Equity Gap is an Edinburgh based angel investment syndicate, established to help match investors with entrepreneurs looking for early stage business funding.

Equity Gap

Established in 2010 to help match private investors with young entrepreneurial companies looking for early-stage business funding, Equity Gap is an Edinburgh-based business angel syndicate with 150 active members.

Equity Gap's current membership includes many captains of industry, business leaders, academics and entrepreneurs from Scotland and beyond, a number of whom are ex-pats or former residents, all eager to support early stage companies in Scotland.

Those young entrepreneurial businesses are often pre-revenue, but with a validated product or service that has undergone a pre-investment commercialisation process. Ideally the investment should be eligible for SEIS/EIS advance assurance and preferably the business should be based in Scotland or willing to relocate.  

Equity Gap typically invests a minimum of £100,000 and maximum of £500,000 at initial or seed investment stage, with additional match funding from Scottish Enterprise. However, it regularly coinvests alongside other business angel syndicates, SE, VCs and the Scottish National Investment Bank to make more sizeable investments into scale-up opportunities across a wide range of sectors in Scotland.

Winners of the UKBAA's 'Most Active Investor in the Regions' award in 2019, Equity Gap members have invested in over 40 companies, leveraging more than £125m in total investment into our growing portfolio.

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Across Scotland, you can find portfolio company Brewgooder’s refreshing beer in selected Sainsbury's stores. 
 
After being stocked in Co-op stores across the UK, this is a significant milestone for Brewgooder as the business rapidly grows and continues to invest in positive community projects.
 
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Paul Reid, CEO and founder of portfolio company Trickle, has partnered with Eden Scott to develop a guide to positive employee engagement. 
 
With Trickle’s award-winning employee listening tool, businesses can better understand their staff and create meaningful change in the workplace.
 
Read the guide, including an interview with Paul, here: https://lnkd.in/eZydH5WZ

Aberdeen City Council is trailing six hydrogen cargo bikes in partnership with investee company ULEMCo Ltd.
 
By using hydrogen to fuel last-mile deliveries, ULEMCo’s innovative technology enables postal services and couriers to reduce emissions.
 
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Led by Eve Hanks, portfolio company MI:RNA Diagnostics has been shortlisted for Women's Enterprise Scotland’s Funded Business of the Year and the Business to Watch of the Year awards.

We are delighted to facilitate angel investment in MI:RNA Diagnostics and advance its cutting-edge early disease detection for the veterinary industry.

Good luck to the team!

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Investee company PNEUMAGEN LIMITED has announced positive results from its Phase 2 Proof of Concept study. Following the administration of Neumifil, an intranasal drug to prevent and treat viral respiratory tract infections, patients challenged with influenza virus saw a significant reduction in both symptomatic infection rate and severity. 

As it advances Neumifil into further clinical studies, Pneumagen marks a step closer to transforming the lives of patients suffering from viral respiratory tract infections.

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Dr Bill Ring has been appointed as Chief Product Officer of portfolio company Vector Photonics. Bringing global expertise in optical communications and semiconductors, he will help to scale and commercialise the business’ innovative surface coupling laser technology.

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Great recognition for investee company Amiqus winning the Legal Technology Award at the Scottish Legal Awards.

With many of its early clients hailing from the legal profession, Amiqus has scaled across the industry and partnered with prestigious law firms across Scotland and the UK. 

Congratulations to the team!

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Portfolio company ULEMCo Ltd has won the Northern Automotive Alliance’s Design & Innovation Award.

The award celebrates ULEMCo’s work on hydrogen mobility, including its ZeHyDA project to decarbonise airport support vehicles.

Congratulations to the team!

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Companies across our high-quality portfolio are continuing to scale commercially and lead their respective markets with innovative technologies. Therefore, we are delighted that four investee companies have been named as WIRED Consulting Trailblazers in Scotland.  

Appointedd was selected for its seamless online scheduling platform, while EnteroBiotix is a global leader in the microbiome field. Trojan Energy’s Electric Vehicle charging system is transforming the sector and Synaptec is reducing the downtime and operational costs of electrical power networks.

Congratulations to these four trailblazers!

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We are thrilled to welcome Trickle to the portfolio, following a £1 million funding round led by Equity Gap, with NoBa Capital  and Scottish Enterprise.

Trickle has made significant commercial progress, expanding its innovative colleague feedback technology across public and private sectors, with customers including NHS Scotland, NHS England, CGI, and Johnston Carmichael.

We look forward to supporting Trickle during its next phase of growth as it enables more inclusive communications across organisations.

Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/eNsTTJw3 

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