Stephen Page - Founder of Multi-Award Winning SEIS & EIS Fund Manager & Entrepreneur
Stephen Page is a successful entrepreneur who has built and exited his own business, he has subsequently turned his hand to launching a fund, with Startup Funding Club, now called SFC Capital, which is a multi-award winning FCA regulated fund manager specialising in investing into early stage companies through the SEIS and EIS. Startup Funding Club is one of the most active early stage investors in the UK, with a portfolio of 200+ companies invested into to date.
Stephen discusses his philosophy in terms of investment, what he looks for in a company, and offers some handy hints and tips for founders and potential entrepreneurs for the characteristics that he looks for when making investments into companies and provides some history to his career and some of the things that he has done to form his investment philosophy.
A great episode with some really interesting stories which we hope you will enjoy!
Take away tips:
- Find people who can be your mentors
- Own the product not the licence, if you want to list on the markets
- Make sure that you have very strong agreements in place - particularly if you are distributing someone else's product
- When an exit comes around, take it - you never know what may be around the corner
- COVID is a big opportunity for people
- Investors have capital to invest, looking to use that
- Startups can be a great source of return
- If you have any idea of being an entrepreneur, now is the opportunity to do it
- Team up with other successful entrepreneurs, single founders are potentially a barrier to accessing funding, SFC prefer to invest in teams, 2 or 3 people that start a company together
- What SFC is looking for, is all about the people
- You have to get outside!
If you are looking for funding for your early stage business, or considering investing into early stage companies get in touch with SFC Capital today.