Jerry Barnes

Bristol Private Equity Club

The Bristol Private Equity Club is an organisation that matches its members with businesses looking for equity in the £100k to £500k space using the SEIS and EIS venture capital schemes. The BPEC is not a Fund. The members are all like-minded individuals who have been carefully chosen for their broad range of skills and industry backgrounds. We all are (or were) involved in our own businesses and therefore understand the trials and tribulations of starting and growing a business. We want to help! The Club gives us an organised process to receive, review and discuss business plans and then share the risk (and reward) of investing. Each member invests in each business on a deal by deal basis, not all members will invest in each proposal, this clearly differentiates the Club from a VCT or Private Equity Fund. Above all it is formed as a Club because we hope it will be fun! We are serious about our investing but the Club will have a social element too. The BPEC has 6 founder members and over 50 high net worth members.