Below is a list of funds and investors, which you may find useful.

EQUITY BASED FINANCE

Seed and early stage funding:

North West Business Angels Fund. This scheme is run by the North West A2F team, a public sector initiative that aims to connect businesses to the relevant source of finance, however it's worth noting that ths is a general Angel fund, not tech specific.

Co-investment Fund

The North West Fund provides a flexible equity package for growth oriented businesses operating within the Digital & Creative sector, it invests between £50,000 to £2m to businesses seeking support from start-up and early stage development through to expansion plans for trading businesses.

Enterprise Ventures are a specialist SME funder providing equity investment from £30k - £2m.

Next stage follow on funding:

1. Innovate UK: https://interact.innovateuk.org/
2. Access to Finance: http://www.a2fnw.co.uk/
3. Arts Council: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/
4. Creative England: http://www.creativeengland.co.uk/business/access-to-finance
5. EV Group: http://www.evgroup.uk.com/
6. Business Growth Fund: http://www.businessgrowthfund.co.uk/
7. Eden Ventures: http://www.edenventures.co.uk/
8. Beringea: http://www.beringea.co.uk/
9. Palatine: https://www.palatinepe.com/
10. Northedge Capital:http://northedgecapital.com/
11. ECI Partners: http://www.ecipartners.com
12. NVM: http://www.nvm.co.uk/
13. Senaca Partners: http://senecapartners.co.uk/

If you want us to add to this list, let us know!