Other Contacts
The Viking Fund
www.vikingfund.co.uk
The £5m Viking Fund is a Yorkshire-wide co-investment venture capital fund, providing seed capital for mostly technology based early stage companies. It has been set up with UK government capital, under the DTI/Small Business Service’s Early Growth Fund. It provides early-stage risk capital to match – on the same terms – that invested by business angels or other private sector investors.
The Viking Club
www.vikingclub.co.uk
The Viking Club is an exclusive investment club for high-net worth individuals interested in making investments of between £5,000 and £200,000 in early stage businesses with a technology bias and potential for high growth. The Viking Club operates in parallel with the Viking Fund.
YABA
www.yaba.org.uk
Yorkshire Association of Business Angels
Yorkshire Association of Business Angels is a unique regional forum which brings together the finance and business expertise of Business Angels with entrepreneurs and their new business ideas. YABA meets regularly at various venues throughout the Yorkshire and Humber region, where entrepreneurs have the opportunity to present their ideas to a highly receptive audience and also to network with some of the most influential business leaders in the region.
