Established in 2010 to help match private investors with young entrepreneurial companies looking for early stage business funding, Equity Gap is an Edinburgh-based business angel syndicate with 150 active members.

Equity Gap's current membership includes many captains of industry, business leaders, academics and entrepreneurs from Scotland and beyond, a number of whom are ex-pats or former residents, all eager support early stage companies in Scotland.

Those young entrepreneurial businesses are often pre-revenue, but with a validated product or service that has undergone a pre-investment commercialisation process. Ideally the investment should be eligible for SEIS/EIS advance assurance and preferably the business should be based in Scotland or willing to relocate. More on our investment criteria here.

Equity Gap typically invests a minimum of £100,000 and maximum of £500,000 at initial or seed investment stage with additional match funding from Scottish Enterprise’s investment arm, The Scottish Investment Bank (SIB). However, it regularly achieves successful co-investment partnerships with other business angel syndicates and SIB which means more sizeable investments into scale-up opportunities across a wide range of sectors in Scotland.

Winners of the UKBAA's 'Most Active Investor in the Regions' award in 2019, Equity Gap members currently invest in over 30 companies, leveraging over £70m in total investment into our growing portfolio.