Scottish Investment Bank

• Prepare your business to successfully access these funds
• Help you pitch to investors If your business has high growth potential, we can also offer co-investment funding This is where we co-invest funds into your business alongside private investors, including business angels, angel syndicates, venture capital groups and corporate investors

Are you a Scottish start-up, early-stage or growing company seeking investment to develop products and/or markets? We can match fund accredited investment partners to support your growth plans

Seeking funding to develop products and/or markets? This flexible equity gap fund invests alongside private sector investors, offering equity funding from £10,000 up to £2 million

We can also provide loan funding If you're a growth-focused Scottish company, the Scottish Loan Scheme can provide loan funding of £250,000 to £2 million

Loans can be used for a variety of purposes, including: Scottish Loan Scheme details

How we can help your business to secure investment

We want to boost equity funding levels for globally ambitious Scottish companies, ensuring the right levels of funding, from the right sources, get to the right companies at the right time We can help you:

• Build strong relationships with a range of international investors
• Identify the type of investor that's right for you
• Match and connect supply and demand based on investor preferences We’ve supported companies at different stages across a range of sectors See which companies we’ve supported

Not sure if investment funding is right for your business? Read about other businesses we've supported and how investment funding has helped them to grow and develop

Understanding and securing the right kind of finance

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• Increase your chances of securing the most appropriate package of finance for your needs
• Gain access to relevant public sector support
• Make your business ready to apply for funding We've produced a series of guides on the different types of finance that could be used to fund your business The guides also cover what you need to do before making finance applications

Read our full list of financial readiness guides

Accessing market intelligence to help you plan for the future

accordion We can provide insights into Scotland's risk finance market Our market intelligence work provides companies and investors with market evidence as they plan for the future This involves looking into the supply and demand for risk-based growth finance

We look at Scotland’s finance market in areas that include:

• Year-to-year changes in deal sizes
• Who has been investing in Scotland’s growth companies
• We also keep up-to-date with global and UK regional trends The risk capital market in Scotland has grown over the past 6 years, with the underlying health of the market - where 99% of deals take place - almost doubling from 2013