PE/VC investors
Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) investors are the catalysts of innovation and growth in the business world. PE firms primarily target established companies, seeking to optimize operations and unlock value through strategic investments and management expertise. They focus on long-term growth and profitability, often preparing businesses for a future sale or IPO. VC investors, by contrast, are the adventurers of finance, injecting capital into high-potential startups and early-stage companies. They embrace risk for the possibility of outsized returns, often becoming invaluable advisors. Both investor types not only bring capital but also strategic guidance, industry connections, and market insights, propelling their portfolio companies towards success.
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UI Gestion SA
UI brand embodies a partnership with companies. Actor of the economy, UI has accompanied more than 120 SMEs over the last fifteen years, investing more than 550m $ and giving substance to their development projects. Combining experience and corporate culture, UI has established itself as an involved and independent partner, able to count on its shareholder leaders to favor, independently, the sustainable performance of the SMEs it accompanies.
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
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The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund is backed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Fund’s partners are 9 publicly funded research bodies, including STFC, BBSRC, NERC and Dstl. The Fund is independently managed by venture capital specialist Midven.
We help build companies from great science developed in laboratories, science and technology campuses and synthetic biology.
We hold investments in some of the UK’s most innovative companies, in areas as diverse as novel antibiotics, research into Alzheimer’s disease, “green” chemicals and airport security.
Investment Focus
Investing In Great Science To Answer Unmet Commercial Needs
We get excited about great science, especially if you can articulate how it might solve unmet needs. If the technology will solve real world problems, we are prepared to invest early and bring a research based idea into commercial fruition.
Building & Growing Sustainable Businesses
We don’t require revenues or a team which have run and exited businesses before we invest. We’re prepared to get involved early, building an experienced team, developing market focus and figuring out a business model. We want to identify the best and most talented founders from diverse backgrounds and support them to succeed.
We like to be actively involved on the board of our companies. We can help define the right strategic approach for growth, facilitate the introduction of high calibre resources to make the business go faster and raise the additional finance needed to get to market and grow.
Our investment managers and members of our high powered Spectrum Advisory Board assist in fine-tuning business and investment plans and in establishing appropriate milestones for businesses as part of investment rounds.
Further Information
We do have a set of criteria that must be met in order to receive investment. Please see our FAQ section to assist with any queries.
If you think you could meet the criteria, we would be happy to have a discussion with you. Please contact us.
You can read more about our partners, the campuses we associate with and our role in supporting the development of synthetic biology technologies.
Impact
UKI2S (previously called the Rainbow Seed Fund) is a seed fund investing in the earliest, and highest risk, stages of technology companies emerging from the publicly funded science base. Created in 2002/03 with Government funding, the purpose of the Fund is to:
Make early-stage ‘patient’ capital investments in commercial companies (developing products based on publicly funded research)
Earn a financial return on investments, to be retained and re-invested (to keep the fund active)
Leverage private capital into ventures backed by UKI2S
The Fund’s core focus on the earliest and riskiest stages of “deep technology” companies means it takes risks private sector investors are rarely willing to tolerate. It has played a critical role in enabling the spin out of over 50 companies from laboratories such as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, John Innes Centre and the Babraham Institute.
The Fund provides considerable support over and above its own investment, helping to shape the commercial proposition, find high-quality management and introduce later stage investors as the company grows.
UKI2S has invested at a steady rate and has now invested approximately £12.5M in 50 start-up companies and a further 39 early stage pump-priming investments of up to £50,000, in projects and companies from across a range of public sector sources.
UKI2S companies have built strong commercial relationships with over 150 companies ranging from consumer goods (Huawei, Google, Unilever, P&G) through to industrial (GE, Rolls Royce, WS Atkins), pharmaceutical (GSK, Eli Lilly, Takeda, Astellas) and other high value fields such as space and defence (ESA, Thales etc), with many of these relationships also involving the parent research organisation. The sale of Cobalt Light Systems to Agilent in 2017, which resulted in Agilent locating their global technology centre for Raman Spectroscopy at Harwell.
The Fund’s reach extends across the UK; the core partners are STFC, BBSRC, NERC and Dstl but relationships extend from Aberdeen (James Hutton Institute), through Norwich Research Park and Cambridge, to Southampton (National Oceanography Centre) and Plymouth (Plymouth Marine Laboratories) and extend more widely than UKRI alone (Dstl, National Nuclear Laboratory, Animal and Plant Health Laboratory, Public Health England).
Our investments have resulted in a continuing economic impact along with wider benefits which can also be seen in some case studies.
