South East Seed Fund
The South East Seed Fund is available as part of the CommercialiSE framework.
The South East Seed Fund is a £5 million fund to make equity investments in ambitious, high-growth businesses based in the South East region of the UK. The Fund supports the development of young businesses at an early stage, when funding from institutions or individuals is often hard to find. Investments are made on typical venture-capital-industry terms.
Investors in the Fund are a group of South East universities, SEEDA (the South East England Development Agency) and ProLogis Developments Ltd, the UK subsidiary of a listed US company.
The universities are: Buckinghamshire New University, Oxford Brookes University, University of Reading, University of Brighton and University of Sussex.
The Fund Manager is South East Fund Managers Ltd, which is authorised and regulated by the FSA and is a subsidiary of Finance South East, an associate company of SEEDA.
