Bristol venture team set up Technology Venture Partners in spin-out from YFM Equity Partners
The Bristol team of YFM Equity Partners have taken over managing the South West Ventures Fund through a newly formed independent venture capital fund manager, Technology Venture Partners.
The South West Ventures Fund was established as one of the UK’s nine Regional Venture Capital Funds to invest up to £2m of risk capital into high growth small businesses. The fund is now fully invested and the portfolio includes Dynmark, a cloud based mobile intelligence and messaging platform and Micrima, which has developed innovative technology for breast cancer screening based on radiowaves instead of X-rays.
The spin-out will see the South West Ventures Fund continue to be managed by the three founding partners of Technology Venture Partners, Peter Davies, Nick Simmonds and Julian Dennard. Technology Venture Partners will focus on investing in emerging UK technology companies.