Kuber Ventures, one of the only alternative fund investment platforms offering access to EIS/SEIS portfolios and funds, has added four additional funds to its EIS platform.
Kuber says that the four additional funds will further diversify the investment opportunities within existing sectors available to investors on their platform
The four are Blackfinch Asset Focused EIS, Hindsight Media EIS, Epicure SEIS Fund and Start-Up Series SEIS Fund One:
- Blackfinch Asset Focused EIS fund – managed by Blackfinch. It offers investments in companies which have an asset underpin in the form of residential and commercial property investments. Enhances Kuber’s non-media asset backed portfolio;
- Hindsight Media EIS Fund – managed by Enterprise Investment Partners. It offers investments in the production of video games, TV projects and films with the benefits of an asset underpin. Enhances Kuber’s media asset backed portfolio;
- Epicure SEIS Fund – managed by Enterprise Investments Partners. It offers investments in start-up companies across the food, drink and hospitality sectors, targeting innovative and disruptive companies with high growth potential. Available as a self-select fund;
- Start-Up Series SEIS Fund One – managed by Amersham Investments Management. It offers investments in companies identified as part of a monthly competition run to identify start-ups worthy of Seed investment. Available as a self-select fund.
The total number of tax efficient funds available on the Kuber platform is now 35: 18 EIS, nine SEIS, three Hybrid and five BPR.
CEO at Kuber Ventures Dermot Campbell (pictured above) said: “The addition of the four funds demonstrates our aim to continue our growth in 2017, and reflects the continued growth of new venture capitalist firms entering the EIS/SEIS market place who have successfully completed Kuber Ventures’ due diligence process and are benefiting from adopting a Platform approach.
“EIS investments have come of age. Investors looking to build a diversified portfolio of attractive EIS investments now have significant opportunities to invest in SME’s across a range of industries and opportunities.
“We have exciting, successful partnerships with venture capital companies’ managers who exemplify this trend, and we are pleased that these firms have decided to extend their collaboration further.”
Chief Executive at Blackfinch Richard Cook said: “We have identified great investment opportunities in residential and commercial property construction. The Asset Focussed EIS portfolios gives you an opportunity to invest into niche construction companies offering strong levels of security and excellent possibilities for growth and development, these will increase further over the coming months as additional underlying investee companies are added to the portfolios, which will access other sectors.”
Director at Amersham Investment Management Paul Barnes said: “We are very pleased to offer our somewhat different SEIS fund on the Kuber platform, where investments are planned to be made in qualified winners of The Start-Up Series seed funding competition. The Start-up Series is the UK’s largest ever seed funding competition whereby proposed winners are selected from a comprehensive distillation program by an experienced team at Worth Capital, helping to ensure that the winners and thus the investments offered will be in innovative, disruptive companies with good growth prospects.”
Martin Sherwood of Enterprise Investment Partners said: “We are pleased that Kuber’s clients will get the opportunity to invest in our two newly added EIS and SEIS funds. We have strong investment teams behind both funds. Hindsight is a capital preservation scheme with a very experienced media adviser and Epicure’s investments are selected by Startup Funding Club (SFC), who has a track record of investing in the SEIS space, with this being the fifth SEIS fund they have advised on.”
