Tate & Lyle Ventures

Tate & Lyle Ventures is a £25M venture capital fund focused on investing in high growth companies in the fields of renewable ingredients, food technologies, biomaterials and industrial processing technologies. Their cornerstone investor is Tate & Lyle PLC, one of the world's leading renewable ingredients companies focused on innovation and product development in these sectors. They are proactive investors investing practically as well as financially by supporting the management teams they back with experience, strategy and networks. They prefer to work as lead investors but occasionally work as syndicate members alongside other investors such as business angels, venture capital funds and corporate investors. They can invest in businesses around the world. They invest in technology-based businesses across food science and technology. They generally make an initial investment of £1-2M followed by further amounts of follow-on investment. They consider smaller investments and seed deals when the business is on a very steep growth curve leading to greater capital requirements.