The Fund Incubator

The Fund Incubator Limited provides services to fund managers who are either in the start-up phase and are not yet regulated or where they need to be structured as advisers to a regulated management company. The company was originally set up in 2001 to help exploit investment ideas generated by leading Scottish Universities and was named Caledonia Capital Managers Limited. In 2011 it took on its first regulatory umbrella mandate - the £37m Passion Capital fund and has thrived since. It has now helped and mentored numerous funds and fund managers to navigate the fund raising, fund management and regulatory processes. In 2016 Caledonia was the subject of an MBO led by Stephen Geddes and Barry Lawson, two highly experienced private equity professionals who had worked closely with Caledonia for many years and developed a deep understanding of the business and the opportunity that a flexible, responsive regulatory umbrella could create. The Fund Incubators regulatory umbrella provides the following services: Start Up Fund Managers The Fund Incubator helps resolve problems faced by first time fund managers created by the very substantial time that it takes the FCA to deal with applications. Telling institutions who are ready to commit to your fund and invest that they have to wait for another 6 + months is likely to be a deal breaker. Using our regulatory umbrella your fund can start investing and charging management fees in as little as 3 weeks. The FCA recently wrote to applicants saying that they wouldn't even get round to allocating new applications to a case officer for four and a half months after they received it! Once you become authorised we will resign.