Maven Capital Partners
Scottish fund manager deploying British Business Bank regional equity across the UK.
Maven Capital Partners' South West Investment Fund had put £157m into 283 UK businesses by 27 July 2026, half from the British Business Bank and half from private co-investors, spreading small cheques rather than concentrating on single bets.
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Maven Capital Partners is a Glasgow and London-based fund manager founded in 2009 by former Aberdeen Asset Management private equity staff, now one of the UK's most active regional venture investors with more than £1bn deployed. It is a key delivery partner for British Business Bank regional funds, managing equity programmes in Scotland, Northern Ireland, North East England, the Midlands Engine and the South West, channelling government-backed capital to founders outside London's commercial VC orbit.
Maven also runs multiple UK-wide Venture Capital Trusts, deploying retail investor capital into EIS-qualifying early-stage companies across fintech, healthtech, edtech, cleantech and B2B software. Its typical initial cheque runs from £500,000 to £3m at seed through Series A, and its British Business Bank mandates require private co-investment alongside its own fund capital, a structure designed to crowd commercial money in rather than displace it.
Regional fund tops £157m mark
Maven Capital Partners' delivery of the British Business Bank's South West Investment Fund reached £157m across 283 businesses by 27 July, roughly half sourced directly from the Bank and half from private co-investors . The spread-thin model, many small cheques rather than a handful of large ones, is the structural signature of Maven's regional mandate work.
The fund's deployment into Third Space Learning's £4.4m round on 29 April, alongside Blackfinch Ventures, Foresight Group and Nesta, is a working example of that model: state capital anchored the round while private investors filled the balance, funding an AI maths tutor used in more than 4,200 schools .
