What’s good for people  is good for business.

We are a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment, which encourages transparent and evidence-based investment and stewardship. We are also a signatory to the Investing in Women Code, which aims to improve female entrepreneurs' access to tools, resources and finance. Our investment process reviews potential reach and impact of innovations, including numbers of people and likely effect of an innovation on their lives. We consider the environmental impact and low carbon economy benefits and we look at potential employment impacts, including diversity and equality.

We track our performance through KPIs, including the number of companies in which we are invested, the amount of capital raised by our portfolio companies and the number of employees in our existing portfolio companies. We use the Impact Management Project (IMP) framework to assess the impact of our investments and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to encourage correct behaviours in our portfolio companies.

As an established venture capital organisation, we are active partners in the wider improvement of industry standards and responsibility. We are members of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA), where our Managing Partner is the Chair of the Venture Capital Committee. We are also on the steering committee of ESG_VC, which helps early stage businesses understand, measure, benchmark and improve their ESG performance.