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	The £10m Rainbow Seed Fund is an evergreen venture capital dedicated to investing in technologies from its publicly funded research base but independently managed. The Fund was established in 2001 with funding from the Office of Science and Innovation to commercialise scientific research in a leading group of the UK publicly funded institutions, our partners. The Fund made its first investment in 2002 and has increased its partner base twice, in 2004 with the addition of BBSRC and in 2006 when 6 other leading research institutes joined the Fund. The UK has prided itself on being a nation of scientific genius ever since the industrial revolution, and our world-class science base can both create wealth and improve the quality of our lives. The Fund invests at the earliest stages, often before there is a company, and helps to find people with commercial skills and other investors to turn an idea into a business. Rainbow's partners spend over £1billion on research and development every year giving the Fund privileged access to high quality investment propositions at the earliest stage. See a timeline for the Rainbow Seed Fund

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