Welcome to the London Technology Fund

The London Technology Fund (LTF) is London's specialist investor in new technology companies. LTF is focused on the funding gap for new, high growth technology companies based in Greater London and bridges the gap by leading and building a syndicate of investors or by completing the gap in an existing syndicate. It can invest in a series of tranches over a number of years alongside other investors, contributing from £50,000 up to a maximum of £1.5m in a single company from its own resources - resulting in a total investment from LTF and co-investors ranging from £100,000 to over £10m.

To date, LTF has completed 15 investments in seven companies, acting as a key investor to help secure over £17m of funding for London-based high technology companies. These investments range from a seed-stage software company raising a total of £355,000, where LTF invested alongside business angels, to a company developing a vaccine for mutating viruses raising £4m, where LTF was the only UK venture capital fund alongside three specialist overseas life science institutional investors. We have also joined syndicates to help other investors close important funding rounds, including a £6m funding round for a biotechnology spin-out from a leading university.

The Fund's sector focus

The Fund's focus is on the following sectors:

• Communications
• Computer (hardware, internet, semiconductors and software)
• Other electronics related
• Biotechnology
• Medical (instruments, pharmaceuticals and healthcare)
• Emerging technologies (such as nanotechnology)
• Energy
• Environment
• Physical sciences and engineering
• New materials
• Value added manufacturing

How to apply for funding

LTF has developed a streamlined investment process with an initial web-based application that helps entrepreneurs or their advisers identify and provide the essential information LTF needs for prompt decision-making.

This website gives full details of how to apply for funding

If you are in the process of raising capital for a technology business and the business is, or will be, based in London, then this website provides a direct and straightforward way of making an approach to us.

Other information

This website will provide you with information about:

• The London Technology Fund
• What we look for in businesses we back
• Our investment process

Please be sure to read this important legal information.