Unicorn opens £30m AIM VCT offer

VCT sector raised £542m last year

Tom Ellis
clock • 1 min read

Unicorn has opened a £30m offering on its venture capital trust (VCT) fund listed on the alternative investment market (AIM).

The AIM-focused VCT claims to be the biggest of its kind with net assets of about £160m. Its last AIM VCT offer opened for £15m and was filled within two weeks, according to the firm. Manager of the Unicorn AIM VCT Chris Hutchinson said: "The majority of our investee companies are in sound operational and financial health and many of them are now dividend paying companies in their own right. Importantly, we also continue to see a healthy flow of earlier stage, VCT-qualifying investment opportunities. "Despite the somewhat uncertain economic and political outlook, we therefore remain c...

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