Information Memoranda

British Robotics Start-Up Fund*  

A mixed-basket of high-potential robotics & AI start-ups

Predominantly SEIS-qualifying* 

British Robotics Scale-up Fund*

A fund comprising of proven Britbots high performers

EIS-qualifying* 

Venture Fund  

Later-stage capital investment in partnership with Britbots

Institutional investors only.

The British Robotics Funds (provided by Sapphire Capital Partners LLP) are specialist in productivity-maximising automation, robotics and artificial intelligence technologies. An Investment Memorandum will be provided on request to qualifying investors.

The focus on automation derives from the recognition of three core productivity crises which both economies and companies are currently experiencing and which are worsening as global consumption levels continue to rise:

1. Labour crisis: Global employment growth has declined by 90% over the last 50 years
2. Environmental crisis: Humans are using natural resources 70% faster than ecosystems can regenerate
3. Energy crisis: To achieve Net Zero targets, companies’ and economies’ net carbon emissions must be reduced by 100% over the next 30 years

Automation technologies allow scarce resources to go further; allowing outputs to grow or stabilise whilst reducing inputs.

As these three core productivity crises continue to worsen, and the building blocks for automation technology continue to become less expensive and more abundant, we believe that adoption of automation technologies will continue to accelerate and that companies developing technologies in this area will generate enduring returns.  

The funds are focused on two main areas of automation technology:

1. Investing in physical world automation: through robotics and data collection and analytics (e.g. IOT devices); and
2. Investing in digital world automation: through software (e.g. enterprise resource planning) and machine learning (e.g. robotic process automation).

Sapphire Capital Partners have two fund offerings, one investing predominantly into earlier stage start-ups qualifying for the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) tax reliefs; the other one into scale-up opportunities for slightly more mature companies qualifying for Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) tax reliefs.