Rainbow Seed Fund

Rainbow was launched in May 2002 and comprises a partnership of publicly funded research laboratories with funding of £10 million provided by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. The Rainbow Seed Fund provides investment to support the early stages of commercialisation of technology and services from its partners, which include the Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the Natural Environment Research Council and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. This wide base of research Rainbow makes individual investments of between £10,000 and £500,000 in promising spin-out companies. 

Find out more about the fund by talking to Andrew Muir or Mark White.