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Investing in Ventures
Written for investors: what a venture-built company looks like from the outside, how SEIS and EIS work, how risk is assessed stage by stage, and where GCV Invest fits alongside GCV Labs.
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Building an early-stage investment portfolio
Position sizing, spread, pacing, follow-on capital and the role of SEIS and EIS in constructing an early-stage portfolio you can actually hold.
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Assessing risk in early-stage companies: an investor's checklist
The six-lens diligence framework we use when assessing an early-stage company, and the questions under each that reliably surface the real risk.
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How GCV Labs and GCV Invest work together
Build and fund are two distinct capabilities in the Growth Capital Ventures ecosystem. Here is where the boundary sits and why it exists.
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SEIS and EIS explained for early-stage investors
A plain-English guide to SEIS and EIS: the reliefs, the limits, the conditions, the risk-to-capital test, and the questions to ask before you rely on either.
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Why invest in venture-built companies?
What a venture-built company looks like from an investor's side of the table, and which early-stage risks the model removes — and which it does not.
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