HEALTHY AGEING: INVESTOR PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME, ROUND 2 – FUNDING

1. Title: HEALTHY AGEING: INVESTOR PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME, ROUND 2 – FUNDING2. Awarding Authority: Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, GB Tel: 03003214357. Email: support@innovateuk.ukri.org. (competition helpline)3. Contract type: Service contract4. Description: The Awarding Authority is inviting investors to partner with us for this healthy ageing investor partnership programme. Together we will align the awarding authority’s grant funding of relevant R&D projects alongside your investment in the Specified Location micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) concerned with developing products, services or business models, which address one or more of the 7 themes of healthy ageing.We are seeking investor partners that are looking to invest in high growth potential SMEs that aspire to finding solutions to address the issues associated with ageing well. The SMEs will be selected in a later competition.The aim of this programme is to encourage investment in innovative companies with developed technologies that are working towards providing 5 extra years of healthy active life whilst also addressing social inequalities. Investor partners must provide wider business skills and experience as well as financial investment.The Healthy Ageing investor partnership programme consists of 2 competitions:This investor partner selection competitionThe SME competition opens in spring 2021. This will be for SMEs to submit project applications for grant support with a clear alignment for private investment.The competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated5. CPV Code(s): 73110000, 73100000, 732100006. NUTS code(s): UK, UKK, UKK1, UKK147. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: UK8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.9. Estimated value of requirement: Investors can apply to partner with the awarding authority to align their investments with up to £12 million grant funding in the Specified Location registered SMEs delivering innovation in the healthy ageing market. This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge FundFunding type: Investor Partnerships10. Competition closes: 4.11.2020 (11:00:00).11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit: 12. Other information: Competition opens: Monday 7 September 2020Project size: This competition is not offering any funding.Who can applyWe are seeking investor partners who want to invest in high growth potential SMEs. These small businesses must aspire to develop products, services or business models to address the healthy ageing themes in the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). The ISCF wants everyone to have an extra 5 years of healthy life by 2035.The SMEs can have business models that address both economic and societal objectives. The SMEs will be identified by the investor partners and selected in a later competition.Your organisation must be an equity provider with the potential to act as lead investor in investments from £1 million to £3 million. Equity providers that are a charity or a trust are also eligible.We aim to establish a ‘pool’ of lead investor partners, interested in making investments aligned with Innovate UK grants. Investments must be either direct equity or convertible loans.You must also be able to offer other commercial acumen to SMEs, such as:leadershipmarket accessskills or resourcesNo funding commitment is required at this stage. We will need your commitment to provide aligned investment where Innovate UK offers grant funding to successful applicants in the SME competitions. .You must be able to demonstrate that your organisation is of good financial standing.We are looking for a mix of UK established investors with an interest in healthy ageing markets including venture capital, angel network, charity, social impact organisation or corporate venture investors.Your organisation must demonstrate it has the capability, capacity and investment appetite to fund individual SMEs that aim to address one or more of the 7 themes of ageing, these are:sustaining physical activitymaintaining health at workdesigning for age-friendly homesmanaging common complaints of ageingliving well with cognitive impairmentsupporting social connectionscreating healthy and active placesInvestors can choose to focus their innovations on a number of these themes. For example, innovations could address the combined themes of sustaining physical activity, supporting social connections and creating healthy and active places.Our preferencesWe are particularly interested in investors who:are willing to act as sole investor or be the lead investor where additional co-investment is requiredare prepared to deploy their investment with a patient and long-term viewcan follow their investment and potentially provide more financing when required with an aspiration to fund or leverage total investment of up to 3 times the original grant funding by 2025can commit to helping the SMEs with international aspirations to grow and scale uphave relevant sector or technology-specific expertise or social impact priorities around the healthy ageing markets.How investors are selectedThe process for becoming an investor partner is selective. Applications will be assessed by independent assessors and considered by Innovate UK’s Investment Advisory Board.By submitting an application to become an investor partner, you agree to be bound by the additional terms and conditions of the memorandum of understanding which is available in question 2 of the application.The document will not be countersigned by Innovate UK so it is not binding until you are confirmed as an investor partner.Investor partnership opportunityWe