Ukrainian Startup Fund
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The Ukrainian Startup Fund is a state fund launched on the initiative of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The mission of the fund is to promote the creation and development of technological startups in the early stages (pre-seed and seed), in order to increase their global competitiveness. The process of selecting startups for grants takes place on a competitive basis: companies are evaluated and elected by the board of independent investment experts.
we support startups by providing grants on no-equity basis
we finance startups to participate in a training programs of national and international accelerators
we offer new financial and non-financial opportunities for startups
OUR MISSION:
To promote the creation and growth of technology startups in Ukraine at an early stage of development in order to increase their global competitiveness.
STRATEGIC VISION 2020-2025
Developed with the technical support of the World Bank, identifies priority areas of activity and development of the Fund.
Ulu Ventures
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Ulu Ventures is a seed stage venture firm investing primarily in enterprise IT.
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Ulu focuses on the market opportunity created by the Stanford, Silicon Valley and California ecosystems and uses data-driven portfolio construction, explicit measurement of risk, and principled, repeatable decision making. This makes Ulu conventional in the world of institutional investors but contrarian as compared to other VCs. Decision analysis also reduces cognitive bias and has made Ulu’s portfolio quite diverse by industry standards.
UM6P Ventures
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UM6P Ventures is the investment arm of University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, founded as a vehicle for the university to advance entrepreneurship and accelerate scientific innovation in Morocco and Africa. It is an early-stage ventures firm operating two funds ; a Digital Transformation Startup fund and a Deeptech Ventures fund.
UM6P Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed Digital Transformation startups alongside partners from its vast network of native and international programs including incubators, accelerators, and investors such as Business Angels and venture capitalists.
UM6P Ventures provides Deeptech Ventures with capital and advanced talent sourcing, subject domain expertise, and the ability to access specialized equipment and infrastructure. UM6P Ventures has a robust ecosystem and an investment portfolio actively invested in Agrobioscience, Biomedicine, Water & Energy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Cybersecurity.
UMC Capital
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UMC Capital Overview
UMC Capital manages evergreen structure funds with US$ 800MM of committed capital. We are 100% owned by UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry and dual-listing on NYSE (UMC:US) and TSE (2303:TT). There are 4 offices globally and we focus on investment activities in US, China and Taiwan.
UMG IdeaLab
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We’re an end-to-end Venture Capital that interconnecting our start-ups’ business to intertwine each other The end goal for this proposition is to have an integrated start up ecosystems based in Southeast Asia especially in Indonesia and Myanmar.
Our mission is to find collaboration with external ventures to achieve mutually beneficial condition from both parties. Led by one of the biggest corporate moguls in Myanmar, UMG Myanmar, we’re confident to guide the finest generation of entrepreneurs to build their vision in this digital era. Our main focus is to invest and guide technology enabled start-ups that has exponential growth potential and meaningful social impact in this technology driven era.
UMG Investment
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UMG Investments was founded by the SCM in 2006 to manage commodity assets. Since its creation, UMG Investments has expanded its range of activities and changed its business model from a management to an investment company.
Today, UMG Investments starts and develops businesses with high growth potential.
The investment focus:
Mining
Recycling solutions
Production of commodity goods and services
The total market value of the UMG Investments portfolio companies exceeds $500 million.
UMG INVESTMENTS is an investment company that launches and develops businesses with high growth potential. Our team takes a hands-on approach to the development of portfolio companies, providing them with production, commercial and management expertise.
MISSION
We turn ideas into great businesses and contribute to the welfare of society
VISION
We are а leading investment company in Ukraine
CODE OF CORPORATE ETHICS
The UMG Investments Code of Ethics sets the required ethical and business standards to be followed by employees of all levels in their activities on a daily basis.
These norms and standards are based on our values: Teamwork, Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, and Excellence.
The Code does not cover all possible cases and situations, which employees can face, but rather contains the basic guidelines to be relied on while evaluating the suitability or admissibility of acts and decisions taken.
Code of Ethics
Umoja Rubber Products
Africa has always lived on its feet. Ever since man took his first faltering steps in the great Rift Valley, Africans have been renowned as the world's best walkers. Today Africans are still walking tall, but with one notable exception: the extra milage provided by their Umoja Shoes. Since its own first steps in the late 1970s, Umoja Rubber has helped to put affordable shoes on millions of feet across Africa. From kenya to Congo, Ethiopia to Madagascar, Umoja has become a household name- a name that stands fro strength, confort, value and reliability.
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Today's bustling Umoja Headquarters is a far cry from the small slipper factory that opened with 26 employees on Mombasa Island in 1978. The Company's Mtwapa headquarters today employs more than 1,600 people and produces a phenomenol 100,000 pairs of slippers and 30,000 pairs of canvas shoes eveyday.
