Investment Objective

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).

Exit Strategy

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.

Exit history

Fund Provider

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.

Fees

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