CPI Enterprises

In 2020, CPI Enterprises was formed to extend investment support to fast growing, high potential companies in the deep-tech space. Enterprises connects investors and entrepreneurs across the UK to stimulate impactful and capital-efficient investment into innovative technology companies. Enterprises’ support is available to engage with potential investors, understand the fundraising process and position early stage companies to secure private investment to drive novel technology through to commercialisation. In addition, Enterprises is directly investing in early-stage technology companies, with a particular focus on pre-seed and seed funding rounds.

Enterprises is headed by Alfredo Ramos Plasencia and Hannah Wade, who lead a team of Investor Relationship Managers and Investment Analysts, helping companies access a range of investment opportunities including pre-seed, seed, series A and follow-on capital for scale up to accelerate their next stage of development. Direct investments from Enterprises come in form of sweat equity and cash with a focus on pre-seed and seed investment rounds. The Enterprises Investment Committee is supported by high-calibre external advisors: Tim Cockcroft, CEO of N+1 Singer, a leading investment bank dedicated to advising and funding ambitious growth companies in the UK; Saar Shafir, CIO of Treisar Investments, investing in and supporting visionary teams with transformative technologies and business models in the UK and Israel; and Andrew Schemmel, Director at Eisvogel Group, a specialist industrial investor investing in growing family or owner managed businesses across Europe, with a particular focus on Industry 4.0 and the ageing population. 

The formation of Enterprises builds on CPI’s service offer, integrating industry-relevant expertise and assets, knowledge and application of innovation processes with investment support. Since formation, Enterprises has assisted over 60 early-stage technology companies, including KCMC partner university spin-outs, to develop investment prospects and to understand the investment environment. 

Dr Ming Liu, CTO of Cage Capture Ltd, a University of Liverpool spin-out developing novel porous materials for pollution management, has worked with CPI Enterprises and said: ​“Working with CPI has allowed Cage Capture Ltd to address technical challenges in scale up of our technology and also to develop our business case as the company grows and works towards securing investment. CPI is uniquely placed to give such support to advanced materials innovation”.