BizGrowthEast
BizGrowthEast is a business support campaign from the East of
England Development Agency (EEDA) offering entrepreneurs within the
East of England support, advice and funding. BizGrowthEast provides
you with a simple, single route to all the resources, advice and
business support you need and aims to inspire and motivate you to
start or grow your company. In addition, a new investment readiness
programme, which forms part of the campaign, will help participants
identify and access the funding that best meets their needs
Web:
www.bizgrowtheast.com
CREATE
CREATE East of England Fund specialises in making investments in
new or existing small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) that can
demonstrate significant growth potential and are either based, or
conduct a significant part of their business, in the East of
England.
The Fund will provide venture capital investments, of up to an
initial £250,000 with follow-on investment of up to a further
£250,000 available. Once invested in a business, the Fund is
capable of investing further to avoid dilution up to a maximum of
£2 million in any one company.
The Fund may invest alongside private investors, banks or seed corn
venture capital funds.
Web:
www.createpartners.com
VentureNavigator
VentureNavigator is a state-of-the-art online service designed
to help start-ups and small businesses improve their chances of
success. The service is free of charge.
Web:
www.venturenavigator.co.uk
Social Enterprise Business Support
Social Enterprise Business Support - When you're an
owner/proprietor/director setting up or running a
"micro-enterprise" - one with less than 10 full-time employees -
you can't be an expert in all business matters. To talk through the
issues and challenges and help you begin to see, plan and implement
a way forward.
Tel: 01728 604944
Web:
www.suffolk-enterprise.org.uk/our_services.html
Nesta Ventures
NESTA Ventures invests directly in early-stage companies in the
following sectors: Life Sciences/Healthcare, ICT, Engineering and
CleanTech. Nesta Ventures have strict investment criteria, and only
work with companies that have high potential for growth, are at
seed or start-up stage, and have the potential to attract
syndicated support.
Tel: 020 7438 2500
Web:
www.nesta.org.uk/ventures
MENTA
Menta is the premier Enterprise Agency in Suffolk and provides
support to all those who would like to start their own business, or
who would like to grow the business they already run. These
services are nearly all free, and range from personal, confidential
one-to-one advice from qualified advisors to a wide range of free
courses and workshops aimed at improving business skills.
They also run a series of networking opportunities across the
County which allows businesses to promote themselves in friendly,
well managed events, often with specialist speakers.
Web:
www.menta.org.uk
Suffolk Chamber of Commerce Networking
offers imaginative opportunities for busy people. Widen
your horizons and join other like minded business people keen to
promote their organisation; share information on their products and
services; build business partnerships and meet new customers.
Contact Rowena Hughes
rowena@suffolkchamber.co.uk
Web:
www.suffolkchamber.co.uk