3i provides venture capital investment to ambitious start-ups and businesses with high growth potential. 3i operates in 14 countries worldwide including Europe, Aisa and the US. The company focuses its investments on 5 key areas. In the 6 months to the end of September 2007, they invested £93 million in venture capital, £706 million in growt...

Assessment procedure Applications will be evaluated by peer review and assessed by an expert panel, using the following assessment criteria - • What is the potential to replace or reduce animal use and/or improve animal welfare?* • What is the potential for the model described to build upon and improve current approaches to better understand the...

AAC Capital Partners helps UK based companies to obtain financial support in the form of private equity to help fund a variety of projects. AAC Capital is made up of the former Dutch, Nordic and UK buy out firms of ABN AMRO Capital. They lead buy outs within the £50 - 500 million deal range in the consumer, industrial and services sector.

Abingworth seeks to identify and invest in the best opportunities in the life sciences and healthcare markets. Their investments and expertise are balanced across all stages of company development including Venture Capital, Growth Equity and Public Markets. They invest in platform and enabling technologies, medical devices, instrumentation, compani...

ELSBC can help you access finance through loans of last resort. They are open to any business or start-up in our area who is unable to raise finance through other conventional ways, usually their bank, family or friends. Loans of last resort provide: -Up to £10,000 for start-ups depending on Borough - Up to £50,000 for growth businesses d...

ELSBC can help you access finance through loans of last resort. They are open to any business or start-up in our area who is unable to raise finance through other conventional ways, usually their bank, family or friends. Loans of last resort provide: -Up to £10,000 for start-ups depending on Borough - Up to £50,000 for growth businesses d...

The Advantage Early Growth Fund is a venture capital investment fund which was set up with the help of the UK Government. The fund aims to help companies obtain small equity investments to allow them to grow.

Advantage Enterprise & Innovation Fund is a £20 million pound venture capital fund established in 2005 to provide capital for expanding businesses. The investors in the fund include Advantage West Midlands and Development Fund. Financial support in the form of venture capital is available to assist small and medium-sized businesses in expanding ...

The Advantage Growth Fund provides venture capital investment to growing small and medium enterprises (SME's) in the West Midlands. The fund is aimed at start ups, early stage companies, companies looking to achieve rapid growth, management buy-outs and management buy - ins.

Aspire Micro Finance provides first loans between £200 - £5,000 and repeat loans up to £15,000 for customers with a good repayment history.

3i provides venture capital investment to ambitious start-ups and businesses with high growth potential. 3i operates in 14 countries worldwide including Europe, Aisa and the US. The company focuses its investments on 5 key areas. In the 6 months to the end of September 2007, they invested £93 million in venture capital, £706 million in growt...

Assessment procedure Applications will be evaluated by peer review and assessed by an expert panel, using the following assessment criteria - • What is the potential to replace or reduce animal use and/or improve animal welfare?* • What is the potential for the model described to build upon and improve current approaches to better understand the...

AAC Capital Partners helps UK based companies to obtain financial support in the form of private equity to help fund a variety of projects. AAC Capital is made up of the former Dutch, Nordic and UK buy out firms of ABN AMRO Capital. They lead buy outs within the £50 - 500 million deal range in the consumer, industrial and services sector.

Abingworth seeks to identify and invest in the best opportunities in the life sciences and healthcare markets. Their investments and expertise are balanced across all stages of company development including Venture Capital, Growth Equity and Public Markets. They invest in platform and enabling technologies, medical devices, instrumentation, compani...

Acorn Fund Management, which is a sister company to and an appointed representative of Acorn Corporate Finance, has a highly experienced fund management team who work in conjunction with people who have specific knowledge of an investment type to provide focussed funds. Generally, the funds are focussed and are structured as limited partnerships...

Individual loans (direct loans) are granted to projects where the total investment cost exceeds EUR 25 million (EUR 10 million in the case of ACP). The EIB may finance a maximum of 50% of the total cost of any project. Individual loans are available to promoters in both the public and private sectors, including banks.

ESF funds training, human resources and equal opportunities schemes and promotes employability. There are two main priorities in England: Priority 1 is 'Extending employment opportunities'. Priority 2 is 'Developing a skilled and adaptable workforce'.

Eurostars Programme is a new Funding Programme for SME's. Eurostars is a programme enabling industries and institutes across Europe and beyond to collaborate in a bottom-up approach to developing and exploiting close-to-market technologies.

FP7 supports research in selected priority areas - the aim being to make, or keep, the EU as a world leader in those sectors. The Framework is also designed to respond to Europe's employment needs and competitiveness. FP7 is made up of 4 main blocks of activities forming 4 specific programmes (Cooperation, Ideas, People, Capacities) plus a fifth...

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology [EIT] is an initiative set up to meet the challenges of globalisation head on. The initiative, which aims to become a flagship for excellence in European innovation, will focus on strategic priority areas where the nature and scale of the innovation challenge requires action at EU level.