LCR Ventures (LYVA Labs)
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LYVA Labs is the trading name of LCR Ventures, which manages a pre-seed Challenge Fund backed by Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. It invests £10,000 to £250,000 in early-stage health and life science, deep tech and clean tech businesses based in or relocating to the Liverpool City Region, and also runs incubator, accelerator and grant programmes.
LCR Ventures (LYVA Labs) is a public fund headquartered in Liverpool, United Kingdom. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in health & life science, deep tech and clean tech. Its stated cheque size is £10,000 to £250,000. 37 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Investment in early-stage health and life science, deep tech, and clean tech businesses”
— LCR Ventures (LYVA Labs), own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Public fund
- Headquarters
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- Liverpool City Region
- Sectors
- health & life science, deep tech, clean tech
- Cheque size
- £10,000 to £250,000
- Portfolio
- 37 companies
Team, as LCR Ventures (LYVA Labs) publishes it
- Lorna Green CEO
- Steve Stuart Chairman
- Ivo Kerkhof Chief Operating Officer
- Akshay Bhatnagar Head of Investments
- Farhad Ahmed Head of Strategic Partnerships
- Ian Atkinson Finance Director
- Harry Chrimes Investment Manager
- Vijay Curthan Investment Portfolio Director
- Elaine Loukes Investment Portfolio Director
- Rachel Lawless Business Growth Manager
- Joe Cooke Client Delivery Manager
- Kate McDermott Programme Manager
Names and roles exactly as listed on lyvalabs.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page LCR Ventures (LYVA Labs) publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://lyvalabs.com/name, hq_country, hq_city, portfolio_count, status
- https://lyvalabs.com/investment-fundis_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, description
- https://lyvalabs.com/aboutthesis_quote
- https://lyvalabs.com/teampeople
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