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YFM Bristol Team
Complete 11th Investment in 16 Months The South West Ventures Fund
has invested over £2.5m in 11 companies over the last 16 months. This mark
was reached in December 2006 with the completion of Dynmark International
(see below) and two second round investments in portfolio
companies.
The Fund is managed by a team of four investment
managers, lead by Peter Davies who joined the YFM Bristol office almost
two years ago. The £25m South West Ventures Fund can invest up to £500,000
as a sole investor and potentially up to £2.5m along side other investors.
The recent investments have helped businesses in a number of sectors
including Technology, Leisure, Healthcare and Business Services. read more » |
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| Action Sports nets £750,000 of
investment |
Bristol-based Action Indoor Sports
Stadiums, hosts of the Indoor Cricket World Cup 2007,
has secured venture capital funding from the YFM
Group.
The investment allows Action Sports to
take advantage of a UK leisure market that will be worth
£1.5 billion by 2009, using a proven concept that
already has 150,000 regular participants world wide. The
unique business model, which has taken Australia, New
Zealand, South Africa and Japan by storm, gives
competitive grading to its players and offers both
Olympic and popular sports.
The funding will
enable Actions Sports to develop the Bristol site and to
expand into a further 27 sites around the
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| Dynmark spreads the message with
£500,000 fundraising |
Leading non-voice
mobile application developer, Cheltenham-based Dynmark
International, is the latest to benefit from a £250,000
investment from the SWVF
and a further £250,000 from
shareholders.
Supported by partnerships with Vodafone
UK, Sage, Microsoft and a soon-to-be-named high street vendor,
Dynmark provides a comprehensive range of bulk SMS text
messaging and mobile data business solutions for organisations
across the world.
The investment has helped attract
former Vodafone Corporate Managing Director, Graham Ward to
the company as a Non-Executive Director: the second former
senior Vodafone manager Dynmark has appointed in six
months.
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| STOP PRESS |
- Further investments have been made in
Aupix and Ochresoft. read more »
- YFM Group announces a first close of the
Chandos Fund at £23m. The Fund is able to make investments
of up to £5m in established businesses across the UK. A
second close of £40m - £50m is targeted for the second
quarter of 2007. read more »
- Nick Simmonds joins YFM Group - Bristol
as Investment Manager. read more »
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For further
information please contact the YFM Group team Peter Davies,
Julian Dennard,
Nick Simmonds
or Alison Briggs. If you are
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South West Ventures Fund is managed by YFM Venture Finance Limited,
part of the YFM Group. YFM Venture Finance Limited is authorised and
regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
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