Our fortnightly podcast following the UK venture capital industry. Dr Brian Moretta explores small growth companies, as well as the funds and people who invest in them.
The EIS Navigator podcast is for those interested in the UK venture capital industry, particularly the areas that are supported by government schemes. These include the Enterprise Investment Scheme, EIS, Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, or SEIS, and Venture Capital Trusts. This means we are looking at small, growth companies – often at the startup stage.
We interview leading people in the industry, whether fund managers, company founders or experts from other service providers. The aim is to dig deeply into topics, getting away from the promotional material that predominates elsewhere. Venture capital investing is a long-term endeavour and we will focus on topics that are relevant at any time.
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We welcome back Henry Whorwood, Head of Research & Consultancy at Beauhurst. With access to the broad data that Beauhurst collects, Henry has a great overview of trends in the venture capital market over the past couple of years and where we are now.
This episode is our customary year-end panel. Christiana Stewart-Lockhart, Director General of the EIS Assocation, Kealan Doyle, CEO & Director of Symvan Capital, and Ewoud Karelse, Specialist-Product at Evelyn Partners, discuss what happened in 2024 and the prospects for 2025.
Tom Wilde helped start and now heads up the EIS and VCT tax practice at Shoosmiths. He has seen a wide range of legal issues that founders, companies and investors make when setting up and receiving EIS or VCT investment. He pulled together some for a recent presentation and we asked him to expand on them.
2024 – Tough year for Life Sciences The Hardman & Co Healthcare Index (HHI) has been running since 2009. Its main function is to highlight the attractions of life sciences investments over the long term. For the third year running, […]
How managing liquidity risk can sustain corporate value and maintain shareholder confidence As we come close to the end of a very challenging year for many UK entrepreneurs, as well as a frustrating period for shareholders, it is time to […]
Investors in its sights? Summary Budgets are always important for investors. The imminent Budget, at the end of October, will be doubly so, because it is the first from the new Labour government, and it has already signalled the need […]
Mike Dennis, a director of @ShareSocUK, joined Keith Hiscock on the latest episode of Hardman Talks to discuss how the organisation supports and represents the interests of retail #investors in the #stockmarket.
Your host, Brian Moretta, is Head of Tax Advantaged Services at Hardman & Co. He is an actuary turned fund manager, who then moved into equity research, and has examined many EIS funds, VCTs and companies. He also has some academic chops, being an Honorary Fellow at Heriot-Watt University where he does some occasional teaching. He has always had a strong interest in getting underneath companies and understanding how they really work, and he finds this space fascinating. Some of this is because transparency is hard, some because the industry is not well understood. The EIS Navigator podcast is an attempt to get beyond the superficial and shine a bit more light on what is going on.
Brian Moretta received Highly Commended at the EISA awards in 2021 and 2022 for the category Best Journalist or Advocate.
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