£90m fund unveils investment teams for the region

The 90m fund has three investment teams, Seedcorn Finance, Business Loans and Equity Linked Investments, which appraise the applications from businesses as well as liaising and working with other

intermediaries in the market.

Ed French, Michael Bakewell and Ashwin Kumaraswamy are working in the Seedcorn fund, which offers early stage, knowledge and technology start-up businesses investments of up to 780,000.

Finance Yorkshire's Business Loans team comprises Grahame Lunt and Jonathan Craig primarily responsible for West Yorkshire and the North, and Ian Atkinson taking charge of East Yorkshire and Karl Hodson and Ian Howson covering South Yorkshire.

Craig Hopwood is leading the equity team. The project has attracted 30m investment from the European Regional Development Fund, 15m from Yorkshire Forward's Single Programme, and 45m match funding from the European Investment Bank.

For more information about applying for funding, call 0845 649 000 or visit www.finance-yorkshire.com