Peter Dines, COO at Mercia Asset Management, talks to Proactive about how he finds attractive early-stage tech and life science start-ups.
Mercia invests at a relatively early stage in its EIS funds, he says, but also at the scale-up stage of Series A funding for its VCT arm.
Key for Mercia are partnerships with 19 universities, with lawyers and accountants plus a non-executive director network of about a thousand individuals.