Enables organisations to invest in order to build capacity. ‘Hard’ development capital refers to investment in property or other tangible assets. ‘Soft’ development capital describes investment in products, services or people e.g. additional staff ahead of earned income.

Sometimes known as Expansion Capital. See Expansion Capital definition.

 enables organisations to invest to build capacity, for example by purchasing property or other assets, or developing new products and services.

Investors make investments of up to £5 million. They expect the companies to be relatively mature. The money is used to make big changes to the company such as entering new markets, buying other companies or launching new products.

  Also known as growth capital and often provided by venture capital solutions. It is the long-term equity capital raised to allow a company to grow without relying wholly on short-term bank debt.    [..]