Application For Investment

Before spending time completing the application for investment, please contact a member of
Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds for an informal discussion. Please complete as much of the form
as possible and attach any additional information before returning it. Cambridge Enterprise Seed
Funds (CESF) will be happy to work with you to develop a proposal once this is complete.

Please note that in order to obtain advice on your project information may be shared with the
Cambridge Enterprise Investment Committee and possibly advisors.

If this form contains confidential information, please return by post or fax, or email.

1. PROPOSER
Please list all proposers and nominate one proposer as principal contact:
Principal
Proposer: Department: Tel: Email: Contact
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2. SUMMARY STATEMENT
Please give a brief summary of the technical innovation, the possible applications for the new
technology and their commercial potential (in less than 150 words). Please address the following
points.
What will be achieved as the result of a CESF investment?

What is the product concept to be developed from the technology?

What is the need the product is addressing?

Is it a new market or will you displace existing incumbents?

Indicate your main unique selling point?

What funds are you requesting from Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds?

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3. STATUS OF COMPANY/PROJECT
Please provide details on the current funding and share structure of the company to date.

Date of Incorporation:

Share structure:
(Capitalisation Table)

Investment already
received by the
Company:

Research Council
Funding used to fund
research the
Technology:

Grant Funding e.g.

EEDA Awards already
received:

4. FUNDS REQUESTED
Please state the total amount of funds being requested from the CESF and include the amount,
and source, of any other funding needed to complete the project:
Total Sum requested £
from the CESF:

Other funding sources

(other funds/grants):

Estimated length of
Project

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FUNDS REQUESTED (CONTINUED)

Please give a budget of how you intend to use the funding (for examples see below)
Patent Costs:

Staffing:

Materials:

Prototypes:

Overhead Charges:
Other:
(please state)
Other:
(please state)
Comments:

5. ANTICIPATED FUNDING IN THE NEXT 3-5 YEARS

Please explain what funding you will require over the next 3-5 years, and where you expect this
funding will come from.

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6. MANAGEMENT RESOURCES
Who will be responsible for management of the project? Who will undertake the project work?
Identify the roles of the key staff, their qualifications and experience. How committed are they?
Name:
Qualifications and experience:

Name:
Qualifications and experience:

Name:
Qualifications and experience:

What are the gaps in the management team that need filling?

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7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Please state if you have registered any patents, trademarks and other forms of IPR protection, and
who holds the Rights to the IPR. What is the current status of the IP? (i.e. granted patents, patent
applications, patent specification not yet filed):
Patents:
Patent #: Short title: Filing date: Status: Ownership:

Trademarks:

Other IPR:

If you have no existing patents or trademarks please summarise the strength of the IPR position; is
the invention patentable (novel, undisclosed, not obvious, and commercially applicable)?

Please state if the work was done in collaboration with others (co-workers, students, outside
collaborators, etc.) and if the research was funded by external sources (EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC,
charity, commercial/industrial, etc.):
In collaboration with: Funded by:

Was the work governed by an agreement or YES / NO

contract? (if YES please state details below)

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONTINUED...

Was any of the work carried out in a University YES / NO
department or using any University resources? (if YES please state details below)

8. TECHNICAL ADVANCE
Include a description of the technology advance, with a statement of the process, and its products
explaining the advantages of the technology compared to current technology, and indicating
expected gains in efficiency, economy, and effectiveness:

What plans are there for developing the technology in the next 12 months?
Who else is working in this technical area?

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9. APPLICATIONS
Set out the range of possible applications particularly those with potential for world-wide
exploitation. What product/s do you expect to sell?

10. COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION

Estimated market size for potential products:
Who will buy the product/s, what do you believe they will pay and why?

Who are your main competitors?

What is the structure of your market? What is its potential to grow? What is it worth?

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11. SWOT ANALYSIS

Please give a brief review of perceived Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats relating
to the technology, competition, marketing, etc. Please also explain how you will exploit the
Strengths and Opportunities, and how you plan to mitigate the Threats and Weaknesses.
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES

OPPORTUNITIES THREATS

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12. DELIVERABLES
Please provide a clear statement of the work to be done and what will have been achieved by the
end of the project CESF has been asked to invest in. Please provide a Gantt chart with time scales
and activities:

13. NEXT STEPS

Please detail what you plan to do once the CESF funding (if approved) has been spent:

Please state if you have applied for, or intend to apply for, further funding:

Amount of funding Source of further

£
required: funding:
How will an investor in your company make a financial return?

Have you already discussed your project with any member of Cambridge
YES / NO
Enterprise?
If YES – please state the name of your contact:
Have you “opted out” under the Cambridge Enterprise’s IP policy? YES / NO

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Please return the completed form to:

Acting Head of anne.dobree@enterprise.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223

Dr Anne Dobree
Seed Funds 763718
Access to Capital Bradley.Hardiman@enterprise.cam.ac.uk
Mr Bradley +44 (0)1223
and Investment
Hardiman 763720
Manager

Tel: +44 (0)1223 763723

Fax: +44 (0)1223 763753
Post: Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds
Cambridge University
Hauser Forum
3 Charles Babbage Road
Cambridge
CB3 0GT

If you have any of the following, please include as attachments/appendices;

A. CVs of key staff

B. Copies of patents, searches, published papers, etc.
C. Independent reviews of IPR (if available)
D. Project costs /activities Gantt chart
E. Market studies (if available)
F. Any other background information

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