have allocated up to £12 million in total to provide grant funding for SME projects aligned with private investment from investor partners.During the SME phase of this competition, businesses will state what their total funding requirement is, including the Innovate UK grant funding aligned with equity investment.If your organisation is selected to be an investor partner you will be expected to identify potential UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). These can be:new investments for your organisationopportunities currently under consideration by youSMEs already in your portfolio who are looking for further investment and grant funding for a specific project elementThe SMEs seeking support will be required to carry out projects that meet the objectives of the Healthy Ageing Challenge.SME selection processWe plan to open the SME competition in spring 2021. Innovate UK will assess each invited project application using our independent pool of expert assessors and rank the assessed applications as fundable and non-fundable.Lead investor partners will be expected to undertake their normal discussions and due diligence with SMEs of interest.We expect that funded SMEs will be ready to start their projects as soon as investment has been confirmed in writing and after we have completed project finance checks.SME project requirementsSMEs’ projects must start no later than 1 September 2021 . Projects must have a duration of up to 2 years.Total eligible project costs submitted by the SME must be between £1 million and £3 million.Innovate UK grant funding will support up to 50% of total eligible project costs for feasibility studies and, industrial research projects.If we select you as an investor partner you will be required to lead the aligned investment into your selected SMEs. Your investment must be at least equal to the amount of the Innovate UK grant. The investment should provide suitable capital to the SME, alongside the grant, to allow them to complete their project and enable the SME to grow and scale.The investment can be in the form of either direct equity investment or convertible loans. It can come from:a single investor partnera lead investor partner syndicating with other investors from within or outside of the poolState aidThe grant is provided through state aid funding under article 25, ‘Aid for research and development projects’, of the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER). It is the SMEs’ responsibility to make sure that they are eligible to receive state aid.All SMEs involved must ensure that the whole project funding complies with state aid principles. SMEs are encouraged to seek independent assurance to that effect.7 September 2020 Competition opens15 September 2020 Online briefing event 11 am: register here4 November 2020 11:00am Competition closes15 January 2021 Applicants notifiedWhat we will ask youThe application is split into 2 sections:Project detailsApplication questions.Project detailsThis section sets the scene for the assessors and is not scored.Application teamInvite people from your organisation to help complete the application.Equality, diversity and inclusionPlease complete the EDI survey. We collect and report on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) data to address under-representation in business innovation and ensure equality, diversity and inclusion across all our activities.The survey will ask you questions on your gender, age, ethnicity and disability status. You will always have the option to ‘prefer not to say’ if you do not feel comfortable sharing this informationInvestor summaryDescribe your organisation, including:what type of investor you are, for example venture capital, angel network, charity, social impact organisation or corporate venturethe model by which your organisation operates its investment activitieswhether you are regulated and if so, who the regulator isyour preferred form of investment, such as ordinary or preferred equity, convertible loan notes or other structuresthe maximum amount you typically invest in any one portfolio company and the total amount of investment you are likely to make each yearhow management is incentivisedyour expected rate of return on investment over the next 3 yearsthe level of your current investment in businesses addressing healthy ageing challengesYour answer can be up to 400 words long.Public descriptionPlease provide a description of your organisation that can be published on our website for interested SMEs.You must include:a dedicated email address that SMEs can contact you onyour websiteyour investment criteria and a brief description of the types of companies you typically invest inthe value you can add to investee SMEsYour answer can be up to 400 words long.Application questionsThe assessors will score your answers to questions 3 to 6. You will receive feedback from them for each one. Questions 1 and 2 are not scored.Do not include any website addresses (URLs) in your answers.Question 1. Your financial standing (not scored)The Innovate UK credit and risk team will carry out an assessment of your organisation’s financial standing before we decide whether to invite you to join the investor partnership programme.Describe or explain:the financial position of relevant entities involved in your investment activities, including providing financial statements for the past 3 yearsthe assets under management of relevant entities involved in your investment activities for the past 3 years, including at the time of submission of your applicationwhere 3 years of historic financial statements or assets under management (or equivalent funds available for investment) are not available, provide the most recent available information (including management accounts where appropriate)the regulatory status or authorisations of relevant entities