Scottish Equity Partners (or SEP) is a leading independent owner managed venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 and growth equity firm. It invests in innovative, high growth companies in the information technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

, healthcare and energy technology

Energy technology

Energy technology is an interdisciplinary engineering science having to do with the efficient, safe, environmentally friendly and economical extraction, conversion, transportation, storage and use of energy, targeted towards yielding high efficiency whilst skirting side effects on humans, nature...

 sectors. SEP typically invests between £5million and £15million in growth companies and £2million to £10million in earlier stage venture opportunities either as sole investor or lead investor in syndication with others.

SEP funds are raised from global financial institutions, alternative asset management companies, pension funds, family offices and corporates.

Since its inception SEP has backed European technology companies including CSR plc

CSR plc

CSR , or Cambridge Silicon Radio, is a company based in Cambridge, England. CSR is a fabless semiconductor company whose main product lines include connectivity, audio and location chips. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index...

, ip.access, BioVex, ARKeX, picoChip

PicoChip

Picochip is a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company based in Bath, England, founded in 2000.The company is active in two areas, with two distinct product families.-Multi-core DSP:...

, MTEM, VirtenSys, Skyscanner

Skyscanner

Skyscanner is a flight search engine that allows users to browse for flights via price and location. Additional tools such as fare graphs, allow users to compare flight prices of any given route over a month period, or the price of weekend flights from any given city.The site is multilingual,...

 and Gigle Networks

Gigle Networks

Gigle Networks was a provider of high performance system-on-a-chip semiconductor devices and intelligent switching technology for home network, IPTV, consumer electronics and smart grid applications. The company is based in Barcelona, Spain, Edinburgh, UK, and Redwood City, California.Gigle was a...

.

Its healthcare and energy portfolio includes Cmed, Aridhia, Exco InTouch, CamSemi and Arkex

External links

• Scottish Equity Partners (company website)