Tags: vc, investment
When I first came across the topic of ‘venture capital schemes’, available in UK for raising money it seemed obvious and logical to me. There is also a lot of resources on those topics you can google, the models are often mentioned in on-line courses related to venture capital funding and finally there is a lot of official documents on respective governmental sites. Clearly usage of those schemes does require a certain amount of pre-work, but the payback is usually very much rewarding.
What came as a surprise to me is that the knowledge about those models is limited outside of the “home” countries, especially in countries where sometimes the funding is coming from. Due to the nature of the tax systems in some of the emerging markets (either no income or low income tax) it does not feel natural to look for tax gains linked to the VC investments, which is the basis of the main VC support schemes in UK and EEA.
I do not want to make any immediate conclusion on how much this absence of knowledge represent an opportunity (at lest from the awareness/educational perspective), but will be looking into this. If you have a point of view or idea related to it - feel free to reach out.
Below are some links, which could be useful as well:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/venture-capital-schemes-raise-money-by-offering-tax-reliefs-to-investors
https://www.bafa.de/DE/Wirtschafts_Mittelstandsfoerderung/Beratung_Finanzierung/Invest/invest_node.html