Investment Strategy
The ACE Fund aims to identify entrepreneurs who have the ambition to build world-leading firms; to lead the investments into these high-growth start-ups or high-potential seed stage companies; and to back the winners through to exit.
Sector Focus
Primary
- Digital media, music and entertainment.
- Mobile internet and communications applications.
Secondary
- Life services - consumer financial services, e-health, e-commerce and digital home.
- Net development, enterprise software and services, business applications.
Geographic Focus
We invest primarily in companies based in the UK but will make opportunistic investments in European companies.
Investment Stage
The ACE Fund is an early-stage investor in entrepreneur-led businesses, providing capital for seed and start-up (Series A) rounds.
Investment Size
We make investments of £50,000 to £1million in the first funding round and will follow on in subsequent rounds where the company is executing successfully against its business plan.