Augmentum announces intention to float

The vehicle is targeting the sale of 100 million shares valued at 100 pence apiece, with the provision for a maximum issue size of 125 million shares. Admission is scheduled to take place in early March.

Augmentum Capital announced that it was in the process of launching the listed fund in January. As part of the flotation, Augmentum Fintech will acquire a portfolio of minority stakes in five companies currently held by Augmentum Capital (as well as the structural elements of the GP) for a total consideration of £33m, a source told Unquote at the time of the January announcement.

Augmentum's existing management team, the GP's sole LP RIT Capital Partners, and other principal vendors of the portfolio will invest a combined £12m in the listed fund. The vehicle will look to invest a substantial portion of its funds within a year of the admission. It will be internally managed, while Frostrow Capital will be appointed as alternative investment fund manager for the purposes of AIFM rules.

The new entity will make early-stage investments in fintech companies predominantly in the UK and mainland Europe, though it will not make any seed investments. It will specifically look at opportunities related to banking, insurance and asset management, as well as cross-industry companies.

The companies to be transferred as a result of the flotation comprise BullionVault, Interactive Investor, Seedrs, SRL Global and Zopa, in which the new fund will own stakes of 11%, 4%, 4%, 10% and 7% respectively.

According to a statement, the management team has a particular attraction to London-based companies, though it has also identified Berlin, Paris, Scandinavia and the Baltic region as areas that will provide investment opportunities.

The GP also recruited Amadeus Capital Partners' venture partner Perry Blacher to manage the fund.

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