Why invest in us?
The Highgate Tech Fund Team is a group of successful technology entrepreneurs who have founded and grown many tech businesses
- We charge no fees to investors, 100% of your cash is invested
- We are business builders with a track record of exits via M&A and IPO's
- We are here to invest and actively participate in exciting companies, helping them to grow and prosper
- We are here to offer you a diversified portfolio of tech companies, aiming to provide you with a greater return
- We are investing our own cash in this fund
Please download our brochure today and find out how you can both gain significant tax benefits under the EIS scheme and participate in investing in the sector which we believe is leading Britain out of the recession.
Highgate Tech Fund LLP is a member of the EIS Association
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Ken Nelson - Fund Co-Chairman
Co-Chairman of Fund Board and Co-Chair of the Investment Committee
Nelson brings a unique combination of senior-level operational and financial expertise and investment experience.
He is a seasoned corporate executive, with a background of over 30 years in international finance and operations. Nelson’s strong history in structuring corporate financial offerings, including IPO’s and various debt and equity instruments, resulted in raising over $1 billion dollars in public and private financings, and orchestrating over 100 mergers and acquisitions.
Since 2001, Nelson has been engaged by companies to actively build their businesses and ultimately effect a sale transaction for them. He recently acted as President of Wavelight Inc., a subsidiary of a $200Million medical technology company (listed on the German Xetra) which was sold to Alcon Laboratories in 2008. He was responsible for the entire US operations and was responsible for integrating the firms after the acquisition. Earlier in 2007, Nelson was brought in to sell Digital Harbor Inc; a software technology firm (venture backed) which was sold in mid-2007 to an Irish based company.
Prior to that, he was engaged as CFO and SVP operations at NexTone Communications, a telecom software firm in the VoIP marketplace. Nelson was instrumental in building the company from its infancy to over $40m in sales. He created an international organization, and raised over $80million in financing for the company. NexTone was merged into Reef Point systems and then sold to GenBand.
Nelson was CFO at Cyveillance Inc., a Washington DC based e-business Intelligence Company. In this role, he helped build the company by raising $50 million in venture capital and bank financings and growing sales over 400% in 12 months. He served as Acting Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Office of the President. Nelson oversaw the growth of the company from 12 employees to over 150 in less than 12 months.
He has completed several major corporate restructurings and over 50 trade sales of private and public technology companies over the past 30 years.