Social impact investment company Resonance has launched its latest ground breaking Fund – The Resonance West Midlands Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) Fund.

The Fund has already secured approximately £1m of commitments in principle from a number of investors. Resonance has also identified an initial £2m of investment need from a wide range of social enterprises in diverse sectors, and is looking forward to hearing from other social enterprises from across the region that are looking for investment to grow their business and social impact.

Dr Ilian Iliev, EcoMachines Ventures evaulates how investors are reacting to the changing financial environment of EIS. 

Venture Capital firm Hambro Perks has launched a new Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund, which for the first time will enable retail investors to invest alongside the Hambro Perks business.

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Kuber Ventures has added five new EIS and SEIS funds to its platform, bringing the total number of funds available to 21.

Zilico, part of the Deepbridge Technology Growth EIS portfolio, has secured investment of £13.7 million in its latest funding  round. 

Deepbridge has contributed £3 million of this, with other backers including MaxHealth Medicine Group.

Informatics Ventures, Scotland’s technology entrepreneur sup-port programme, has picked 60 early stage companies for EIE18 at McEwan Hall, Edinburgh on Thursday 19th April

Sapphire Capital Partners was named best SEIS Manager at this year's EISA Awards on 6 February.

The EISA recently commissioned a nationally representative survey to identify what is causing such a shortage of women across the UK’s financial landscape.

There have been a few comments in the media recently about the nature of key information documents (KID), in particular how they relate to Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) products, with some presenting a criticism that there is a supposed lack of transparency with regards to this particular sector.

So there we have it. Finally we all know our fate (or do we? More on that later). The Budget on 22nd November laid clear the future direction of EIS and SEIS. Like it or loathe it, the Government has at least set out a coherent, logical future pathway for EIS and SEIS.

Symvan was one of eight fund managers presenting in Sandy Park,Exeter on 5th December on the joys of tax-efficient fund investing.