Seed and Pre-Seed Investment. We are comfortable investing at the earliest stages of corporate development supporting founders that are just getting started.  

Whilst our style tends to be day-to-day ‘hands off’ we are there to support founders day to day in whatever fashion they require – be that just a coffee, using our boardroom facilities or assistance with market research, pitch books and strategic issues.  

There is a difference between being there when needed and meddling in the founder’s vision. One criticism we have heard many times over the years is how the VC / Angel investor expects ‘paperwork’ and ‘weekly reports’.

We are not like that.  The earliest days are about building out the founders vision and not ‘compliance’. The paperwork is important, but secondary to driving the startup forward commercially for success. One of the things we are really passionate about is using our extensive rolodex to connect founders with collaborators that can assist in both advances and de-risk their startup business models.

LCC itself was a startup and it is well-understood how lonely the first few years can be.

We only invest in the sectors in which other aspects of the Firm operate. As with all things LCC – we are not generalists – but rather focus on sectors and opportunities based on technology that will shape the industry of tomorrow.

In 2023 we launched a specific private capital initiative seeking to fund early-stage space, aerospace and defence technology. More can be learned on this at Exosphere Ventures :  www.exosphere.ventures