Creative UK
www.wearecreative.ukCreative UK provides expert investment resources and financial opportunities tailored specifically for the Creative Industries, offering loans, equity investments, and growth mentoring to post-revenue creative businesses with growth potential across all UK regions.
Check Size
$100K - $1M
Focus Areas
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Creative UK believes in investing in people and their ideas as a means to position the UK as a world leader in creativity and innovation. They are firm believers that ‘investing in people and their businesses means investing in the UK as a world leader in creativity and innovation.’ Their approach combines practical financial support with long-term strategic mentorship, recognizing that creative businesses often face unique barriers to accessing traditional finance.
What Sets Them Apart
- Sector-specific expertise: Investment team has deep creative sector knowledge combined with financial acumen
- Long-term strategic support beyond capital deployment - not just transactional lending
- Broad creative sector coverage spanning 20+ sub-sectors from advertising to games to music to performing arts
- Regional approach with dedicated regional investment programmes alongside national Creative Growth Finance fund
- Portfolio-focused approach with meaningful post-investment support and community building for investees
- Combination of debt (£100k-£1m loans) and equity investment options tailored to different business needs
Portfolio Highlights
Antstream
Gaming
Audiopi Limited
Edtech
Booking Live Limited
Saas
LivingLens
Media Tech
Covatic Limited
Media Tech
Crowdfunder
Fintech
Curamicus Limited
Healthtech
Cyclr Systems Limited
Saas
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