The Prime Minister has unveiled the government's new industrial strategy, which is intended to put the UK at the forefront of the global economy - and, argues Kin Capital's Tom Hopkins, EIS and VCTs are perfectly positioned to help.

Kuber Ventures has produced a short educational animation highlighting the attractive Capital Gains tax treatment offered by EIS, with potential for tax free gains and the ability to defer Gains made on other investments until the shares in the EIS are sold.

The Community Interest Company ‘Led By Dreams’ (LBD) is the recipient of the third launchpad loan from the Health & Wellbeing Challenge Fund (South West) (H&WCF) managed by social impact investment company Resonance.  The £10K loan will enable the enterprise to expand its programme of educational workshops to NHS medical teams and others in the frontline, so they can recognise the signs of domestic abuse and signpost victims to supporting organizations.

The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association has commissioned a new nationwide sentiment study to analyse those that constitute the future of the UK workforce - charged with picking up the post-Brexit pieces and driving an EU-free private sector forward. 

Transcend Packaging has been selected to produce eco-friendly paper straws for McDonald’s UK and Ireland.

CoInvestor, the platform digitising alternative asset transactions for advisers, fund managers, and private investors, has integrated its technology with financial advice back-office software supplier Intelliflo’s ‘Intelligent Office’ (iO), to deliver an upgraded service to customers.

CoInvestor is now available to iO users via Intelliflo’s app store and for the first time allows financial advisers using Intelligent Office to allocate and manage their clients tax-efficient investments within their existing back office. The CoInvestor integration will help to deliver and receive updates directly from fund managers, such as dividends, valuation updates and exits.

Oxford Space Systems (OSS) is today announcing it has secured £6.7 million in funding from a syndicate of investors including IQ Capital, Longwall Ventures, Foresight Williams, OTIF, Midven and Wren. The current round, led by Longwall Ventures, brings the total amount raised in external funding to £10m since OSS’ launch in late 2013.

The recent investment makes OSS the most highly funded UK start-up, upstream space technology business.^[1] The funding will enable the accelerated development of OSS’s technology – pioneering the 

When considering tax-efficient investments, advisers and clients should be fully aware that investments are in unquoted stocks which are therefore likely to be high risk and illiquid. Therefore, there is only so much control the adviser and client may have over the investment and timings. However, there are simple steps advisers can take to at least in part attempt to take control of the potential timings, such as when the client may be able to claim any potential tax reliefs and when they ultimately may be able to exit.

Ascension Ventures and Unicorn India Ventures partner to launch the UK’s first cross border UK-India EIS fund Businesses to benefit from industry leading mentorship and support for scaling into the high growth Indian market.

Ascension Ventures (AV), a London based early stage VC managing SEIS & EIS funds since 2012, has launched a joint venture with Unicorn India Ventures (UIV), an India based equity and debt VC, to launch the first UK-India EIS Fund.

Jenson has made an investment from the Jenson SEIS and EIS Fund 2017/18 in EBar Initiatives Limited. Jenson led an investment syndicate alongside Scottish investors including angel investor groups Gabriel and Equity Gap.

EBar Initiatives aim is to dramatically improve the consumer experience at music and sports events, using their innovative dispensing technology to reduce the time people spend waiting in bar queues. The EBar® is a consumer-operated beverage-dispensing unit capable of rapidly and continuously dispensing perfect pints of beer or soft drinks, taking payment and dispensing drinks up to 3 times faster than is possible at traditional event bars.

In June 2016 the Uni.ed Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (EU). Nine months later, in March 2017, the new Prime Minister Theresa May formally triggered the process by sending an Article 50 notification to Brussels.

Acceleris has advised upon the completion of a £2.9m funding round into Power Roll’s novel energy creation and storage technology from existing shareholders and High Net Worth Individuals.

Power Roll Limited have developed proprietary technology that offers a manufacturing platform to develop paper thin, flexible power generation and energy storage devices. The energy storage technology has the potential to disrupt the market and possesses the following fundamental technology advantages inlcuding higher specific energy density than existing capacitors and supercapacitors, significantly lower cost and size than existing devices and enhanced lifetime for certain applications.