the management teams we back.
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