AMPLYFI

2023年3月29日,

图片来源:Waterspring企业Cardiff-based风险资本公司Waterspring企业出生的创始人和合伙人山姆荧幕的不满在威尔士找到金融资本。赫克斯曾助理施罗德投资管理公司的投资组合经理之前意识到他想与公司合作,他觉得他可以有更大的影响。这后,赫在Cardiff-based AMPLYFI人工智能业务,利用机器学习的研究中,监控和检查信息。在那里,他就敏锐地意识到区域资金创业面临的挑战和按比例增长。“虽然启动了一个相当有吸引力的词汇与人工智能,这引发了很多金融,还是很难筹集资金从英国风险投资公司,“赫说,他相信AMPLYFI的资金斗争源于位于卡迪夫。Waterspring合资企业,成立于2021年,是正确的。风投公司是专注于威尔士南部西部和中部地区。赫说,这些地区被忽视,因为他们不是所谓的北方强国,也不是伦敦附近。而西南和中部没有专门的政府投资银行,英国商业银行推出£200西南威尔士和£130 m基金今年。这可能出错,最好是关闭的Waterspring企业关闭了第一笔£1.2的资金今年早些时候到目前为止已经£600000的第二个承诺。 The final target for its inaugural fund is around £2m. Capital for the Waterspring Ventures fund has partially come from exited founders to create a “circular economy”, something Huxtable says is present in London but not as much in Wales and the South West. “It’s largely down to how far away you are from an investor’s office, especially investing in early-stage companies,” he says. “It can go wrong and in those instances, it’s really helpful to be close.” Waterspring Ventures issues investments ranging from £100,000 to £500,000 in businesses at seed or Series A and have approximately £1m in turnover. From its offices in Cardiff and London, the Welsh investor is backing startups in the tech, sustainability, consumer, TV production and manufacturing industries. “I don’t think it’s necessarily discrimination. You can imagine if you have a pot of other people’s money, that you have to invest in other businesses, there’s always an incentive to back what you’re most familiar with and what you’re closest with.” Whilst the Development Bank of Wales is supplying funding to early-stage startups, Huxtable says there is a demand for “smart capital” too. Huxtable believes Waterspring Ventures can help plug the “acute shortage” of tech funding in the South West. Outside of Cardiff, Waterspring Ventures is also keeping its eye on Swansea and in particular its strengths in agtech. Local Swansea firms include the biotech CanSense , which this month raised £1.5m. Huxtable adds: “Going through the last year, I’ve been more and more encouraged by how much breadth there is really and how many great businesses there are out there, but which for whatever reason are just struggling to raise the capital.” Beyond the Capital, an interview series with tech investors and venture capitalists based outside of London, is published monthly. Last month UKTN spoke with Edinburgh-based investor Archangels .