Forster Chase Ventures

What is Forster Chase Ventures?

Forster Chase Ventures is an incubator and accelerator that specializes in supporting and investing in early-stage to pre-IPO companies, with a particular focus on capital-intensive startups within the financial services and technology industries, including Insurtech, Fintech, Medtech, and SAAS.

Their investment strategy revolves around partnering with businesses that possess the right strategy, capital, and talent. They are distinguished for offering a unique, all-inclusive 'one-stop shop' for growing businesses to maturity, providing advice, capital, and strategic guidance from experienced C-level executives and non-executives.

As part of the Forster Chase Group which includes corporate finance, executive search, and interim solutions, they offer comprehensive support throughout a company's lifecycle. Their investment criteria include working with companies that have a minimum revenue of approximately 1-10 million GBP annually and the capability to reach an ARR of 1 million GBP within two years. Target companies should also exhibit scalable growth potential, dynamic management open to advice and improved governance, and aim to become essential to their customer's well-being.

Forster Chase Ventures is selective, working with a limited number of ventures to provide collective advisory services and access to capital while maintaining cost efficiency. They have an 'exclusive club' approach, favorably considering equity reward as a means of compensation to ensure a continuous investment from the early stage to the sale of a business.

Forster Chase Ventures operates across the UK, Europe, Asia, and Australasia, and prides itself on its extensive network, specializations, and extensive experience. They are committed to working with agile, entrepreneurial teams that are receptive to strategic advice and are invested in fostering businesses towards full maturity.

What they say:

We invest in businesses with three things: the right strategy, capital and talent. As such we have put together an all-encompassing one-stop shop where businesses can be nurtured and fostered towards full maturity. The type of businesses we would be keen to work with are similar to ours – agile, entrepreneurial and with a management team that is open to strategic advice from experienced industry C level executives and non-executives. We also tend to work with capital intensive businesses within the Financial Services and Tech industries, particularly Insuretech, Fintech, Medtech and SAAS. Unlike other business incubators or venture partners, we have a panel of extremely successful entrepreneurs and CEOs with a plethora of experience. When you work with us, you will be assigned one of the panel members to work with and they will both advise you on any specific processes such as fundraising, management buy-in and also become a board member.