Services for Startups and Spinouts

Salient Point can provide a huge range of support to the management team of a startup. Click below find out more about our services and customers in some of our key areas of expertise:

Raising Money: Investment & Grants

What We Do Salient Point assists in raising investment and grant funding. We prepare the necessary business plans, executive summaries, and financial projections and we write investor pitches and coach on delivery. We are well connected to investors in Scotland and further afield. Salient Point also has experience raising money from Scottish Enterprise (e.g. SMART award), Scottish Investment Bank (Seed Fund) and Innovate UK (formerly the Technology Strategy Board). Typical deliverables include:
  • Business Plan
  • Executive Summary
  • Financial Projections
  • Completed Grant Application
  • Ready-to-Deliver Investor Presentation
  • Shortlisting of Investors
  • Introductions to Investors
Successes
  • Converge Challenge Winner 2014
  • Over £1.75m raised in equity investment
  • Over £700k raised in grants
  • “One of the best initial pitches I’ve seen” (UK VC Partner)
  • “Best pitch since I’ve been with the syndicate” (Veteran Scottish Angel)
Our Publications
Customers
ATEEDA
Contemplate
University of Strathclyde
Loc8er Mobile
Cytomos
Team Education
Babson
Saltire Foundation
Informatics Ventures
MIT
Young Company Finance
Future Sales Factory
Team Experience
Salient Point
Scientific Generics (now Sagentia)
Delivery & Associates

Getting Started

Many of our customers don't know exactly what they are looking for when they first contact us. The best way to resolve this is almost always to sit down and have a good chat! This will make it much easier to find the best way to work together.

We can work on defined projects (for a fixed price) or a simple day rate, and we usually do a small piece of work to start, to get to know each other better. In some cases the initial project may be to help get support for further work, for example to assist with writing an application for SMART Feasibility Study funding.

If we get on, and identify a suitable project, we will write it up as a brief proposal or as a schedule to a service agreement, depending on your preferred basis for the contract.

Contact us now!

We are always very happy to meet with early stage companies with no obligation, and hear about what they are doing (under NDA if necessary) - so please don't hesitate to contact us. We don't bite!

Our Guarantee

We don't invoice in advance, so if you don't like our work you simply tell us why and don't pay. It is a credit to our team that in more than 5 years of operation, every single invoice has been paid in full.

References

We are happy to provide an introduction to anyone we have worked for - so you can get a reference from someone who has experienced what we can deliver.

Value for Money

We believe that the fees we charge reflect the value that we deliver to our customers, and are competitive in the marketplace. Our customers seem to agree - most have commissioned further work after the end of the initial project!

We recognise that young companies are often under great financial pressure, and we have a good track record of finding appropriate ways to work with customers.