Our head office is based in the North West and covers Manchester, Liverpool, Cheshire and Lancashire.

Manchester is now firmly established as England’s second city with respect to start-up funding. Funding options for technology and other scale-up businesses in the region are improving but still not broad enough.

As a venture capital investor focused on the under-funded regions of the UK, DSW Ventures is an important part of the expansion of investments in innovative early stage businesses and start-ups in Manchester, Liverpool and the wider North West.

We manage one of the UK’s largest networks of high-net-worth and angel investors and make SEIS and EIS compliant venture capital investments into regional start-up and scale-up companies in the Manchester and North West region.

On behalf of our angel and institutional investors, we provide equity of up to £1 million+ as part of funding rounds of up to £2 million.