Investment Criteria
1818 Venture Capital plans to invest in at least 20 businesses every year.
We have a fully quantified investment process with the following criteria:
Quantified
Founder and Team Quality
Strength of business and business plan
Quantified bias to underrepresented founders
Quantified bias to businesses with positive social impact
Quality of other investors
Necessary
UK digital tech business, ideally EIS and/or SEIS eligible
Pre-Seed to Series A
Investment Process
1818 Venture Capital's investment process is designed to be as efficient and effective as possible, so we can invest exceptionally and founders can receive fast decisions. We understand fundraising can be incredibly time-consuming for founders and aim to be respectful of that. Our process enables us to move very quickly and efficiently when necessary.
1818 Venture Capital has the following stages to its fully quantified investment process:
Schedule a short pitch with one of our Partners using the Schedule a Pitch page
Answer three short video questions before we meet. You will receive an email with details once you have scheduled a pitch
Attend the scheduled Ten-Minute Pitch
Answer a list of written questions
A Partner call
Other meetings and questions as required
Investment committee with Quantified scores against each criteria. This aims to reach an Invest in Principle decision
Technical due diligence and review of investment documentation
Final investment committee. This investment committee is to ensure the information given at Invest in Principle decision is still accurate and to ensure we are comfortable with the technical due diligence and investment documentation
Invest!