The new £120m North East Fund, a follow-up to the hugely successful JEREMIE Fund, is to go live after an agreement was signed by representatives from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and The North East Fund Limited (TNEFL) on the 26th March 2018.
Supported by the European Regional Development Fund, the fund will offer a range of investments including equity, debt and mezzanine funding throughout the North East. The original JEREMIE Fund made a significant impact on the North East region since 2010, helping over 1,000 SMEs realise business goals and safeguarding or creating 6000 jobs in the process.
As part of an agreement with the European Investment Bank, it will invest exclusively in the North East LEP area but will sit alongside the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) to drive business across the North as a whole.
Four fund managers have been appointed to deliver this new funding, NEL Fund Managers, Maven Capital Partners, Northstar Ventures and Mercia Fund Managers and the range of funding available covers everything from small loans of £20,000 to equity investment of £1m and unsecured lending of up to £2m. The funding is split into the following categories:
-The Development Capital Fund – Managed by Maven Capital Partners
-The Venture Fund – Managed by Mercia Fund Managers
-The Growth Capital Fund and The Small Loan Fund – Managed by NEL Fund Managers
– The Innovation Fund – Managed by Northstar Ventures
UNW worked with NEL Fund Managers and FW Capital to support SMEs who secured significant investment throughout the original JEREMIE programme, including tech firms Roxoa, Orchidsoft and Fine Equinity, who used the funding to support their commercialisation, marketing and expansion.
Neville Bearpark, Corporate Finance Partner at UNW commented “The North East Fund is an eagerly anticipated addition to the funding landscape in the North East. Such is the demand for regional SME funding that we are already working with a number of clients to secure funding through these new funds.”
Supported by the European Regional Development Fund, the fund will offer a range of investments including equity, debt and mezzanine funding throughout the North East. The original JEREMIE Fund made a significant impact on the North East region since 2010, helping over 1,000 SMEs realise business goals and safeguarding or creating 6000 jobs in the process. As part of an agreement with the European Investment Bank, it will invest exclusively in the North East LEP area but will sit alongside the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) to drive business across the North as a whole. Four fund managers have been appointed to deliver this new funding, NEL Fund Managers, Maven Capital Partners, Northstar Ventures and Mercia Fund Managers and the range of funding available covers everything from small loans of £20,000 to equity investment of £1m and unsecured lending of up to £2m. The funding is split into the following categories: The Development Capital Fund Managed by Maven Capital Partners The Venture Fund Managed by Mercia Fund Managers The Growth Capital Fund and The Small Loan Fund Managed by NEL Fund Managers The Innovation Fund Managed by Northstar Ventures UNW worked with NEL Fund Managers and FW Capital to support SMEs who secured significant investment throughout the original JEREMIE programme, including tech firms Roxoa, Orchidsoft and Fine Equinity, who used the funding to support their commercialisation, marketing and expansion. Neville Bearpark, Corporate Finance Partner at UNW commented "The North East Fund is an eagerly anticipated addition to the funding landscape in the North East. Such is the demand for regional SME funding that we are already working with a number of clients to secure funding through these new funds.
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