
Launched in 2015, the Catapult Ventures GM&C Life Sciences Fund is a £31m seed and early-stage venture capital fund for life sciences businesses located in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire & Warrington region.
Investors in the Fund are Cheshire and Warrington Enterprise Partnership, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Cheshire East Council, Manchester Science Partnerships and the directors of Catapult Ventures.
The Fund came to the end of its new investment period in mid-2021, by which time it had made a range of seed, early-stage and growth investments into 42 companies. The Fund will continue to support its portfolio and carry out follow-on funding until at least 2030.
In mid-2022, a new regional life sciences fund for the GMC region was launched, this time run by Praetura Ventures, details of which can be found here: www.praeturaventures.com/gmc-life-sciences-investment/