Quite simply, alongside the commercial investment into enterprises, it is the mentoring and support we offer that is seen as invaluable. A range of mentors, who give their time and expertise generously, provide an unparalleled resource from which our investee companies can draw.

Managed by Sapphire Capital Partners LLP and supported by BDF Advisors Ltd ensures the Fund has access to the right sort of sector specific expertise which is exactly what our research has shown that start-ups need.

​The Founders and Directors at the British Design Fund have been entrepreneurs and business owners in their own right, they have extensive experience of launching products and brands into market and understand first-hand the challenges which start-ups face.