Merseyside Special Investment Fund: Investments against COVID-19 ^{UK Investors}

Entity: Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF)

Category: UK Investors; Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme

Description: Merseyside Special Investment Fund is a Liverpool-based venture capital firm that invests in small- to medium-sized businesses. MSIF provides funding to support all sorts of businesses across a range of sectors and for a variety of needs. They invest in small to medium sized businesses (less than 250 employees) but this includes the very small end, the much larger end and everything in between. MSIF can provide funding to sole traders, partnerships and limited companies.

1. Project: Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme
. Summary: The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) CBILS is managed by the British Business Bank only through accredited lenders and supported by a range of approved partners. provides financial support to smaller businesses (SMEs) across the UK that are losing revenue, and seeing their cashflow disrupted, as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. The scheme is a part of a wider package of government support for UK businesses and employees. Read more at the Government’s Business Support website. CBILS has been significantly expanded along with changes to the scheme’s features and eligibility criteria. The changes mean even more smaller businesses across the UK impacted by the coronavirus crisis can access the funding they need. Importantly, access to the scheme has been opened up to those smaller businesses that would have previously met the requirements for a commercial facility but would not have been eligible for CBILS. Insufficient security is no longer a condition to access the scheme.

2. Project: Investing in Blue Prism

+ Investing in:

. Blue Prism