Open to businesses in York and North Yorkshire, including schemes for the wider region and the whole country.
Nothing just for York and North Yorkshire matches yet. These are open more widely, and you can still apply from York and North Yorkshire.
NorthInvest
A business can apply to pitch to NorthInvest's angel investors for equity investment. Aimed at early-stage northern tech start-ups in healthtech, fintech, sustainability, AI and media.
Mercia Ventures, British Business Bank
Equity investment for established businesses with ambitious plans, or large start-ups with high growth potential.
Mercia
Mercia Capital, a specialist asset manager, provides equity investments, typically from £100,000 to £2 million, to growing regional businesses at start-up or scale-up stage that cannot be fully funded through conventional borrowing.
Open to businesses across England or the UK, including York and North Yorkshire.
Leeds Angels
Startups that are raising can pitch in person to the Leeds Angels group of investors, which meets quarterly in Leeds and hears three startups at each meeting.
Big Issue Invest
Flexible capital, described as equity and revenue participation (often called quasi-equity), for organisations that need terms different from a standard loan.
Refugee Venture Fund
A UK venture capital fund that invests in early-stage businesses started by entrepreneurs with lived experience of forced displacement. It offers a minority share, coaching and a place in its Showcase.
UKI2S
A national seed investment fund that invests in, funds and supports early-stage businesses and spinouts in defence and security, engineering biology, fusion, knowledge assets, partner innovation and space. It also offers ongoing support such as leadership coaching, further funding strategy and executive recruitment.
ACF Investors
Co-invests equity alongside partner business angel syndicates in early-stage companies, with the lead angel and syndicate required to be new investors in the company. Investments are between £100,000 and £1 million.
Sovereign AI
Britain's £500 million Sovereign AI Fund makes direct equity investments, typically between £1 million and £10 million, in UK AI start-ups from pre-seed to growth stage, and helps them reach public compute, R&D funding, talent and procurement.
Big Issue Invest
Big Issue Invest helps social enterprises and charities by providing loans and investments.
British Business Bank
Enterprise Capital Funds (ECFs) bring together private and public money to make investments in high growth, early stage, businesses.
Growth Company (GC Angels, operated
An angel investment network that helps businesses get ready to raise money and introduces them to its investors, with equity investment from £25k to £2m to start, expand or scale up. It is for early-stage and growing businesses that want angel investment and help with pitching.
The FSE Group
The FSE Group offers equity investment of up to £5 million, according to its home page.