Your business may be eligible to receive funding to develop innovative ideas and the Graduates for Business programme can help your business recruit quality staff to help with interim product, service and process development projects.

Scottish Enterprise's equity funding team can help match Scottish companies with the ambition to grow with private sector investors. The investors make the decision to invest in the business and our investment funds match the investment.

To find out more, visit their website here.

Graduates for Business can help you grow your business, improve your operating efficiency and increase your profitability and competitiveness.
The programme gives you access to the skills and knowledge of some of Scotland’s finest graduates to deliver a critical project. A graduate will work full-time for your business to undertake a specific, short-term project that is vitally important to the way you work, but you haven’t been able to deliver because of a lack of resources or time. You identify the project and they will find you the most appropriate graduate for the job. 

For further information contact Business Gateway Fife on 01592 858333.

Scottish Enterprise's Scottish Seed Fund provides equity investments from £20,000 to £100,000 to early-stage businesses that meet the criteria and are keen to grow.  The SSF will invest in start-ups and early stage companies at the end phase of product development and/or commercialisation. For more information visit Scottish Enterprise's website or contact Business Gateway Fife on 01592 858333.

Scottish Enterprise's Scottish Co-investment Fund (SCF) is a £72 million equity investment fund set up by Scottish Enterprise, and partly financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), to invest £100,000 to £1 million in business deals of up to £2 million.

The SCF does not find and negotiate investment deals on its own; instead it forms contractual partnerships with its private sector partners (SCF Partners). If the opportunity needs more money than the SCF Partner can provide, it can call on the SCF to co-invest. If you are a company looking for investment, you must first secure funding from one of our Scottish Enterprise's partners. You can search these partners here.

Scottish Enterprise's Scottish Venture Fund (SVF) has been set up by Scottish Enterprise in conjunction with the Scottish Government to invest from £500,000 to £2 million in company finance deals of between £2 million and £10 million.
The SVF can only consider investment opportunities brought to them by one of its private sector partners. If you are a company looking for investment through the SVF and do not currently have any investors, please contact one of Scottish Enterprise's SVF Partners in the first instance: You can search the partners here.