involved in your investment activitiesany investment by public sector entities in your assets under management, for example investment by the British Business Bank through its Enterprise Capital Funds programme or by British Business Investments through its Regional Angels ProgrammeYour answer can be up to 400 words.You must upload a copy of your financial statements and your assets under management (or equivalent funds available for investment) to support your answer. These can be in up to 3 PDF documents. Each document can be up to 20 A4 pages long and no larger than 10MB in size. The font must be legible at 100% zoom.Question 2. Memorandum of understanding (not scored)You must download and review the memorandum of understanding (MOU). This must be signed and uploaded before submitting your application. Please type ‘Completed MOU attached’ as your answer to this question.The document will not be countersigned by Innovate UK and will not be binding until you are confirmed as an investor partner.Question 3. Your credibility as an investorThis question is scored out of 25.Describe or explain your investment strategy, including:the sectors you prefer to invest inany geographic constraintsthe minimum and maximum amount of investment you typically make in each business , and the amount of investment you expect to make in each business in this investor partnerships programmeyour historic and planned period of holding an investmentyour historic average deal size and anticipated average deal size in the futureyour target returns (including social, environmental, economic or impact on society) and how you plan for exitswhether you prefer to syndicate with other investors or notDescribe or explain how you generate returns:how you grow the businesses in your portfolio and increase their value or impact on societyyour track record in achieving successful exits for organisations you have invested infailure rates and write-off levels within your portfoliothe investments you have completed and full or partial exits achieved in the past 2 yearsthe value that has been created in your unrealised portfolio and your plans for exit for these companies specifically highlighting how you will optimise financial and impact outcomes at exitDescribe or explain how your investment impacts on businesses with high growth potential. Give examples of how you and your portfolio investments have historically delivered the following objectives since you invested:export growth and international expansionhigh value job creationturnover growthsupply chain enhancement (for example where the supply chain of portfolio investments has had a positive impact on the UK economy)indicators relating to social, environmental economic or impact on societyDescribe or explain how you add value to your portfolio investments beyond financial support, including:the expertise you can bring to actively build value in a business including the development of business skills, recruitment, supply chain development and market access and embedding impactful practices into the organisation’s business model and processeshow you improve the management capability of businesses in your investment portfolio during your period of investment and ensure that their impact mission will outlast any changes in ownershipyour approach to board appointments, both in relation to representing your organisation and executive managementhow portfolio investments have benefitted from your network in terms of increasing management capabilityyour approach to exit planning, with examples of successful and less successful exits and lessons learned or alternative approaches to realising economic and social value from investments that you have madeDescribe or explain the types and level of fees that you (and related organisations) typically charge to portfolio investments, such as:transaction fees (initial investment and follow on)portfolio management feesadvisory or consultancy feesexecutive and non-executive director feesany changes planned to your current fee levels, particularly for investments in this investor partnerships programmeWe will not pay fees to any of our investor partners. However, if there is a specific reason why we should provide some support to your costs then please indicate why and how those costs should be calculated.Your answer can be up to 800 words and you can submit up to 3 appendices to support your answer. They must be PDFs and can be up to 20 A4 pages long and up to 10MB in size. The font must be legible at 100% zoom.Question 4. Your capacity for investmentThis question is scored out of 25.Specify the preferred amount of grant funding you wish Innovate UK to make available for award to successful SME applicants introduced by you and the rationale for this.Describe the size, investment period, percentage deployed to date and follow-on expectations of your capital available for investment. Include, as appropriate:allocated capital from your balance sheetcapital in investment vehicles (for example limited partnerships with defined investment periods and fund terms) which are currently in their investment periodcapital available from active business angel network participantsthe amount of capital you expect to make available for aligned investment in investor partnerships programmesyour sources of funding and your investor basethe amount of funds that you expect to be deployed into new investments and into follow-on funding over the next 2 yearsyour track record in supporting portfolio investments with follow-on fundingthe proportion of investments in your portfolio that you expect to receive follow-on fundingDescribe or explain how you source investment opportunities, including:your approach to sourcing proprietary deal flow, citing appropriate examplesyour approach regarding leading investments or syndicating with