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Companies that have received BR, EIS, VCT funding ahead of AIM listing
by Henry Whorwood, Head of Research and Consultancy, Beauhurst Beauhurst has tracked 31,828 high-growth companies in the UK since 2011, of which 118 have held IPOs. 74 of those listed on AIM and 50 of those raised equity from private investors before listing. In the period 2011 to 2018 they raised £528M before listing, in 132 rounds for an average of £4.06M. In many cases, these companies will have raised through a combination of SEIS, EIS as well as from VCTs. On average these companies raised in total £11.8M over 4 deals before listing. Typically a company waited 500 days between… continue reading