We enjoy working with start-ups, spinouts and technology SMEs.  We have considerable experience in the formation of new companies, be they spinouts from companies or universities, or indeed wholly new enterprises. Our style is to roll our sleeves up and help you to fulfil your dreams.

We have developed a staged evaluation methodology to match the effort, cost and risk of market evaluation to the likelihood of success.

Our clients usually exhibit most of the following characteristics:

Technology
The technology has to interest us!  See the rest of our web site for examples of the technology areas in which we like to work

Market
We are most experienced in business-to-business markets, and like a challenge.

Team
You should be confident in your technological skills and be prepared to build a team with talents in commerce, law, finance and technology. Our best partnerships are with good technical teams where we can provide the business development interface to the market.

Location
We prefer our investments to be within 100 miles of Oxford, Cambridge or London.

Finances (for incubation)
You will probably be looking for £10k to £750k to fit our criteria.

Working relationship
We are not interested in “hands-off” investment (ask a bank instead), but do not necessarily need to provide day-to-day incubation support. The rest of this web site should give you a feel of the sales, marketing and business development support that we can offer in an executive or non-executive mode.

If you have a technology that meets the criteria listed above (or think you can excite us about an opportunity), we may be prepared to provide “incubation” support. This can include all aspects of the creation and commercial development of the company in its early stages. This will involve significant investment of time and money at Qi3's risk and we would expect an equity stake commensurate with our “angel” investment.

To summarise, we like to:

• Work with interesting management teams
  
• Work in interesting technologies and markets
  
• Give the business a distinct edge
  
• Seek dilution or exit in 2nd round or trade sale
  
• Invest in cash and “sweat”

We have a number of contacts with business angels, venture capitalists and fund managers, in addition to our extensive knowledge of public sector funding available for new enterprise creation.
You do not need to have a developed business plan to commence discussions - just a "can do" attitude.

Please contact us for support.