The SEIS Fund aims to target exciting new innovative and disruptive technologies on a sector agnostic basis to be nurtured alongside existing investment opportunities that require follow on investment, via the EIS, to fully exploit commercialization of a proven business model. The fund has a mandate to focus on long-term capital growth and enables private investors to invest in a range of committed and ambitious entrepreneurs and their early stage growing companies.
All companies will be small unquoted UK companies which have been trading for less than two years that qualify under the SEIS tax rules. The fund is a generalist fund, thereby the sector focus is agnostic and the type of businesses and opportunities can be anything that is SEIS compliant (typically small early stage companies in non-capital intensive sectors). The specific focus of the fund is to target companies with: strong management, momentum in the business (i.e. not pure start-ups) and low risk for a start-up (e.g. have a low cash burn).
Jenson will look to employ a variety of appropriate exit strategies on behalf of the Fund including trade sales to other companies in the same sector or industry as the investee company, listing on a stock exchange or by selling its share of the investee company to a larger private equity firm.
Jenson takes a long-term view on the Fund’s investments and aims to only look at the possibility of exiting an investment after it has been held for at least three years, thereby ensuring that the investment has met one of the key qualifying conditions necessary for investors to obtain the tax reliefs. However, there may be occasions where an earlier sale is a commercially sensible decision.
Company | Date of exit | Share purchase price | Share exit prices | ROI (excluding reliefs) |
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Twizoo | 29/09/2017 | £0.61 | £1.80 | £712,661.69 |
Acuity Ltd | 25/03/2019 | £0.30 | £0.38 | £187,500 |
Way2Pay Ltd | 25/03/2019 | £52.65 | £27.30 | £111,842.14 |
Market Making Ltd | 07/06/2019 | £0.60 | £1.77 1st plus 2nd deferred consideration 0.554 plus 3rd deferred consideration £0.23 | £619,191.74 plus Next15 £551.47 |
Raishma Ready to Wear Ltd | 20/11/2019 | £0.30 | £0.13 | £63,000 |
Futurium Ltd | 16/08/2019 | £0.15 | £0.50 | £250,000 |
Jenson Funding Partners LLP (Jenson) was founded in 2012 by Paul Jenkinson and Sarah Barber from Jenson Solutions Ltd (a network of Finance Directors who continue to provide support to the investee companies). Since 2012, Jenson has launched five SEIS and four EIS Funds. They are now on their 10th tranche and has invested £16 million in 100 entrepreneurial UK businesses which have typically launched their product or service and are typically close to or post revenue. In addition, they have supported 20 follow on funding rounds, all at premium to initial launch cost. Jenson has recently become FCA authorised. Jenson now has 15 partners throughout the UK and provides services to help companies start-up, raise funding, grow organically and by acquisition; restructure if required; and ultimately prepare for exit.
Fee | Investor | Investee Company |
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Initial fee | n/a | 8% |
Annual fee | n/a | £350 per calendar month plus VAT |
Performance fee | If the aggregate return to an investor (including dividends and other distributions) from an investee company is MORE THAN 120p per 100p invested (ignoring tax reliefs), Jenson will accrue a performance fee of 35% of all returns from that investee company above that threshold – this fee will become payable if, and to the extent, that the investor’s overall distributions from the Fund are in excess of 120% of the investors’ Net Subscription. | n/a |
Other fee information | n/a | n/a |
VAT charged as applicable
1% rebate
Discretionary Investment Management Service (Discretionary Portfolio)
£1.85 for every £1 invested within 5 to 7 years
Venture Capital SEIS
Generalist
8 to 12 companies
Custodian: Thompson Taraz Managers Limited
Nominee: TT Nominees Limited
An investor qualifies as an High Net Worth investor if they have
(a) An annual income to the value of £100,000 or more;
(b) Net assets to the value of £250,000 or more. Net assets for these purposes do not include:
(i) the property which is their primary residence or any loan secured on that residence;
(ii) any rights under a qualifying contract of insurance within the meaning of the Financial
Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001; or
(iii) any benefits (in the form of pensions or otherwise) which are payable on the termination of their service or death or retirement and to which they are or (or their dependants are), or may be, entitled.
An investor qualifies as ar Self-Certified Sophisticated Investor if at least one of the following applies:
a) they are a member of a network or syndicate of business angels and have been so for at least the last six months prior to the date below
b) they have made more than one investment in an unlisted company in the two years prior to the date below
c) they are working, or have worked in the two years prior to the date below, in a professional capacity in the private equity sector, or in the provision of finance for small and medium sized enterprises
d) they are currently, or have been in the two years prior to the date, below a director of a company with an annual turnover of at least £1 million