Company Profile

Company Description:

What is H2O Venture Partners?

H2O Venture Partners (www.h2ovp.com) is an exciting, ground-breaking business in the field of social entrepreneurship and impact investment. 

Based in Oxford, UK, but with activities in India and Africa, we are a team of ten, of which six hold PhDs, comprising entrepreneurs with over 70 years of business creation between us, as well as in-house accounting and legal support. Over the first six years of operations, H2O has created a range of start-up companies, principally spun out of UK Universities, in the fields of health and environmental technology.

We style ourselves as ‘pre-business plan investors’ who then run a full, highly creative process of business creation, including: identifying the lead market opportunities; developing the business model to unlock best value for the business in those markets; securing lead commercial and technical partnerships; recruiting key management ; capturing the whole in a coherent business plan with full financial forecasts; and raising the investment required to take the business through to profitability.

Increasingly we apply our skills to impact investment: creating sustainable, profitable enterprises benefiting the poor of developing countries. This work is supported by both private and public money, and includes a well-funded program for poverty alleviation through the development of agricultural enterprises in East Africa.