The principal objective of Ludgate 181 is to achieve medium to long-term capital growth for its shareholders by investing in high-growth smaller companies.
Investments are made predominantly at a pre-IPO stage where the investment risks are considered to be lower than with early stage or start-up funding, and where the potential rewards achievable at the point of exit are usually more clearly defined.
Investee companies generally possess technologies or provide specialist business services capable of significant development to the long term benefit of both the investee company and its shareholders.
Ludgate 181 invests in companies with many of the following characteristics:
- proven management with specialist sector knowledge
- fully researched technologies and business models
- patent protected technologies
- proprietary products or services where a substantial market exists
- defined commercial development opportunities
- a clearly definable route to possible exit prior to investment