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Examples of Use of Rainbow Investment

Rainbow's investment can be used to advance the commercialisation of the science and there are no rules about what we will fund, but here are some examples of the use of our money:

Securing Intellectual Property Rights ('IPR'): enabling the protection of IPR through support for patent applications, copyright or other means
Market Research: enabling technical or market studies that help guide the exploitation route
Proof of concept: focused experimentation to support commercial case
Product Prototype development that brings a technology nearer to market
Business modeling: such as market research, production feasibility studies, market entry options studies, and business plan refinement
Business launch: funding the early working capital needs as an anchor investor, catalysing the involvement of other investors
Hiring key staff

Our Partners:

Rainbow Seed Fund partners with these organisations...

The Rainbow Seed Fund provides seed capital to commercialise scientific research at our partner organisations:

BBSRC, CSL, Dstl, NERC, VLA, HPA, SCRI, STFC, Macaulay, NPL and UKAEA

The Rainbow Seed Fund is managed by Midven Ltd, which is regulated by the FSA.