Campus Capital

Campus Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage, growth-focused businesses across the UK. It was set up to give each city region in the country a credible source of early investment. Its investors are drawn from a student network, and it favours science, creative digital and technology-enabled ventures.

What Campus Capital does

• Early-stage investment: backing young UK companies with scalable business models in science, digital and technology.
• Student VC programme: PhD, MBA and undergraduate students take part in real investment decisions, assess opportunities and recommend deals to the investment committee.
• Founder transparency: the firm says it tells founders how much capital it has left to place, how many deals it has done this year and how it reaches decisions.
• Direct answers: it aims to give a clear yes or a reasoned no rather than an open-ended maybe.

Who it works with

Founders of early-stage UK businesses. It looks for equity-incentivised, driven teams that commercialise new technology, compete on value rather than price, earn predictable recurring income and target large markets.

Key facts

• Based in: United Kingdom
• Focus: science, creative digital and technology-enabled startups
• Approach: decisions based on its own research and thesis, not on which other investors are involved