other investors, with examples of deals completed alongside other fundershow you encourage diversity (for example in terms of age, gender or ethnicity) among companies seeking investment from youYour answer can be up to 800 words and you can submit up to 3 appendices to support your answer. They must be PDFs and can be up to 20 A4 pages long and no larger than 10MB in size. The font must be legible at 100% zoom.Question 5. Your capability as an investor partnerThis question is scored out of 25.Describe or explain your approach to transacting investments, including:your involvement to date with businesses who have received funding from Innovate UK, or why you are interested in working with innovative , and intellectual-property rich companies, if this is a new approach for youyour decision making and governance processes in relation to committing funding to new investments and follow-on opportunitiesyour approach to diligence, for example whether this is internal or external and the type of diligence you typically undertakethe experience of the individuals tasked with the leadership and execution of the investment strategy in your organisation, including any current responsibilities outside of your organisation and the time allocated to each – you can include short CVs as an appendixany ‘key individuals’ in relation to the operation of your organisation, explaining how the organisation would mitigate against a prolonged absence or inability to perform their dutiesin the last year: the volume of introductions, the conversion rate and time taken from introduction to completionDescribe or explain how you manage your portfolio, including:your approach to portfolio management, including the level of engagement with portfolio investments, available resources, the ratio of portfolio investments to investment professional or portfolio manageryour approach to investor reporting, including your reporting tools and processesthe experience of the individuals who are involved in portfolio management, if different to those involved in transacting new investments- you can include short CVs in an appendixyour approach to appointing directors (non-executive or investor) and how suitable individuals are identifiedyour approach to managing potential conflicts of interestyour approach to structuring investments to plan for responsible exitshow you deal with under-performing companiesYour answer can be up to 800 words. You can submit up to 3 appendices to support your answer. One appendix should describe the skills of the main people vital in maintaining your portfolio of investments. They must be PDFs, up to 20 A4 pages long and no larger than 10MB in size. The font must be legible at 100% zoom.Question 6. Your alignment to the investor partnerships programmeThis question is scored out of 25.Describe or explain how your investments and your portfolio businesses align with the strategic objectives of UKRI and Innovate UK:the amount of capital you expect to make available for aligned investment in new businesses to your portfolio and in follow-on investment in existing portfolio investments through investor partnerships programmesyour experience of investing in businesses with an innovative offeringyour experience of investing in businesses that have demonstrated their ability to grow and scale and contribute to the UK economy and society including through exporting into new marketsyour experience of investing in and supporting investee businesses through follow-on funding and/or sourcing or syndicating with new investorsyour experience of investing in organisations with mission – driven and/or entrepreneurial management teams or in supporting organisations to source executive and non-executive talentyour experience of investing in organisations with a focus on delivering social, economic or impact on societyDescribe or explain your interest in the investor partnerships programme and how your investment strategy might change as a result of this healthy ageing investor partnership programme.Tell us:your interest in this challenge area and why you believe it is an exciting area for investmentdetails of existing investments in or closely aligned to this areayour anticipated activity in this area, including the distribution of investments, average transaction size and timing of investmentshow you will use this programme to access new opportunities and why the programme will make a differenceabout your team members with specific experience relating to this challengeDescribe or explain the specific areas that you are potentially interested in investing from these 7 themes:sustaining physical activitymaintaining health at workdesigning for age friendly homesmanaging common complaints of ageingliving well with cognitive impairmentsupporting social connectionscreating healthy and active placesYour answer can be up to 800 words and you can submit a copy of as up to 3 appendices to support your answer. One should describe your relevant investment portfolio They must be PDFs and can be up to 20 A4 pages long and no larger than 10MB in size. The font must be legible at 100% zoom.Background and further informationExtra helpIf you need more information, email us at support@innovateuk.ukri.org or call the competition helpline on 0300 321 4357.Our phone lines are open from 9am to 11:30am and 2pm to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays).About this programmeThe Healthy Ageing investor partnership programme aims to provide simultaneous grant funding and equity investment in UK-registered SMEs to support R&D projects for business growth and societal impact.Innovate UK is now in a position to offer equity providers, including charities or trusts, the opportunity to join us and become investor partners on the Healthy Ageing Challenge Investor Partnership Programme.# funding opportunity