Rainbow Seed Fund

Rainbow was launched in May 2002 and comprises a partnership of public research laboratories with funding of £10 million provided by the Office of Science & Technology. The Rainbow Seed Fund provides investment to support the early stages of business formation out of research in the public sector science base. The partnership includes the Central Laboratory of the Research Council, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Natural Environment Research Council, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council and the UK Atomic Energy Authority. From this wide base of research Rainbow will make individual investments of between £10,000 and £500,000 in promising spin-out companies.

Find out more about the fund by talking to Andrew Muir, Mark White or Lamia Baker.